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One of the first images I uploaded to Flickr 15 years ago almost to the day, has been given a minor wash and brush up for this latest outing.
Sulzer class 25 'Rat' unit 25107 is captured rolling in to Crewe station with an unidentified mixed vans working. With the ex-GWR 'Siphon G' just behind the loco, and the pair of BR GUVs behind that, the working is almost certainly a parcels or mail train.
At the time Crewe station was something of a honey-pot for rail enthusiasts - all mainline expresses were locomotive hauled, mail and parcels in transit often cluttered the platforms, the station was busy enough to employ at least one class 08 shunter on duty (and often two), the station layout was still haphazard, interesting, and very photogenic. Of course, this was all before the £14m track rationalisation project in the mid-1980s which saw five platforms taken out of service on the west side of the station, and the approaches realigned for 80mph through-running with faster alignments for stopping trains. It's interesting to note too that the class 40s, while widespread in the North and in Scotland, were long synonymous with Crewe and, at the start of 1978, 184 of the 200 built were still in service.
In this shot the complexity of the track layout pre-rationalisation is evident, including quite a bit of bullhead rail too.
Processed to try retain the filmic feel of the day, the original upload has been deleted.
Update: My Locoshed books from 77/78 suggest 25107 was a Toton-allocated unit at the time, so I'm wondering if this was a parcels train from the East Midlands?
Nikkormat FT2, Agfa CT18
4th March 1978
Stagecoach in South Wales received six Welsh Government-funded 12m Optare Tempos in early 2012 (25104-9). They were allocated to marathon Service T4 (Cardiff-Pontypridd-Merthyr Tydfil-Brecon-Builth Wells-Llandrindod Wells-Newtown), which was operated from Merthyr Tydfil depot and its Brecon outstation. Having clocked up high mileages for their age, they lasted until the arrival of the batch of 12 Welsh Government-funded MCV eVoRa-bodied Volvo B8RLEs (21351-62) in 2019.
This shot of 25107 from February 2012 was taken in her first week of service on the A470 just south of the Storey Arms when heading for Merthyr Tydfil.
After the batch was returned to Powys CC for onward sale on behalf of the Welsh Government, she was purchased by Wheadons of Cardiff primarily for Rail Replacement work but appears to have not been used since 2023..
25300 (SP) - Settle Jn - 1022 - Thursday 05/03/81 (Un-identified [Headcode / Origin / Departure time / Destination - probably Ribblehead Quaary] Northbound Departmental train, which consisted of 2 YGH Sealions, 2 ZEV Catfish & 4 ZFV Dogfish wagons to be loaded with new ballast, although the front wagon was already full).
Other "Rats" passing the camera that morning were 25149 at 0934:-
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& nearly two hours later it was the turn of 25107 & 119:-
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TC-TLA - Boeing B-737-4Q8 - Tailwind Airlines (leased from ILFC)
at Duesseldorf Rhein/Ruhr International Airport (DUS)
c/n 25107 - built in 1993 for Alaska Airlines/ILFC -
operated by Tailwind since 2009
(Photo: G. Dickmann)
Stagecoach in South Wales received six 12m Optare Tempos in early 2012 (25104-9) which were owned by Powys CC with Welsh Government funding. Allocated to marathon Service T4 (Cardiff-Pontypridd-Merthyr Tydfil-Brecon-Builth Wells-Llandrindod Wells-Newtown), they operated from Merthyr Tydfil depot and its Brecon outstation. Having clocked up high mileages for their age, they lasted until the arrival of the batch of 12 MCV eVoRa-bodied Volvo B8RLEs (21351-62) in 2019.
This shot of 25107 from February 2012 was taken in her first week of service, passing the Storey Arms outdoor education centre on the A470 with a fair amount of snow on the slopes of Pen-y-fan (the highest mountain in the Brecon Beacons range).
After the batch was returned to Powys CC for onward sale, she was purchased by Wheadons of Cardiff primarily for Rail Replacement work.
Stagecoach South Wales Optare Tempo 25107, YJ61MMO, is seen in Cardiff whilst on the T4 service to Merthyr Tydfil.
Over the year's I never got many picture's of Class 20's nose first but here is one 20157 run's through Derby station with a few coal wagon's . Also here were 08303//612/622. 20001/8/9/23/30/72/88/155/157/159/164/188/211. 45005/23/52/75/133/135/139. 25107. 46039 Birmingham to Derby 46004 back. 11/08/1978.
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DSC_4806 - 25107 - YJ61 MMO - Optare Tempo X1200 - Stagecoach South Wales (Traws Cymru - T4) - Cardiff, Westgate Street 22/09/17
Class 24 24027 runs through Bescot with a Cement train. I had come here to photograph the Western on the China Clay {1057 Western Chieftan], and took a few pictures on this short visit, 44004 46007 25040 25107 25135. 24023 24035 45002. 25/02/1976.
