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James Spooner
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Osgood
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What - as in ski jump? So that bloke is sweeping debris off the ramp edge ready for the next attempt?
paulc
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Hi John , i guess it depends if it was raining
James Spooner
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I think the photo was taken from the old parcels office/road, with the overall roof behind the photographer. The cab road is coming down on the right from the Skinner St bridge and beyond that, out of shot, is the old turntable. I have no idea what the man with the broom is doing!What - as in ski jump? So that bloke is sweeping debris off the ramp edge ready for the next attempt?
Nigel
jcm@gwr
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Sweeping?
James Spooner
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Yes, OK, I opened myself up to that one! What I meant to say, but didn’t express very clearly, is that the man sweeping with the broom seems to be standing on some sort of parapet, with no barriers to prevent him (or anything else) falling onto the tracks below. I’m not sure why anyone would be employed to sweep a parapet anyway. I wonder whether it was staged for the photographer?
Nigel
Yorkshire Dave
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It will be a staged scene as neither loco crew are watching the road for signals. Added to which if it was a spontaneous photo there would be blurred movement from the chap with the broom and he wouldn't be looking down at the locos while carrying out his duty in 'mid sweep' so to speak.
Not convinced the location is Liverpool st., spent many hours on the ramp, don’t remember the tall mast or the extended platform at top R of photo. I have no memory of looking over the parapet at static locos (which I am sure I would have done)
the locos to be attached to awaiting carriages at platforms always seemed to follow the carriages on the same track. The locos in the photo appear to be waiting for action.
For reasons I can’t fully explain I get an impression it is a large through station. BUT it could be 100 years earlier than my spotting days…….the mystery deepens.
bigj
the locos to be attached to awaiting carriages at platforms always seemed to follow the carriages on the same track. The locos in the photo appear to be waiting for action.
For reasons I can’t fully explain I get an impression it is a large through station. BUT it could be 100 years earlier than my spotting days…….the mystery deepens.
bigj
simond
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Calling @Jon Fitness …
square lamps (but is one of them cylindrical - left hand lower arm?),
Quite small ”0” on the subsidiary arms
no ball & spike,
LQ,
and a very tall lattice post on the right, with a cable operated arm perhaps? presumably for sighting over the bridge?
square lamps (but is one of them cylindrical - left hand lower arm?),
Quite small ”0” on the subsidiary arms
no ball & spike,
LQ,
and a very tall lattice post on the right, with a cable operated arm perhaps? presumably for sighting over the bridge?
Yorkshire Dave
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It is Liverpool St - here's an annotated photo and extract of NLS OS 25 inch 1892-1914 series side by side. We really need a 1920s or 1930s photo of Liverpool St taken from Pindar Street close to the cab road so see what the building is. Photos I've seen suggest it's possibly the top of the station/train shed roof.
Yorkshire Dave
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I'll start the ball rolling and given one or two of these apparent 'LNER railwaymen at work' series are were taken around London, I think this is Kings Cross in the mid-1920's and the view is from the parapet/gutter which runs along the bottom of the overall roof at the end of the train shed.
Battle Bridge Road bridge (visible on a 1916 map) which crossed immediately at the end of the platform in view had been demolished and this is before the platform roads were reconfigured, platforms extended and a footbridge built from the centre of the platform canopy to the signal box.
Battle Bridge Road bridge (visible on a 1916 map) which crossed immediately at the end of the platform in view had been demolished and this is before the platform roads were reconfigured, platforms extended and a footbridge built from the centre of the platform canopy to the signal box.