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The whistler saw in the New Year but time was running out as it was withdrawn on 21st January 1985.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).. :(

BREL (York) Class "508/0" Standard Mk.II inner-suburban 750v dc 3rd rail 4-car emu No.508 025 in BR Rail Blue & Grey livery leaving Waterloo on an Effingham Jct. service, 09/82. Scanned slide taken with a Canon AE-1 Program.

In the sidings east of Chadwell Heath station. I remember that afterwards I was challenged by a representative of the firm using the adjacent yard: "Oi! Who gave you permission to take photos? Maybe I should call the police."

"Call them if you like," I replied, protesting my sole interest in the 306s (and not any dodgy dealings that might have been going on).

Class 43 in Leeds, England

Seen at Mid- Norfolk Railway Class 37 Gala

Chiltern Railways Class 168 No. 168003 with the 11:40 London Marylebone to Birmingham Snow Hill service passes through Dorridge on 10th March 2016.

2012 Mercedes E-Class Ambulance (2.0 CDI 204 hp) at Rotterdam

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.

Class 08

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.

Class 44 copyright PWS collection 2013

A view from the station footbridge at Highbury & Islington, looking down the steps that lead to platform 8. The orange handrails and steps add a splash of colour to a very dull January morning.

A westbound London Overground 'Mildmay line' service rolls into platform 7 formed of a class 378/2 dual voltage unit.

The tiny 01002 on Holyhead breakwater on Anglesey Island Wales around 1974.

Whilst on a family holiday in Llandudno I persuaded my father that he wanted to see Holyhead breakwater one day.

An unidentified 2 car class 466 networker approaches Tonbridge on 16 April 2007

Taken at Prestonpans Station, Collaboration and trip with www.flickr.com/photos/195085816@N07

On the East Coast Main Line

class 222019 heads south through Harrowden Junction

British Railways Class 3F 52322 departs Ramsbottom on a Heywood - Rawtenstall Service on 02/03/2018

Class 105 E54420 / E51472 Norwich 080286 with an Ely bound train

5-11-83 Tinsley Traction Maintenance Depot

A very weather worn 13003 stabled over the weekend

Olympus Om10

Kodak gold 200

Most summer Satrudays in the 1992 season featured 31146 and 31147 on the 09:25 Birmingham New Street - Pwlhelli and return. The duo are seen at Shrewsbury on Saturday 6 June 1992 about to head west into Wales.

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

Oyashio-class submarine / Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) / 2019.04

A Class 40 comes off the Chester line at Crewe North Junction, with a lengthy up freight, consisting of open and mineral wagons.

Class 302 EMUs 302262 302241 Class 308 EMU 308160, Shoeburyness Sidings, 27/02/1988

Class 40 40036 leaves Chester station on a Bradford bound train.

Nasty looking dent in the front.

13th July 1974

British Rail Class 69 Co-Co diesel locomotive 69003 as operated by GBRf (GB Railfreight) working a rake of empty JNA box wagons from Mountfield (East Sussex) to Southampton Western Docks at Eastleigh Station in the County of Hampshire (UK).

I think this is a daily GBRf service for the collection of gypsum from the Port of Southampton back to Mountfield.

69003 was originally built by Electroputere S.A. of Craiova, Romania and entered service for British Rail as Class 56, 56018 on August 23rd 1977.

56018 was rebuilt including a new low emission engine and other major improvements by Progress Rail for GBRf then reclassified as Class 69, 69003 in 2021.

Note the 'speed whiskers' which are a tribute to some pre yellow panel British Railways diesel multiple units from the 1950's/1960's.

All my Class 56's www.flickr.com/photos/stuart166axe/tags/class56

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_69

Photograph taken by and copyright of my occasional photostream contributor Mr Michael Foreman and is posted here with very kind permission.

New class 701 008 for South Western Railway outside the Alstom Rail Centre at Ditton Widnes.

Class 304 no 304037 wearing Regional Railways livery at Manchester Piccadilly

class 37 37424 with 37558 named after XH558 Avro Vulcan sits in the sunshine at Norwich

A northbound train including a sleeping car runs through Nuneaton in April 1987 hauled by an unnamed Class 86/4 engine. Someone cleverer than me may be able to identify the engine.

This design is my rendition of Jim Garrett's MOC (www.flickr.com/photos/decojim/24322330618). I stumbled on it online a while back and immediately recognised how effectively it had been captured in Lego. The original was brick-built, and I was only able to find two low-res photos, but a few hours later in Stud.io and this is what I came up with.

The Frazi-class Heavy Fighter was briefly seen several times in Babylon 5, often used in scouting and intelligence gathering missions.

Inside Class 508 508011. The Class 508 Suburban Rail Tour, 9 February 1980.

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.

A smoky Class 120 DMU seen at Crewe, most probably early in the morning of 21 August 1982.

March 29th 1986

Mirfield Station

On a dull and overcast day Class 45 45102 (formerly D51) speeds through the station with 1M75 13.55 Scarborough to Liverpool express. I saw this engine many times at Holbeck, Mirfield, Toton - and was pulled by it between Leeds and Huddersfield during 1985

class 37 37099 head through toton on 1q68 Doncaster chs to Derby rtc

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.

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P class Bluebell doing a bit of shunting at Horsted Keynes on the Bluebell Railway, c1998.

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Class 40 40190 was withdrawn through collision damage 31/12/1976 and sent to Crewe Works for cutting up here it stands in the yard on 15/02/1976 , it was cut up here during May 1976.

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