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Double headed 'Peaks' pour on the power as they roar through Spondon with the 1C28 16:00 Derby to St Pancras on May 11th 1986.
'Peak' class 45's 45148, 45126, 45111, 45125, 45146 & 45136 with some HEA's and tank wagons are in the sidings at Egginton Junction on 19th July 1990.
All bar 45125 (D123) were scrapped at M.C Metals, Glasgow in 1992.
The line through the gate entered the M.O.D. Army depot, Hilton.
If you followed that today, it would lead to a housing estate. No surprise there then!
©Dave Peachey.
Peak 45126 runs parallel with Metro Cammell Class 101 departing south from York with the 14.19 Newcastle - Liverpool.
Looking back in my notebook, we had photographed early morning at Chaloners Whin, then NYMR, before returning via Seamer Jct and Malton. After this Dringhouses Yard and some night shots at Leeds City to round it off ... phew!
45126 heads a Liverpool to Newcastle train past the disused station at Diggle just prior to entering Standedge tunnel. 15.15 on 25/3/1986.
It's a while since that water tank held any water!
The 11:15 ex Kidderminster Class 116 diesel multiple unit arrives at Birmingham New Street on 12th July 1986. In the background, 45126 reverses back towards the station after having been uncoupled from the 09:12 York - Poole.
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The secondman looks back as a Peak basher in the front coach enjoys an open air display of power as 45126 restarts a NE / SW service from Burton on Trent. The line from here looks incredibly flat once the railway has crossed over the road bridge in the foreground.
24th June 1986
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45 126 heads 1V73, the 09:11 Manchester - Newquay past Langstone Cliff on another hot, sunny, summer Saturday
This BR Type 4 pairing of 45001 & 45126 was recorded passing Wigston South Junction signal box on an overcast Saturday morning in late December 1985 hauling the SO 3C01 10:13 Nottingham PCD to Luton parcels vans.
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The driver of 45 126 strolls down the platform at St Pancras before departure of 1P20. The stock that had just arrived behind 45 102/101 on 1C22, the 12.15 from Derby, was booked to return on the 16.20 St Pancras - Derby.
Mickleover Test Track, Derby, 27th September 1989.
L-R 45125, 45111, 45126, 45148 & 60001. The Peaks were used as a dead weight load during testing of 60001.
45125 was preserved, and now runs as D123 at The Great Central Railway, Loughborough. The other three Peaks ended their days at M.C. Metals, Glasgow.
45126 is only a few miles into the journey of 1O09 the 14:10 Newcastle to Poole service on Sunday 31st August 1986 seen here at Birtley having just passed Tyne Yard. The Sunday service to Poole left Newcastle much later than on weekdays when it left fairly early in the morning.
Just south of Loughborough station 45126 (in need of a fresh coat of yellow paint) heads for St Pancras with a Midland Main Line express, 18th March 1978. On the right is the connection for the Midland to the Great Central cord that was built in the early 1970’s. This allowed the Gypsum works at Hotchley Hill, East Leake to be served from the south and the remains of the Great Central northwards to Nottingham (with the reversal at Weekday Cross) to be closed. Behind this is the Brush Falcon works birthplace a of several hundred diesel locomotives bought by British Railways between 1958 and 1992.
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.
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Class 45 no.45126 approaching Blea Moor with the 1S68 10:25 Nottingham-Glasgow Central on 2nd January 1980.
Bathed in late afternoon sunshine, 45126 approaches Long Preston with a Midland Railway Trust excursion from Derby to Derby via York, Newcastle, Carlisle and Leeds on 3rd March 1984
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Nettleham Beck as it travels through the village of Nettleham, West Lindsey, Lincolnshire.
Although Nettleham’s history may be traced back to the Iron Age, its early development may be attributed to the Romans, who, after establishing their garrison at Lincoln in 43AD, discovered a spring on the outskirts of the village, from which they supplemented their supply of fresh water from the wells in the upper city.
Following the departure of the Romans in the 5th century, the invading Anglo Saxons settled in Lincoln and the surrounding area. Although initially they claimed the manorial rights in Nettleham, the manor eventually became the property of Queen Edith, wife of Edward The Confessor.
