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A pair of D.R.S. Class 57 locos stabled at Norwich on the 23rd November 2015.57010 started life as D1907 in September 1965,also having a short spell as 47231. The rear loco,57306,began life as D1919 in November 1965.It also ran as 47242,47659 and 47814.
Gloucester RC&W Co. Class 119 Cross Country 3-car dmu Set No.B590 (made up of Class 119/1, 178 & 119/2 cars) in BR Rail Blue & Grey with all yellow front ends passing Parson Street, Bristol, on a Bristol (Temple Meads) - Taunton service, 09/85. Scanned photograph taken with a Canon AE-1 Program.
Castle Class HST set 43156+43098 with regional service 2P09 Penzance to Plymouth arriving to St. Erth station
British Rail Class 69 Co-Co diesel locomotive 69003 as operated by GBRf (GB Railfreight) working a rake of empty JNA box wagons from Mountfield (East Sussex) to Southampton Western Docks at Eastleigh Station in the County of Hampshire (UK).
I think this is a daily GBRf service for the collection of gypsum from the Port of Southampton back to Mountfield.
69003 was originally built by Electroputere S.A. of Craiova, Romania and entered service for British Rail as Class 56, 56018 on August 23rd 1977.
56018 was rebuilt including a new low emission engine and other major improvements by Progress Rail for GBRf then reclassified as Class 69, 69003 in 2021.
Note the 'speed whiskers' which are a tribute to some pre yellow panel British Railways diesel multiple units from the 1950's/1960's.
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Photograph taken by and copyright of my occasional photostream contributor Mr Michael Foreman and is posted here with very kind permission.
Class 502 Driving motor M28352M at Southport 1979 Help bring the preserved 502 back into operational service by becoming a member or making a donation
A class 158 is dwarfed by the scenery as it crosses Barmouth Bridge at sunrise with 2J03 0853 Machynlleth - Pwllheli on Saturday 2nd February 2019. Fresh snow had fallen the day before on the mountains and the temperature had dipped to minus 7. Photo: Ivan Stewart.
20th April 2013. Class 108 "Derby Lightweight" DMU M56492 (DTCL) and E50619 (DMBS) arriving at Norchard on the 14:20 Parkend to Lydney Junction.
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A northbound train including a sleeping car runs through Nuneaton in April 1987 hauled by an unnamed Class 86/4 engine. Someone cleverer than me may be able to identify the engine.
Although the slide has slight water damage, the train consist behind this unidentified Class 37 gets it posted. Lydney, May 1985.
Northern Class 156 No. 156454 waits to depart Carlisle for Morpeth on 7th December 2022.
The line from Carlisle to Haltwhistle, on the Tyne Valley Line, re-opened on this day following its closure due to the derailment at nearby Peterill Bridge in November.
British Rail Class 745 25kV 12 car Electric Multiple Unit (EMU) 745003 working the 1P16 09:30 (10:01 1E) Greater Anglia London Liverpool Street- Norwich service train northbound at Chelmsford Station on the Great Eastern Main Line in the County of Essex (UK).
The Class 745 EMU's were a direct replacement in early 2020 for the ageing 30 year old plus Class 90 electric locomotives and their slam door British Rail Mk3b coaches which previously worked the Norwich- London Liverpool Street express services..
745103 was built by Stadler Rail at their facility in Bussnang Switzerland as one of the Stadler 'FLIRT' (Fast Light Intercity and Regional Train) modular family of trainsets.
Note the Dellner type coupling system in the big ugly hole at the front of the trains. The Dellner coupling is a version of the Scharfenberg coupler which connects pneumatics and electronics at the same point of contact.
Greater Anglia had an option to have a cover fitted in these coupling holes by Stadler but declined for cost and ease of maintenance reasons.
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My Chelmsford Railway Station Album flic.kr/s/aHsjoigMMG
Photograph taken by and copyright of my regular photostream contributor David and is posted here with very kind permission.
Cab of BR (LMR) Class "504" 1,200 V dc side contact 3rd rail inner suburban 2-car emu Nos.M77166, M65445 at Bury (Bolton Street) station, 07/78. Scanned slide taken with an Exacta.
Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company, Class 110, E51823 & E51843 at Sheffield in October 1987 (possibly the 19th)
Note the roof on E51823 was damaged by a fire on a class 104 dmu (M50440) that was stood next to it, during the repairs the only cab roof available was from a class 104 so as a result E51823 ran the rest of its life without a headcode box.
Two Class 108 DMUs make a smokey departure from Chester with a service to Manchester Victoria on Sat 11th December 1982
On 27 December 2024, 387172, now sporting GN logos, has arrived at Letchworth on the 0857 from Kings Cross.
GBRF Class 66 No.66725 Sunderland heads towards Upton Scudamore,with the 10:14 Westbury to Eastleigh East Yard working,on the 16th of November 2021.
Een fraaie verzameling Class 66-locomotieven tijdens een zonsondergang op de Maasvlakte. Een paar honderd meter verderop kon je volgens een andere fotograaf heel mooi "de son in de see sien sakken," maar daar hadden we op 20-09-2003 even geen oog voor.
