Creator of the Jazz Service
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Creator of the Jazz Service
Hi,
I am new to the group and am hoping that your combined knowledge may be able to help.
I have aquired via e bay a collection of around 200 negatives taken i have been told by the creator of the Jazz service and they came from his grandson.
The only problem my pc crashed with the details of who this gentleman who died by 1946 was.
Please could someone tell me the name of this gentleman.
Kind regards
Duncan
I am new to the group and am hoping that your combined knowledge may be able to help.
I have aquired via e bay a collection of around 200 negatives taken i have been told by the creator of the Jazz service and they came from his grandson.
The only problem my pc crashed with the details of who this gentleman who died by 1946 was.
Please could someone tell me the name of this gentleman.
Kind regards
Duncan
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Hi Duncan,
Just after the First World War, the General Manager of the GE, Sir Henry Thornton (an American, if I remember rightly), commissioned a team to look into the possibility of improving the Liverpool Street suburban services using steam power because the cost of electrification was prohibitive. This team was headed by F.V. Russell, who may well be your man. He did a brilliant job and by making relatively inexpensive changes to track layouts and signalling achieved the most intensive steam operated service anywhere in the world and the most intensive service by any means in the UK.
I think that the Jazz service would warrant a write-up. If no one else offers, I may do so when I have the time.
Cheers, RichardB
Just after the First World War, the General Manager of the GE, Sir Henry Thornton (an American, if I remember rightly), commissioned a team to look into the possibility of improving the Liverpool Street suburban services using steam power because the cost of electrification was prohibitive. This team was headed by F.V. Russell, who may well be your man. He did a brilliant job and by making relatively inexpensive changes to track layouts and signalling achieved the most intensive steam operated service anywhere in the world and the most intensive service by any means in the UK.
I think that the Jazz service would warrant a write-up. If no one else offers, I may do so when I have the time.
Cheers, RichardB
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Jazz Service
Hi Richard,
Many thanks for the information, i will be able to check the name at the National Railway museum as appartently they hold some of his possessions.
Now my only job is identifying the locations of the negs
Once again thanks for your help
Kind regards
Duncan
Many thanks for the information, i will be able to check the name at the National Railway museum as appartently they hold some of his possessions.
Now my only job is identifying the locations of the negs
Once again thanks for your help
Kind regards
Duncan
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Negs
Post them on here in small quantitys im sure our learned friends will be able to identify things down to the last rivet.
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re Jazz Service
Hi,
Once the pc and scanner are set up will do.
Kind regards
Duncan
Once the pc and scanner are set up will do.
Kind regards
Duncan
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Re: Creator of the Jazz Service
You may be interested to see some of the F.V. Russell, negatives which are unidentified and I have just posted on Flickr, any suggestions would be very welcome. There are in total about 200 in this collection, so there are more to come.
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Re: Creator of the Jazz Service
Can you post a link to the Flickr page?blandford1969 wrote:You may be interested to see some of the F.V. Russell, negatives which are unidentified and I have just posted on Flickr, any suggestions would be very welcome. There are in total about 200 in this collection, so there are more to come.
It can be rather laborious searching for the right set of photos on there without much information.
John. My spotting log website is now at https://spottinglogs.co.uk/spotting-rec ... s-70s-80s/
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Re: Creator of the Jazz Service
The GER Society is a very good organisation to contact obviously, and also has for sale various reprints of contemporary articles including this one:
http://www.gersociety.org.uk/index.php? ... &Itemid=84
and also other relevant material including articles by him:
http://www.gersociety.org.uk/index.php? ... hop.browse
and there will be mention of him, or his work, in the GER Magazine and possibly the LNER Magazine.
As you can see, F.V. Russell went on to much greater things.
http://www.gersociety.org.uk/index.php? ... &Itemid=84
and also other relevant material including articles by him:
http://www.gersociety.org.uk/index.php? ... hop.browse
and there will be mention of him, or his work, in the GER Magazine and possibly the LNER Magazine.
As you can see, F.V. Russell went on to much greater things.
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Re: Creator of the Jazz Service
Hi All,
Thanks for the replies so far here is a link to the first page, several have now been identified and turned out not to be GER at all.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29644579@N07/
This one for example is suggested to be Sedgford http://www.flickr.com/photos/29644579@N07/
Here are some of those with no suggestions yet
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29644579@N ... hotostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29644579@N ... hotostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29644579@N ... hotostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29644579@N ... hotostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29644579@N ... hotostream - this may be GW
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29644579@N ... hotostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29644579@N ... hotostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29644579@N ... hotostream
There are many more. They appear to have been taken earlier than I thought from comments so far dating them between 1894 and 1918.
Even if you dont know where they are, hopefully you will enjoy them. There are still at least another 50 unidentified locations to come from Russell.
Kind regards
Duncan
Thanks for the replies so far here is a link to the first page, several have now been identified and turned out not to be GER at all.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29644579@N07/
This one for example is suggested to be Sedgford http://www.flickr.com/photos/29644579@N07/
Here are some of those with no suggestions yet
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29644579@N ... hotostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29644579@N ... hotostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29644579@N ... hotostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29644579@N ... hotostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29644579@N ... hotostream - this may be GW
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29644579@N ... hotostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29644579@N ... hotostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29644579@N ... hotostream
There are many more. They appear to have been taken earlier than I thought from comments so far dating them between 1894 and 1918.
Even if you dont know where they are, hopefully you will enjoy them. There are still at least another 50 unidentified locations to come from Russell.
Kind regards
Duncan
Re: Creator of the Jazz Service
Is the one labeled GSW/CR/NBR possibly Paisley in the distance? From the north east (Renfrew branch?)
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Re: Creator of the Jazz Service
Thanks for the suggestion of Paisley, really appreciate it