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British Rail Class 180 'Adelante' Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) 180105 as operated by Grand Central Railway at King's Cross Station in London (UK).
180105 was built by Alstom and entered service in December 2001. The Adelante's have had a troubled history with plenty of reliability and train operator issues.
Note the splendid Victorian architecture which dates from 1852.
Bombardier (Derby) Class 377/1 "Electrostar" 750v dc 3rd rail outer-suburban 4-car emu No.377 122 of Southern approaching Battersea Park, 06/10.
Freightliner Class 90 electric locomotive 90016 ex Felixstowe intermodal entering Chelmsford railway station (UK) at speed.
Nice railway photography by David and posted in my photostream with kind permission.
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.
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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.
Adtranz (Derby) Class 168/0 "Clubman" 4-car dmu No.168 004 of Chiltern Mainline at South Ruislip on a Birmingham (Snow Hill) - Marylebone service, 12/05/14.
Class of 1992 reunited at Cregeen's Irish Pub in Little Rock during Alumni Weekend. Photo by Jamie Brainard.
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.
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..
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
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
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
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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 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.
Preserved BR (Swindon) Class "14" 650 hp 0-6-0 No.D9516 in BR two tone green livery at the Didcot railway Centre, 26/05/14. Built in 1964, after withdrawal in 1968 it was bought by Stewarts & Lloyds Minerals (later part of the British Steel Corporation) and served at Buckminster Ironstone Quarry, Lincolnshire, and subsequently BSC Corby until 1981 when it was sold into preservation.
Even castings like this are far more preferable to some of the recent overtly generic horrors HTI have inflicted on to the British diecast buying public! This is a good old fashioned unlicensed model where styling has been deliberately altered as not to be caught out by the vehicle manufacturer which in this case is Mercedes-Benz. This rather ungainly saloon car is heavily based on an older generation C-Class and yet oddly it has been given a real life Jackson Township police livery! Part of a five vehicle set bought from Tesco back in December 2016. Mint and boxed.
The Norfolk and Western Class J 611 is the pinnacle of steam locomotive technology in the world in many ways. Built at the end of the era of steam power there were 14 Class J's produced from 1941 through 1950. The 611, as with all Class J locomotives, was produced in the Norfolk and Western shops in Roanoke, Virginia. The shops there turned out a 500,000 pound monster, producing over 5,000 horsepower at the drawbar. This represents a greater tractive effort than any locomotive before or since. The Class J rides on a massive single piece cast steel frame underpinning the entire locomotive. With the close tolerances, rigidity, and space for a massive fire box this frame allowed the top speed was limited "by the nerves of the engineer". On a controlled test track pulling 1,050 tons the Class J recorded a top speed of 111mph, with about 100mph being common in actual use. 611 began her service hauling passenger trains in May of 1950, and was retired from regular service in October, 1959. Today she is regularly on display at the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke, but as seen here crossing the Radian River does come out to pull the occasional excursion train.