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A farewell tour of the ever reliable Class 43's on the East Coast Main Line took place over a few days before Saturday 21st December 2019. All are now withdrawn from service with this operator. The last leg of their journey was from Leeds to Kings Cross. 253 003 (W 43006) and 245 029, along with several carriages, were hand painted especially for the final journey. Well done to L N E R for their efforts, all looked wonderful. It was rather busy at Newark it has to be said.
BREL (York) Class 317/7 (ex-317/1) Standard Mk.III 25k v ac overhead 4-car emu No.317 719 (ex-317 319) of National Express Stansted Express with the brand in orange on three cars and white on the other, speeding past Bethnal Green on a Stansted Airport - Liverpool St. service, 02/08.
BR (Derby) Class 130 Motor Parcels 2-car dmu No.W50872 & W50862 (converted respectively from a Class 116/1 Motor Second and a Class 116/2 Motor Brake Second from a 3-car suburban set) in Rail Blue with all yellow front ends and "Parcels Service" branding approaching Paddington, 08/72. Usually two Class 130's worked together with a GUV in between, but the GUV is absent on this occasion. Scanned from photograph taken on a Kowa SET camera.
Named after the battle in which Vinland won its independence, this class of gunboats was designed and built to provide light fire support in the "new navy" of the 1880's. Part of the "Revolutionary Flotilla," she was built and equipped much like the larger cruisers of the time, with a full sailing rig and six 6in guns, as well as a number of much smaller guns and autocannons. As powerful as she is for a gunboat of her time, the Joerckburg and her sisters are also known for their tendency for things to go wrong. The ships spend a lot of downtime in ports repairing mechanical issues, particularly having to do with the engines, which always seem to be on the fritz. One of these days, something is gonna happen, and it's not gonna be good.
PERKS & QUIRKS:
Guns: 6in (+2)
Speed: 16kn (+2)
Range: Full Sailing Rig (-1)
Mechanically Simple: +1
Unreliable: -1
Low Freeboard: -1
Volvo Electronics: -1
High Maintenance: -1
Brush Type 2 Class 31 A1A-A1A built at Brush Traction Loughborough (originally as a Class 30) and allocated to Stratford with its pre-TOPS number D5523 from 19 March 1959
Renumbered 31105 on 1 January 1973
Withdrawn on 1 May 1997
Reinstated on 15 January 2002 by Network Rail
31105 was withdrawn from main line duties in October 2014, but was used as a yard shunter after it was stored at Derby Railway Technical Centre.
Class 37, 37108, (identity is only in chalk ?) on the loco.
Seen at the back of the WCRC at Carnforth on Friday 30th April 2010.
Photographed on one of the 'loco spotters favourite' Sunday morning visits. I seem to remember it's dual heat 47418 with the pipe attached to it's boiler hose behind.
Preserved Brush Type 2 Class 31 A1A-A1A diesel locomotive 31233 at the heritage Mangapps Railway Museum near Burnham on Crouch in the County of Essex (UK).
31233 was built at Brush Traction Ltd. Loughborough and entered service as British Railways Type 2 D5660 in October 1960.
31233 was withdrawn from service by Network Rail in April 2017 and was purchased for preservation by Mangapps Railway Museum Proprietor Mr John Jolly along with fellow yellow 31105 in October 2018.
Both 31233 and 31105 were the last Class 31 locomotives in operation for Network Rail.
Absolutely adore Class 31's. Cut my young trainspotting teeth on these not too far from here at Chelmsford station in the late 1970s.
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My Mangapps Railway Museum album flic.kr/s/aHsmGusgzd
Photograph taken by my regular photostream contributor David and is posted here with very kind permission.
when the class 108 DMU broke down on a barrow -carlisle service CLASS 40-40158 was sent to rescue it,seen here pulling into sellafield stn passing class mate 40170 which with a brake van & two mk 1,s was doing some shunting around the sellafield works siding-5/10/83
British Rail Class 374 25kV AC 1.5/3kV DC dual voltage 16 car Electric Multiple Unit (EMU) 374008 (physically numbered as 4008) as operated by Eurostar by the buffers at St. Pancras International Station in London (UK).
The Class 374 Eurostar units are built by Siemens AG, are part of the Velaro high speed train family and are also known as the Eurostar e320.
These Class 374 units were introduced into service from November 2015 and run alongside (for now) the much older Class 373's along the HS1 (High Speed 1) line with 'Eurostar' services towards and through the Channel tunnel into Europe.
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Note the ungainly air conditioning units on top of the train and the far more agreeable Victorian architecture that dates back to 1868. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Pancras_railway_station
My King's Cross- St. Pancras album flic.kr/s/aHsk73sb2v
Photograph taken by and copyright of my regular photostream contributor David and is posted here with very kind permission.
Oban buffer stops with 37 111 on the left having arrived with the 1220 ex-Glasgow and 37 085 on the right (complete with headlight), parked up.
BREL (York) Class 319/4 Standard Mk.III 25k v ac overhead/750v dc 3rd rail 4-car emu No.321 439 of First Capital Connect in "urban lights" livery at Farringdon on a Bedford - Brighton service, 02/08.
Class 502 Motor coach being guided into its new home at The MTT's base in Burscough 3 Mar 2012 www.class502.org.uk/donate/
Includes teams from Mitchell, Harrisburg, Watertown, Aberdeen Central. Permission granted for journalism outlets and educational purposes. Not for commercial use. Must be credited. Photo courtesy of South Dakota Public Broadcasting.
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The Class of 2014 climbed the risers on the Plain on Thursday, April 10, 2014 for their class photo. Always a fun event to capture. The Class photo will be available from PanFoto in the very near future.
This is a Bachmann Scotrail class 158 at the Newcastleton station on the ELMRC's layout from the original station.
This is a club members 158 in First Scotrail, as a what if the Borders rail was extended through Newcasleton. It's seen in the bay platform at the station,
Occasionally a stranger would end up working the Exeter Paignton locals and get locked into the diagram for a week or two until its home depot kicked up enough and found a way of getting it home.
This happened to 31405, she only stayed around for a few days but with its distinctive white stripe this Finsbury Park celebrity was quite popular. I managed this shot of her working the 1608 Exeter to Paignton.
General Motors Electro Motive Division JT42HW-HS Class 67 Bo-Bo diesel locomotive 67024 as operated by DB Cargo UK on the 'Thunderbird' perch at King's Cross Station in London (UK).
67024 which is still wearing its original EWS (English Welsh and Scottish) livery was built by Alstom/Meinfesa for GM in Valencia Spain and entered service in the United Kingdom on May 24th 2000.
Photograph taken by and copyright of my regular photostream contributor David and is posted here with very kind permission.
The interior of Greater Anglia unit 153335, largely unchanged from its Anglia Railways days. 1st August 2018.
Train 390 making its way north between Te Awamutu and Ngaroto, hauled by a pair of International Orange- liveried Brush Class 30/EF locomotives. The lead loco is the pioneer EF and its 30year-old paintwork is now somewhat faded.
Of the 22 locomotives deliverd for the NIMT electrification scheme, 17 remain in service with Kiwi Rail. However a recent announcement that electric traction is to be withdrawn over the next 2 years to be replaced by diesel locomotives, will see the numbers of serviceable EFs dwindle.