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Two new class 92's in store at Crewe Electric depot awaiting major modifications to there electrical systems before they could enter service.
Class 1144 locomotive No. 1144 232 with a CityShuttle train at Innsbruck Railway Station in Austria.
4-6-94 Kirkham & Gresham station
31465 on 17:52 Liverpool Lime St. - Blackpool North
In the back ground ex works 56022 pilots 56025 on the fast lines with the Barry docks - Burn Naze tanks
Agfa CT100
Before the route was closed we find a weed killing train at the site of the former Cudworth (Midland) station
Preserved English Electric Type 1 'Chopper' Class 20 Bo-Bo diesel locomotive 20205 at Thuxton Station on the Mid Norfolk Railway in Norfolk (UK).
20205 was built at the English Electric Vulcan Foundry Newton le Willows as British Railways Type 1 D8305 in 1967 and withdrawn from service on December 18th 1989.
The English Electric Type 1 Class 20 locomotives were first introduced onto British Railways in 1957.
20205 was guest locomotive at the MNR courtesy of Michael Owen and the Class 20 Locomotive Society.
GWR Class 158 No.158745 passes Hawkeridge Junction,with the 11:06 Swindon to Westbury service,on the 19th of April 2022.
British Rail Class 377 'Electrostar'' 750v DC 3rd rail EMU (Electric Multiple Unit) 377420 as operated by Southern (Railway) stabled and awaiting forthcoming weekday duties in the sidings just outside Eastbourne station in East Sussex (UK).
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The Class 45 became the main replacement to steam in the 1960's, especially in the Midlands. The were powerful and fast. They did have reliability issues. Even so, the noise these make do send any Diesel Head into a frenzy. This one was working at East Lancashire Railway this Bank Holiday weekend.
WCR Class 47/7 No.47746 Chris Fudge climbs Whiteball,with the 10:09 Torquay to Saltburn excursion,on the 19th of July 2021.
October 27th, 1974
Crewe Works
Class 50 50005 (CD) stands outside the works. It was later transferrred to the WR and during 1978 named Collingwood.
Just sticking its nose out and hardly visible is Class 37 37191, unusual here at this time
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1Z12 - 15:26 Derby to Preston passing Broadholme (Belper) running 17 minutes late.
LMS 'Jubilee' Class
This engine seems to have a bit of identity crisis....
45627 on the smokebox ('Sierra Leone' and nameplates)
45562 on the cab side ('Alberta')
The engine is actually 45699 'Galatea'
Avanti West Coast 390 020 at Blackpool North Station. A few minutes before starting the 9.47 a.m. service to London Euston Station, with me on board.
The Class 390 high speed tilting trains were built between 2001 and 2004, coming in to service during 2002. Fifty-seven units were originally made,mostly in the UK but the later ones were manufactured in Italy where the technology for the design came from. A few have already been scrapped.
Avanti West Coast is jointly owned by First Group and Trenitalia.
Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Co. Class 100 Local Passenger 2-car dmu Nos.M50355 (Class 143), M56110 (Class 100) in Rail Blue livery with all yellow front ends at Manchester (Piccadilly) on a service from Marple (Rose Hill) via Bredbury, 08/75. Scanned slide taken with an Exacta.
October 10th, 1986
Heaton Lodge Junction, Mirfield
Having just passed Class 37 37100 on a tanker train, Class 45 45104The Royal Warwickshire Fusilier takes the Huddersfield line at Heaton Lodge Junction, Mirfield.
Originally D59, this is an engine I saw many times over the years - at York, Toton, Mirfield, Holbeck, Raventhorpe and once at Elland, nr Halifax. Withdrawn April 1988.
This section is now single track for east-bound only. Today (2018) the Class 45 would have gone straight ahead (where the Class 37 is located) and branched left to Huddersfield soon after. This avoided trains having to cross the east-bound Calder Valley mainline
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English Electric Type 3 (Class 37/0) 1,750hp Co-Co No.37 011 (ex-D6711) with split headcodes and gangways in Rail Blue livery with all yellow front end at Liverpool St backing onto a Cambridge express, 05/75. Scanned from slide taken on an Exacta.
A pair of class 37s ease a train of hot rolled steel coil past York Yard South signalbox. So much of the familiar York landscape in this picture has gone, the sugar factory doesn't cover the Acomb, Clifton and Rawcliffe areas with the sickly sweet smell of it's winter boiling processing of sugar beet. Many of the sidings have been lifted, the carriage works has gone. The wagon works (on the right) is still working. York Yard South 'box, opened in 1961, was a casualty of the York IECC scheme in 1989. I only visited it once, in 1985 as it was difficult to reach.
I notice from other people's photos, that many freight trains work through the station now, instead of using the Holgate Jn - Severus Jn line seen in this picture.
January, 1988
Pentax H3V/ 55mm Super Takumar lens
Jessops 100asa slide film
158755 heads away from Sandhill Lane Level Crossing near Selby with the 2K14 Halifax to Hull service.
SR U Class 31806 arrives into Corfe Castle with a service to Wareham.
A recreation made possible with a TLE photo charter.
Preserved Brush Type 2 Class 31 A1A-A1A diesel locomotive 31438 at North Weald Station on the heritage Epping Ongar Railway (EOR) in the County of Essex (UK).
31438 was built by Brush Traction at the Falcon Works Loughborough and entered service as British Railways D5557 on October 15th 1959.
31438 was withdrawn from mainline service by British Rail in September 1995.
Absolutely adore Class 31's. Cut my young trainspotting teeth on these in this British Rail blue livery at Chelmsford station on the Great Eastern Main Line in the late 1970s.
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Class 47 47804 pulls away from Wickford with the 1Z24 0737 Southend Victoria to Poole "Cathedrals Express" Rail Tour.
This train was running 12 minutes late as the driver did not appear to be happy with something around one of the buffers at the front of the locomotive during a scheduled stop at the station.
This train arrived at Poole approximately 24 minutes later than planned at 15:10 rather than the scheduled 14:46.
Valentine cards my daughter made for her Class in 2009. They were made with die cuts and punches - all heart and circle shapes. Once all the pieces were punched, she had a ball putting them together in different combinations. I think she tried to make each one different (26 of them).
Time to start thinking about what to do for this year.
GWR Class 802 No. 802101 9 car Hitachi Intercity Express is seen at Plymouth station with ts first visit while working the 5X22 1913 Stoke Gifford to Laira for platform clearance tests.
The uber bright LED lights are so bloody annoying >_<
Class 59's are infrequent visitors to Cardiff Canton for tyre turning, however, a pair is somewhat rarer.
Hanson liveried 59102 leads 59104 running as 0F59 12:30 Merehead Quarry - Cardiff Canton Pullman, past Long Dyke Jn on 20/9/2013.
On 13 October 2022, 33025 drags 76017 past Balham on 5Z33 Alton - East Grinstead, for the Bluebell Railway's gala weekend. A gricer photographs the train while the "normal" on the left is oblivious to it!
Class 40 No. 381 (in green) stands at the head of a London express, Chester Station.
27th August 1973
58 year old English Electric Type 3 Class 37 Co-Co diesel locomotive 37716 as operated by Direct Rail Services
on a Norwich- Willesden Brent light engine movement at speed southbound at Hatfield Peverel Station on the Great Eastern Main Line in the County of Essex (UK).
37716 was built at the English Electric Vulcan Foundry Newton le Willows and entered service for British Railways as D6794 on February 27th 1963.
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My Hatfield Peverel Railway Station album flic.kr/s/aHsjD3AKYz
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