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The Red Arrows flying in formation with Vulcan XH558 at RIAT 2015 to mark her final year of flying. The Vulcan is set for retirement at the end of the current display season in October 2015.
In one of my favourite liveries, the red and black of RES (Rail Express Systems), Class 90, No 90016 approaches Winwick Junction with 16.18hrs Glasgow to Bristol Mail train. Taken near to Walgrave Road, Vulcan Village. 19th June 1997. (D.4568.WCML.099)
Copyright: Doug Birmingham (8A Rail)
Avro Vulcan B Mk 2 XM603 was completed at Woodford on 15th November 1963, fitted with Bristol Siddeley Olympus 301 engines. She first flew in the all white anti-flash paint scheme used for the high altitude role that the Vulcan was originally designed for.
Delivered the same month to No. 12 Sqn, then part of the Coningsby Wing which moved, shortly afterwards, to Cottesmore in 1964. XM603 then transferred to the Waddington Wing in 1968, joined 50 Sqn in August 1975 followed by 101 Sqn in December 1980 & then 44 Sqn. in July 1981. By this time the paint scheme had changed to the Grey/Green camouflage used in the low level role which the Vulcan was now used for.
She travelled extensively to British and American bases round the World before being retired by the RAF in 1982 as part of the general removal of Vulcans from service, just missing the Falklands conflict.
XM603 was sold to British Aerospace (as was) for preservation at Woodford. She arrived there on 12th March 1982 flown by Charles Masefield – now Sir Charles Masefield.
She was used as the trial mock up aircraft for the Vulcan K.Mk 2 tanker conversion. Vulcans were used for air to air refuelling in Europe allowing the Victors to be used in the South Atlantic. A number of items were also removed to support operational Vulcans.
After the team maintaining her were stopped accessing the airfield she started to decay and suffered some vandalism. XM655 at Wellesbourne now has two of her engines and still performs taxi runs. Recently restored to top static condition XM603 is the only preserved Vulcan in the all-white colour scheme.
0-4-0ST Vulcan stands in the round house at Barrow Hill, 6th April 2019.
Locomotive History
Vulcan was built at the Vulcan Foundry, Newton Le Willows, Lancashire (works no. 3272) in 1918 to a 1902 design. It spent its entire working career as the Vulcan Foundry works pilot before being withdrawn in the mid 1960s and placed on the works sports ground on a panel of track. Entering preservation in 1969 Vulcan has spent time at Lytham St Annes and Peak Rail before arriving at Barrow Hill in 2010 where its overhaul, started at Peak Rail was completed and it returned to traffic in 2014.
After todays Farewell to Flight thought i would upload this of Avro Vulcan XH558 landing at Robin Hood Airport at Doncaster on the 23/8/14
Vulcans final flight over Bournemouth at Bournemouth Air Festival 2015. Flying over the Boats in Bournemouth Bay and Purbecks like a black drop.
Avro 698 Vulcan B.2 XM602 from 101 Sqn on the south side of RAF Greenham Common during the 1981 Embassy Air Tattoo, this Vulcan is now preserved at the Avro Heritage Museum Woodford Cheshire where she was built resplendent in a all white anti-flash scheme.
The last flying Vulcan bomber, a delta-wing reminder of the nuclear-equipped Cold War in Europe. This is its last flying season: it has just made one of its last ever landings... An Apache helicopter display pyrotechnic has just exploded behind it. This aircraft first flew in 1960. For further interest, see: www.vulcantothesky.org
Stupidly, I made no note of where I'd found this one - shot only minutes before I reached Rose Lane - but I suspect it's in the Cathedral Close, where there are several others from the same foundry, each opening with a pair of hinges at the left, rather than lifting out.
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The name "Vulcan Ironworks" (sometimes Iron Works) seems to have been adopted in 1872 - when Messrs Sturgess and Towlson, iron and brass founders, took on the new premises that let them expand their business.
It was only the shortest of moves, within Coslany - from near St Mary's church (off Muspole Street, where there's now "Wright's Foundry Yard") to St Miles' (today, St Michael's), on a site - across Oak Street from that church's west door - had once been occupied by Clarke's brewery.
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As well as various street furniture and railings for several churchyards, Sturgess and Towlson also produced many types of steam engines and boilers, hydraulic pumps and presses - and, in 1879, a 45ft steel-hulled steam launch, "The Emma and Jeannie", driven by a pair of engines that could develop 50 horse power.
Travelling back in time at a photoshoot organised by the Centre of Aviation Photography at Solway Aviation Museum near Carlisle.