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This engine was installed in 1952 to replace one of the original tandem compound steam engines. It is preserved in working order and was running when the photograph was taken.
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Freightliner Class 66 No. 66590 on the down slow line, Bletchley station, 16th August 2013. One of a series of photographs taken with a Pentax K-5 using an SMC Pentax-M 80-200mm f4.5 lens.
Paxman (of Colchester) 12TPM engines powered all the World War 2 British-built diesel engined tank landing craft which played a major role in the Normandy landings.
3,533 TPMs were built before hostilities ceased: 2,227 by Paxman at Colchester and 1,306 at Renault's British factory at Western Avenue, Park Royal, London W3.
At the end of WW2, Renault produced a brochure illustrating their achievement from which this selection of photographs is reproduced
More here www.paxmanhistory.org.uk/paxeng34.htm
Class 37 Diesel locomotive No. 37198 passes by with the green passenger set into Quorn & Woodhouse at 10.46 on 20th May 2012. This is its last public appearance before moving on. Photograph taken with a Pentax K-5 using an SMC Pentax-DA 18-55mm AL f3.5/5.6 WR lens.
Carrying the number 55 007 complete with 'Pinza' plates, 55 022 is seen here passing through Newcastle on a Bo'ness to Grosmont movement
A Western class C - C diesel hydraulic No. D1071 "Western Renown" rushes a down Western Region Inter - City working through the countryside at Ruscombe on April 26th 1976.
Camera: Olympus Pen F Half Frame SLR.
Film: Ilford FP4.
Two Class 66 diesels work with a rake of EWS MHA & MTA wagons, being loaded wth spoil at Bletchley Station. Trains to and from Bedford are cancelled till 9th April, (though a bus service to Bedford is running), and track is being replaced. Photgraphed with a Pentax K-5 using a Pentax KA 28-80mm f3.5 lens.