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BR(SR) Class HB (later Class 74), 2550hp 750v dc 3rd rail & 650 hp diesel electric Bo-Bo No.74 002 (ex-No.E6102) in BR Rail Blue livery at Waterloo, 06/74. Scanned slide taken with a Kowa SET.
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An unidentified BR (Derby) Class 127 4-car suburban dmu consisting of Class 127 & 186 in Rail Blue with all-yellow front ends leaving St Pancras on a Bedford service on a very wet day in August, 1982. These dmu's should have been replaced by then new Class 316 emu's by that time but an industrial dispute over 1-man operation delayed their introduction. Scanned photograph taken with a Canon AE-1 Program.
Class 508 508138 was stood in platform 2 at the small terminus at the seaside resort of New Brighton, awaiting departure with the 13.08 New Brighton to New Brighton Wirral Line service (2N36) on January 7th 2023. 508138 would travel 14.79 miles in the course of its 48 minute journey which included running under Liverpool city centre on the single track clockwise Wirral Line 'Loop'.
Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company, Class 104, M53425 & M53476 at Sheffield on the 3rd of June 1987
Northern Class 158 No.158758 passes Hest Bank,with the 13:29 Leeds to Morecambe service,on the 12th of March 2023.
Class 47 47804 pulls away from Wickford with the 1Z24 0737 Southend Victoria to Poole "Cathedrals Express" Rail Tour.
This train was running 12 minutes late as the driver did not appear to be happy with something around one of the buffers at the front of the locomotive during a scheduled stop at the station.
This train arrived at Poole approximately 24 minutes later than planned at 15:10 rather than the scheduled 14:46.
English Electric Type 3 Class 37 Co-Co diesel locomotive 37405 as operated by Direct Rail Services pushing the DRS Abellio Greater Anglia Great Yarmouth- Norwich drags short set back into the dock at Norwich Station at the end of the Great Eastern Main Line in Norfolk (UK).
37405 was built at the English Electric Vulcan Foundry Newton le Willows and entered service as D6982 on May 13th 1965.
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Note Carrow Road stadium, home of Norwich City football club in the background.
Photograph courtesy, copyright and taken by my regular photostream contributor David and is posted here with very kind permission.
This electric unit was one of the class 504's which was built for the Manchester Bury line. it was taken out of use when the line was converted for tram use and stored here ever since, its a shame to see it rotting away
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022
Swayfield, Lincs
Class 57 57310 Pride of Cumbria heads south towards Peterborough with a Worksop to Ely stock movement consisting 465243
Class 47 47187 still in 2 tone green on a London express, Chester station.
Bit of an economy job on the renumbering.
3rd Aug 1974
Class 33 33027 Earl Mountbatten of Burma manoeuvres at Woking station back in the day when these machines were in everyday use there.
The building behind is the Post Office built in about 1961, but demolished in November 2012. It closed to the general public on 14th May 2008.
The loco was cut up at Eastleigh in 1992.
Woking, Surrey
29th July 1988
Pentax MX, Kodachrome
19880729 IMG_0016 32311 33027 clean std
Preserved English Electric Type 1 'Chopper' Class 20 Bo-Bo diesel locomotive 20189 at Thuxton Station on the Mid Norfolk Railway in Norfolk (UK).
20189 was built at the English Electric Vulcan Foundry Newton le Willows as British Railways Type 1 D8189 in 1967.
The English Electric Type 1 Class 20 locomotives were first introduced onto British Railways in 1957.
20189 was guest locomotive at the MNR courtesy of Michael Owen and the Class 20 Locomotive Society.
Class 503 EMU 28680 at New Brighton.
Class 503s were replaced by class 508s. They started being withdrawn in June 1984 and the final run in service was 2 weeks after these pictures were taken.
This trip was before I was recording trains however the moves were as follows;
13/03/85
47618 Oxford-Birmingham
86248 Birmingham-Stafford
14/03/85
86239 Stafford-Manchester Piccadilly (sleepers)
54275 Manchester Piccadilly-Hunts Cross
508135 Hunts Cross-Kirkby
52056 Kirkby-Bolton
53494 Bolton-Blackburn
53433 Blackburn-Colne
53482 Colne-Preston
52044 Preston-Liverpool Lime Street via St Helens Shaw Street
508134 Liverpool Lime Street LL - Hamilton Square
508108 Hamilton Square-West Kirby - Birkenhead North
508107 Birkenhead North-New Brighton-James Street
??? James Street-Hamilton Square
508107 Hamilton Square-Rock Ferry
508131 Rock Ferry-Liverpool Lime Street Low Level
51852 Liverpool Lime Street-Hunts Cross
507011 Hunts Cross-Moorfields
28394 Moorfields-James Street
29836 James Street-Birkenhead North
29141 Birkenhead North-New Brighton
??? New Brighton-Hamilton Square
508105 Hamilton Square-Liverpool Lime Street Low Level
86243 Liverpool Lime Street -Stafford
86251 Stafford-Birmingham New Street
50004 Birmingham New Street-Oxford
Abellio ScotRail Class 156, 156499 departing Arisaig railway station on the West Highland Line working 1Y48 Mallaig - Crianlarich & Glasgow Queen Street, 2nd April 2017.
Video with various 156's on the WHL from this day - youtu.be/vzVlj__E80c