Busy week at Basingstoke - photos

ianm42 · Post by **ianm42** » Mon Jan 13, 2003 6:16 pm

Some scanned in photos I took a while ago at Basingstoke. 50's and 33's everywhere. Any guesses at the date, and the reason for such a lot of activity?

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ianm42 · Post by **ianm42** » Mon Jan 13, 2003 6:21 pm

I might have to disqualify Basil

basildd · Post by **basildd** » Mon Jan 13, 2003 6:47 pm

In that case I'll PM you!

ThinLizzy · Post by **ThinLizzy** » Mon Jan 13, 2003 6:50 pm

I Am Sure I Can See A Young Dale Stewart In Those Photos!! I Reckon Its That Show He Organised {sorry to sound ignorant}. Me And Dale Have Been Discussing Over The Weekend About Basingstoke Station, How It Used to Look Etc. Ian, I Work In Basingstoke For SWT, Its Changed A Lot, I Havent Got A Camera Anywhere Near Good Enough To Take Shots Like You'res, Otherwise I Would Do You A Modern Day Shot

alisterbetts · Post by **alisterbetts** » Mon Jan 13, 2003 6:50 pm

I'd guess at 1988, on a Sunday with resticted service beyong into Waterloo. 50041 has also, obviously, failed as its far too far from home and is awaiting Dale to establish just which engine on Eastleigh is the rarest on a passenger train and whether he can get to Basingstoke in time to scratch it in........... or this could be complete bull****

happy memories though of hanging around at Basing in the days of the Laverstock diversions..! Whats the name of that little pub? :drinking:

Neptune50006 · Post by **Neptune50006** » Mon Jan 13, 2003 7:35 pm

Does this ring any bells?

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saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Mon Jan 13, 2003 7:43 pm

Well if it isn't a show of some kind, I would take a total guess at some kind of 3rd rail power outage, with stranded stock being moved by diesels. Date has to be late 80s due to the transition from blue and grey to NWSE colours, or Fairground SouthEast as I recall it being named... little did we know that many more inappropriate colour schemes would be applied to UK trains in the not too distant future.

ianm42 · Post by **ianm42** » Mon Jan 13, 2003 8:10 pm

I have to say that Basil did get it, but he supplied three different answers to choose from

And it wasn't the Basingstoke 150.

Neptune50006 · Post by **Neptune50006** » Mon Jan 13, 2003 8:13 pm

They wern't delivering his overtime payments then?

basildd · Post by **basildd** » Mon Jan 13, 2003 8:17 pm

ianm42 wrote:I have to say that Basil did get it, but he supplied three different answers to choose from

And it wasn't the Basingstoke 150.

Just hedging my bets

And it was a not so young Dale there as I was the Station Supervisor there at the time the shots were taken!

basildd · Post by **basildd** » Mon Jan 13, 2003 8:23 pm

Neptune50006 wrote:Does this ring any bells?

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I can't believe someone actually 'gripped' your ticket...lmao It does ring bells - I actually designed the silhouette pic on the top which in case you hadn't worked out, is Basingstoke station from the front - except now of course, its Debenhams or some such store where that was viewed from!
SnowcrashAndy has recently sent me some excellent pics from the Railshow in 87! Though not so many pics appeared of the Winchfield 150 exhibition we did a year later and that had a working 'Western' on the main line - albeit towed!!! We also took a possession of the up main line through the station in order to stable a string of loco's, including Steam, Diesel and Electric. I cannot imagine anyone getting away with that these days!

another bit of trivia for the Basingstoke show... Area manager Gerald Daniels actually took out insurance against it raining over that weekend, in case no one turned up - he didn't have too much faith in us at the time - in the event it was something like 27,000 so your ticket seems to indicate you were in the queue to get in at 0900 on the saturday when it was a) very cold and b) we were frantically still sorting loco's out as the 59 had just arrived!

basildd · Post by **basildd** » Mon Jan 13, 2003 8:31 pm

alisterbetts wrote:I'd guess at 1988, on a Sunday with resticted service beyong into Waterloo. 50041 has also, obviously, failed as its far too far from home and is awaiting Dale to establish just which engine on Eastleigh is the rarest on a passenger train and whether he can get to Basingstoke in time to scratch it in........... or this could be complete bull**** happy memories though of hanging around at Basing in the days of the Laverstock diversions..! Whats the name of that little pub?

well you had the Great Western at the back, the one down by the London end of Platform one which I can't remember - probably blacked it out of my mind as its the first place I was taken to get drunk as an unsuspecting Junior Railman (may have been the Queens Arms) and theres the Rising Sun under the railway at the country end of Platform 4!

phill70 · Post by **phill70** » Mon Jan 13, 2003 8:37 pm

Dale the missing pub is the queens arms.
and this is getting to me as i should know this one.

ianm42 · Post by **ianm42** » Mon Jan 13, 2003 8:41 pm

A clue of sorts: These photos were taken on a weekday, not a weekend.

basildd · Post by **basildd** » Mon Jan 13, 2003 8:43 pm

phill70 wrote:Dale the missing pub is the queens arms.
and this is getting to me as i should know this one.

What missing pub? I said the Queens Arms and I didn't edit the post after you posted...lol