The now-demolished Bishop's Manor House at Nettleham was the property of Edith of Wessex, and later Empress Matilda, daughter of King Henry I, before passing into the possession of the Bishops of Lincoln, who enlarged it to create a Bishop's Palace appropriate to one of the country's most important Sees. On 7 February 1301 King Edward I was staying in the Bishop's Palace when he created his son Edward (later King Edward II) as the first Prince of Wales.
Participants in the Lincolnshire Rebellion in 1536, protesting against Henry VIII and his reformation of the monasteries, passed Nettleham on their way to the City of Lincoln and caused much damage to property, particularly to the Palace, and it was from this time that the building began to fall into disrepair. However a number of grass mounds, marking the outlines of the original buildings and gardens are still visible in the Bishop's Palace field today.
The parish church of All Saints dates from the Saxon period, with medieval and 19th century additions. It is now in the benefice of Nettleham with Riseholme and Grange de Lings.
Within the church's graveyard is a headstone in memory of Thomas Gardiner, a post-boy murdered hereabouts by two highway robbers in January 1733. The inscription declares he was 'barbarously murdered' aged 19. The robbers - two brothers by the name of Hallam - committed another murder near Faldingworth before being arrested. They were convicted of murder at Lincoln and executed at the site of their crimes. (Thomas Gardiner's headstone declares he was killed on 3 January 1732 since at the time Britain used the Julian Calendar.)
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No sun I'm afraid, but you can't go back & do it again. The Peak has long since been cut up & the same goes for the 21 ton coal hoppers.
From memory it's my good friend & top Peak man, Carl Cox at the end of the platform who had also just taken a photo.
45126 trundles along the down slow line & passes under the station bridge & through Burton-on-Trent with a coal train on the 23rd July 1986
Class 45 45126 stand's Exeter St Davids with the 08:36 Cardiff to Paighton. 29/09/1985.
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Class45 45126 heads past Gatehead mpd with the 4V73 Follingsby-Pengam Frt. service at King Edward Br. South Junc.
By 1986 Class 45s only had 2 or 3 duties per day that brought them into St Pancras, and this was one of them - the 16.35SX to Nottingham. This is 45126 departing on this train on 6 May 1986. This state of affairs lasted for another 2 years, until the last regular 45-hauled train departed the terminus on 10 July 1988. Even then there were several more Class 45 departures as 45106 was retained as a "flagship" Class 45, and made several visits to St Pancras before it was finally withdrawn with fire damage in February 1989.
Breadsall 13-7-85 I didn't come here very often and the speed of this passenger train caught me out as 45126 heads towards Derby.
This was Sunday the 1st June 1986. A busy Scarborough with DMU sets reaching to the platform limit and from l to r 45126, 47647 & 47491. Note the United Automobile Services buses to the right.
45126 with its distinctive head code panels.
The Class 45 was in for repairs atfer derailing in Glasgow Central Station, a not uncommon occurence with Class 45s at the time. They along with Class 40s and 46s were eventually banned.
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Rescan from a 110 film Neg
45126 at East Croydon on the 1848 Brighton to Derby. This train was worked by a class 45 on several occasions during June 1985.
At Leeds City, 40122 heads the 1605 to Carlisle alongside 45126 which had earlier failed on the 1403 Liverpool - Scarborough.
45102 arrives with the Saturday 1S61 16.42 Penzance - Glasgow Central hauling load 8. The train ran on a Saturday in the summer months and would have sleeper carriages added at Bristol Temple Meads for Glasgow and Edinburgh often being load 16 and was actually booked to be banked up the Lickey Incline by the two class 37s stationed at Bromsrove. Some cracking cars in the car park with a Ford Capri, Morris Minor, Volkswagen Beetle, Renault 2CV, Ford Escort and I think a Ford Cortina Mark 3. I'm sure Paul Barlow will identify a few others.
