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25th September 2020. Class 14 "Teddy Bear" coming off shed to work the 11:40 Bridgnorth to Kidderminster Town during a running day featuring this loco and D821 "Greyhound".
My first Flickr upload and the start of my entry to this years Octrainber.
When I first heard the subject for this years competition one loco immediately sprung to mind, the Class 08. I had this on my list of locos to design but had prioritised the Faster locomotives of the East Coast Mainline.
I have fond memories of running an OO Gauge Class 08 in British Rail blue around my bedroom as a kid and often saw one at my local train station (Ipswich).
The model is using ML (#8) wheels and is powered by a medium PU motor reduced 12:20 to give it prototypical running speed and PU battery box. Building the Class 08 in Dark Blue presented it difficulties, especially with the lack of plates/tiles with clips, but I think it has come out well.
20/06/15 Llangollen, Llangollen Railway DMU Gala: Class 104 50454 & 50528 glisten in a rare moment of sunshine.
First Class waiting room in RailRoad station. #Spoorwegmuseum #Utrecht.
Shot with Nokia Lumia 930 with PureView Zeiss Lens. Edit in PerfectEffects 9.0.
In September 1976 Class 40, 40044 ran away whilst working the 7Z20 stone train from Peak Forest to Whitemoor Yard. The train was derailed and the following 12 loaded wagons ploughed into the rear cab. it was thought the locomotive might have to be cut up on site but it was later removed to Crewe Works, in a surprise move the locomotive was repaired, not emerging until March 1980. It continued in traffic until January 1985. The accident occured at Chinley and was photographed shortly after being rerailed.
Class 37 - D6700
Seen passing Northside Lane ( Foot Crossing )
With a service from Alton to Alresford
during The Mid Hants Diesel Gala
20/10/2017
I can't believe it was just over forty years ago when I was working at Waterloo, and took a lunchtime trip to Clapham Junction to travel on one of the brand new British Rail class 455 units in the then standard blue and grey livery.
Now in the twilight of their years, South Western Railway unit 455 568 has emerged in a retro version of that livery, albeit with full grey doors to meet modern requirements.
Here the latest 'celebrity' unit sits at the buffers in platform 3 at Waterloo, having arrived with the 05.25 service from Guildford via Epsom. Internally the unit is the same as all other 455s, but the external colours provide a blast back to the 1980s when I first saw these units enter public service on the former Central and South Western Divisions of the old Southern Region.
This Scotrail train from Glasgow Central on route to Ayr photographed travelling at high speed passed the Irvine Bogside.
The Class 380 Desiro is a type of electric multiple-unit train that operates on the national railway network in Scotland.
The Siemens "Desiro UK" family also includes units of 185, 350, 360, 444 and 450.
The trains operate Abellio ScotRail services in the Ayrshire and Inverclyde region of Scotland and had originally been intended for the cancelled Glasgow Airport Rail Link. The construction was awarded to Siemens and announced by Transport Scotland on 11 July 2008.
A total of 38 sets were ordered, comprising 22 three-car and 16 four-car units. Stations along the Ayrshire Coast Line and Inverclyde Line underwent platform extension works to allow the use of the longer trains. The trains were specified to have full access for disabled people and to have streamlined end corridor connections. On the unveiling of the first completed vehicle, it was announced that the fleet would be divided into two sub-groups, with the 3-car units Class 380/0 and the 4-car as Class 380/1.
In September 2010, commissioning of the fleet was suspended by ScotRail due to technical issues with the trains. The reliability issues and extended commissioning period resulted in an initially reduced service on parts of the ScotRail network, including the newly re-opened Airdrie-Bathgate line.
The fleet is based at Glasgow Shields Road TMD. Introduction of the fleet resulted in the cascading of the Class 334 "Juniper" and Class 318 fleet which previously operated the Ayrshire Coast Line and Inverclyde Line. The North Berwick Line operations was a Class 322 fleet replacement. The Class 334 "Juniper" stock were cascaded onto the North Clyde Line to Edinburgh Waverley, the Class 318s were cascaded onto the Argyle Line, and Class 322 cascaded onto the Wakefield Line with Northern Rail.
