45126_1980_07_Blackwell
45126 storms through Blackwell having ascended the Likey incline with a northbound express, 12th July 1980.
Locomotive History
45126 was originally numbered D32 being was built at Derby works and entered traffic in June 1961, allocated to Derby MPD. Three months later it transferred to Leeds Neville Hill before transferring across the city to Leeds Holbeck in December 1962. In August 1968 it transferred to the Nottingham Division (Toton) for a four year spell before returning to Holbeck in September 1972. In 1973 the Midland Main Line services started to migrate from steam heating to electric heating of the coaching stock and it was one of fifty class 45 locomotives selected to have its steam heating boiler replaced with electric train heating equipment (a Brush BL100-30 ETH auxiliary alternator). It emerged from Derby works in May 1974, renumbered 45126 and allocated to Toton for Midland Main Line duties. It would remain at Toton for the next twelve years until the surviving class 45/1 locomotives were all transferred to Tinsley in November 1986. The summer 1987 timetable saw the end of diagrammed class 45 passenger duties on the Midland Main Line and Trans-Pennine routes and resulted in significant class 45 withdrawals in April and May 1987. 45126 was one of these locomotives being condemned in April 1987. Following withdrawal it was dumped at March until in 1989 six “Peaks” (45111/25/26/36/46/48) were taken from the dump at March and towed in two batches to Egginton to be used as dead-load vehicles by the Research Department at Mickleover. Eventually three years later 45126 had made its way to MC Metals at Glasgow, were it was broken up in April 1992.
Re-edited 29th January 2019
Canon AT1, Ektachrome 200
45126_1980_07_Blackwell
45126 storms through Blackwell having ascended the Likey incline with a northbound express, 12th July 1980.
Locomotive History
45126 was originally numbered D32 being was built at Derby works and entered traffic in June 1961, allocated to Derby MPD. Three months later it transferred to Leeds Neville Hill before transferring across the city to Leeds Holbeck in December 1962. In August 1968 it transferred to the Nottingham Division (Toton) for a four year spell before returning to Holbeck in September 1972. In 1973 the Midland Main Line services started to migrate from steam heating to electric heating of the coaching stock and it was one of fifty class 45 locomotives selected to have its steam heating boiler replaced with electric train heating equipment (a Brush BL100-30 ETH auxiliary alternator). It emerged from Derby works in May 1974, renumbered 45126 and allocated to Toton for Midland Main Line duties. It would remain at Toton for the next twelve years until the surviving class 45/1 locomotives were all transferred to Tinsley in November 1986. The summer 1987 timetable saw the end of diagrammed class 45 passenger duties on the Midland Main Line and Trans-Pennine routes and resulted in significant class 45 withdrawals in April and May 1987. 45126 was one of these locomotives being condemned in April 1987. Following withdrawal it was dumped at March until in 1989 six “Peaks” (45111/25/26/36/46/48) were taken from the dump at March and towed in two batches to Egginton to be used as dead-load vehicles by the Research Department at Mickleover. Eventually three years later 45126 had made its way to MC Metals at Glasgow, were it was broken up in April 1992.
Re-edited 29th January 2019
Canon AT1, Ektachrome 200