Van links naar rechts stonden broederlijk naast elkaar de DLC PB19, ShortLines PB17, ERS PB09, HGK DE61 en R4C PB05. Die laatste trok de gezelschapstrein waarmee we naar Mvt II waren gekomen. (PB is lease-maatschappij Porterbrook).
EN>>Five Class 66 engines of five different companies (names and numbers in the above Dutch text). They were gathered for a line-up at sunset on 20 September 2003 at Rotterdam Maasvlakte marshalling-yard, as part of a trainfan-tour.
Name: Sainka
Class: Sentient Flora (some), Intelligent Flora (some) Species
Appearance: The Sainka’s appearance depends on which class/sub-species is being dealt with, but all share some commonalities. The bush/plant-class is most similar to that of Morbuzakh and Karzahni, typically being this spherical base with a bundle of vines and roots spreading out from it. The plant-class is primarily black in color, though can have some lime green vines, various types of silver metallic pieces jutting out of it, as well as translucent blue crystals.
The seed, spore, and sapling classes, while differing in many ways, are far more similar. Starting with the spore-class, these look like a spherical triangle standing up, with an extra cylinder protrusion coming out the back. They have a singular blue eye in the front, their outer shell is made of the translucent blue crystals, protecting the loose green seed and mechanics inside. Three lime green roots/vines sprout out from each corner, with an additional three coming out the back. On the front are three little blasters devices fused in the crystal shell.
The seed-class is much like the spore-class, though does not have the cylinder protrusion in the back and is instead composed of two the spherical triangles, the corners of one triangle rest in the opposite of the other. Its shell is black, with additional blue crystal coverings, and have four black roots/vines, two coming out of each side. It also has three blasters fused into the front of its shell, but has additional ones in its roots/vines.
The sapling-class is closer to the spore-class, but differs in many ways. While its shell is translucent blue crystal, its shaping is more of a spherical plus sign laying down, with cylinder protrusion in the middle, both top and bottom. Harder, blackened roots forming a base on the bottom cylinder stretch out from it, with either lime green or orange roots/vines attached to the ends. Unlike the other two, it has no visible eyes and no blasters in its casing.
Physiology: Sainka is a biomechanical plant, meaning that like other Matoran Universe beings, it is a mix between organic and mechanical nature. The exterior of Sainka is covered in Protodermic armor, with gaps and breaks in this armor revealing the cellulose underneath. It possesses all the typical plant makeup and structure internally, though made of Protodermis like all MU plants, but also has an additional internal mechanic skeleton and parts for structural support and functions. Design to obtain nutrients from any environment, Sainka can live anywhere from inside volcanoes to frozen wastes, but tends to prefer places with lots of existing plant life. To best explain the Sainka plant, it must be further split into several sub-classes.
Plant-Class: The Sainka plant-class, sometimes also known as the bush-class, is the primary species. It is a large factory plant that places itself in an area and begins to swiftly take over, draining away all nutrients and materials to itself. Materials gathered are refined and either used to help expand and grow the Sainka or to manufacture war machines. The primary purpose of the Sainka is the creation of these war machines and soldiers, continue to spread, gain resources, increase military size and strength, and expand conquest.
Members of this class are all sentient and highly intelligent, more so than that of Toa. Their bodies produce a chemical that allows them to feel vibrations in the air to sense movement. Similar vibration senses in the ground as well to detect objects and creatures. If need be, crystalline eyes can be grown anywhere on its body to further check the area. If needed for self-defense, the eyes can grow into heads with sharp teeth and spew out poison or acid. Often at least one head can be found rising out of the primary base of the plant, but the consciousness does not reside there. It is merely a distraction to have attackers focus on the wrong area. Consciousness primarily resides in the main base and master root. For some reason, Sainka are weak to the Element of Air and a blast of that elemental power to the master root will kill the entire creature.
Size of the Sainka varies, depending on how long it has been growing, but the main base is typically no smaller than a city block and several stories tall. As the main base is also primary manufacturing area, it is commonly defended by blades and crystalline structures in addition to vines and heads. The roots and vines it grows can borough quite deep in the ground and easily through buildings and Protodermic defenses. Thorns can also be grown on the roots and vines, provided simply crushing or tearing apart the attacker doesn’t solve the issue. If the area has run out of nutrients and materials, the primary base can consolidate and recycle the extend parts of itself to convert into a large airship of sorts. It can then rocket up into the air and fly to a new location to replant itself.
The plant-class is the only class able to propagate, however, it can only do so once. It must choose the correctly when to do so, for its offspring will have all the knowledge and abilities gained. It can gain abilities from other plant life in the existing area, taking any desirable traits they may possess. However, these traits can only then be passed onto their offspring and are unable to add it to themselves. The only known member of this class is Venivvy.
Seed-Class: The seed-class are the singular offspring of the plant-class, design as such to keep the creature’s population under control. The internal means of growth into the plant-class are protected by a durable outer shell, which has additional physical defenses by ways of crystal armors. They tend to be larger than Toa and their beginning sprouting roots are strong enough to pulverize boulders. Highly intelligent, they can choose when where they want to plant themselves and when they should be planted. After which they can access to all the traits of the base plant-class and the addition acquired traits. Only known member of this class is Khronstor.
