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Basically a big FTL drive with 16x quicks attached. Basically it's a commerce raider and carrier for big fleets. I figured the quicks were a bit too small for long range FTL voyages so yeah.
Hauler Armament:
-16x Missile Tubes
-8x Heavy KEW's (mounted on 4x turrets)
Armor:
-mininmal most covering bridge and engine areas
Ship capacity:
-16x Quick-Class MissileBoats
Working the Summer Saturday 2E75 special from Plymouth to Exeter St Davids is First Great Western Class 57, 57604 'Pendennis Castle', adorned in the legendary lined Brunswick Green of the Great Western Railway, and also hauled a selection of refurbished and un-refurbished stock from the Night Riviera Sleeper.
First Great Western was the first to introduce the modified Class 57's onto regular daytime and later nighttime passenger diagrams around 2000 by re-engineering its fleet of ageing Class 47's to be fitted with more modern engines and operational systems from EMD. Freightliner was the first to order these modified locomotives in 1997, these engines being externally unmodified, although internally rebuilt with EMD 645-E3 engines.
First Great Western placed an order with Porterbrook in 2000 to convert initially one locomotive, 47825, as a prototype, this becoming 57601. This new 57 sported rebuilt light clusters and a clean front end that removed the original headcode box. The locomotive began operations with FGW in June 2001, and worked a selection of daytime expresses from London Paddington to Devon and Cornwall. Proving a huge success, the company went on to re-engineer 4 other locomotives, 47337, 47349, 47209 and 47206, which respectively became 57602 to 57605.
Daytime operations of loco-hauled stock with First Great Western ceased in September 2002, and 57601 was returned to Porterbrook and now works with charter company West Coast Railways. The first of the newly converted Class 57/6's began delivery in December 2003, operating the Night Riviera sleeper and some of the final Motorail diagrams in the UK before this ceased in Summer 2005. Today the four remaining 57/6's continue to lead a charmed life with First Great Western operating the sleeper, but in order to boost capacity on Summer Saturdays, FGW introduced a daytime diagram from Par to Exeter St Davids using a Class 57 and Day Coaches from the Night Riviera, returning to its depot in Penzance in the evening.
February 10th, 1980
Near Leeds
Heading out of Leeds near Copley Hill is Class 46 46031 (formerly D168) with a Newcastle to Liverpool express. Note the second man is waving !
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London Midland Class 172 172331 departs University station with the 12:07 1V15 Birmingham New street to Hereford service. These diagrams are usually worked by 170's. Taken at 12:07:46
The first Class 700 EMU to enter the country
Seen here after arrival at the new Three Bridges Depot at 02:37 in the morning..
Hauled by GBRf loco 66769 running as 6X66 in charge was yours truly.
The 12 car unit was separated into three sections between barrier wagons.
Here we see one of the driving cabs of the new class 700.
British Rail Class 375 'Electrostar'' 750v DC 3rd rail EMU (Electric Multiple Unit) 375804 about to work the 1H82 14:50 (14:50 RT) 'South Eastern' Hastings- London Charing Cross service train at Hastings station in East Sussex (UK).
Photograph courtesy, copyright and taken by my regular photostream contributor David and is posted here with very kind permission.
Class 45, 45068 is signal checked at Gloucester. The loco, along with the BT building behind, has long since been demolished.
58 year old English Electric Type 3 Class 37 Co-Co diesel locomotive 37716 as operated by Direct Rail Services
on a Norwich- Willesden Brent light engine movement at speed southbound at Hatfield Peverel Station on the Great Eastern Main Line in the County of Essex (UK).
37716 was built at the English Electric Vulcan Foundry Newton le Willows and entered service for British Railways as D6794 on February 27th 1963.
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My Hatfield Peverel Railway Station album flic.kr/s/aHsjD3AKYz
Photograph taken by and copyright of my regular photostream contributor David and is posted here with very kind permission.
Two new class 92's in store at Crewe Electric depot awaiting major modifications to there electrical systems before they could enter service.
Preserved English Electric Type 1 'Chopper' Class 20 Bo-Bo diesel locomotive 20205 at Thuxton Station on the Mid Norfolk Railway in Norfolk (UK).