This was my penultimate peak bashing 'overnight' and I'd already decided that with the 'West of England class 45 ban' starting the following month I was going to semi-retire from following the class as I couldn't afford to bash the class on the Midland main line and Transpennine/North Wales line. My weekend started with a session on the Ind Coope Burton Ale in the Pennycomequick pub by Plymouth station and then leaving Plymouth at 23.20 with 45121 to Bristol on the 1E43 21.20 Penzance - Leeds. After arrival in Temple Meads it was back west at 03.00 on the Manchester - Penzance overnight with 45076. Nothing was heading into Cornwall peakwise so it was an HST to Newton Abbot to see what was on the Paignton trains. Answer nothing but my conveyance to Paignton was massive 47277 on the 1V57 22.00 Newcastle With nothing working it was up to Exeter with 50011 on a Paddington train for 45102 which was on the 1V62 23.55 Glasgow Central - Penzance which I took to Plymouth arriving 11.30 where there was a choice of two peaks heading east. 45104 had just left with the 1E91 08.53 Penzance - Newcastle. Such were the amount of summer holiday inter-regionals that there was a 1E22 10.05 Newquay - Newcastle re-engined with 45110 and the 1E64 09.55 Penzance - Leeds re-engined with 45076. Hard to believe that the class would virtually disappear from Devon and Cornwall in just over a fortnight all because some dick at Laira didn't want to do maintenance on them or have drivers driving them. I have no idea what advance gen I had on the day but I took 45076 to Exeter and baled there as the 1V10 09.14 Brighton - Penzance was having its two 33s replaced with 45033 off the stabling point. This was basically a chuck out that could see 50s, 47s or 45s. My memory is a bit vague on this train but I'm pretty sure the loco usually went on to Penzance but this day 45033 was replaced with 50018 at Plymouth. Not to worry as 45121 was heading west on the 1V81 09.21 Leeds - Penzance. Just the matter of waiting an hour for it and not getting quite as far in to Cornwall as I'd hoped and so it was 45121 to Bodmin Parkway to meet 45102. Was the day over ? No way ! 45102 was duly taken to Plymouth where it was then paired up with 45126 for the delight of only my second ever pair of peaks over the Devon banks, my first ever eastbound and what would be my last ever pair ever anywhere. I took them to Taunton and my thoughts turned to the next fortnight and then the barren times ahead.
A view that is sadly no longer available on Britain's mainline railways. With a closing speed of well over 150mph 45 126 approaches at Sileby with the 10:00 Sheffield - St Pancras
I was behind 45 131 on 1E15, the 09:00 St Pancras - Sheffield
Absolutely no danger though. With a telephoto lens on my head was well in before we passed
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This bridge near the village of Littlehempston was one of those locations that never seemed to produce what was expected.
I kept coming back here for a shot of a Class 50 climbing away from Totnes, but for years, every time I visited something else turned up
On this occasion it was 45 126 with the 07:30 Penzance - Glasgow which I believe was a booked Class 50 turn at the time
Stored out of use, 45126 stands alongside Tinsley depot building on 19th April 1987.
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Coal from the Midlands negotiates Clapham Junction behind 45126 on 13 May 1976. It is passing beneath Clapham Junction 'A' box, which partially collapsed at the northern (left hand) end in 1965; the box finally closed in 1990.
My notes state that the train was on the Windsor lines. If so, where would it's likely destination be?
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45126 is seen backing onto a train at St Pancras in June 1981. A scene that has now changed forever!
A closer in view of the redundant Peaks in the steam shed sidings at March on 30th May 88
Row one
45139+45058+45051+45070+45127
Row two
45119+45105+03158+03084+03112
Row three
45142+45062+47419+20167+45138+45076+45112+45146+45114+45148+45122+45126+45013
with some of row four visible behind including
47415+45132+45118+45136+45111+45125+20216+20149
Classic Diesel locomotive D123 at Loughborough station.
This was actually D163 away back in the mists of time when I was a Lad loco spotting with my Ian Allans combined volume of 1969, the class were known as "Peak" after quite a few of the class were named after Peaks as in.....D1 Scafell Pike. D2 Helvellyn. D3 Skiddaw. D4 Great Gable. D5 Cross Fell. D6 Whernside. D7 Inglebrough..
