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Southwestern Railroad Company
EMD GP30 2428
Seen in December of 2024 in Hurley, a town in Grant County, New Mexico
Photo credit Ron Rains
With the 2016 rail head treatment season finished Direct Rail Services 20305 is stabled at York waiting its fate (most likely nine months in store), 16th December 2016.
Locomotive History
20305 was originally D8095 and was built by English Electric at the Robert Stephenson and Hawthorn works, Darlington. It entered traffic in October1961, allocated to Eastfield for Scottish lowlands and Fife coalfield duties. It was renumbered 20095 under the 1973 TOPS renumbering scheme and remained in Scotland until transferred to Immingham in December 1978. The next nineteen years were spent predominately allocated to either Immingham, Tinsley, Thornaby or Toton although it returned to Eastfield in May 1984 for a two year spell. In 1997 it was sold to Direct Rail Services who refurbished and renumbered it 20305. Recently it has spent long periods in store with its spells in traffic on rail head treatment trains.
the dog also enjoyed the warmer weather today. Its amazing how fast dogs grow....she is only 5 months old......she is going to be a BIG ONE
Prudhoe Signal Box on a grey and wet winters day, 30th December 2023, The box was built by the North Eastern Railway and opened in 1872 It is a rather tall, three storey example of the then “standard” North Eastern Railway Northern Division signal box design. It is fitted with a 45 lever mechanical frame.
Type AM4 electric multiple unit 304 006 is about to pass beneath the M6 motorway as it takes the Walsall line at Bescot with the 13:12 ex Birmingham New Street on a murky 6th December 1982.
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Merseyrail 508141 arrives at Birkenhead North working 2N15, 09:53 New Brighton – New Brighton, 20th December 2016.
Unit History
Forty Three class 508 four car units were built at York Works in 1979/80 and were initially used on the Southern Region. The class is to the standard inner suburban electric multiple unit design of the period and are similar to the class 313, 314, 315 and 507 units also built to the same basic design. After four years service on the Southern Region the units were reduced to three car sets and transferred to Birkenhead for Merseyrail duties. The displaced vehicle was incorporated in a batch of class 455 units then being built for the Southern Region.
508141 arrived at Sims Metal, Newport for breaking up on the 27th November 2023.
On Boxing Day evening it snowed heavily for a couple of hours and the following day was quite sunny and I was able to get out for an hour or so amongst the Christmas holiday festivities. East Midlands Trains 156473 passes over Barton Lane crossing with 2L60, 10:36 Lincoln – Leicester, 27th December 2014.
Unit History
156473 was built in 1989 and spent the majority of the next twenty two years allocated to Neville Hill or Newton Heath on West Yorkshire and North West local duties. At the end of 2011 there was a shuffle of Diesel Multiple Units’s between Train Operating Companies and East Midlands Trains gained four class 156 units (156470/73/97/98) from Northern Rail. 156473 arrived at Etches Park in October 2011 and entered service with East Midlands Trains shortly afterwards.
Arrival Trains Wales class 150/2 two car unit 150241 stands in the new platform 0 at Cardiff Central, 18th December 2008.
Unit History
Built at York works in 1987 and originally used on Yorkshire duties I first saw this unit on the 28th May 1987 at Derby.
A morning drive over Birkrigg Common near Ulverston on the edge of the Lake District.
Fujifilm X-T3, Fujinon 100-400 f4.5-5.6 @ 190mm, f=5.0, 1/150th Second, ISO400
my version of jean's pic.
raw milk bought at the local feed store. or rather, exchanged. bring in an empty gallon jar, leave it with $4 inside it on top of the fridge there, pick out a full jar from within, and bring it home.
66154 drifts through a damp and grey Bristol Parkway station with a train of empty HTA coal hoppers, 18th December 2008.
Re-edited 12th September 2018
The North East had a touch of snow during the Christmas/New Year break. Visiting some of my wives relations in Shildon enabled a visit to Locomotion, the National Railway Museum annex. Standing outside is the basic main parts of class J21 0-6-0 65033. On closer inspection virtually all of the detailed parts of this engine are missing and I assume they are in store somewhere. Although the engine has moved in the yard from where it was on my last visit almost two years ago it does not seem to have progressed in that period, 30th December 2017.
Locomotive History
65033 is the last survivor of a class of two hundred and one locomotives built by the North Eastern Railway between 1886 and 1894. 65033 was built at Gateshead works as a three cylinder compound engine and entered traffic as 876 in 1889. It was converted to a two cylinder simple engine in December 1908. It has proved to be a lucky engine as it was withdrawn in November 1939, however the needs of the Second World War lead to a reprieve and it was repaired and reinstated to traffic. It was renumbered 5033 in 1946 and 65033 in 1948. Class withdrawals had commenced in 1929 and by 1962 65033 was the last still in traffic. In April 1962 it was withdrawn and along with fellow J21 65099 it was dumped at Darlington Works for the next four years whilst a decision on preservation was considered as part of the National Collection. This did not happen and 65099 was broken up in 1966 but 65033 managed to linger on, avoiding the scrap yard, being stored at Tanfield and Consett until eventually it was preserved in 1972 at the Beamish Museum. It was used from 1975, pulling the restored NER Coach and the restored NER wagons between the Colliery Sidings and Station. In December 1983 it was declared unfit to run due to the Boiler certificate running out and it then languished in the station yard until 2004 when it was removed to the North Norfolk Railway for restoration. This did not happen however and it moved to Shildon in May 2010.
A visit to the Taipei Performing Arts Center site, with construction well advanced.
1st December 2014
Rail Force One verzekerd sinds 1 oktober 2018 de Gefco autotreinen tussen Kijfhoek en Bad Bentheim.
De Gefco autotreinen rijden gemiddeld 5 keer per week van en naar Bad Bentheim.
Rail Force One maakt gebruik van één van de vijf 1800 locomotieven die ze huren van Rail Release
Op zaterdag 15 december 2018 mocht de 1828 volbeladen Gefco autotrein 46268 naar Kijfhoek brengen.
Hier staat het geheel in een donker Amersfoort voor rood om na een stop van 20 minuten door te rijden naar Kijfhoek.
Old Presbyterian church. / Református Ótemplom.
A foggy winter Sunday morning on the main square of Hodmezovasarhely, Hungary.
Egy ködös téli vasárnap reggel Hódmezővásárhelyen a Kossuth téren.
Two clocks for the price of one!! This is Tim's side of the bed! (Doesn't that last minute take forever, when you're waiting?!!)
The Yashica Mimy is a nice pocketable half-frame camera with a Yashinon
f/2.8, 2.8 cm lens. Too bad you can't focus it. This is another shot
from a roll I shot last December. It's not a river, but part of a pretty
substantial path that leads across an old piece of land my family has
owned for eighty years. The water is a puddle, granted a large puddle,
in the path.