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207012 passes through the rolling Sussex countryside near Buxted with the 1036 Victoria to Uckfield service.
The class 207s were built at Eastleigh in 1962 and were diesel electric multiple units
They were built to operate the:
-Oxted and East Sussex lines
-Victoria, East Grinstead, Tunbridge Wells and Brighton via Uckfield
-Hastings to Ashford
Originally known as the 'Oxted' units, they quickly became known as the 'Sussex' units and for the first 20 years of their life they were unusual (though not unknown) outside of East and West Sussex.
Unlike all of the other DEMU builds, the BTC design panel was involved in the design of the front end of these units, giving them a more sculpted appearance than the slab-fronted design of other DEMUs.
This was my first ever image in print - appearing in Rail Magazine in October or November 1987. I remember being very proud at the time!
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Still in business today, Balfour Beatty has been a major player in the UK construction and civil engineering markets. Founded in 1909, its initial operations focused on tramways, with a notable presence in the East Midlands. That activity led Balfour Beatty to diversify into power generation and general contracting, playing a key role in the development of Britain’s National Grid. During the same 1930s period, Balfour Beatty replaced the trams with buses at its subsidiary companies.
Just three bus companies remained on Balfour Beatty’s books when it decided to exit the market at the end of the 1940s. Thus, Midland General, Notts & Derby and Mansfield District were sold to the state-controlled British Transport Commission. Previously major buyers of AEC and Leyland buses, the ex-Balfour Beatty bus fleets then took a steady influx of standard Bristol/Eastern Coachworks vehicles. However, the old liveries were retained, together with other details (eg destination layouts) that differentiated the fleets from the general BTC run of the mill.
This view at Newark Bus Station proved to be the sole occasion I photographed buses of the former Balfour Beatty bus fleets: all three companies lost their identities soon afterwards under National Bus Company management. On the left is Mansfield & District 545 (24MNN), a Bristol FLF6G Lodekka new in 1963. Its companion is 104 ( JNU993D), a 1966 dual-purpose Bristol MW6G that was registered by Midland General Omnibus but seen here in service with Mansfield District.
June 1972
Zorki 4 camera
Agfa CT18 film.
Francorchampions 2009
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The two BTC Norlin Racing Chevrolet Cruze cars of Dave Newsham and Chris Smiley take the Circuit at Thruxton during first practice. BTCC Thruxton 2017
Part of the railway that has been much in the UK news of late as this exposed coastal route in south west England suffered massively in this winter's storms and was breached - closed, and expected to re-open in April 2014. This view shows one of the Western Region's new diesel locomotives, delivered as part of the BTC's modernisation of British Railways and intended to replace steam. The image shows D600 - one of a small, and short lived class of locomotives that formed a skirmish between the BR HQ and the Western Region about the types of locomotives required to replace steam on ex-GWR lines. Known as the 'Warship' class, the locos were built by the North British Locomotive Company in Glasgow and fitted with MAN engines with hydraulic drive. For a short time, as seen here, they powered the 'flagship' services from London to the South West. The locomotives had a very short life of about a decade.
The artwork is interesting and bears some comparison with French Railways/SNCF posters of the era - not a surprise as it is the work of Albert Brenet (1903 - 2005), the French transport and marine artist.
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Bulk tipping body on an BTC 4 in-line chassis.
Coupled to an AEC tractor, owned by Russell of Bathgate.
You tend to think of step-frame's as a modern idea, but evidently not, this would of course get the centre of gravity down by having the body runners on the outside of the chassis rails.
The cover of the 1951 BTC report into the Electrification of Railways. The report, chaired by C M Cock, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Railway Executive, basically 'rubber stamped' the status quo ; that London Transport should retain it's 630vDC fourth rail system, the Southern Region its 660v DC third rail system and that main line electrification should, as codified in the 1927 Pringle Committee's recommendation, take the form of 1500vDC overhead. This latter decision was soon to be rapidly overturned as the BTC turned to the 25kvAC system that at the time of this report was effectively being trialled by SNCF and that indeed a version of which was being trialled in the UK on the converted lines around Lancaster & Morecambe noted in this report. The report contains a number of maps.
This map shows the extensive 3rd rail electric system on Tyneside that was inaugurated by the pre-Grouping North Eastern Railway and that BR would in time actually de-electrify. Much of the mileage has now found new life being incorporated into the Metro system.
The outlying Lancaster area scheme had its origins in the Midland Railway's use of its branch to trail 6600v AC overhead electrification at 25khz in 1908. In 1953 it would be converted to 50khz as a trial for the upcoming 25kvAC system and it continued in use until the whole branch was abandoned in 1966.
Bulker, alloy and ply bolted tipping body built on a BTC 4 in-line chassis.
The Foden S20 tractor was owned by Minall Brothers of Clutton, Bristol.
I like the form of this parking house. Shot in Ljubljana in BTC shopping center last year.
Best viewed in LARGE (Contacts only, sorry).