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Class 360 EMU 360117 waits for pasengers at Chelmsford Railway Station before leaving for London Liverpool Street.
A full house of class 313s in the three road cattle shed at Kings Cross on the afternoon of 11 September 2010. Class 313s work FCC inner suburban services into and out of Kings Cross at weekends but it is unusual to see three pairs together in platforms 9-11. On this occasion all "inners" were pairs because Arsenal were playing at home, plus a few cancellations resulted in some sets laying over at Kings Cross between duties.
British Rail Class 158 'Express Sprinter' Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) 158788 waiting to depart with the 1R86 11:57 (11:57 RT) East Midlands Trains service train and the 5½ odd hour cross country trek to Liverpool Lime Street at Norwich Station in Norfolk (UK).
A Knox College student in painting class outside CFA holds plastic sheeting in the wind, before placing on the ground under her easel.
Class 323-323211 of London Midland Railways bound for BIrmingham, passes through Smethwick Galton Bridge station.
Class 158 'Express Sprinter' Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) 158854 on platform 1 at Norwich Station in Norfolk (UK) waiting to depart with the 17:54 East Midlands Trains service to Nottingham.
Note the tail lamp and destination matrix have yet to be switched over. This task is usually carried out the moment the train arrives from its previous diagram.
Brand newish British Rail Class 720 'Aventra' 5 car 25kV
EMU (Electric Multiple Unit) 720550 as operated by Greater Anglia at Ipswich Station on the Great Eastern Main Line in the County of Suffolk (UK).
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British Rail Class 170 'Turbostar' 3 car Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) 170470 as operated by ScotRail at North Queensferry Station in Scotland (UK).
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Class 350 Desiro unit 350125 in a grey and blue livery, slows for its Stafford stop with a Crewe to London Euston train.
An unidentified BREL built 5 WES class 442 speeds through Byflet & New Haw with a Bournemouth bound service on 20th October 2006 not long before these units were withdrawn from service by South West Trains. After a few years operating the Gatwick Express service from Victoria, the class are on the verge of returning to their old stomping ground out of Waterloo where they will operate services to Portsmouth.
Class 156 'Super Sprinter' 2 car Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) 156479 as operated by Northern Rail with a Saltburn bound service train at Darlington Station in County Durham (UK).
Darlington Station is a Grade II* listed building which opened on July 1st 1887 but of course there has been a railway in the town since 1825.
Class -09 on the old Dock, am affraid I ripped this road out in 1990... Johnny Petty fetched this loco from Tinsley...
BR/EE Class 86/2 4,040 hp Bo-Bo No.86 260 (ex-86 040; E3144) (ex-Driver Wallace Oakes) of Europhoenix newly refurbished as a demonstrator in unbranded silver grey livery at Long Marston; 6/09. Apologies for raindrop on lense as pouring down at time.
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.
M28689M passes Birkenhead North depot on Tue 12th April 1983 with the 14.16 Moorfields_West Kirby service. The Birkenhead Battery loco 97701 (formerly a Class 501) can be seen stabled next to the shed
BREL (York) Class 318 Standard Mk.III outer-suburban 3-car emu No.318 264 of Scotrail in 'Saltire' livery at Whifflet on a Motherwell - Carmyle - Milngavie service, 2 July 2015.
Siemens (Uerdingen) Class 360/2 "Desiro" 25k v ac overhead 5-car emu No.360 201 of Heathrow Connect at Hayes & Harlington on a Heathrow Airport - Paddington service, 04/08.
Class 37 No. 37372 (ex D6859/37159),undergoing a transformation,to emerge as a Class 23 "Baby Deltic". Barrow Hill roundhouse 31.5.14.
Many Class 45's were dumped at March depot in Cambridgeshire after they were withdrawn.45112's number can just be seen.
DBS Class 66 shed 66083 (still in EWS livery) trundles up the down line through Chelmsford railway station with the weekday 6M53 Chelmsford low level yard to Mountsorrel Quarry return service with empty LaFarge self discharge aggregate wagons. Just beyond the other end of the station the train will rejoin the up line.
Super capture by fellow enthusiast Dave and is posted here with kind permission.
Metro-Cammell Class 156 "Super Sprinter" 2-car dmu No.156 461 of Northern Rail in "Ravenglass & Eskdale" promotional livery at Buxton on a Blackpool service, 09/07.
GBRF Class 66 No.66702 leaves Tiverton Loop,with the 17:10 Westbury to Crediton working,on the 27th of May 2021.
Brand new class 810 IEP , 810001 , outside the Hitachi factory in Newton Aycliffe under going coupling tests wit a Gbrf class 66 , 66799 Modern Railways Diamond Jubilee .
BR Clas 43/0 HST 2,250 hp (MTU) Bo-Bo No.43 027 "Glorious Devon" (ex-"Westminster Abbey") of FGW at Exeter St. Davids with a service from Paddington 23/07/09.
Class 90 electric locomotive 90008 ex Liverpool Street at Chelmsford Railway Station.. destination Norwich.
Direct Rail Services Class 37 locomotive, 37603 tails on the 0843 1Q18 Norwich CSD- London Liverpool Street STP WO Network Rail Test Train at a miserable Generals Lane overbridge near Boreham (UK) May 9th 2012. Note the raised pantograph further down the train.
37603 will have been in service for 50 years on May 18th 2012.
As Units go Class 313's are never going to win any prizes for looks. But they have been around for nearly 40 years being introduced in 1976 on the Great Northern and lines into Moorgate via Finsbury Park. It would appear their time is nearly up with talk of replacements in the offing.
Doing exactly what they were built for 313031 and 026 approach Harringay with a train from Kings Cross to Welwyn Garden City on 2nd May 2011