It wasn't until you got to D49 did the class names change to regiments such as D50 The Kings Shropshire Light Regiment.
Heres some stuff from Wikki.
The Class 45s became the main traction on the Midland Main Line from 1962, and their introduction allowed considerable acceleration of the previous steam-powered service. The Class 45s remained the main source of power on the Midland Main Line up to 1982, when they were relegated to secondary services following introduction of HSTs on the route. From 1986 Class 45s virtually disappeared from the line.[1] From the early 1980s until their withdrawal c.1988, the class were regular performers on the North Trans-Pennine line working services from Liverpool Lime Street to York, Scarborough or Newcastle via Manchester Victoria, Huddersfield and Leeds. These trains were usually formed of early British Railways Mark 2 carriages, of up to seven in a typical train.
The engine of the Class 45 was a marine-type, slow-revving diesel, a Sulzer 12LDA28B with a bore of 280 mm (11.024 in) and a stroke of 360 mm (14.173 in). This gave 22 litres (1,300 cu in) per cylinder, or 264 litres (16,100 cu in) for the whole engine. The unit was turbocharged and intercooled and gave 2,500 hp (1,900 kW) at 750 rpm. The engine was of the double bank type with two parallel banks of 6 cylinders, geared together to a single output shaft.[6] Six-cylinder versions of the engine were fitted in the Class 25 locos (amongst others) and eight-cylinder versions in Class 33s.[7] Class 45s were the updated versions of the Class 44 locomotives, the latter having a 2,300 hp (1,700 kW) non-intercooled version of the same engine; i.e. the 12LDA28A. The later Class 47 had a modified version of the same engine, a 12LDA28C.
Train heating[edit]
When initially put into service, the locomotives were fitted with multi-unit working and steam-heating boilers for passenger service. In the early 1970s, fifty were fitted with electric train supply in place of their steam-heating boilers and assigned to work services on the Midland Main Line from London St Pancras to Nottingham, Derby and Sheffield. These locomotives were renumbered as Class 45/1.[8]
Auxiliary machines[edit]
The Class 45 is unusual in having a 220 volt electrical system for driving auxiliary machines and battery charging.[9] Most British Railways diesels of the same era had 110 volt auxiliaries.
Withdrawal[edit]
The great majority of Class 45s were withdrawn between 1981 and 1988, and the last was withdrawn from service by 1989.[10]
Fleet details[edit]
Number(s)
Name
Withdrawn
Disposal details
D11 45122 04/1983 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (02/1994)
D12 45011 05/1981 Scrapped at BREL Derby Works (09/1981)
D13 45001 01/1986 Scrapped at BREL Derby Works (11/1988)
D14 45015 03/1986 Sold into preservation but unrestored.
Stored at The Battlefield Line
D15 45018 04/1981 Scrapped at BREL Swindon Works (10/1982)
D16 45016 11/1985 Scrapped at Vic Berry Leicester (12/1986)
D17 45024 10/1980 due to fire damage Scrapped at BREL Swindon Works (08/1983)
D18 45121 Pegasus (unofficial name) 19 November 1987 Scrapped by Thomas Hill at BREL Crewe Works (09/1993)
D19 45025 05/1981 Scrapped at BREL Derby Works (11/1981)
D20 45013 Wyvern (unofficial name) 04/1987 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (02/1994)
D21 45026 04/1986 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (11/1988)
D22 45132 09:39 on 11/05/1987 Preserved at Epping Ongar Railway
D23 45017 08/1985 Training Loco ADB 968024 Toton September 1985-00.1988[clarification needed] Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (11/1991)
D24 45027 05/1981 Scrapped at BREL Swindon Works (09/1983)
D25 45021 12/1980 Scrapped at BREL Swindon Works (04/1983)
D26 45020 12/1985 Scrapped at Vic Berry Leicester (08/1988)
D27 45028 01/1981 Scrapped at BREL Swindon Works (04/1983)
D28 45124 Unicorn (unofficial name) 12:34 on 22 January 1988 withdrawn due to bogie fire Leicester 29 December 1987 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (10/1991)
