For a couple of years I was secretary to the National Association of Road Transport Museums which held quarterly meetings at its members' sites. Early 86 was the turn of West Yorkshire's embryonic Transperience team. Travel was to Doncaster first.

British Rail Blue lveried class 56 , 56081 , at the Hitachi train factory in the North East of England .

37108 waits at Tulloch with the 09.50 Glasgow Queen Street to Fort William on Friday 26th October 1984. The points at the end of the loop were stuck giving the passengers a chance to go for a stroll (or a photo).

SWR Class 444 No.444032 leaves Upwey,with the 11:05 London Waterloo to Weymouth service,on a wet 9th of March 2020.

62005 is a K1 Class locomotive designed by A.H. Peppercorn, although the design is much older, being initiated by his predecessor, Edward Thompson. It was built by the North British Locomotive Co Ltd. (Works no. 26609) and entered service with British Railways in June 1949. It was the last of the K1 class in service; remaining in service until December 1967 when it was withdrawn, after which it served as an emergency boiler at the ICI North Tees Port Clarence works in early 1968 for six weeks.

In May 1969, it was acquired by a consortium of Viscount Garnock, Geoff Drury, Brian Hollingsworth and George Nissen, as a source of a spare boiler for the preserved K4 (61994 The Great Marquess) and was moved to Leeds Neville Hill depot and stored for a number of years.

The boiler was not needed for the K4, so 62005 was donated to the North Eastern Locomotive Preservation Group (NELPQ) in 1972 and was delivered to BR’s Thornaby Depot in June of that year. The locomotive was overhauled at Thornaby Depot by NELPG volunteers over a two year period and was painted in a fully lined out LNER green livery. The restored locomotive was moved to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway in May 1974 and went into traffic there the following month.

In 1975 it appeared at the S&D 150 celebrations at Shildon.

In June 1987 it began its long association with the West Highland line from Fort William to Mallaig and carried the name "Lord of the Isles" for a time.

Since then it has tended to be based on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway and has regularly performed on the West Highland Railway in the summer.

The Illinua-class battleships were the most advanced of their kind in the Vinnish navy around the turn of the century. They were some of the first to feature the new turret design, and had formidable armor and armament. They had a main battery of four 13in guns, a secondary battery of eight 7in guns, and then sixteen 6in guns and eight 4in guns. They were not without their problems, of course: with 16.5 inches of armor and such a large array of weapons, the ship was very heavy for her small frame, and tended to sag a bit lower than intended. The extra weight also caused some steering issues, and limited her to having only a few torpedo tubes. A bit slower than her contemporaries, the Illinuas nevertheless became known as some of the most reliable and effective ships of their time, some of these vessels would serve an extraordinarily long time, being modernized in the dreadnought era and then again in the 1930's to serve as training and bombardment ships.

PERKS & QUIRKS:

Battleship

Primary Guns: 13in (+1)

Secondary Guns: 7in (+1)

Torpedo Tubes: 4 (-1)

Armor: 16" (+2)

Speed: 17kn (-1)

Range: 6,000 (+0)

HEALTHY: (-1)

Ponderous (-1)

Ram: (+0)

Occasionally a stranger would end up working the Exeter Paignton locals and get locked into the diagram for a week or two until its home depot kicked up enough and found a way of getting it home.

This happened to 31405, she only stayed around for a few days but with its distinctive white stripe this Finsbury Park celebrity was quite popular. I managed this shot of her working the 1608 Exeter to Paignton.

W247

Auto / Moto / Van : 97° European Motor Show Brussels

Autosalon Brussel

Salon de l'Auto Bruxelles

Brussels - Belgium

January 2019

GBRF Class 66 No.66715 passes Fairwood,with the 09:00 Crediton to Westbury Down TC working,on the 2nd of September 2021.

Train 390 making its way north between Te Awamutu and Ngaroto, hauled by a pair of International Orange- liveried Brush Class 30/EF locomotives. The lead loco is the pioneer EF and its 30year-old paintwork is now somewhat faded.

Of the 22 locomotives deliverd for the NIMT electrification scheme, 17 remain in service with Kiwi Rail. However a recent announcement that electric traction is to be withdrawn over the next 2 years to be replaced by diesel locomotives, will see the numbers of serviceable EFs dwindle.

Brush Class 57/3 2,500 hp Co-Co No.57 312 The Hood (ex-47 330; 47 390; 47 330; D1811) (ex-Amlwch Freighter) of Virgin on hire to FGW approaching Bristol Temple Meads on a Taunton-Cardiff service 4/10.

47659 at Inverness 19/10/87 1B36 1700 Inverness - Edinburgh

あけましておめでとう号

Class 930 Unit 003 Class 455/8 5808, Selhurst T&RSMD, 09/04/1988

On a working from Warrington that took Cement to Kirkham in Conjunction with building the Motorway into Nalackpool on this occasion back in 86 I think just one Wagon

Class 24s on the scrap line at Glasgow Works in 1976

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Gave my first class on Thursday and Friday. Cindi came up on the train to learn the "Way of Rocks". And Suzie had an idea of a glass on glass she wanted to do. So the Party was on!~!!!

We had a lot of fun. Hope they felt like they learned something!~!!!!

We first went rock shopping at the local hard-scape lot. She just had to have that little rock.

I also had Cindi bring something to grout. So on Friday we did an Epoxy Grouting session.

802016 + 802017 1C74 0904 Paddington to Plymouth

Class of 1978.

27-3-99 South Milford

144004 on 11:13 York - Chesterfield

BR dmu Class 101 Metro-Cammell 51210, Wensleydale Railway on a very wet summers day, Saturday 06 August 2011.

Photograph copyright: Ian 10B.

Hyundai Aero Express Hi-Class

with safety bar

An unidentified Class 222 unit departs Derby working a service to St Pancras International

20045/20169 at Wigan Springs Branch Depot.

47476 collects mail at Sheffield with a northbound van train

9 May 1998

Oban buffer stops with 37 111 on the left having arrived with the 1220 ex-Glasgow and 37 085 on the right (complete with headlight), parked up.

This set of coaches were repainted and tarted up special like for the Manchester Pullman. Here we see the set departing Crewe bound for Manchester behind a Class 86.

The stock included carriage numbers 583, 506, 553, 503, 549, 586.

Brand newish Class 720 'Aventra' 5 car 25kV EMU (Electric Multiple Unit) 720522 working the 2F45 13:35 (14:03 RT) Greater Anglia Colchester Town- London Liverpool Street service train at speed southbound at Hatfield Peverel Station on the Great Eastern Main Line in the County of Essex (UK).

www.flickr.com/photos/stuart166axe/tags/class720/

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_720

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.

A 56301 class "Skyliner", at the head of a World Steam special, near Irmak. June 1988.

Class 323 Northern

Class 121 DMU 55022, Old Oak Common HSTD, 28/05/1988

Class 116 DMU, C392 seen at Cardiff Central with a service for Barry Island on March 9th 1988.

Me peeping out of Class 40 (345) at East Lancs Railway, Bury, on a CFPS working day

Abellio ScotRail Class 380, 380004 at Cumbernauld railway station working 3T01 Shields TMD - Dunblane on the 28th of November 2018

This is the first electric train to go to Stirling for test runs between Dunblane and Alloa in time for the timetable change where electric trains are due to replace the diesel services

My first grade class. Belding in Chicago IL. . I'm the second from the right in the blue dress, sitting row.

Preserved Class 20 20227 at Midland Railway Centre Swanwick. The locomotive was built by English Electric at its Vulcan Foundry and entered service in February 1968 as D8327.