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DBS Class 66 shed 66069 (in EWS livery) trundles out of the mist from Chelmsford low level yard up onto the down line and into Chelmsford railway station with the weekday 6M53 to Mountsorrel Quarry return service with empty LaFarge self discharge aggregate wagons. You can just see platform 2 in the left corner and just beyond the other end of the station the train will rejoin the up line.
Super depth of field capture by fellow enthusiast Dave and is posted here with kind permission
Not everyone is there yet - there aren't too many kids in the class - her teachers name is Mrs Young
Class 90 Electric Locomotive, 90004 ex Norwich leaves Chelmsford Railway Station departing for London Liverpool Street.
Please excuse wind noise.. this is on top of a viaduct and it was a very windy day!
Siemens/CAF Class 332 "Desiro" 25k v ac overhead 4-car emu No.332 013 of Heathrow Express in Tata Communications livery speeding through Southall on a Paddington - Heathrow Airport service, 16 November 2017.
English Electric Type 4 Class 40 diesel electric locomotive 40118 (British Railways D318) at Tyseley Locomotive Works in the West Midlands (UK).
40118 was built at the Hawthorn Works Darlington in 1961 as D318 and was withdrawn from traffic on February 26th 1986
40118 has been at Tyseley since November 1st 1988 and has not moved under her own power since.
Photography courtesy of my regular photostream contributor David on his travels and is posted here with very kind permission.
Class 37 No. 37372 (ex D6859/37159),undergoing a transformation,to emerge as a Class 23 "Baby Deltic". Barrow Hill roundhouse 31.5.14.
This is the Bachmann 2 car class 416 on the ELMRC Newcastleton layout.
This EMU is a long way from home and running on air since no 3rd rail.
DB Class 143.0 (ex-DR Class 243) LEW 15k v ac 4,985 hp Bo-Bo No.143 598 at Nurnberg Hbf on a push-pull service, 8 May 2016. In 1984-90 LEW built 973 of what was concieved as the standard East German freight loco (a version of the passenger Class 212 prototype of 1982) but was then adapted to mixed traffic duties. The last electric loco to be designed and mass produced in east Germany and highly successful. So good did they prove that after unification DB have used them a lot on push-pull local and DB Regio regional passenger services, allowing a lot of old DB locos to be withdrawn. But are now themselves being displaced by younger DB classes as more ICE trains come on stream.
DRG 750mm gauge Class 99.73 2-10-2T DR No.99 1761-8 (ex-DRG No.93.761) of the Lossnitzgrundbahn at Radebeul Ost yard, 6 October 2021.
The DRG built 32 Class 99.73’s in 1928-33 for the Saxon 750 mm gauge lines. After WWII ended, 10 were seized by Russia. The remainder were in East Germany and the DR did not start withdrawing them until the late 1960’s but it was decided to retain 10 of them and rebuild them with new all-welded boilers and most of these still remain in service.
In 1952, uranium was discovered in the Erzgebirge (Ore) Mountains served by narrow gauge lines so the DR built 24 more 2-10-2T’s in 1952-56 classed as 99.77 closely based on the 99.73’s but with larger fireboxes (to burn brown coal), all-welded boilers, plate frames instead of bar frames, larger tanks and bunkers and various detail differences. However, by the late 1980’s the locos were suffering from cracked frames and worn-out boilers so withdrawals began. DR intended to replace them by diesels by 1995 but German re-unification resulted in the DBAG replacing both the frames and the boilers on 14 locos in 1991-92 for further service.
Another colour variation of the stunning Welly Mercedes-Benz G-Class. This vehicle was once almost as utilitarian as our own Defender but over the years has become an uber expensive machine so its quite surprising that a lot of toy makers don't make their own licensed versions though of course our Chinese friends have no qualms about making their own knock off versions! Welly have yet again produced a top notch pocket money 1/64 model with some seriously good detailing and a super accurate casting which looks particularly macho in this black finish. This was one of many Welly models I bought back in 2015 from a Bulgarian Ebayer. Mint and boxed.
Freightliner 70015 passes through Leamington Spa with 4M55 the 08.32 Southampton to Lawley Street on Wednesday 13 November 2024.
Class 360 EMU 360117 waits for pasengers at Chelmsford Railway Station before leaving for London Liverpool Street.
A full house of class 313s in the three road cattle shed at Kings Cross on the afternoon of 11 September 2010. Class 313s work FCC inner suburban services into and out of Kings Cross at weekends but it is unusual to see three pairs together in platforms 9-11. On this occasion all "inners" were pairs because Arsenal were playing at home, plus a few cancellations resulted in some sets laying over at Kings Cross between duties.
British Rail Class 158 'Express Sprinter' Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) 158788 waiting to depart with the 1R86 11:57 (11:57 RT) East Midlands Trains service train and the 5½ odd hour cross country trek to Liverpool Lime Street at Norwich Station in Norfolk (UK).
A Knox College student in painting class outside CFA holds plastic sheeting in the wind, before placing on the ground under her easel.
Many Class 45's were dumped at March depot in Cambridgeshire after they were withdrawn.45112's number can just be seen.
DBS Class 66 shed 66083 (still in EWS livery) trundles up the down line through Chelmsford railway station with the weekday 6M53 Chelmsford low level yard to Mountsorrel Quarry return service with empty LaFarge self discharge aggregate wagons. Just beyond the other end of the station the train will rejoin the up line.
Super capture by fellow enthusiast Dave and is posted here with kind permission.
Class 323-323211 of London Midland Railways bound for BIrmingham, passes through Smethwick Galton Bridge station.
Class 158 'Express Sprinter' Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) 158854 on platform 1 at Norwich Station in Norfolk (UK) waiting to depart with the 17:54 East Midlands Trains service to Nottingham.
Note the tail lamp and destination matrix have yet to be switched over. This task is usually carried out the moment the train arrives from its previous diagram.
Brand newish British Rail Class 720 'Aventra' 5 car 25kV
EMU (Electric Multiple Unit) 720550 as operated by Greater Anglia at Ipswich Station on the Great Eastern Main Line in the County of Suffolk (UK).
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Photograph taken by and copyright of my regular photostream contributor David and is posted here with very kind permission.
British Rail Class 170 'Turbostar' 3 car Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) 170470 as operated by ScotRail at North Queensferry Station in Scotland (UK).
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Photograph taken by and copyright of my regular photostream contributor David and is posted here with very kind permission.
Class 350 Desiro unit 350125 in a grey and blue livery, slows for its Stafford stop with a Crewe to London Euston train.
An unidentified BREL built 5 WES class 442 speeds through Byflet & New Haw with a Bournemouth bound service on 20th October 2006 not long before these units were withdrawn from service by South West Trains. After a few years operating the Gatwick Express service from Victoria, the class are on the verge of returning to their old stomping ground out of Waterloo where they will operate services to Portsmouth.
Class 156 'Super Sprinter' 2 car Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) 156479 as operated by Northern Rail with a Saltburn bound service train at Darlington Station in County Durham (UK).
Darlington Station is a Grade II* listed building which opened on July 1st 1887 but of course there has been a railway in the town since 1825.