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When I was a lad 50+ years ago Footex’s were common and in the early 1970’s I used a couple of Notts County Footex’s to visit Plymouth and Swansea, with visits to the local MPD’s (Laira and Landore respectively) in lieu of the match.
They are these days a rare occurrence however today, 26th February 2023 is Cup Final Day at Wembley and Newcastle United have a Footex, 1Z45, 08:43 Newcastle Wembley Central and here it is, top and tailed by 67005 and 67024 passing through Long Eaton.
Almost forty five years ago I had a morning at Loughborough on League Cup Final day in 1978. Nottingham Forest played Manchester United and Forest had something like fourteen Footex’s that day to/from Wembley.
ST. LOUIS (February 17, 2024): Arch Rival Roller Derby kicks off 2024 with three mash-up friendly competitions.
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Reference: 2024-02-17 ARCH February 2024 - 3002928 - 103245
An winters morning view of 91105 ready to depart for the north, Kings Cross, 11th February 2008. Who ever thought adding a white band to the GNER livery was an attractive combination is in my view mistaken.
Following heavy overcast skies in the morning, the FWCR heads southwest under crisp sunlight with scattered clouds, the train has just crossed the Crowley-Plover grade crossing as it heads toward Cresson, Texas. Photo February 28, 2016.
Looking down on Colton from Colton Heights on the edge of the Lake District National Park. The difference a day makes, yesterday this was blanketed under snow!
Colton Church was built in 1575 (and rebuilt in 1600) and stands above the village.
Fujifilm X-T3, Fujinon 18-55 f2.8-4.0 @ 30mm, f=13, 1/100th Second, ISO160
Great Western Railway 150102 stands in platform 7 with 2O86, 08:42 Gloucester – Weymouth, 1st February 2016.
Unit History
150102 is one of the first production batch (fifty, two car units) of “second generation” Diesel Multiple Units built as replacements for the original Diesel Multiple Unit fleet introduced in the late 1950’s. I still consider these to be modern vehicles but I first came across 150102 almost to the day thirty years earlier on the 4th February 1986 at Derby. Built at York Works in 1985 150102 was initially used on East Midlands duties based at Etches Park, Derby and I remember them arriving and displacing the Swindon Cross Country (class 120) sets. They were soon displaced themselves with the introduction of the class 156 units on East Midlands duties in 1988 and the class 150/1 units migrated to Tyseley for Birmingham suburban duties. With introduction of the class 172 fleet in 2012 150102 was transferred to Bristol for Great Western duties.
43048 T.C.B Miller MBE brings up the rear of the 15:00 departure for London St Pancras from Derby, 16th February 2009. The station platforms were in the process of being rebuilt and with the north end of the of the station platforms substantially complete you could see the transformation from the 1950’s concrete canopies that had dominated Derby station photographs for over fifty years.
Locomotive History
43048 was built at Crewe Works as part of HST set 253024 for Western Region London – Bristol/South Wales services and entered traffic in March 1977. 253024 was one of five Western Region HST sets transferred to Midland Main Line duties in 1982 and 43049 has been pounding up and down to London St Pancras from the East Midlands and South Yorkshire for the last twenty eight years. 43048 has been fitted with a Paxman VP185 engine in lieu of its original Paxman Valenta.
Withdrawn in 2020 and sold for preservation and currently (February 2025) based at the Midland Railway Centre.
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On the Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday of the recent school half term the Great Central Railway ran a two train service. So what better place to take two of my grandsons (aged 2 and 5) whilst undertaking a bit of child minding for one of my daughters.
Stanier Black Five 4-6-0 45305 gently simmers before it is uncoupled to run round its train at Leicester North, Great Central Railway, 21st February 2019.
Locomotive History
45305 was built in 1937 by Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth and Co. Scotswood Works, Newcastle on Tyne and was one of a batch of two hundred and twenty six engines (which was the largest order ever placed with a private builder by a British Railway Company) worth £2.7 million. It entered traffic in January 1937 and spent its working life all over the more southerly sections of the former London, Midland and Scottish Railway network remained in traffic to the end of main line steam on British Railways in the summer of 1968. On withdrawal it was sent for breaking up to Drapers of Hull, however it became the last locomotive on the scrap line at Drapers and it was decided to restore it back to full running order.45305 was put in the care of the Humberside Locomotive Preservation Group and it eventually arrived on the Great Central Railway in November 1996, returning to service in 2003. The locomotive is still owned by A E Draper and Sons and is in the long term care of the 5305 Locomotive Association, the successor to the Humberside Locomotive Preservation Group.