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Seen departing Newcastle Bus Station is one of my Enviro 300s before I purchased them for preservation. At this point she only had slightly over 6 months left in active service. ThePotteries logos were painted over when she was withdrawn.
First Potteries (PMT) VX54 MTO (67650) is seen leaving Newcastle-under-Lyme on the 4 towards Hanley Bus Station. Unfortunately the Hanover displays didn't show up in the photo, but I had caught it before taking the photo so I knew which route it was on. She is also preserved by me along with sister VX54 MOV (67631). 67659 (VX05 LWC) is also preserved by my best friend. 650 is an 11.8m Alexander Dennis (ADL) Enviro 300.
VX54MOV (67631) was new on December 14th 2004 and was initially allocated to the Redditch depot, where it was used on driver familiarisation duties alongside SN53 KKY (67600) and VX54 MPE (67632). January 4th 2005 saw it enter public service for the first time, with February 2005 seeing it transfer to the Evesham depot, but due to a crossover (interworking) of services, it was still a regular sight in Redditch, and also in Worcester. September 4th 2006 saw it transfer back to the Redditch depot, coinciding with the partial closure of the Evesham depot on September 3rd. Evesham depot would fully close on December 30th of that year. 631 remained in the BMMO livery until July 2007, when it was repainted into the standard "Barbie 3" livery, and transferred to the Worcester depot. It later spent a few years between Worcester and Redditch (and a few days over in Kidderminster), up until the sale of the Redditch and Kidderminster depots to the Rotala PLC's Diamond Bus operation. It was in operation on the last day of Redditch. Sadly for me this meant my favourite bus leaving my local depot, but luckily it stayed within the Wyvern fleet. When Redditch closed it moved permanently to Worcester depot, where it remained until December 2015, when it was transferred to Potteries Motor Traction (PMT) to replace non-DDA buses. It remained in use here for a few years (and got painted into the fuchsia front "Urban 2" livery), before being withdrawn from service in (what I believe to be) August 2019. Sadly 631 entered preservation as a non runner, and missing several parts. This will be a long term project.
VX54 MTO (67650) was new on January 20th 2005 and was initially allocated to the Evesham depot. It also spent time with Redditch and Worcester depots. July 31st 2017 saw it move to PMT, where it remained in service until February 2021. 650 entered preservation as a runner with a few minor defects. On collection day she drove the 100+ mile trip home without an issue arising (well, except for having “a bright idea” due to the N/S side marker being defective. I aim to send her through the MOT shortly. September saw me take her for a MOT, which she failed due to the N/S/F brake and a bit on the chassis that needs welding. 631 is awaiting a new windscreen rubber from PSV Glass, when this is done, 650 will be taken for MOT prep.
“No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation” ~ Douglas MacArthur
One of the Heritage Buildings located at Education City, Qatar
Subject to an on-going restoration and renovation....
New to preservation is former Brighton & Hove Dennis Trident Plaxton President Y847 GCD. Seen here on collection from its former owner Uno Bus.
Taken on August 17th 1975
Preserved ex-LNWR 'Improved Precedent' class 2-4-0 790 ''Hardwicke'' with 4472 ‘’Flying Scotsman’’ and the ex-Caledonian Railway rebuilt observation car, approaching Clapham station in Lancaster in mid-August 1975.. From the direction of the drifting steam, the train appears to have stopped, possibly for this photo to be taken from the station footbridge, and 4472s crew both have their heads out of the cab side window..
790 had entered service in 1873, and was completely rebuilt in 1892, and was withdrawn by the LMS in 1932, and stored at Crewe works for many years, and was later put on display at the British Transport Museum at Clapham in 1962, and moved to Carnforth when that museum closed down in 1974. It had been restored to steam in July 1975 as seen here:
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It took part in the Stockton and Darlington 150th Anniversary cavalcade at the end of August, and was then used on several special trips - usually double-headed with much larger steam locomotives - and later took part in the 'Rocket 150' celebrations in 1980, but has been a static exhibit since 1982, and is now in the National Railway Museum annex at Shildon..
