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Probably 1M44; the Shieldmuir Mail Terminal to Warrington, Royal Mail train.
Originally built by the Parcel Sector of British Rail, the Class 325 sets entered service in 1995. Privatisation of British Rail placed the units under EWS control and such work continued until 2003, when Royal Mail withdrew the postal contracts, resulting in decreasing use, until the units entered storage following the end of work.
When GB Railfreight (GBRf) gained a new contract for mail transport over Christmas 2004, the Class 325s returned to limited work operating in multiple. Work with locomotive haulage also occurred, powered by GBRf Class 87s. After a traction reshuffle, the Class 325s resumed service with their power cars and without locomotive haulage.
The GBRf contract expired in 2010 and a new contract for Royal Mail operations, including responsibility for managing the Class 325 fleet, was won by DB Schenker. As of June 2010, seven trains are run a day, between London, Warrington and Glasgow, via the West Coast Main Line. The 325 sets can be worked together to make up 4, 8 or 12-car trains.
In 2012, unit number 325010, which had been damaged and was stored as a source of spares for the rest of the fleet, was scrapped.
From June 2013, DB Schenker re-inaugurated an additional service on the East Coast Main Line from Willesden to Low Fell, Gateshead.
Brush Type 2 Class 31 diesel locomotive 31233 with 31465 as rear gunner working the 1Q04 09:30 Norwich- East Ham Electric Multiple Unit Depot (EMUD) via Southend Victoria Network Rail infrastructure parameter monitoring test train southbound at Hatfield Peverel Railway Station on the Great Eastern Main Line in Essex (UK).
This particular routine infrastructure parameter monitoring test train is ultrasonic rail flaw surveying using a UTU (Ultrasonic Test Unit) vehicle.
The 54 year old 31233 was built as British Railways Type 2 D5660 at Brush Traction Ltd. in Loughborough and entered service in October 1960 while Hatfield Peverel Station and the then Eastern Counties Railway opened in 1843.
Absolutely adore Class 31's. Cut my young trainspotting teeth on these just down the road at Chelmsford station in the late 1970s.
My Class 31 album flic.kr/s/aHsjYVNvYi
Thank you to my regular photostream contributor David for taking time out to take this photograph and is posted here with kind permission.
09024 in plain grey is stabled alongside the traincrew cabin in the small yard at Redhill.
15-05-1994
Great Western Railway class 158 958 slows for the station stop at the tiny Avoncliff station, whilst working the 10.11 service from Cosham to Great Malvern. The station platforms are officially just 30 metres (98 feet) long and hold only one full carriage. With Selective Door Opening not being possible, the guard releases just the very front door to allow passengers to join and leave the train.
Avoncliff Halt opened in 1906, originally built of timber with no shelters and was designed for rail-cars only. Shelters were later provided, the one on platform 1 was blown down in the great storm of 1987 and the one on platform 2 was blown down in a 1990 gale. Both shelters have now been replaced.
The little station used to have a limited service and be a request only halt, these days it has a very regular service of 43 trains that call on weekdays and 18 on Sunday.
'Creeping' around Tinsley to see some class 40s that would never see the light of day again, that's 40102 on the left, for instance, I took the time to to take some other photos that became historical records, though we didn't realise it when we took them!
An interesting sign from the boy.
Not much fun with the sack barrow if the adults are around.
Apeldoorn Zuid
1960s
Preserved class 25 diesel locomotive , D7628 Sybilla , at work on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway .
DRS Class 68 No. 68004 paired with Class 37 No. 37605 power towards Barker's Crossing, Uttoxeter, working 0Z44 Derby RTC to Crewe Gresty Bridge on the 21st April 2015. The hazy specs on the right hand side are all mozzies and bugs flying around...!
Class 101 DMU on the Wirksworth to Ravenstor shuttle at the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway. 18 March 2017.
British Rail Class 158 'Express Sprinter' 2 car Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) 158731 as operated by ScotRail at Edinburgh Waverley Station in Scotland (UK).
All my 158's www.flickr.com/photos/stuart166axe/tags/class158/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_158
Photograph taken by and copyright of my regular photostream contributor David and is posted here with very kind permission.
Crompton Class 33 locomotive 33202 in the foreground with 33046 at the rear runs round its train at Yeovil Junction after deputising for 34027 'Taw Valley' which had failed on the Bert Hooker Memorial Express railtour from London Waterloo on October 12th 1996. The train was hauled back to London and terminated at Clapham Junction at 2am, some 4 hours late.