Spore-Class: The spore-class, often referred to as the Sparnturtors by the Sainka, are similar to the offspring seed-class in design. They tend to be the first war machines built by the plant-class, based upon the blueprints for the seed-class, and are small, easily manufactured drones. Though they are easily larger than Matoran, they are not quite Toa sized. Their outer shells is fairly thin and weaker, being made of the crystal material, which is filled with fluids and attempts to protect the little seeds inside. Unfortunately, the gaps in their design make it easy to destroy them. A simple blast of Fire or poison in the gaps will instantly kill them. Their vines/roots can crush Matoran, but they don’t have much in the way of intelligence and can be easily outmaneuvered. Their functions are simple, scout, occasionally gather materials, and attack in swarms. Though mentally connected to their plant-class creator, they act as a hive mind, knowing the plant-class’s will and needing little direct orders. They are not considered sentient like the plant and seed-classes and if the plant-class is killed, all Sparnturtors will deactivate. However, like the seed-class, they can plant themselves and become the sapling-class.
Sapling-Class: The sapling-class are the planted versions of the spore-class. They tend to be bigger, more intelligent, and more powerful. Like the plant-class, they can grow more vines/roots and their vines are now strong enough to pulverize boulders. However, unlike the spore-class, they lose all ranged weaponry. Instead, their primary focus is to act as wireless transmitters, sending nutrients and more detailed data back to the plant-class. They can also be the growth quick starter for the plant-class, allowing the roots to instantly connect and grow out to all areas the sapling knows. Though it has lost its ability to fly, the sapling-class can uproot themselves and walk to other areas. They also gain minor manufacturing capabilities, able to repair any damaged Sparnturtors. Ones that plant themselves in the water tend to have the orange vines/roots and looks more like sea kelp.
Powers: Both the plant and seed-classes have Telepathy, able to read minds of beings and creatures, as well as speak to them. Seed and spore-classes have the ability to levitate and fly, though the Sparnturtors are much faster than seed-class, they can’t go as high up. Unique to the base plant-class, it can alter parts of itself to spew out acid or poison.
Weapons: The plant-class can use thorns and vines as weapons or manufacture defensive blades to sprout from its base. The seed and spore-class are the only ones with real weapons, having small elemental blasters built into their protective shells. Spore-class only has three of these and they fire a powerful acid, similar in potency to that of the Bohrok’s Acid Shields. The seed-class has more blasters coming from its vines, but the power depends on the traits it inherits. The only seed-class known so far is able to fire an acid-lava mix.
British Rail Class 165 'Turbo' 3 car Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) 165117 working the 2K57 10:13 (10:16 RT) Newbury- Reading Great Western Railway service train at Newbury Racecourse Station on the Reading to Taunton line in Berkshire (UK).
Note the train is wearing the now superseded First Great Western livery.
Photograph taken by and copyright of my regular photostream contributor David and is posted here with very kind permission.
It might help to appreciate this photograph more by humming the tune possibly? 90002 (Mission Impossible), in Virgin livery, entering Crewe Station on 20.7.97
West Midlands Trains class 172 DMU at Kidderminster Worcestershire, this train had terminated here earlier on going into a siding, it is returning to the station to pick up the punters for a return service, Birmingham New Street?.
September 7th, 1976
Brean, near Weston-super-Mare
On yet another hot day during the brilliant 1976 summer Class 46 46002 (formerly D139) heads a train of clay wagons south towards Taunton
Ref 58-05
EE Type 3 - Class 37 - 37115, with 'silver roof' Class 47's and a Class 31, at Liverpool Street station in the early-80s..
37115 was originally D6815, and later became 35514, and then 37609.
The loco is still in service today (2014), with DRS..
Restored from an unfocussed, grainy original..
Original slide - photographer unknown
Brand newish British Rail Class 755 3 car diesel electric Bi-Mode Multiple Unit (BMU) 755337 as operated by Greater Anglia at Ipswich Station in the County of Suffolk (UK).
The Class 755 BMU's were a direct replacement from 2019 for the ancient Class 156 'Sprinter' DMU trains that operated on rural Greater Anglia secondary lines.
755337 was built for Greater Anglia by Stadler Rail at their facility in Bussnang Switzerland as one of the Stadler 'FLIRT' (Fast Light Intercity and Regional Train) modular family of trainsets.
The Class 755 bi-mode units should not be confused with the almost identical looking Stadler Rail 'FLIRT' Class 745 Electric (only) Multiple Units which are also operated by Greater Anglia.
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Photograph taken by and copyright of my regular photostream contributor David and is posted here with very kind permission.
Class 66 056 passing between Lever Brothers and Crossfields factories and will shortly pass under Warrington Bank Quay station. Crossfields Crossing signal box in the background (now a relay box). The locomotive had earlier hauled the 01:04 Dollands Moor Sidings to Ditton Foundry Lane and having left it's train was en route to Arpley for servicing. Despite little use the line does receive periodic attention. Note the recently greased fishplates. 23rd March 2021.