4472 had returned to steam in the UK in 1974, having been rescued from California after its financially disastrous tour of the USA.. It suffered an expensive and mis-managed restoration in the early-2000s, and finally returned to steam in 2016 in 1960s BR green as 60103, and is now operating on UK railtours..
The carriage behind 4472 is the much-rebuilt ex-Caledonian Railway engineers saloon, which started life as a clerestory-roofed 12-wheel dining car, and ended up as an observation car, fitted with Gresley bogies in 1955, with the far end resembling a DMU, after collision damage was repaired in 1960.. It is now in fully-lined LMS maroon livery, with ‘Queen of Scots’ above the rear windows..
Today (2025), the Clapham station platform on this (left) side of the tracks has been extended past this point, as it had to be relocated due to the danger of subsidence in its original location..
Original (Kodachrome) slide - property of Robert Gadsdon
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ADB968008 [24054] Train Pre-Heating Unit and 08795 are stabled at Newton Abbot circa March 1978.
After withdrawal in 1976 two Class 24s were converted into train pre-heating units and were allocated to the Western Region: 24054 was withdrawn in August and became TDB968008, 24142 became TDB968009.
24054 was withdrawn on July 17th 1976.
At the end of August 24054 & 24142 were pulled from the deadlines at Basford Hall and sent to the Western Region for further use as carriage heating units. On August 31st they arrived at Exeter Riverside at 4.38pm behind 45012 as part of a milk train, or an 'unidentified' fitted freight (6V53 Down Stoke - St. Blazey china clay empties from Bescot is a candidate), then 45012 tripped the Class 24s to Exeter stabling point, by September 3rd they were still at Exeter but now coupled to a BV ready for onward movement to Laira.
As a train heating unit changes included having the boiler exhaust plated over, eth connections fitted and external controls added to the valencing on the driver's side of the cab.
Initially 24054 was based at Penzance but on 9-5-77 a reshuffle of the WR carriage heating units took place, with unit ADB968008 (24054) moved from Penzance to Plymouth, whilst ADB968009 (24142) moved from Plymouth to Worcester.
During September 1977 ADB968008 was transferred from Laira to Newton Abbot.
The completion of the Crown Point (Norwich) carriage depot led to a significant shake up of the various train heating units with a number of the former Class 31 & BTH units condemned. ADB968008 (ex 24054) journeyed from Newton Abbot to Stratford, being noted there from (at least) mid-March 1982 to October 1982.
During October 1983 ADB968008 (24054) finally reached preservation with its purchase by the East Lancashire Railway, Bury. It had spent the first half of the month in transit from March, arriving at Bury on October 17th(?). With thanks to DerbySulzers website for much of the above.
08795 was delivered new as D3963 on 21-5-60 and first based at Old Oak Common. By 13-8-60 it was at Oxford and moved to Southall 11-7-65.
OOC 18-3-68. Laira 28-9-74.
Swindon 25-1-75.
It appears to have always been a Western Region loco. It spent a chunk of time at Gloucester. Obviously at some point in the late 1970's it was back at Laira/ Newton Abbot.
By the mid-1990's it had arrived at Landore and stayed there latterly in store. It was the last loco to depart the depot on 22-3-19 and is now in preservation at the Llanelli and Mynydd Mawr Railway with it's base at Cynheidre.
27th November 2010.
Bruntingthorpe.
XS904 English Electric Lightning F6 of the Lightning Preservation Group..
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Here are the seashells from the Carribean again and my sister playing a role that is a little bit strange I suppose.
