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British Rail Class 142 'Pacer' DMU 142071 with the 10:22 Northern Rail Leeds- York service at the delightful Cattal Station in North Yorkshire (UK).
Note the quaint semaphore signals. This is a 'lower quadrant' semaphore signal and the red arm is the 'home' signal and the yellow arm is the 'distant' signal. The 'home' signal in the 'on' or 'stop/danger' position. A 'distant' signal will generally tell the driver the position the following 'home' signal will show but when they appear on the same post as above it means there is not enough distance between the two home signals to position a distant. So the yellow arm here which would either show off/proceed (up) or on/caution (down) is showing that the following 'home' signal is also in the 'on' or 'stop or danger' position too. In this case it is protecting the single line beyond the station.
I hope I've got this right as the details regarding railway signalling in the UK are highly complex for novices like me. ;-)
The Class 142 Pacer units with their atrocious noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) and general ambience levels do nothing to enhance the image of the railways in this area in my opinion.
Photography from regular photostream contributor David on his travels and posted here with kind permission.
The thirty Class 67 locomotives were built in Spain from 1999 to 2000 for EWS-operated mail services. The locomotives were immediately nicknamed “skips” for obvious reasons. However, in mid-2003, EWS lost the mail contract and the Class 67s largely became redundant, despite being only five years old. Since then they have been used on a variety of duties including freight, the Royal Train, sleeper trains and normal passenger duties.
67013 is seen here at Bristol in 2007 looking a bit redundant. The sign “For Sale, 1 Owner” in the windscreen might have been more effective if she had been parked in a lay-by on a busy A-Road. However, in 2008 she was repainted silver, named "Dyfrbont Pontcysyllte" (Pontcysyllte Aquaduct) and put to work on the Wrexham & Shropshire Railway.
In the background on the left is the derelict Parcelforce building in Cattle Market Road and on the right in the distance are the spires of Temple Meads Station. A small group of Class 37s can also be seen in the background, waiting for their last journey, to the scrapyard.
Electro-Motive Diesel Inc. Type JT42CWR Class 66 diesel electric locomotive 66954 with a northbound liner at Hatfield Peverel Station on The Great Eastern Main Line.
66954 is one of seven 66/9 subclass low emission locomotives owned by Freightliner.
Super shot by fellow enthusiast David and posted here with very kind permission.
Class 90 electric locomotive, 90013 ex-Norwich 1P26 with a rake of refurbished mk3a stock heads towards London Liverpool Street at Chelmsford Station.
The carriages originally date from sometime between 1975-1988 and the loco from 1988... so this complete trainset is well over 20 years old..
Preserved English Electric Type 3 Class 37 Co-Co diesel Co-Co electric locomotive 37418 at Barrow Hill Railway Centre near Chesterfield in Derbyshire (UK).
37418 was built by English Electric at the Vulcan Foundry Newton le Willows and entered service as British Railways D6971 in March 1965.
37418 and withdrawn from mainline service by EWS (English Welsh and Scottish) on December 31st 2007.
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My Barrow Hill Railway Centre album flic.kr/s/aHsm55yX9i
Preserved English Electric Class 50 2,700 hp Co-Co No. 50 033 'Glorious' (ex-No.D433) in BR Large Logo Blue at Tyseley 6/10.
British Rail Class 156 'Super Sprinter' 2 car Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) 156422 working the 2S14 10:45 (11:33) Abellio Greater Anglia Norwich- Sheringham service train on August 29th 2014.
This photograph was taken during the 4 minute turnaround period at Cromer. Note the driver walking up the unit from the furthest cab to the nearest.
The train on departure will travel backwards so to speak towards Sheringham
A Cravens class 105 dmu, now used for route learning duties is seen at Trent using the high level goods lines while heading from Loughborough towards Toton yard. Taken during the academic year 1981/82.
Siemens Desiro Class 360 Electric Multiple Unit (EMU) 360106 heads the 8 car 1Y35 9:52 (10:33 RT) Abellio Greater Anglia Ipswich- London Liverpool Street service train at a dreary Hatfield Peverel Station on the Great Eastern Main Line in Essex (UK).
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My Class 360 album flic.kr/s/aHsjD3Z5zf
Preserved class 109 Wickhams DMU , E56171 in British Railways Green at the Llangollen Railway in North Wales .
Class 66 66519 passes through Ingatestone with 4M89 1433 Felixstowe North F.L.T. to Ditton (Oconnor) Freightliner
Class 80 No. 8081 der NIR (North Ireland Railways) kurz vor Ballykelly an der Londonderry-Coleraine Line, aufgenommen Mai 2002
Electro-Motive Diesel Inc. Type JT42CWR Class 66 diesel electric locomotive 66541 heads the daily 10:28 Freightliner 4M88 Felixstowe South- Crewe Basford Hall intermodal southbound through Chelmsford Station on the Great Eastern Main Line.
The caged signal device on the left is called a 'banner repeater' and these are positioned when the driver cannot see a forthcoming colour aspect signal. In this case it's for the down signal at the other end of this platform (the up line) during bi-directional workings. The banner aspect is 'on' (the following signal is on stop/danger). When a banner repeater is 'off' (the following signal is on green/proceed) the display bar will be at 45 degrees.