20205 was built at the English Electric Vulcan Foundry Newton le Willows as British Railways Type 1 D8305 in 1967 and withdrawn from service on December 18th 1989.
The English Electric Type 1 Class 20 locomotives were first introduced onto British Railways in 1957.
20205 was guest locomotive at the MNR courtesy of Michael Owen and the Class 20 Locomotive Society.
British Rail Class 390 'Pendolino' 25kV Electric Multiple Unit (EMU) 390XXX heads north working the 9G10 09:03 (09:42 RT) 'Virgin Trains' London Euston- Birmingham New Street service train at speed on the West Coast Main Line (WCML) near the village of Bugbrooke in Northamptonshire (UK).
Photograph courtesy, copyright and taken by my regular photostream contributor David and is posted here with very kind permission.
SWR Class 159 No.159017 passes Talaton,with the 10:25 Exeter St Davids to London Waterloo service,on the 17th of November 2022.
October 27th, 1974
Crewe Works
Class 50 50005 (CD) stands outside the works. It was later transferrred to the WR and during 1978 named Collingwood.
Just sticking its nose out and hardly visible is Class 37 37191, unusual here at this time
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October 10th, 1986
Heaton Lodge Junction, Mirfield
Having just passed Class 37 37100 on a tanker train, Class 45 45104The Royal Warwickshire Fusilier takes the Huddersfield line at Heaton Lodge Junction, Mirfield.
Originally D59, this is an engine I saw many times over the years - at York, Toton, Mirfield, Holbeck, Raventhorpe and once at Elland, nr Halifax. Withdrawn April 1988.
This section is now single track for east-bound only. Today (2018) the Class 45 would have gone straight ahead (where the Class 37 is located) and branched left to Huddersfield soon after. This avoided trains having to cross the east-bound Calder Valley mainline
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DB Class 66 No.66106 passes Tilehurst,with the Wakefield Europort to Southampton Docks container working,on the 1st of June 2022.
All is quiet at Barrow Hill on a Sunday in August 1985 as a class 20 stands on the line to the turntable whilst another can be seen in the shed yard in the distance.
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57 year old British Rail Class 57 Co-Co diesel locomotive 57305 heads the Rail Operations Group 09:19 (12:14 74L) Clacton CSD- Gascoigne Wood Sidings (Selby, North Yorkshire) one off ECS movement at Stratford Station on the Great Eastern Main Line in East London (UK).
In tow are 33 year old redundant former Greater Anglia Class 321 4 car EMU's 321431 and 445 heading off for storage and most likely scrapping.
Note the 'dellner coupling' contraption covered up in the yellow pane recess on the cab of the locomotive. This coupling was used during 57305's duties as a Direct Rail Services Thunderbird recovery locomotive in order to couple to and/or rescue other dellner equipped broken down trains.
57305 first entered service as Brush type 4 D1758 on May 23rd 1964.
57305 was numbered 47164 in the 1970s, based at Stratford and was a regular on the GEML.
In 1977 it was one of two Stratford Class 47 loco's that received a Union Flag on the side to commemorate the Queen's silver jubilee. I can vividly remember seeing 47164 along with 47163 at Chelmsford station on London- Norwich Inter City services around this time just as I became interested in railways.
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My Class 47/57 album flic.kr/s/aHsjD3B7KV
Photograph taken by and copyright of my regular photostream contributor David and is posted here with very kind permission.
SWT Class 458 unit no. 458521 approaches Guildford with the 5P79 Wimbledon park Sidings to Fratton ECS service on 28th April 2019
British Rail Class 377 'Electrostar'' 750v DC 3rd rail EMU (Electric Multiple Unit) 377420 as operated by Southern (Railway) stabled and awaiting forthcoming weekday duties in the sidings just outside Eastbourne station in East Sussex (UK).
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WCR Class 47/7 No.47746 Chris Fudge climbs Whiteball,with the 10:09 Torquay to Saltburn excursion,on the 19th of July 2021.
Diesel 47580 'County of Essex' (didn't catch what it was hauling) powers south through Cheadle Hulme 11-4-18
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.