D29 45002 09/1984 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (11/1988)
D30 45029 07/1987 reinstated as 97 410 September 1987 withdrawn August 1988 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (10/1991)
D31 45030 11/1980 Scrapped at BREL Derby Works (03/1981)
D32 45126 27 April 1987 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (04/1992)
D33 45019 09/1985 Scrapped at Vic Berry Leicester (01/1987)
D34 45119 07/05/1987 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (04/1994)
D35 45117 12/05/1986 Scrapped at Vic Berry Leicester (02/1987)
D36 45031 05/1981 Scrapped at BREL Derby Works (10/1981)
D37 45009 09/1986 Scrapped at Vic Berry Leicester (08/1988)
D38 45032 12/1980 Scrapped at BREL Swindon Works (09/1983)
D39 45033 Sirius (unofficial name) 02/1988 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (02/1992)
D40 45133 10/05/1987 Preserved at Midland Railway – Butterley Owned by the Class 45/1 Preservation Society
D41 45147 04/01/1985 due to damage in Salford accident 4 December 1984 Scrapped at Patricroft by Vic Berry Leicester (03/1985)
D42 45034 07/1987 reinstated September 1987 as 97411 withdrawn July 1988 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (05/1992)
D43 45107 Phoenix (unofficial name) 15:19 on 27 July 1988 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (03/1990)
D44 45035 05/1981 Scrapped at BREL Derby Works (11/1981)
D45 45036 05/1986 Scrapped at Vic Berry Leicester (08/1988)
D46 45037 Eclipse (unofficial name) 07/1988 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (03/1992)
D47 45116 22 December 1986 Scrapped at Vic Berry Leicester (09/1988)
D48 45038 06/1985 Scrapped at Vic Berry Leicester (12/1986)
D49 45039 The Manchester Regiment 12/1980 Scrapped at BREL Swindon Works (04/1983)
D50 45040 The King's Shropshire Light Infantry 07/1987 reinstated as 97412 September 1987 withdrawn August 1988 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (10/1991)
D51 45102 9 September 1986 Scrapped at Vic Berry Leicester (10/1988)
D52 45123 The Lancashire Fusilier 22 July 1986 Scrapped at Vic Berry Leicester (11/1988)
D53 45041 Royal Tank Regiment 08/06/1988 Preserved at Great Central Railway
D54 45023 The Royal Pioneer Corps 09/1984 Scrapped at Vic Berry Leicester (10/1986)
D55 45144 Royal Signals 21 December 1987 Scrapped at Vic Berry Leicester (06/1988)
D56 45137 Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment (TA) 16 June 1987 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (03/1994)
D57 45042 04/1985 Scrapped at Vic Berry Leicester (11/1986)
D58 45043 The King's Own Royal Border Regiment 09/1984 Scrapped at Vic Berry Leicester (01/1987)
D59 45104 The Royal Warwickshire Fusilier 13 April 1988 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (02/1992)
D60 45022 Lytham St Annes 07/1987 reinstated September 1987 as 97409 withdrawn July 1988 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (10/1991)
D61 45112 Royal Army Ordnance Corps 14:43 on 07/05/1987 Main Line Operational
D62 45143 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards 1685–1985 14:43 on 07/05/1987 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (03/1994)
D63 45044 Royal Inniskilling Fusilier 06/1987 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (11/1988)
D64 45045 Coldstream Guardsman 05/1983 due to collision at Saltley 10 February 1983 Scrapped at Vic Berry Leicester (10/1986)
D65 45111 Grenadier Guardsman 14:43 on 07/05/1987 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (04/1992)
D66 45146 07/04/1987 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (03/1992)
D67 45118 The Royal Artilleryman 08/05/1987 Preserved; under repair at Derby works
D68 45046 Royal Fusilier 08/1988 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (02/1992)
D69 45047 08/1980 Scrapped at BREL Derby Works (02/1981)
D70 45048 The Royal Marines 06/1985 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (11/1988)
D71 45049 The Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales' Own) 10/1987 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (11/1988)
D72 45050 09/1984 Scrapped at Vic Berry Leicester (03/1987)