Super shot by fellow enthusiast David and posted here with very kind permission.
321420 and 321404 approaching Royston working 0914 Kings Cross to Cambridge substituting for class 365s on 3 July 2014.
L&Y A class 52322 (as 52345) and Austerity 2890 (disguised as A class 52322) depart Burrs Country Park during the ELR March Steam Gala 8th March 2020
The Class of 1953 held their 60th Class Reunion at Tavern 59 at the Pebble Lake Golf Course on Saturday, July 20, 2013.
Merseyrail British Rail three car 3rd rail EMU Class 507 no.507 016 ‘Merseyrail’ departs Hoylake station with the West Kirby to West Kirby circular for West Kirby.
British Rail Class 90 25kV electric locomotive 90024 at Euston Station in London (UK).
90024 has previously arrived at the station top and tailed with an unknown Class 90 with the 'Caledonian Sleeper' service from Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Fort William, Glasgow and Inverness.
90024 is owned by DB Schenker which operates the locomotive under contract to Scotrail's Caledonian Express.
90024 entered service on March 10th 1989.
My Class 90 album flic.kr/s/aHsjD3YY7s
My new Lego model of a Bulleid pacific; Merchant Navy Class '35005 Canadian Pacific'.
The Merchant Navy class were designed for the Southern Railway in Britain by Oliver Bulleid, and were built between 1941 and 1949. They originally had 'Air Smoothed Casing'; a type of streamlining. They were later followed the smaller and lighter 'West Country' and 'Battle of Britain' classes (which were identical apart from their naming). These were also originally built in streamlined condition. My other Lego Bulleid loco, '21c123 Blackmore Vale' is an example of an original condition West Country Class.
In the 1950s onwards, the Southern Railway was taken over by British Rail, who began to rebuild all 3 classes of the Bulleid pacifics, without the streamlining, to allow easier maintenance. This model is an example of a REBUILT Mechant Navy class.
The real '35005 Canadian Pacific' is now preserved at the Mid-Hants Railway, and I've seen her running many times.
British Rail Class 90 25kV electric locomotive, 90010 heads southbound with the 1P23 09:00 (10:19 3L) Abellio Greater Anglia Norwich-London Liverpool Street- service train at a dreary Hatfield Peverel Station on the Great Eastern Main Line in Essex (UK).
90014 entered service on October 25th 1988.
My Class 90 album flic.kr/s/aHsjD3YY7s
Class 86 86101 Sir William A Stanier FRS stands at Crewe station in the late twilight, 29th August 1992 (T192-03)
A nice surprise on the West Coast Main Line just North of Wolverton was Brush Type 2 Class 31 diesel locomotive 31190 double headed with its mucker 31601 hauling a RailVac RA7 vacuum excavator northbound almost certainly from Willesden.
Note the British Railways green livery and 'ferret and dartboard' emblem.
First time i've seen an in service 31 on routine patrol on the mainline for a very very long time! Really pleased to see this!
Absolutely adore Class 31's. Cut my young trainspotting teeth on these at Chelmsford station on the GEML in the late 1970s.
31190 was built as D5613 at Brush Traction Loughborough in April/May 1960.
My Class 31 album flic.kr/s/aHsjYVNvYi
Fly encrusted National Express East Anglia Class 360,360115 4 car EMU and part of an 8 car set ex London Liverpool Street at speed at Hatfield Peverel bound for Clacton on Sea..
British Rail Class 156 'Super Sprinter' 2 car Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) 156422 during boarding at Norwich station for the over subscribed (as usual) 2S14 10:45 Albellio Greater Anglia service train to Cromer and Sheringham on August 29th 2014.
I have to say these refurbished Super Sprinter units are a considerably nicer and more comfortable place to be than the nigh on 40 year old TSO (tourist standard open) ex British Rail Mk3a carriages on the Norwich to London Liverpool Street trains with their uncomfortable seats and fixed armrests. Only the lack of air conditioning is a small minus.. which of course means open windows and more noise.
The gentleman with the back pack is fellow enthusiast David, my regular photostream contributor.
Two Metro-Cammell Class "101" Local Passenger 2-car dmu Nos.M51175 (101/2), M56353 (144) & M56357 (144), M51200 (101/2) in Rail Blue livery with all yellow front ends, approaching Aberdovey on a Machynlleth - Pwllheli service, 06/72. Scanned photograph taken with a Kowa SET.
British Rail Class 745 25kV 12 car EMU (Electric Multiple Unit)
745001 working the 1P24 11:30 (12:00 3E) Greater Anglia London Liverpool Street- Norwich service train at about 100 miles per hour northbound at Hatfield Peverel 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..
745001 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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My Hatfield Peverel Railway Station album flic.kr/s/aHsjD3AKYz
Photograph taken by and copyright of my regular photostream contributor David and is posted here with very kind permission.
English Electric Type 3 Class 37 diesel locomotive 37609 as operated by Direct Rail Services stabled in the cattle dock at Norwich station in Norfolk (UK).
37609 entered service over half a century ago as D6815 on February 22nd 1963. Fantastic individual service record. Fantastic class of locomotive.
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Photograph by fellow enthusiast David on his travels and posted here with very kind permission.