45103_1975_08_Nottingham_A3_400dpi
One of my very early transparencies (number 78 in my collection) taken with a Hanimex Compact non SLR camera of dubious quality and using a cheap East German film called Orwochrome UT18. 45103 accelerates away from Nottingham station under Wilford Road bridge with the Up “Thames – Clyde Express” (1M86), 6th August 1975. The St Pancras-Glasgow Thames-Clyde Express was inaugurated in 1927, but lost its title at the end of the 1974/75 timetable and the service was truncated to Nottingham – Glasgow at the end of the 1975/76 timetable.
Locomotive History
45103 was originally D116 and was built at Crewe works. It entered traffic in August 1961 allocated to Derby MPD. It was one of fifty Peaks selected in the first half of the 1970’s to lose its Stone Vapour steam heating boiler and be fitted with electric train heating equipment (a Brush BL100-30 ETH auxiliary alternator). This was undertaken during a classified repair at Derby works in the spring of 1973 and I noted D116 freshly painted and now numbered 45103 during a tour of Derby works on the 9th April 1973. By the beginning of August 1988 there were only four active non-departmental class 45's left in service (45046, 45103/28/41) and after a career of almost twenty seven years 45103 was withdrawn when regular operation of the Peaks ended during the first week of August 1988. Following withdrawal it was stored at Tinsley until in March 1990 when 45103/07/10/13/15 were towed from Tinsley to MC Metals Glasgow and 45103 was broken up on arrival
45103_1975_08_Nottingham_A3_400dpi
One of my very early transparencies (number 78 in my collection) taken with a Hanimex Compact non SLR camera of dubious quality and using a cheap East German film called Orwochrome UT18. 45103 accelerates away from Nottingham station under Wilford Road bridge with the Up “Thames – Clyde Express” (1M86), 6th August 1975. The St Pancras-Glasgow Thames-Clyde Express was inaugurated in 1927, but lost its title at the end of the 1974/75 timetable and the service was truncated to Nottingham – Glasgow at the end of the 1975/76 timetable.
Locomotive History
45103 was originally D116 and was built at Crewe works. It entered traffic in August 1961 allocated to Derby MPD. It was one of fifty Peaks selected in the first half of the 1970’s to lose its Stone Vapour steam heating boiler and be fitted with electric train heating equipment (a Brush BL100-30 ETH auxiliary alternator). This was undertaken during a classified repair at Derby works in the spring of 1973 and I noted D116 freshly painted and now numbered 45103 during a tour of Derby works on the 9th April 1973. By the beginning of August 1988 there were only four active non-departmental class 45's left in service (45046, 45103/28/41) and after a career of almost twenty seven years 45103 was withdrawn when regular operation of the Peaks ended during the first week of August 1988. Following withdrawal it was stored at Tinsley until in March 1990 when 45103/07/10/13/15 were towed from Tinsley to MC Metals Glasgow and 45103 was broken up on arrival