33202 entered service in February 1962 as D6587 and withdrawn from the mainline in early 2009 and now resides in preservation at Mangapps Railway Museum near Burnham on Crouch in Essex.
Photograph scanned from David's archives and posted here with kind permission.
Students listen to a lecture in a sociology class in 1989.
Repository Information:
Michigan State University Archives & Historical Collections, Conrad Hall, 943 Conrad Rd., Room 101, East Lansing, MI 48824, archives.msu.edu
Resource Identifier: A004860
Class 101 set 326 seen in Princes Street Gardens in February 1987. The closest vehicle is thought to be 53183, still displaying set number 96 from its time allocated to Norwich.
British Rail Class 91 25kV electric locomotive 91101 in 'Flying Scotsman' livery with the terminating 1N83 11:08 (13:27 RT) London King's Cross- York East Coast service train at York Station on the East Coast Main Line in North Yorkshire (UK).
91101 entered service as 91001 on April 4th 1988.
York Station along with its wonderful roof was designed by architects Thomas Prosser and William Peachey and was opened in 1877.
Photography courtesy of my regular photostream contributor David on his travels and is posted here with very kind permission.
West Coast Railway Company
Class 47 - 47760
Passing Worting Junction with The Cathedrals Express
London Victoria to Weymouth
9/7/2015
P11 in the latest v/line scheme is the 'top of a tops and tails" P class set passing through the now replaced West Footscray station.
Leyland Class 153 "Super Sprinter" diesel railcar No.153 309 "Gerard Fiennes" of National Express East Anglia in debranded Anglia livery leaving Norwich Thorpe for Yarmouth, 06/08.
D17 became 45024 under TOPS, it was withdrawn in October 1980 and was scrapped at BREL Swindon Works in August 1983. (Scanned Slide)
Preserved class 11 diesel shunter , 12139 , built in 1949 at Newton-Le-Willows , at work at Grosmont station on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway .
PKP 3,000 V DC overhead Class EP07 2,680 hp Bo-Bo No.EP07-201 (with LED lights in original surrounds) in PKP Intercity blue & grey livery at Poznan Glowny, 19 November 2017. In the late 1950's the PKP wanted an advanced electric locomotive and bought 20 EU06 mixed traffic locomotives built by English Electric's Vulcan Foundry in 1962-65 which were a DC export version of the AC British Railways Class 83. PKP then procured Polish built versions of the EP06 - 488 EU07's built by Pafawag and Cegielski in 1963-1994 and 200 5,400 hp duplex ET21 heavy freight and coal Bo-Bo+Bo-Bo units (two EU07's joined together) built by Cegielski in 1977-83. In 1995-2003 ZNTK modified 97 EU07 locos to express passenger EP07 locos. The 15 EP08 locos built by Pafawag in 1972-76 were newbuild express passenger versions of EU07's. The final development of the type is the 3,916 hp EP09 Class, 47 being built by Pafawag in 1986-97. The class, with a revised body, was intended to be a completely new state-of-the-art design but a shortage of funds led to the adoption of many features from the EP07/08's. However, the mixture of new and old technology was not a happy one and many subsequent modifications had to be made.
Hampi, school class
Hampi is a village in northern Karnataka, India. It is located within the ruins of the city of Vijayanagara, the former capital of the Vijayanagara Empire. Predating the city of Vijayanagara, it continues to be an important religious centre, housing the Virupaksha Temple, as well as several other monuments belonging to the old city. The ruins are a UNESCO World Heritage Site, listed as the Group of Monuments at Hampi.
Most of Vijayanagara lies on the south bank of the Tungabhadra River. The city was built around the religious center of the Virupaksha temple complex at Hampi.
The city of Vijayanagara was originally encompassed by seven lines of fortifications. These fortifications had a large number of bastions and gateways. The seventh and the innermost fortification enclosed the main city and is the best preserved. The extant monuments of Vijayanagara or Hampi can be divided into religious, civil and military buildings. While most of the monuments at Hampi are from the Vijayanagara period, a small proportion may be assigned to pre-Vijayanagara times. The Jain temples on Hemakuta hill, the two Devi shrines and some other structures in the Virupaksha temple complex predate the Vijanagara empire. The earliest amongst them, the Shaiva shrines with their stepped pyramidal vimanas or superstructures, date to the early Chalukyan period around ninth-tenth century AD.
(source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampi and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijayanagara)