Class leader EXO 1340 leads a deadhead move past the Peel Basin.

Building instructions available freely here. I strongly advise to have a look at it before doing anything.

Credits inside the building instructions. Enjoy!

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Colas Rail English Electric Class 37 diesel locomotive with an engineering train at Ely station.

Built in 1963 and still going strong.

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Royal Navy Astute Class Submarine, HMS Audacious sailing on the Clyde.

30-5-97 Burton upon Trent

37219 on Derby Litchurch lane - Didcot refurbished underground stock

Pressed Steel class 117 DMU arriving at Winchcombe.

A class 143 sits in Pontypridd station with the 12:47 Treherbert to Cardiff Central (2F40) service on a snowy day back in February 2019..

A Class 135 fire truck I designed over the holidays. Pictures of the model to follow when the final pieces arrive.

Class 141 unit 141011 arrives Castleford with the 1400 Leeds to Knottingley service on a dull 12th July 1984.

Mark my words, one day these units will achieve the legendary status their service warrants.

Or perhaps not...

Freightliner-operated Class 70 No. 70010 thunders through Oxford with an intermodal freight working from Crewe Bas Hall S.S.M. to Southampton Maritime Container Terminal as Great Western Railway Class 165/1 Network Turbo No. 165130 pauses at Platform 4 on 13th November 2018.

Thanks for your visit… Any comment you make on my photograph is greatly appreciated and encouraging! But please do not use this image without permission.

British Rail Class 20 locomotive No. 20189 (originally English Electric Type 1 No. D8189) at Kidderminster station during Severn Valley Railway’s spring diesel festival on 14 May 2026. Built at the Vulcan Foundry, Newton-le-Willows, in 1967, the loco was designed for mixed freight traffic, and is now a celebrated fixture of heritage galas.

Colas 70810, 56090 and 70815 are photographed passing Cartland working the delayed 6S36 Dalston Oil Terminal to Grangemouth Ineos tanks, 1/2/20.

(C)Stewart Atkinson Photography

47406 works a short class D freight train away from Quorn at the Great Central Railway on a cold 26th January 2013.

I always liked the look of these Swindon built Class 123 DMUs, although this is the only picture I ever took of one, seen departing Doncaster on a Hull to Manchester service in February 1984. On their last legs at this time, they were withdrawn a few months later.

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9-5-95 Stapleford & Sandiacre

37185 reverses a loaded ballast train into Sandiacre ballast sidings

A wet & dismal day at Crianlarich Station - with a class 37 waiting to depart north. 17/8/81.

DS 238, Wainwright

The S100 is a side tank designed by Col. Howard G. Hill.

In 1942, the USATC ordered 382 S100s from Davenport Locomotive Works of Iowa, H. K. Porter, Inc, of Pittsburgh and Vulcan Iron Works of Wilkes-Barre. They were shipped to the British War Department in 1943. They were stored in Britain until 1944. After D-Day, most went overseas but some remained in store.

After the war, The Southern Railway bought 15 S100's (14 for operational use and one for spare parts) and designated them USA Class. They were purchased and adapted to replace the LSWR B4 class then working in Southampton Docks. SR staff nicknamed them "Yank Tanks".

For fifteen years the entire class was used for shunting and carriage and van heating in Southampton Docks. They performed well and were popular with the footplatemen, but the limited bunker capacity often necessitated the provision of relief engines for some of the longer duties. Two examples were fitted with extended bunkers to address this problem in 1959 and 1960, but a more ambitious plan to extend the frames and build larger bunkers was abandoned in 1960 due to the imminent dieselization of the docks. They also often suffered from overheated axleboxes which was less of a problem when shunting but prevented them from being used on longer journeys.

A more serious issue was the condition of the steel fireboxes originally fitted to the class which rusted and fatigued quickly. This was partly due to their construction under conditions of austerity, and the hard water present in the docks. This came to a head in 1951 when several had to be laid aside until new fireboxes could be constructed. Thereafter there were no further problems.

