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47537 heads south on the Birmingham – Coventry line at Lea Hall with a south coast express, 17th September 1979.
Locomotive History
47537 was built at Crewe works as D1657 and it entered traffic in February 1965 allocated to Landore. It would remain a Western region engine until May 1974 when it transferred to Bescot. Although allocated 47073 in the 1973 TOPS renumbering scheme it was actually renumbered 47537 in August 1974 due to it being fitted with electric train heating by the time of the schemes implementation. It remained at Bescot for the next thirteen years until transferred to Bristol in October 1987. Its final transfer was in April 1991 to Crewe. Between November 1982 and November 1992 it carried the name Sir Gwynedd/County of Gwynedd. It was again renumbered in 1994, becoming 47772 when fitted with remote control equipment for use parcel trains with driving trailers (PCV’s). 47772 was stored in October 2003 initially at Canton and later at Margam until sold to the West Coast Railway Co. in July 2007 who moved it to Carnforth where it is still currently (May 2014) stored.
I thought the image of Saturn I'd captured on 15th September had been better than usual, conditions on 16th turned out to be even better. As well as the Cassini division traces of the Encke gap can be seen as well towards the outer rim of the rings.
This is a combination of mainly colour luminance with some IR 742nm pass data.
Peter
25298 heads north on the Gloucester avoiding line with a train of Mark IIa/b/c coaching stock, 18th September 1980.
Locomotive History
25298 was originally D7648 and was one of thirty six class 25 locomotives (D7624 - D7659) built at the Manchester works of Beyer Peacock Ltd in 1966. Twenty five locomotives (D7624 - D7649) of this batch entered traffic allocated to the Eastern Region (Sheffield) for local and inter-regional freight duties to the adjacent London Midland Region. Its stay on the Eastern Region was short as in January 1967 it transferred to the Nottingham Division (Toton) of the London Midland Region and would remain a London Midland engine for the rest of its career. After nineteen years service 25298 was withdrawn in March 1985 and moved during February 1986 from Crewe to Doncaster works for disposal. This occurred in September 1986, with 25298 being the last class 25 to be broken up at Doncaster works.
Canon AT1, Kodachrome 64
Threading its way through the outskirts of Nottingham at Sneinton is 156411 working 2S09, 09:15 Skegness – Nottingham, 26th September 2015. 156411 is crossing over the last remains of what use to be, when I was a lad, a very busy level crossing. The crossing was controlled by the former Sneinton Junction Signal Box which was a typical Midland Railway signal box built in 1914 and situated about where I am standing. One of my memories of this box are from my first day with British Rail on the 21st October 1974. It was here I was introduced to working trackside and received my “Personal Track Safety” training. It took about 15 minutes, today it’s a two day course!!!! Over the intervening years this area of Nottingham has been totally rebuilt, the once busy road was reduced in status by the building of a bridge and a totally rebuild of the surrounding roads and the crossing reduced to pedestrian use only. With re-signalling of Nottingham station in the summer of 2013 the crossing and signal box were closed and replaced by a footbridge which I am standing on to take this photograph.
Diesellocomotief 6256 is aan het rangeren in het station van Tucuman.
Dieselengine 6256 shunting in the station from Tucuman.