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No D2096, Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway.
Little lever on bracket = horn. Far left = gear selector (five available, seen in neutral). Handle under horn = loco/straight air brake (fully on). Next big lever = throttle. Next = direction lever. Nearest camera: vacuum brake (full-on/emergency position). All controls duplicated on the other side of the cab.
Five Commonwealth/Australian National Railways CL class streamliners lead a Westliner express freight service.
Built by English Electric at their Vulcan Foundry in Newton-Le-Willows, Class 50 represents the last mixed traffic diesel type to be built for British Rail and, at the end of its career was one of only three classes of diesel capable of 100mph duties.
The Railscene programme was started in 1984, three years before the first ‘Hoover’ was withdrawn (it only required an F exam!).
Four and a half years later less than ten of the original fifty fifties remained in use.
This dvd includes thirty-two of the class in action, it is compiled from the Railscene archives and is a tribute to probably the last of the ‘great’ express diesel class.
Opener: A classic view the ‘Dutch fifty’, ‘Valient’ and plain blue ‘Thunderer’, as they cross the River Tamar on the Saltash bridge with Pathfinder Railtours ‘Cornish Centurian’.
Part One: Fifty Miscellany – Variety is the spice of life.
We start with railtours: ‘Courageous’ and ‘Victorious’ on the WCML.
The ‘Fellsman II’ at Long Meg, ‘Sir Edward Elgar’ on Windsor Gala Day and an unscheduled duty for ‘Archilles’ banking ‘Drysllywn Castle’ and ‘Hagley Hall’ up Dainton Bank complete these mid-80s views.
The former DCWA celebrities are seen at Penzance (Dutch ‘Valient’ again) and double-heading at Truro and Ocean sidings.
More double-heading follows with ‘Ark Royal’ and ‘Furious’ at Par on the last official loco-hauled train from Newquay.
‘St. Vincent’, ‘Furious’, ‘Glorious’ and ‘Howe’ are seen on passenger duties at Lostwithiel, Ledbury, Aldermaston and Old Oak Common, whilst crash victim ‘Invincible’ and the first to go, ‘Centurian’ are seen looking sad.
‘Exeter’ works a passenger turn near Stoke-on-Trent in 1988 and ‘Archilles’ a freight from Parkandillack.
The unique 50149 ‘Defiance’ is seen on ‘the Heathfield’ at Cutmadoc in addition to views on a Meldon quarry trip working.
Another celebrity, ‘Ramillies’, heads the HST ‘generator set’ at Severn Tunnel Junction in 1989 and ‘Victorious’ provides rare footage at Winfrith and Wool with the track recording train.
Large logo celebrity ‘Hood’ works ECS near Romsey and ‘Lion’ is diverted via the Southampton mainline: ‘Superb’ and ‘Temeraire’ are seen in action at Southampton and Portsmouth.
Finally ‘Dauntless’ climbs the Portsmouth Direct Line at Rowlands Castle in 1989.
Part Two: Waterloo to Exeter (‘The Last Stand’).
‘Fearless’, D400, ‘Ajax’, ‘Lion’, ‘Renown’, ‘Resolution’, ‘Glorious’, ‘Tiger’, ‘Vanguard’, ‘Defiance’, ‘Dauntless’, ‘Eagle’, ‘Repulse’, ‘Exeter’, ‘Illustrious’, ‘Thunderer’, ‘Victorious’, ‘Royal Oak’, ‘Sir Edward Elgar’, ‘Leviathan’, ‘Swiftsure’, ‘Dreadnought’ and ‘Temeraire’ in action on Table 125 duties.
We start at Waterloo with 50050 on the very last newspaper train and the same loco as D400, arriving on its inaugural run.
Other locations are New Covent Garden, Clapham Junction (‘top n’ tail’ ECS), Wimbledon, Byfleet, Newhaw, Woking, Brookwood, Farnborough, Fleet, Basingstoke, Battledown, Overton, Whitchurch, Hurstbourne, Andover (50008 in large logo), Grateley, Tunnel Junction,
The Salisbury sequence (046, 043, a failed 007 and substitute 033), Wilton, Barford Street, Martin, Dinton, Tisbury, Gillingham, (‘Renown’ in freezing fog and ‘Dauntless’ doubleheading wih 47707), Buckhorn Weston, Templecombe, Milborne Port, Sherborne, Yeovil Junction – in 1986, Crewkerne, Chard Junction, Seaton Junction, (a diverted Paddington-Penzance train in 1985, ‘Ajax’ at the Summit, Honiton (HST and ‘Repulse’ pass), Whimple (1985), Exmouth Junction, Exeter Central and Exeter St. Davids.