During the mid 1960s six examples were officially transferred to ‘departmental’ duties and renumbered. These went to Redbridge Sleeper Depot (DS233), Meldon Quarry (DS234), Lancing Carriage Works (DS235 and DS236), and Ashford wagon works (DS237 and DS238; where they were named Maunsell and Wainwright).

Nine examples remained in service until March 1967[24] and five of these survived until the end of steam on the Southern Region four months later. Two of these engines, 30065/DS237 and 30070/DS238, were sold to Woodham Brothers in South Wales in March 1968. However, before they could make their journey, their bearings ran hot and were declared "unfit for travel" which led to the two tank engines being dumped at Tonbridge. Five months later, they were taken to Rolvenden when they were purchased for preservation on the Kent and East Sussex Railway.

At the moment, both locomotives are o.o.s. with no date known for return to traffic, ironically, it is the condition of their fireboxes which gives concern.

Information above chiefly from Wikipedia. Photograph from a slide by Ray Gell.

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~Little Bogie Kenner Blythe only appeared nervous, as she took her place in line at the assembly ... knowing she would not be chosen for the Homecoming Queen, or even the Court that year.

She knew she stood out from the cookie-cutter-cut-out crowd, and in fact, she had even heard grapevine rumblings that some considered her ... well ... a bit

"unusual" ...

But she also knew, as sure as a girl with a large head, four sets of eyes, and a pull-ring adorning the back of her head ... that deep down she was way before her time.

All she had to do was keep being herself, resist all temptation to become a "Barbie" ... and that no matter how many years may transpire ...

she really needed to WAIT ... to TRUST in the ultimate wisdom and timing of the Universe to be JUST RIGHT ... and it would be her turn to SHINE !!

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Blythe-A-Day flickr group

JANUARY 2016

DAY 15: "SHE'S SO UNUSUAL"

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Class 20 l Crewe to Sizewell flasks at Woodbridge Suffolk 30-10-2003 (any body with the numbers would be appreciated)

Adwick junction

Waiting for a northbound Azuma to pass to drop in behind as booked, 6D79 0835 Lindsey oil Refinery-Neville Hill basks in some beautiful morning sunshine.

6-8-98 Burton upon Trent

47053 on 6M83 Doncaster - Bescot 'connectrail' service.

Comprising 'carless' tanks & a new intermodal flat being carried on the back of another flat

I took this pictures with Julita a couple of weeks ago. I love the idea and the details

Class 506 EMU on a Glossop to Manchester Piccadilly service at Guide Bridge on 19-11-1981.

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Ryde St. Johns circa 1989

Merseyrail British Rail three car 3rd rail EMU Class 508 no.508 137 and 508 114 arrives at Bank Hall station with the Hunts Cross to Hunts Cross circular for Southport. The Royal pub has obviously seen better days, but is still standing

Class 232 232201 passes Oberhausen Osterfeld Sud on a eastbound steel coil train 15/06/2011

class 90 90026 Hurries along on 1z89 london euston blackburn chairmans train at Gayton

156484 is unusually on the 11:47 turn-back service from Hebden Bridge to Leeds on the 16th April 1991. These trains were usually in the hands of 141s or 142s then.

Class 37 37403 sits on the blocks after arrival from Derby on the first leg of Wolf Hall Thunderer railtour

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LNER Class 91 91119 "Bounds Green Intercity Depot 1977-2017"

awaits to depart from Leeds Platform 8 on 1a19 0915 Leeds - London Kings Cross,photographed on 18/07/2020

As a Northern service heads away in the distance, LMS Class 7P No. 46100 Royal Scot rolls down from Copy Pit summit with 1Z41, the 'Pennine Moors Christmas Explorer' railtour, a circular from Crewe to Crewe via Blackburn and Rochdale on 7th December 2019.

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