D73 45110 Medusa (unofficial name) 15:19 on 27 July 1988 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (03/1990)
D74 45051 04/1987 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (11/1988)
D75 45052 Satan and Nimrod (unofficial names) 06/1988 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (09/1991)
D76 45053 11/1983 Scrapped at Crewe Works by A Hampton (10/1988)
D77 45004 Royal Irish Fusilier 12/1985 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (11/1988)
D78 45150 Vampire (unofficial name) 10:40 on 04/02/1988 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (12/1991)
D79 45005 03/1986 Scrapped at Vic Berry Leicester (12/1988)
D80 45113 Athene (unofficial name) 02/08/1988 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (03/1990)
D81 45115 13 June 1988 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (03/1990)
D82 45141 Zephyr (unofficial name) 04/08/1988 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (03/1992)
D83 45142 19 June 1987 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (03/1994)
D84 45055 Royal Corps of Transport 04/1985 Scrapped at Vic Berry Leicester (11/1986)
D85 45109 27 January 1986 Scrapped at Vic Berry Leicester (11/1986)
D86 45105 16:25 on 11/05/1987 Preserved at Barrow Hill
D87 45127 14:43 on 07/05/1987 Scrapped at Crewe Works by J&S Metals (03/1994)
D88 45136 14:43 on 07/05/1987 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (03/1992)
D89 45006 Honourable Artillery Company 09/1986 Scrapped at Vic Berry Leicester (10/1988)
D90 45008 12/1980 Scrapped at BREL Swindon Works (09/1983)
D91 45056 12/1985 Scrapped at Vic Berry Leicester (11/1986)
D92 45138 22 December 1986 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (04/1994)
D93 45057 01/1985 Scrapped at Vic Berry Leicester (03/1987)
D94 45114 15:35 on 17 February 1987 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (02/1994)
D95 45054 01/1985 Scrapped at Toton MPD by Vic Berry (11/1985)
D96 45101 13 November 1986 Scrapped at Vic Berry Leicester (10/1988)
D97 45058 09/1987 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (03/1994)
D98 45059 Royal Engineer 03/1986 Scrapped at Vic Berry Leicester (11/1988)
D99 45135 3rd Carabinier 09/03/1987 Preserved at East Lancashire Railway
D100 45060 Sherwood Forester 12/1985 Preserved at Barrow Hill
D101 45061 08/1981 Scrapped at BREL Swindon Works (04/1982)
D102 45140 Mercury (unofficial name) 11:47 on 29 March 1988 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (09/1991)
D103 45062 07/1987 last run was HRT "Baker's Dozen" Railtour 27 June 1987. Loco failed at MP10 WCML[clarification needed] and was rescued by 31305 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (03/1994)
D104 45063 05/1986 Scrapped at Vic Berry Leicester (11/1988)
D105 45064 01/1985 Scrapped at Vic Berry Leicester (11/1988)
D106 45106 Vulcan (unofficial name) 15:19 on 27 July 1988, reinstated 04/08/1988. Finally withdrawn 02/1989 after catching fire on 07:12 Derby to St Pancras 3 February 1989 Scrapped at CF Booth Rotherham (04/1992)
D107 45120 24 March 1987 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (11/1991)
D108 45012 Wyvern II (unofficial name) 07/1988 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (03/1992)
D109 45139 27 April 1987 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (03/1994)
D110 45065 03/1985 Scrapped at Vic Berry Leicester (12/1988)
D111 45129 11/06/1987 Scrapped at Vic Berry Leicester (12/1988)
D112 45010 03/1985 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (11/1988)
D113 45128 Centaur (unofficial name) 02/08/1988. reinstated 02/1989 but not used after failed load test then finally withdrawn 04/1989. Reinstated to haul two railtours which had a class 45 booked for haulage, after 45106 caught fire and was withdrawn.[11] Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (03/1992)
D114 45066 Amethyst (unofficial name) 07/1987. Reinstated September 1987 as 97413 then finally withdrawn on 26 July 1988 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (10/1991)