South Hants Vehicle Preservation Society - Lunchtime gathering at Stansted Park Garden Centre, Rowlands Castle, Hampshire
We've been busy working on both our vehicles today. Here Graham is busy restoring the front blind box glass on DT29. We ran out of equipment to tackle the nearside glass, so that's a job for another day, 22/01/17
On this Independence Day, I am working to preserve some American industrial history. I recently acquired two photographic prints showing the Pittsburgh Steel Company's Monessen and Allenport facilities, taken by Photographer John L. Alexandrowicz. Here I am aligning the print to trim the old masking tape from the edge, which, if left in place, would contribute further damage to the print over time. These prints are now matted and framed in archival materials that will allow them to endure for many more years. I also took high resolution photos of those prints and will share them here once I digitally restore them.
Taken in November 1978
BR Western Region ‘Warship’ diesel-hydraulic D821 ‘’Greyhound’’ at Swindon works, in November 1978.
The loco had entered service in 1960, at Laira shed, and had been withdrawn from that shed in 1972, and was purchased for preservation from BR – the first mainline diesel to be preserved in the UK.. It was stored at various locations after preservation, and moved to Swindon in 1977, where it was overhauled and restored to operating condition, using some components from D818, which was also resident at Swindon at that time.. It hauled its first train after preservation on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway in 1981, and today (2025) is operational at the Severn Valley Railway, after its latest overhaul in 2024.
Restored from an under-exposed unfocussed cyan-colour-shifted original..
Original slide - property of Robert Gadsdon
Back in the 1980s, the Great Western Railway Preservation Group (GWRPG), which was based in the old Otto Monsted margarine factory next to Southall station, would run shuttles on the freight-only Brentford branch on Bank Holidays. On one such day, Easter Day in 1984, I took the opportunity to ride down this rare freight branch in one of the classic and versatile Class 121 'Bubble Cars' W55034. Here is the unit back at Southall station after completing the journey.
Note the hand-made steps used to disembark the passengers, as there was no passenger platform for the Brentford branch! A Class 47 is caught 'in action' passing through the station with a down express.
Class 121 Pressed Steel Single / 2-car DMUs
Following the success of the Gloucester Singles the Western Region ordered a further batch of sixteen single cars and ten trailers, this time built by Pressed Steel in Linwood (Scotland).
The units took over services originally monopolised by GWR built railcars but as more and more cross country and branch lines closed that work became less and less. Consequently, the class was concentrated around the Reading, Bristol, Cardiff and Plymouth areas. They were used on the West London branch lines, the Severn Beach branch, lines in the Welsh valleys and the Cornish branch lines.
They were very popular for departmental use and preservation, and some vehicles returned to passenger traffic for Chiltern Railways and Arriva Trains Wales. They remained the last type of first generation DMU in mainline passenger use.
The DTS was the equivalant of an unpowered Class 117 DMS, with the same internal arrangement (in both un-gangwayed and gangwayed styles). Again it was all second class seating, the front two saloons were identical to the DMBS with 45 and 20 seats, although there was no door fitted to the dividing partition as both saloons were now smoking. There was a door into the 26 seat non-smoking section which was in the place of the guards van / cab on the DMBS, making a total of 91 seats for the vehicle. The rear seat was the full width seating six.
Only the DTS vehicles were gangwayed, they couldn't use the gangway working with a bubble car but could be used with other classes. The DTS vehicles were renumbered to 54280-9 circa 1983.
Information courtesy of: railcar.co.uk/type/class-121/
Brentford Line The Brentford branch line, also known as the Brentford Dock Line, is a freight-only branch railway line in west London. The route, which opened in 1859, was backed by the Great Western Railway and built by the Great Western & Brentford Railway Company. It ran 4 miles (6.4 km) from Southall to Brentford Dock. In 1964, the line to the wharves was closed. The branch now runs from the Great Western Main Line to a goods yard and waste transfer station in Brentford. More info here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brentford_branch_line
Taken with a Soviet made Zenith TTL SLR.
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Stagecoach in South Wales 20359 was one of the 'first generation' Alexander PS-bodied Volvo B10Ms to be allocated to Aberdare depot for what was then Service 172 (Aberdare-Rhondda Valleys-Bridgend-Porthcawl).
