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A pair of 503s. It's a shame I didn't get a 502 and 503 next to each other as the 503s were slightly smaller, but it's difficult to tell here with nothing to compare to.
40079 at rest in the Boxing Day winter sun at Longsight on Wed 26th December 1984.
The whistler saw in the New Year but time was running out as it was withdrawn on 21st January 1985.
In fact, this may be my last photo of a 40 in service (excluding the 974xx ones).. :(
Poetry Class.
(AAHHHH Poetry Sucks!)
Sitting on the floor of the first day of class.
So this is how you learn to become a poet?
I wait none the less for the arrival of the teacher /guru.
Call him or her what you may.
Wow I have to come here 3 times a week.
3 hours per class.
O well if that is what it takes to become a poet.
So many rules.
On how not only how to write a simple sentence.
But how to compose a poem,
After listening to all the rules on how to write a poem.
I forget what I wanted to say.
You have to put a period here.
Capitalize this letter.
So many writing rules.
and this is only in the first few minutes of class.
I excuse myself to go to the bathroom.
Only to never return again,
I quickly head down to a local watering hole.
To hang around the true poets,
of the true world,
With mud and dirt still on their hands.
I don't want to read the Whitmans,
the Byrons,
What the hell is a Chaucer?
The new poets that now sit with me,
ask with whiskey on the collective breaths,
so how was poetry class?
I say with blood shot eyes ,
(AAHHHH Poetry Sucks!)
Steve.D.Hammond.
On 30 May 2009, 317655 passes Turkey Street on the 1747 Liverpool Street - Cambridge, diverted this way.
Towards the end of their careers, DMU sets were thrown together with whatever was available. DMS number W51141 was allocated to Laira, but the centre car M59387 (class 108) and DMBS M53071 (class 116) were officially still Tyseley based when seen at Temple Meads on 14th May 1993.
A Class 115 DMU with M51677 leading heads North from Amersham, past Hervines Wood foot crossing, on a Marylebone - Aylesbury service.
Class 40 40036 leaves Chester station on a Bradford bound train.
Nasty looking dent in the front.
13th July 1974
387110 approaching Royston working 0705 Kings Cross to Cambridge on 10 October 2016. This was the first class 387 passenger service at Royston.
Preserved and mainline certified English Electric Type 1 Class 20 'Chopper' Bo-Bo diesel locomotive 20227 in a rather agreeable London Underground livery approaching Weybourne Station on the heritage North Norfolk Railway in Norfolk (UK).
20227 was the last Type 1 Class 20 locomotive built at the English Electric Vulcan Foundry Newton le Willows in 1968 and withdrawn from BR service in October 1990.
The English Electric Type 1 Class 20 locomotives which were first introduced in 1957 are one of the most enduring first generation diesels built with at least 22 units certified for mainline use in June 2016.
The locomotive is painted in LU livery in acknowledgement of its extensive engineering train work over the years on the Metropolitan Line and the London Underground's 150th anniversary in 2013.
20227 was a special guest locomotive for the summer 2016 season at the NNR courtesy of the Class 20 Locomotive Society.
The Sovremenny class destroyer is the principal anti-surface warship of the Russian Navy. The Soviet designation for the class was Project 956 Sarych (Buzzard).
Its primary role is to attack enemy warships while also providing sea and air defense for warships and transports under escort. It complements the Udaloy-class destroyers in anti-submarine operations.
It was used in the sovjet navy, later until today in the russian navy and China bought some vessels too, which are still in use there.
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0Z32, Bo'ness Jn. - Carnforth, West Coast Loco's 47804 and 47854 "Diamond Jubilee", passing through Polmont Station, returning to their base in Carnforth, having worked a Tour train to Lincoln, and return, the day before.
A Class 40 comes off the Chester line at Crewe North Junction, with a lengthy up freight, consisting of open and mineral wagons.
Colletts Manor class 4-6-0 were handsome looking but not to be the most successful of his designs in actual work early on until drafting experiments were carried out in later BR days which then turned them into quiet capable locomotives.
My version, inspired by Andrew Harveys build, is of No 7820 Dinmore Manor in early BR full black livery which quiet suits these engines I feel. It has a fully detailed cab.
British Rail Class 745 25kV 12 car Electric Multiple Unit (EMU) 745003 working the 1P16 09:30 (10:01 1E) Greater Anglia London Liverpool Street- Norwich service train northbound at Chelmsford Station on the Great Eastern Main Line in the County of Essex (UK).
The Class 745 EMU's were a direct replacement in early 2020 for the ageing 30 year old plus Class 90 electric locomotives and their slam door British Rail Mk3b coaches which previously worked the Norwich- London Liverpool Street express services..
745103 was built by Stadler Rail at their facility in Bussnang Switzerland as one of the Stadler 'FLIRT' (Fast Light Intercity and Regional Train) modular family of trainsets.
Note the Dellner type coupling system in the big ugly hole at the front of the trains. The Dellner coupling is a version of the Scharfenberg coupler which connects pneumatics and electronics at the same point of contact.
Greater Anglia had an option to have a cover fitted in these coupling holes by Stadler but declined for cost and ease of maintenance reasons.
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.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_745
My Chelmsford Railway Station Album flic.kr/s/aHsjoigMMG
Photograph taken by and copyright of my regular photostream contributor David and is posted here with very kind permission.
The Class of 2026 walked the halls of Ursuline for the first time as students during Freshman Orientation on Thursday, August 18, 2022
Preserved and magnificently restored class 144 Pacer DMU in Metro Link livery , 144011 , outside the depot at Haworth on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway .
British Rail Class 483 630V DC 3rd Rail 2 car Electric Multiple Unit (EMU) 483008 with a Shanklin bound South Western Railway 'Island Line' service train near Lake Station on the Isle of Wight (UK).
Metro Cammell built London Transport 1938 Tube Stock 483008 entered service on the London Underground on February 26th 1940 and has been operating on the Isle of Wight 'Island Line' after refurbishment since 1990.
The 80/82 year old Class 483 EMU's are oldest type of train unit in normal revenue earning service in the United Kingdom although they are scheduled for retirement towards the end of 2020.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_483
Photograph taken by and copyright of my regular photostream contributor David and is posted here with very kind permission.
99001 & 99002 being hauled over Standish Junction from Avonmouth docks. Thanks to Terry for the nod on this working.
A two car class 116 unit (51145 51132) is on it's way empty to the depot, the driver trying to hurry things along by getting on to the signalbox via the signal telephone, something we don't see these days. Cardiff 7 September 1992.
The secondman on class 24 no. 5127 collects the token from the signalman as it leaves Inverness with 17:00 to Wick/Thurso.
Photo by my late father, DW Futty.