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25107 & 119 (British Rail).
Fully fitted vacuum braked freight from Carlisle to Healey Mills, which was formed of 45 wagons.
Settle Jn - 1131 - 05/03/81.
This was the sixth of eight freights & two loco hauled passenger services in just over 2 hours!
With the crap weather (four cloudy &/or wet day and so little of interest in the UK these days), it back to scanning photo's from the 1980's!! The only problem is, the notes are still on paper & not on the computer!!!
Photographed by five of those trolleys that seem to be at every station on Br the one nearest is No 34, they must be in so many of my pictures, I wonder just how many of these thing's were on Br ?, and when did they vanish ?. Anyway the subject of this picture is of course the Class 40 it's 40117 it has just arrived with the Ecs for the 11:18 service to Llandudno you can see the shunter has left the tail lamp on the platform. The day started at Birmingham New Street where, 31204. 47328and 86249 were on view, then 86246 to Crewe, 25067/277. 47364. 86031/214/226. 87022. were seen at Wolverhampton. I was at Crewe from 09:00 to 15;00. Here is the list of locos I saw that day : 24035. 25107/132/188/219/306. 40025/29/35/88/98/117/120/122/136/141. 47258/280/325/344/443/444/445/446/455/475/531/539. 81004. 82008. 84001. 85002/4/8/21/26/31. 86007/39/101/102/103/206/212/217/222/245/251/257/261.
87008/11/12/16/18/28/34/101. Back home with 86249. A good few hours photography KC. 10/06/1978.
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The summer timetable in the 70s was one to be relished. Particularly so for railfans in the Nottingham, Derby, and Leicester areas where "The Jolly Fisherman" seaside specials to Skegness invariably produced a double-headed pair of class 20s or class 25s hauling a rake of mark 1s that had been hidden away somewhere for the winter months.
In this shot, taken from the signal box, a pair of 25s (25127 leading and 25107) slow for the Attenborough stop with, I'm guessing, the working from Leicester on the morning of 28th August 1977.
It would only have been a few years before when the similar working from Derby regularly produced a set of mark 1's still in the maroon livery.
The facing crossover gave access to the Chilwell MOD by way of a rail-link through the present retail park. For those who know the area the traffic lights are more or less where the sidings lay and this point was crossed by a cheap and cheerful roadbridge carrying the A453 - part of my running route when I was a little fitter (and younger) !
The driver look down as Class45 45009 is talking water for it's boiler as it wait's at Bristol Temple Mead's with the 08:15 Plymouth to Leed's service. I spent some time photographing here it was a dullish day seen were 50004/13/28/31/49. 45009/19/22/27/46/54/71/72. 46010/12/23/44. 47002/18/97/105/142/198/443. 31170/253/258/414/416/421.422. 25107. 50004 Birmingham New Street to Bristol 45063 back. Bristol 21/04/1979.
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I came down from Birmingham on the 07:00 to Bristol with 50004., and came home with 45063 at 15 :08. The weather was cloudy dull/bright . Standing were many Peak's must have stood over the year's is Class 46 46012 with a Plymouth to Newcastle service. As usual there was plenty to photograph here 45009/19/22/27/46/54/71/72. 50005/13/28/31/49. 46010/12/23/44. 31170/253/258/414/416//421/422. 47002/18/97/142/198/443. 25107 + Hst's were all seen. Bristol 21/04/1979.
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October 2019 - [DUS/EDDL] Düsseldorf - International
'TAILWIND 309' to Antalya via Stuttgart.
cn 25107, delivered to Alaska Airlines as N774AS in 1993.
With Welsh Government funding through Powys County Council, Stagecoach in South has recently received 12 MCV eVoRa-bodied Volvo B8RLEs (21351-62) for Traws Cymru Services T4 (Newtown-Llandrindod Wells-Builth Wells-Brecon-Merthyr Tydfil-Pontypridd-Cardiff) and T14 (Hereford-Hay-on-Wye-Talgarth-Brecon-Merthyr Tydfil-Pontypridd-Cardiff). These are operated from Merthyr Tydfil and its Brecon outstation.
The Volvos have replaced Optare Tempos (25107/8/16-8), Alexander Dennis Enviro300-bodied MANs (22780/1/5/91) and Alexander Dennis Enviro300-bodied Scanias (28733-5) on the services.
21353 is captured at speed on the A470 north of Merthyr Tydfil, just leaving the Brecon Beacons National Park, on a T4 working in early July 2019.
With Welsh Government funding through Powys County Council, Stagecoach in South has recently received 12 MCV eVoRa-bodied Volvo B8RLEs (21351-62) for Traws Cymru Services T4 (Newtown-Llandrindod Wells-Builth Wells-Brecon-Merthyr Tydfil-Pontypridd-Cardiff) and T14 (Hereford-Hay-on-Wye-Talgarth-Brecon-Merthyr Tydfil-Pontypridd-Cardiff). These are operated from Merthyr Tydfil and its Brecon outstation.
