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Direct Rail Services 66303 RAIL RIDERS is photographed at Leyland Station working the 6K05 Carlisle to Crewe engineers train.
D9000 "Royal Scots Grey" approaches Garsdale with Railrider Tours "The Deltic Explorer" 1Z48 0839 York - Carlisle charter on 29th Mar 97......this was the first run of a Deltic over the S&C after its mainline return....good job that Pilkington coach was near the back...!
47406 "Rail Riders" catches the glint at Golcar as it speeds towards Huddersfield with 1E99 13:03 Liverpool Lime Street to Newcastle. 6/2/88.
Milford
1832 6E03 ex Appleford has just propelled into road 11.
it will later form 6D14 0805 to Drax to load the Flyash tanks.
Running via its normal route via Derby and Barrow Hill it was diverted then via Thrybergh, Doncaster and the ECML to Hambleton and Gascoigne Wood hence the reason for propelling.
66175 "Rail Riders EXPRESS’ Seen passing Spittal,
Berwick-Upon-Tweed Working the 6E30 Dalzell B.S.C - Tees N.Y
DRS 66303 'Rail Riders 2020' at Waitby Common on Tuesday 13th July 2021 heading the 6K05 12:46 Carlisle Yard to Crewe Basford Hall. It had been named on the previous Wednesday, 7th July, at York station and this was its first freight service since the naming ceremony.
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Passing the site of the old Lea Green Station, Large Logo Class 47, No 47488 'Rail Riders' heads 09.00hrs Liverpool Lime Street to Newcastle Trans Pennine. The station had stagged platforms with the down platform being on the other side of the rebuilt bridge. The Up platform was to the right and the sign acknowledges the site of the Rainhill locomotive trials in 1829. 2nd July 1989.
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66303 “RAIL RIDERS” seen at Crewe Gresty Bridge Depot
Rail Riders, originally called Great Rail Clubmwas a club for young rail enthusiasts run by British Rail in the United Kingdom between 1981 and 1991. Membership entitled children aged 5-15 to discounted rail travel, receipt of a regular quarterly magazine called Rail Riders Express and free entry to the Rail Riders World model railway exhibit at York railway station.
The organisation used the slogans the happiest club in the land and travel, action, fun! It was promoted by Keith Chegwin.
Logistics for the club were contracted to Trainlines for Britain based in Wetherby, West Yorkshire. During 1981/82 the British Rail Passenger Marketing Services department considered the future promotion of the club. The logo was based on a side-profile of the British Rail Class 370 Advanced Passenger Train (APT),
The club closed in 1991.
On 8 October 2019 it was announced that a new club, unconnected with the original, would revive the 'Rail Riders' name and would be launched in February 2020, nearly 30 years after the original club closed.
Class 66 locomotive, 66303, ‘Rail Riders 2020’ was named at York station on the 7th July 2021.
Drax power Station
6H83 2015 ex immingham arrives on 4 track to unload.
celebrity Railriders enters its 5th week at Knottingley depot
66303 “Rail Riders 2020” nameplate and former ROG 57312’s Tightlock retractable coupler.
DRS open day, Crewe Gresty Bridge on 16 July 2022.
47488 photographed passing the signal box at Blea Moor whilst working a Leeds-Carlisle service.
25th February 1990.
47406 "Rail Riders" pauses at Manchester Victoria with 1M19 18:25 Newcastle to Liverpool Lime Street. 30/10/87.
4D47 Inverness to Mossend. Class 66 (Rail Riders) in DRS compass logo livery heads south on the HML with the empty Tesco Boxes.
Milford.
bit of shunting to do and loco on to 6E97.
except 6E97 not running today.
K77 back to shed.
47406 is about to pass under Brumber Bridge with 1E08 11:05 Liverpool Lime Street to Newcastle. 14/5/88. I think the "Railrider" nameplates had just been removed. This is very backlit and the film I was using at the time - Kodakchrome 25 hasn't helped, as my scanner doesn't like it.
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DB Cargo Class 66/0 No.66175 Rail Riders up Belstead Bank Ipswich with 6V07 12:07 Ipswich Griffin Wharf-Neasden Engineers Siding loaded sand on 25th March 2021.
Drs`s 68004 "Rapid" + 68034 "RailRiders" are seen passing Burn with 6Z20 the 06.49 Sellafield B.N.F. to Doncaster west yard wagon move 14/05/2025.
68033 'The Poppy' & 68034 'Rail Riders' pass worle with 6M67 14.08 Bridgwater to Crewe Coal Sidings with FNA's 70-9229-015 & 70-9229-029. Wednesday 21st June 2023.
68034 'Rail Riders' passes Shipley Gate with the diverted 4Z27, 05.38 Coatbridge to Daventry on Saturday 11th January 2025.
Camera on a pole.
©Dave Peachey.
47406 "Rail Riders" climbs Heaton Lodge dive-under with 1E99 13:03 Liverpool Lime Street to Newcastle. 15/8/87.
'Bashers' disgorge from the Saturday only 2C48 Carlisle - Lancaster and form a line to record their 'chariot' and that looks like a young Chris Rowe on the right!
* Taken 10 years ago to the day and uploaded virtually to the minute, happy days!
66175 now named 'Railriders Express' waits at a red at Tyseley working 4063 Birch Coppice to Southampton West Dks..
Towards the latter end of the loco-hauled Trans-Pennine service, shorter formations were the order of the day and the rakes became mixed livery-wise. Here the second Class 47 to carry the "Railriders" name, 47488, is about to pass through Hebden Bridge station with the diverted 1E55 11:28 Liverpool to Newcastle. 8th July 1990. The loco-hauled Trans-Pennine services ended in January 1991, meaning that any future diversions through the Calder Valley would be multiple units.
47488 "Rail Riders" runs through Batley with a Liverpool to Newcastle working.
Nikon F4
200mm/F2.8
500/6.7
Agfachrome 200 RS
Milford
Knottingley pet shed Railriders returned for a week in May. seen here about to head for Hull with 4D84 0459 ex Milford. This morning routed via Selby (not Snaith)
Knottingley depot bus stop
66175 arrives for crew change with 6H58 0415 ex immingham
66137 and 165 await a trip for fuel into the greenhouse.
66175 'Railriders Express' gets away from Rodbourne Bottom with 6C03 09.28 Northolt-Severnside SUEZ 'Binliner' on 05/10/24.
Opening Day * Scranton / Wilkes-Barre RailRiders @ Buffalo Bisons * Coca-Cola Field * Buffalo, NY 4/08/2017
66175 “Rail Riders” Seen at Swanwick Junction Station on the
Midland Railway Butterley the locomotive was one of the guest engines for the railways Rail Ale event
Midsummers day 2022 at Shipley Gate, also a R.M.T. union strike day, which resulted in a rare daylight south bound working of the Tesco train.
DRS 66303 and 66424 with the 4Z92, 08.43 Tees Dock to Daventry.
Camera on a pole.
York
platform 1.
as 66303 is officially named Railriders 2020 sister Railriders express adds some moral support.
departing as 0D67 1206 to scunthorpe
68034 "RailRiders 2020" passes Little Fenton with 4N51 the 18.20 Doncaster Iport to South bank/Tees dock Tesco intermodal 02/04/2025.