D115 45067 07/1977 after collision at Ilkeston 8 July 1977 11:50 Glasgow-Nottingham Scrapped at BREL Derby Works (06/1980)
D116 45103 Griffon (unofficial name) 02/08/1988 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (03/1990)
D117 45130 10/05/1987 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (03/1992)
D118 45068 01/1986 Scrapped at Allerton MPD by Vic Berry (04/1986)
D119 45007 Taliesin (unofficial name) 07/1988 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (03/1992)
D120 45108 11:27 on 04/08/1987 Preserved at Midland Railway – Butterley
D121 45069 07/1986 Scrapped at Vic Berry Leicester (10/1988)
D122 45070 01/1987 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (11/1988)
D123 45125 14:43 on 07/05/1987 Preserved at Great Central Railway
D124 45131 16:00 on 03/09/1986 Scrapped at Vic Berry Leicester (11/1988)
D125 45071 07/1981 Scrapped at BREL Swindon Works (07/1983)
D126 45134 Neptune (unofficial name) 12:16 on 17 September 1987 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (11/1991)
D127 45072 04/1985 Scrapped at Vic Berry Leicester (11/1986)
D128 45145 Scylla (unofficial name) 9 September 1987. Reinstated 19 October 1987 then finally withdrawn 11:11 on 23 February 1988 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (12/1991)
D129 45073 10/1981 Scrapped at BREL Derby Works (11/1982)
D130 45148 11:43 on 11/02/1987 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (04/1992)
D131 45074 09/1985 Scrapped at Vic Berry Leicester (10/1988)
D132 45075 01/1985 Scrapped at Vic Berry Leicester (03/1987)
D133 45003 12/1985 Scrapped at Vic Berry Leicester (04/1987)
D134 45076 11/1986 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (03/1994)
D135 45149 Phaeton (unofficial name) 16:00 on 14 September 1987 Preserved at Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway
D136 45077 08/1986 Scrapped at MC Metals Glasgow (09/1988)
D137 45014 The Cheshire Regiment 03/1986 collision with 31 436 Chinley 9 March 1986 Scrapped at Ashburys by Vic Berry (08/1986)
Preservation[edit]
Eleven locomotives survive in preservation. A quick summary of these is as follows (a more detailed study can be found in the table above):
45041 – In operational condition at the Great Central Railway
45060 – Undergoing engine overhaul at Barrow Hill Roundhouse
45105 – Awaiting completion of restoration at Barrow Hill roundhouse
45108 – In operational condition at Midland Railway – Butterley.
45112 – Burton upon Trent. Operational.
45118 – Formerly at the Northampton & Lamport Railway. Currently undergoing repairs at RVEL in Derby
45125 – In operational condition at the Great Central Railway
45132 – Under overhaul at the Epping Ongar Railway[12]
45133 – In operational condition at the Midland Railway – Butterley
45135 – Under heavy repair at the East Lancashire Railway
45149 – In operational condition at the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway
A twelfth example, 45015, was also sold into preservation, but not restored. Withdrawn in March 1986 with a seized traction motor, for which repair was not authorised,[13] 45015 was heavily cannibalised for spares to keep other Class 45s working. It remained at Toton, its home shed, until at least 1999.[14] The locomotive was moved to Shackerstone, on the Battlefield Line Railway, in 2002, still with the intention of restoration to mainline standard, despite requiring a replacement engine to be found.[15] In 2010 the host railway gave notice to the locomotive's owner that the still-unrestored 45015 needed to move to a new site. Having failed to find a buyer, it is likely that 45015 will be sold for scrap, although, as at November 2010, the derelict loco was still at Shackerstone.[16]
Taken from a photograph by H C Casserley in my collection.
LMS class 5, built by Armstrong Whitworth entering service numbered 5126 May 1935. Renumbered 45126 June 1948 and withdrawn May 1967.
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
Unofficially named Wyvern, 45013 stands alongside classmate 45126 at the fuelling point beside Tinsley depot building.
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