The Volvos have replaced Optare Tempos (25107/8/16-8), Alexander Dennis Enviro300-bodied MANs (22780/1/5/91) and Alexander Dennis Enviro300-bodied Scanias (28733-5) on the services.
A nearside view of the eVoRa bodywork is provided by 21360 on the A470 north of Nant Ddu in this early July 2019 shot.
Stagecoach Wales Optare Tempo X1260 YJ61MMO 25107 working route T4 Newtown bus station to Tresillian Way Cardiff
With Welsh Government funding through Powys County Council, Stagecoach in South has recently received 12 MCV eVoRa-bodied Volvo B8RLEs (21351-62) for Traws Cymru Services T4 (Newtown-Llandrindod Wells-Builth Wells-Brecon-Merthyr Tydfil-Pontypridd-Cardiff) and T14 (Hereford-Hay-on-Wye-Talgarth-Brecon-Merthyr Tydfil-Pontypridd-Cardiff). These are operated from Merthyr Tydfil and its Brecon outstation.
The Volvos have replaced Optare Tempos (25107/8/16-8), Alexander Dennis Enviro300-bodied MANs (22780/1/5/91) and Alexander Dennis Enviro300-bodied Scanias (28733-5) on the services.
The Cantref Reservoir on the A470, north of Nant Ddu, provides the backdrop for 21354 on a T14 working to Hereford in early July 2019.
First Berkshire & Thames Valley - Rail Air liveried - YN24 XRG seen at Reading Rail Station operating service RA1 to Heathrow Airport on May 31st 2026
With Welsh Government funding through Powys County Council, Stagecoach in South has recently received 12 MCV eVoRa-bodied Volvo B8RLEs (21351-62) for TrawsCymru Services T4 (Newtown-Llandrindod Wells-Builth Wells-Brecon-Merthyr Tydfil-Pontypridd-Cardiff) and T14 (Hereford-Hay-on-Wye-Talgarth-Brecon-Merthyr Tydfil-Pontypridd-Cardiff). These are operated from Merthyr Tydfil and its Brecon outstation.
The Volvos have replaced Optare Tempos (25107/8/16-8), Alexander Dennis Enviro300-bodied MANs (22780/1/5/91) and Alexander Dennis Enviro300-bodied Scanias (28733-5) on the services.
Brecon acts as a hub on the TrawsCymru network, allowing connections to be masw between Services T4 and T14 and New Adventure Travel-operated Service T6 (Swansea-Neath-Crynant-Ystradgynlais-Sennybridge-Brecon), and this where 21351 is seen in early June 2019.
Class 31 31414 stands at Bristol Temple Meads with a Cardiff to Portsmouth Harbour service. If you look by right hand buffer beam you can see a rather crude bit of welding has been added to the loco' from what look's like a side swipe. I spent a few hour's photographing here that day : 50004/13/28/31/49. 45009/19/22/27/46/54/71/72. 46010/12/23/44. 31170/253/258/414/416/421/422/424. 47002/18/97/142/143/198. 25107. were seen. 50004 Birmingham New Street to Bristol and 45063 back. A good spring day out KC. 21/04/1979.
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DSC_4893 - 25107 - YJ61 MMO - Optare Tempo X1200 - Stagecoach South Wales (Traws Cymru - T4) - Cardiff, St Mary Street 22/09/17
If memory serves me well, the Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday Beacons Bus network centred upon Brecon began in Summer 1998.
Funding cutbacks by the Brecon Beacons National Park and Powys and other County Councils led to only 'Bike Bus' Services B1 (Cardiff-Pontypridd-Merthyr Tydfil-Brecon) and B4 (Brecon-Crickhowell-Abergavenny), operated by New Adventure Travel, surviving in 2015.
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Unfortunately, a contractor was unable to be found for the 'Bike Bus' services with the available funding this year, leading to their withdrawal. This has meant that Brecon currently only has one local bus service on a Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday in the shape of Stagecoach-operated 'Traws Cymru' Service T4. This is a one bus operation that provides two round trips between Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil and one round trip between Brecon and Newtown, where the driver takes a mealbreak.
My mid August 2016 shot is therefore of Optare Tempo 25107 at speed on the A470 just north of Storey Arms, operating the Merthyr Tydfil to Newtown journey, with Penyfan, the highest peak on the Brecon Beacons, forming the backdrop.
About to plunge into the western end of the 2 mile and 346 yard long Disley Tunnel, is two tone green liveried class 25 locomotive D5257 (25107) with its train of empty PHV ICI bogie hopper wagons on the afternoon Nothwich-Tunstead working. captured on what was then a freight only route that is now part of the Hope Valley line to Sheffield.
15th April 1972