Running time: 60 minutes approx
A class 116 DMU shut down and stabled in the downside bay platform at Leamington Spa. 9th November 1982.
PKP Class Ol49 2-6-2 No.Ol49-59 in the yard at Wolsztyn depot, 18 November 2017. The Ol49 Class were a Polish development of the Russian Class Su 116 were built (Including 4 for North Korea) in 1951-54 by Fablok of Chrzanow. The class introduced a new type of boiler-mounted smoke deflector peculiar to Poland. They had 40 sq ft grate, 5'9" driving wheels, 19.6" x 25" cylinders, 227 psi boiler pressure and weighed 82 tons.
Perfect little budget 1/64 diecast of a then current Mercedes-Benz C-Class saloon. Realtoy certainly knew how to craft their licensed castings and somehow cram them full of intricate detailing front, back and sides and then finish them in glossy and well applied paint. Definitely a golden era when their products were in abundant supply in UK big name stores and supermarkets. This one dates from sometime in the 2000's though was bought recently from Ebay, seemingly the only place to find Realtoy these days!
Mint and boxed.
British Rail Class 321 'dusty bin' 4 car Electric Multiple Unit (EMU) 321343 entering Chelmsford Station on The Great Eastern Main Line in Essex (UK) with a London Liverpool Street bound Albellio Greater Anglia service train.
My Class 321 album flic.kr/s/aHsjD3BAgK
Further West we find another unidentified Class 47, this one is waiting departure from Newquay. It is August 1981 but the steam heating is on! I was never a 'basher', one Class 47 sounded very much like another as far as I was concerned back then, but a loco-hauled trip over the Newquay branch was always highly enjoyable.
what a guy
usin the studio in photo class
i know i know its pretty plain, havent done lots of shootin lately, sorry
Class 153 DMU No. 153304 waits at Carlisle station on 29th April 2015 for its next duty on the Cumbrian Coast line.
Rails and ballast occupy some of the platform area in readiness for track replacement.
Class 306 unit no 037 is framed reasonably well by the overhead line equipment. It is at the rear of a Down GE line suburban service, probably for Gidea Park.
I think the train is approaching Chadwell Heath - but do correct me if I'm wrong. A withdrawn 306 unit languishes on the right.
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When they've tortured and scared you for twenty odd years
Then they expect you to pick a career
When you can't really function you're so full of fear
A working class hero is something to be
A class 47 in charge of a freightliner train. Judging by the nameplate position I think it is one of the batch named by the Western Region early in the brush type 4's career.
Unfortunately I have no further details for this image taken by my late father Douglas Tomes.
Brush Class 31/1 1,480 hp A1A - A1A No.31 233 (ex-No.D5660) (ex-'Severn Valley Railway'; ex-'Phillips Imperial') in Network Rail yellow livery on a Hither Green - Derby RTC maintenance train at Sandridgebury, to the north of St.Albans, 21/01/10.
GBRF Class 66 No.66715 passes Fairwood,with the 09:00 Crediton to Westbury Down TC working,on the 2nd of September 2021.
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
British Rail class 86 electric locomotive 86212 'Preston Guild 1328 - 1992' Preston. Saturday 16 May 1992
Photograph copyright: Ian 10B. Slide No.10142
33103 parked at Saltley depot. 33's were rare visitors to Birmingham at the time, but were deployed on a Saturday Lawley Street to Southampton freightliner service. 29th December 1982.
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Class 360,360120 4 car EMU ex Liverpool Street at Chelmsford Railway Station departing with the 10:42 to Clacton on Sea.
British Rail Class 156 'Super Sprinter' 2 car Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) 156402 working the terminating Greater Anglia 2J69 08:50 (09:34 RT) Greater Anglia Lowestoft- Norwich service train at Norwich Station in Norfolk (UK).