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Despite seeing almost all of the trans-Pennines DMUs, sadly I only have one photograph of them in operation, and this is a rather poor quality one as it was before I got my first decent camera. Class 124 DMC number E51967 leads a four car set with a westbound service at Doncaster in the early 1980s.
July 5th, 2023
Oakham Station
GBRf Class 69 69001 Mayflower (formerly 56031) passes Oakham with a Toton to Whitemoor civil engineers train
Castle Class HST set 43156+43098 with regional service 2P09 Penzance to Plymouth arriving to St. Erth station
North British (later Class 22) 1,100 hp B-B No.D6320 in BR green livery (but apparently without white stripes?) with small yellow warning panel and no headcodes at Newton Abbot MPD, 08/66. Scanned photograph taken with a Kowa SET.
Class 90 90003 races through Ingatestone towards London with 1P35 1200 Norwich to London Liverpool Street
The British Rail Class 108 two car, diesel multiple units (DMU's) were built by BR Derby from 1958 to 1961. In all, 333 vehicles were produced in various formats.
The units stayed in regular service until 1990, when they began to be withdrawn from traffic, to be replaced on regional services by new "Sprinter" units, or by "Turbo" units on services around London.
The final Class 108 units lasted in traffic until October 1993, although many saw further use in departmental service, as sandite or route-learner units. Good condition on withdrawal and a lack of asbestos has ensured that many of this class are now used on preserved railway lines.
This unit appears to be heading for Heaton depot in Newcastle, hauled by a Class 37 locomotive in the grey and yellow Departmental livery.
59004 (7C76) Acton Terminal Complex to Whatley Quarry empty stone hoppers working rounds the curve towards Fairwood Junction on the avoider heading to the Quarry.
GWR Class 158 No.158958 passes Dawlish,with the 12:57 Exmouth to Paignton service,on the 9th of July 2023.
" "Class envy," far as I can tell, is just a rhetorical cliché used to discount political arguments that attack social inequity as being merely a manifestation of envy. "Class envy" isn't a concept of any historic substance, like, say, "class consciousness" or "free market." "
Interesting tussle over the term here :
An unidentified Class 110 "Calder Valley" DMU at Garsdale on the Settle - Carlisle line in August 1988.
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.
Class 33 33112 in British Rail blue hauls a train of blue Mark 1 coaches at walking pace up the Weymouth Quay tramway from the docks to the railway station in July 1979.
The last BR timetabled service to use the tramway was in 1987 and a Pathfinder tour in 1999 was the last train to traverse the line. The tracks survived in place for twenty years, but were finally declared to be 'unsafe', and removal started in October 2020.
The British Rail Class 33 consisted of 98 Bo-Bo diesel-electric locomotives built for the Southern Region of British Railways between 1960 and 1962 by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company .
The last Class 33 was withdrawn in 2007, although a number of examples have been preserved.
A Class 115 DMU with M51677 leading heads North from Amersham, past Hervines Wood foot crossing, on a Marylebone - Aylesbury service.
Metro-Cammell (Birmingham) Class 465/9 (ex-465/2) 'Networker' 750v dc 3rd rail suburban 4-car emu No.465 922 (ex-465 222) of Southeastern in their later livery of white with with light blue doors and dark blue lower body sides at Gillingham, Kent on a Victoria - Ramsgate service, 31 May 2022.
03 078 at Berwick-upon-Tweed. Before the demise of wagonload freight, even some relatively small stations had a shunting loco, this example being for shunting Tweedmouth yard. The 03 class was once a common sight in eastern England where duties were less onerous and would not justify a more powerful 08. Seen on 2 June 1984.
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.
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 .
A Class 105 Cravens driving trailer leads a hybrid set into Althorne, a remote unstaffed station between Woodham Ferrers and Burnham-on-Crouch, after a summer shower in the mid-1970s.
On 29 April 2023, 321307 is seen at Colchester Town on 1G16, the first leg (to Clacton) of the class 321 farewell tour, which also visited Walton, Harwich Town, Stowmarket and Southend Victoria.
387110 approaching Royston working 0705 Kings Cross to Cambridge on 10 October 2016. This was the first class 387 passenger service at Royston.
With DB Schenker withdrawing their class 08 Shunters recently, it was a nice surprise to see one working at Tyne Yard. Shunters were probably the least photographed loco pre-digital.
On the 3rd November 2014 08752 shunts Ballast wagons in Tyne Yard
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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