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Class 40 40036 leaves Chester station on a Bradford bound train.
Nasty looking dent in the front.
13th July 1974
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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Photograph taken by and copyright of my regular photostream contributor David and is posted here with very kind permission.
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.
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Photograph taken by and copyright of my regular photostream contributor David and is posted here with very kind permission.
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.
Chiltern Railways Class 168 No. 168003 with the 11:40 London Marylebone to Birmingham Snow Hill service passes through Dorridge on 10th March 2016.
This was photographed from the York Way platform (used by trains to Moorgate) that closed that year. A class 31 is just arriving at the head of a suburban train. Another 31 can be seen on a main line train, perhaps to Cambridge. The use of loco-hauled Mark I suburban rolling stock ceased with the opening of the electrification in October that year.
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.
One of the initial batch of seven units with slightly shorter carriages, 1004 is seen rounding the curve into West St. Leonards station, while I was testing out my newly acquired 135mm lens for the first time. This unit had recently been reformed as a 6S unit again, having been split in 1964 to provide carriages for two of the class 206 three carriage 'tadpole' units for the Tonbridge-Reading line.
Class 56 locos under construction in Crewe works, 2nd July 1983. There is a number just visible on the cabside that suggests it may be 56126 or 56128.
These two class 40s were stored at Crewe. The shot was grabbed whilst window hanging, as you do. I sent this original slide into Traction mag and it was printed in Issue 65 the problem is I have never had my slide back so this is a scan from the mag, well I must not complain, at least I got a tenner.
Class 502 Driving motor M28352M at Southport 1979 Help bring the preserved 502 back into operational service by becoming a member or making a donation
British Rail Class 170 'Doodlebug' 3 car Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) 170208 working the 1P57 17:30 (19:05 18L at CHM) Abellio Greater Anglia Norwich- London Liverpool Street service train southbound at Generals Lane overbridge on the Great Eastern Main Line near Boreham in Essex (UK).
Who knows why a 3 car diesel multiple unit was operating this service. This should be a Class 90 locomotive hauled 8 carriage train.
Might be linked to this train's 18 minute delay while the whole GEML was subject to heat related cancellations and speed restrictions during this day.
Note 'The Brecks' vinyl wrap livery and the train is approaching a double yellow (preliminary caution) signal aspect.
The double yellow warns the driver that the following signal may be at single yellow (caution) and the signal after that may be at red (stop, danger).
A pair of D.R.S. Class 57 locos stabled at Norwich on the 23rd November 2015.57010 started life as D1907 in September 1965,also having a short spell as 47231. The rear loco,57306,began life as D1919 in November 1965.It also ran as 47242,47659 and 47814.
Gloucester RC&W Co. Class 119 Cross Country 3-car dmu Set No.B590 (made up of Class 119/1, 178 & 119/2 cars) in BR Rail Blue & Grey with all yellow front ends passing Parson Street, Bristol, on a Bristol (Temple Meads) - Taunton service, 09/85. Scanned photograph taken with a Canon AE-1 Program.
5Z52 Thornton Jct. - Bo'ness Jct. with West Coast Loco 47832 here leading the empty SRPS coaching stock through Polmont Station with class mate 47854 "Diamond Jubilee" on the rear, as they move to change lines to get to Bo'ness Jct.
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.
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An unknown Class 31 departs Scarborough Station with a Class 45 in the far platforms.
Today the signals and the lines leading off to the right are gone - but otherwise the scene is still similar.
35mm Negative | Date: August 1983 : © TJW: ROTWSI
West Midlands Trains class 172 DMU at Kidderminster Worcestershire, this train had terminated here earlier on going into a siding, it is returning to the station to pick up the punters for a return service, Birmingham New Street?.
FQ04 & CLP16 can be seen passing Mawson Lakes while working loaded GWA copper train 9112S on Sunday 7th of February 2016