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7-4-02 Stenson Jct
170109 & 170102 on Sunday diverted train via Stenson & Sheet stores junctions
time 11:09
43083 & 43076 on next diverted service arrive in the background
Class 33207'Earl Mountbatten of Burma' waits departure from Hoo Junction with a 10:30 special engineers train to Ashford via Dover .20th March 1992.
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May 2nd, 1987
Halifax
Leaving Halifax with a RL Cup Final train for Wembley is Class 47 47452. It took the train to Stockport where electric traction took over.
Halifax beat St Helens
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Class 45 no 45 150 approaches Manchester Victoria. Numerically the highest numbered class 45. The building on the left was the signalling centre. On some of my visits to Victoria there was often a locomotive or two stabled in front of the building. The lines to the extreme right are the lines from Bury, which then were electrified on the third rail. These now carry the metrolink trams. 21st October 1978.
British Rail Class 153 'Super Sprinter' 2 car Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) 153374 working the 11:38 (11:38 RT) 2N35 Newark Castle- Nottingham East Midlands Trains service train at Matlock Bath station in Derbyshire (UK).
Photography courtesy of my regular photostream contributor David on his travels and is posted here with very kind permission.
Photograped during a Virgin America flight from SFO to Las Vegas almost two years ago. The First Class cabin was completely empty.
Class 37 No. 37263 at Kidderminster station during Severn Valley Railway’s Spring Diesel Festival on 19th May 2024.
Platform 1, Central Station, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
The 47 class are a class of diesel-electric locomotives built by A Goninan & Co for the Public Transport Commission in 1972/73.
Twenty were ordered from A Goninan & Co with the first delivered in July 1972. After undergoing acceptance trails the first entered service in September 1972 with the last delivered in May 1973. Originally intended for use hauling coal services in the Hunter Valley, they were allocated to Bathurst to operate services in the state's west from Lithgow to Euabalong West, Bourke and Cootamundra and all branches in between. Their excellent ride qualities saw them find favour with crews, although they did suffer from overheating with one destroyed by fire in April 1974 and another in a collision in March 1977.
In January 1981 it was decided to transfer the class to Broadmeadow to take up the duties they had originally been built for being used to haul coal services from Belmont, Dudley, Lambton and Pelton. They also saw use on services to Werris Creek, Tamworth and Moree. They continued to return to Bathurst Workshops for overhaul. A downturn in traffic as a result of a drought saw them placed in store at Parkes in 1982/83 before all were reactivated in 1984 resuming duties out of Broadmeadow.
Despite their favouritism with crews, their high maintenance costs saw them selected for withdrawal in 1989 with only six in service or under repair by November 1989 with the last being taken out of service in December 1990.
In 1990 the Lachlan Valley Railway purchased 47s 01 and 08 followed in February 1994 by 02, 03, 07 and 16. A later purchase was 4717. These were used to operate wheat services in the Cowra region in 1993/94.
In June 1999 they commenced operating trip working services between Port Botany and the Cooks River container terminal in Sydney for Lachlan Valley Rail Freight followed in July 1999 by a service between Cooks River and Carrington for R&H Transport Services.
Five Lachlan Valley Railway units remain in service, primarily operating infrastructure trains for Southern Shorthaul Railroad.
West Coast Railway's Class 57 57601 is pictured on Platform 3 at Newcastle Central having just arrived at the head of the 'Northern Belle' from York with Class 57 57314 on the rear. After a short stop and with 57314 now on the front the train headed back south bound for Castleford. It was originally D1759 and later became 47165, then 47590 and then 47825 before becoming 57601.
Two of the Nederlandse Spoorwegen 60 strong 1100 class locomotives which date from 1950 and were based upon the SNCF Class BB 8100 design, they were extensively rebuilt between 1978 and 1982.
They operated on both freight and passenger turns and were the NS main locomotive until the arrival of Class 1600's.
Unfortunately they were very unpopular to a point of being downright hated by the drivers for a number of reasons, and they were paid a special bonus for driving them.
Here 1109 and 1111 stand at the buffer stops near to Zwolle station, the last of the class was withdrawn in 1999, although many were out of service before then.
Taken from the train whilst participating on the Werkgroep 1501's railtour "The Dutch Northlander".
24th April 1993
25-8-84 Newton Heath TMD
40177 withdrawn and dumped at the end of a sidings
Olympus Om10
Kodak gold CL200
Five of these things were built for the Stansted Express in 1990. Since then they have been all over the place. This one was running on the Southminster branch for Greater Anglia. Or at least it was in the morning - later it was replaced by a class 321.
This is Wickford, with a London Train seen opposite.
Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company, Class 104, M53421 & M53529 at Sheffield on the 08:36hrs from Sheffield to Lincoln with a class 144 Pacer at 08:30hrs on the 21st of March 1988
Heading north on the WCML at Weaver Junction Cheshire, ex Greater Anglia class 90009 & 90010 hauling a long rake of flatbeds.
April 9th 1988
Mirfield Station
Gateshead Class 47 47452 (formerly D1569) speeds a Liverpool to Newcastle express towards Dewsbury around 2.45pm on a Saturday afternoon
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LNER Class 91s Nos. 91124 & 91104 at Edinburgh Waverley station on 20th Novemeber 2019, waiting to propel their trains to London Kings Cross.
On the left is the 13:00 service which failed at Benton with the service being terminated at Newcastle Central. On the right is the 13:30 service.
Earlier this year I received a number of Auscision's latest diesel-electric locomotive models, the 600 class as you can see. By far my favourite is the version in the original South Australian Railways red & silver. So you have to put up with several photos of these units.
50019 at Bristol descending Ashley Bank. Taken in Spring 1990. New the 50 had worked up earlier the day and decided to set tripod up with 400mm to catch train coming down bank.
It is hard to inagine that the Class 306 EMU was first introduced in 1949, and they were a familiar sight for many years on the Liverpool Street- Shenfield services. They were built to a pre-Second World War LNER design by Metro Cammell and Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company. They were withdrawn in the early 1980s, but unit 017 was retained, passing into ownership of First Great Eastern, who refurbished it to operational condition for use on special occasions. After many years of storage exposed to the elements, as it continues to do so at Shildon, it is now pending assessment by the NRM with a view to possible restoration.
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class 50007 rests at Oakhampton a quick run over the footbridge allowed me to get this shot in the bag
FR - La Class 66205 en tête d'un train en route pour Maubeuge & l'entreprise Tata Steel, depuis l' Angleterre (dont je ne me souviens plus de l'origine exacte) , est vue dans Le Triangle d' Ostricourt, par une belle journée de Septembre.
EN - The Class 66205 at the head of a train en route to Maubeuge & Tata Steel, from England (whose exact origin I no longer remember) is seen in Ostricourt’s Triangle, on a beautiful September day.
BR (York) Class 455/7 (2nd Srs.) Standard Mk.III 750 v dc 3rd rail 4-car emu No.(45)5708 of South Western Railway in SWR-branded South West Trains inner-suburban livery at Vauxhall on a Guildford - Cobham - Waterloo service, 31 May 2022.
802303 breezes past Welney Road Crossing near Manea, with the diverted 1H03 1244 London King's Cross to Hull service - 18/01/2020.
Colas Class 37219 Clags Away From CE55 Signal Working 1Q43 1838 Crewe C.S. (L&Nwr Site) - Crewe C.S. (L&Nwr Site) on the UFL.
Colas 37175 on rear.
Taken At 18:53
Crewe Railway Station
12th April 2017
(c) Liam Blundell 2017