Pictures from Japan around 1979

[dmustu]

Hello all,

            Someone on a british modelling forum I am on posted a link to a selection of photographs of british trains from around 1979/1980. Having a look round the site, there is also a large selection of photo's of trains around the tokyo area in 1979, the Japanese pic's start at the bottom of this page - http://www.pjv101.net/film_bw/pjv01500.htm - and last about 10 pages or so. There is also some American stuff on there, once you've gone past the British photo's.

[westfalen]

Amazing how different things were only ten years before my first visit. Looks like he talked his way into a Shinkansen cab at one point, they were different times.

[bikkuri bahn]

Amazing how different things were only ten years before my first visit. Looks like he talked his way into a Shinkansen cab at one point, they were different times.

 

Yes, indeed.  A bit earlier in the decade, judging by old pictures, it seemed common for fans to actually enter the ROW and station tracks (well, at the more rural locations) to photograph rolling stock and working steam.

 

Anyway, a nice collection.  I like how the photographer trained his lens on freight as well as passenger stock, and taking the effort to visit dock locations- so fascinating back then, before everything was containerised or shifted to truck haulage.  The pics of DD13 and freight in Ikebukuro(?) are real gems- to actually see shunting at a station on the Yamanote Loop!  Many other nostalgic scenes- everything JNR of course-103 series are so ho-hum then, parcels stock, old Asakusa Line rolling stock, Tobu vintage stock, Kintetsu stock is all red, as God intended, and loco-hauled carriages at Kyoto including a 10 series coach- another gem!! (San-in Line I reckon...)

[miyakoji]

Kintetsu stock is all red, as God intended