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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
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 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!!!
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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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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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.
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.
A nearside view of the eVoRa bodywork is provided by 21360 on the A470 north of Nant Ddu in this early July 2019 shot.
40196 - Settle Jn - 1005 - 05/03/81 (Un-identified [Headcode / Origin (assumed to be Ribblehead Quary) / Departure Time / Destination (assumed to be Healey Mills Yard] Southbound Departmental working, which consisted of 16 individually numbered ZEV Mermaid, ZFV Dogfish & YGH Sealion wagons loaded with new ballast).
This was followed by the five following freight that morning:-
1022 - 25300 - Departmental service to Ribblehead Quarry.
1105 - 47248 - Northbound vacuum braked wagonload service to Carlisle.
1131 - 25107 & 119 - Southbound vacuum braked wagonload service from Carlisle (photo needs re-scanning):-
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1133 - 31316 - Departmental trip working, which included one wagon loaded with coal for the Signalbox
& finally at 1142 - 40174 - Loaded bitumen service from Stanlow to Skipton (also needs re-scanning):-
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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.
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
I came up to Crewe and spent a few hour's photographing as usual there was plenty to see loco's seen were : 40025/29/35/88/98/117/120/122/135/136/141. 47258/280/325/443/444/445/446/455/475/531/539. 86007/39/101/102/103/206/212/217/222/245/251/257/261. 87008/11/12/16/18/24/34/87101. 85004/8/13/21/25/26.31. 25107/132/188/219/306. 81004 82008 84001 24035. Above is Chass 40 40122 it has just arrived with the 09:19 Holyhead to Crewe. 10/06/1978.
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Well, OK, they are the same thing, otherwise known as the Class 33.
33057 and 33028 pause at Llandovery on the very scenic Central Wales Line whilst hauling the Sugar Loaf Refiner, an excursion organised by Hertfordshire Railtours that also took in Oakdale Colliery.
This is photo no. 100 in the Choo Choo Tuesday series. Next week Railway Roundabout returns that will feature the broader railway scene.
Llandovery, Carmarthenshire
11th May 1985
Pentax MX, Kodachrome
19850511 25107 33057+028 Llandovery clean
Owned by Powys County Council but operated by Stagecoach South Wales, 25017 [YJ61 MMO] was the first of six new Optare Tempo's to enter service in February 2012 for the extended T4 Traws Cymru route from Newtown to Cardiff. It is photographed in April 2012 heading southbound on the A470 towards Merthyr Tydfil.
These buses are double glazed with full climate control and have high backed, leather trimmed executive coach type seats. There are two tables to the rear with fore and aft facing seats; beneath each table is a twin, 240 volt power point and Wi-Fi is provided throughout the vehicle. A GPRS controlled real time passenger information system is fitted as is an induction loop system to help the hearing impaired. Security is provided by an eight camera CCTV surveillance system.
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