The batch of six operated the service until 2011, losing their dual-purpose seating for new bus seats in 'beachball' moquette in the process, and were then replaced by sisters 20385/7-9/91/2, with whom they then exchanged their seats.
20359 was one of five that were sold to James Travel Group of Pontcynon in early 2012 for use on school contracts, and she was sold on to for preservation in August 2015.
This October 2009 shot depicts Autumn in Tonypandy Bus Centre as she waits time on a return journey to Aberdare.
Wonderful Machines.
c/n BOX.1
Allocated British Aircraft Preservation Council identity BAPC.2
This is an accurate reproduction of a 1910 design, built in 1964 for the movie 'Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines' and now operated by the Shuttleworth Collection.
She is seen displaying in near darkness at the collection’s ‘Spies & Intrigue Evening Drive-In Display’.
Old Warden, Bedfordshire, UK
15th May 2021
The following information is from the Shuttleworth Collection Website:-
In 1910 the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company at Bristol imported a Voisin designed Zodiac biplane from France with the intention of building similar aircraft under licence in England. Although superbly finished the aeroplane was never flown successfully and plans to build the design were abandoned in favour of a greatly improved version which had been developed by Henri Farman, an Englishman living in France.
The new Bristol machine was an unashamed copy of the Farman but rather better built so that when the Farman company solicitors threatened to sue a defence claiming substantial improvements ensured that no court proceedings took place. Following trials with alternative power plants, the 50 hp Gnome rotary engine was adopted and the aircraft flew successfully from Larkhill in July 1910.
The Bristol biplane soon gained the soubriquet and equipped the newly formed flying schools at Brooklands and Larkhill. Later, in December 1910, four were shipped in pairs on air missions to India and Australia .
However, the first order from overseas was placed by the Russian Government for eight Boxkites and they were delivered to St Petersburg in April 1911. These aircraft,military versions, had extended upper wings, three rudders, enlarged fuel tanks and more powerful 70 hp Gnome rotary engines.
The Boxkite was issued to the Royal Naval Air Service in March 1911 and to the Larkhill based Army Air Battalion the following April. Some seventy-six Boxkites were built, which was a large number for the period. However, they proved cumbersome to fly and, by 1915, the majority had ceased to operate.
This aeroplane is a reproduction built by F. G. Miles Engineering Ltd in the 1960s for the film Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines. As no original Boxkite exists, the Bristol Aeroplane Company acquired it and placed it in the care of the Collection for preservation.
In 1989 the aircraft was modified to improve a number of handling characteristics and is now powered by a Rolls-Royce Continental four cylinder engine of 100 hp. (The greater power of the modern engine is cancelled out by the smaller, higher revving modern propeller which, perhaps surprisingly, does not provide the same thrust as the seemingly lower powered 1910 design.) It flew again in 1992. Like the Blackburn Monoplane, its flying activities are subject to calm weather on public displays.
Looking through our RBW photo file for some date info, I came across this shot of POPS preserved ex PMT Bristol VR, OEH 604M. I was amazed to find that we handed it back over to the club in 2007, and this was the first occasion of its use for an evening outing in July of that year. That little jaunt took us from Hanley (Stoke on Trent) to Leek (where this photo was taken), then to Macclesfield and back via Congleton (chip shop stop) to Hanley.
604 was the recipient of much work, some of which was provided on a voluntary basis by club members, others funded some of what it required in donations with RBW bridging the gap as I was a member too! It took a fair effort all round to get it looking like it did here. Personally though, I found these Series II VRs awful and a poor second best to something like an Alexander bodied Fleetline. It has all the get up and go of a lead filled snail. Anyway, there are those who like them and its representative of PMT in the NBC era, so it has a justifiable place in preservation. Nowadays its side-lined needing remedial attention, not the least of which items are a myriad of oil leaks.