The fleet was introduced into public service on 8 December 2010 with 380111 operated the 16:26 from Paisley Gilmour Street to Ayr, followed on 9 December 2010 by 380102 and 380001 which worked the 15:30 Glasgow Central to Ayr service.
The North Berwick Line has been using these trains since 2011.
From 21 November 2012, the Class 380 are also seen operating the Paisley Canal Line. Electrification of the section of line from Corkerhill to Paisley Canal, to a plan devised by a ScotRail and Network Rail alliance, began in July 2012 and was completed in November 2012. The electrification works were undertaken during night time and weekend possessions, resulting in the route closing after 8pm on Monday to Thursday evenings, all day on Saturdays, and for an eight-day period in October, with work starting on 29 September 2012 and intending to be completed by 8 November 2012. Class 314 and Class 380 "Desiro" electric multiple units supplemented the existing Class 156 "Super Sprinter" diesel multiple units from energisation of the wires in November 2012. From the timetable change in December 2012, the Class 156 "Super Sprinter" were moved to other routes.
Following the December 2014 timetable change, with the electrification of the Whifflet Line, services to Lanark were re-routed into Glasgow Central High Level. Alongside the usual Class 318's and Class 320's, the Class 380s have often been used on the route.
Class 380s were due to operate some services on the newly electrified line between Glasgow Queen Street and Edinburgh Waverley via Falkirk, but this has yet to commence amid suggestions that the electrification of the line was running 6 months late.
Building instructions available freely here. I strongly advise to have a look at it before doing anything.
Credits inside the building instructions. Enjoy!
A hybrid DMU set slows for Burscough Bridge station with a Southport_Manchester Piccadilly service on Sat 29th June 1985
The leading unit is a Class 104..
DB Cargo Class 66 No. 66012 passing through Leicester station en route from Elstow Redland Siding to Mountsorrel Sidings in the rain on 12 November 2025.
Brush Traction Class 31 31466 at Highley on the Severn Valley Railway in immaculate English Welsh & Scottish Railway colours, normally based on the Dean Forest Railway Gloucestershire and has been hired in to cover for class 33 33108, the 31 arriving on the SVR in July 2021. 31466 entered BR service in 1959 and withdrawn in 2001, has been in the possession of the DFR since 2007.
Class 47 47290 in freshly applied Railfreight distribution livery looks superb in the summer sun at Crewe Basford Hall open day.
Scanned from an original photograph.
47547 charges off the dive-under at Heaton Lodge Junction with 1E08 08:17 Holyhead to Newcaste. 9/5/87.
60100 adds a splash of colour to the landscape as it passes Purton working
6B13 05:00 Robeston Sidings to Westerleigh Murco.
The most decrepit classroom at the school: Water percolates down through the roof and upper floors and a little garden grows in here. It's the only place the roof still leaks, though. The roof was a high-priority fix early on, so I don't know why they've let the leak continue here.
Class 31s were uncommon power for intermodal trains at this time.
Scanned from a Kodachrome 64 transparency.
"All other ships, head for that opening."
I have not actually seen Wrath of Khan (blasphemy, I know) so this model is based on the Miranda Class refits in DS9. Like always, to the same scale as the Enterprise set (and now to the Defiant as well).
I saw somewhere that the 1x1 plate with handle was released in light bley in a limited edition Jurassic World set. Can anyone confirm?
News Zealand Railways DC class locos 4029/4726 are stabled with a ballast train at National Park Station during May 1986.
Built for the NZR by GM as the DA class (G12) between 1961-1968, most were rebuilt as the DC class (G22AR) by Clyde Engineering at Rosewater , South Australia in the late 70s/early 80s. Still carrying its original rebuild number 1553 on the nose, 4029 would have been one of the earliest rebuilds. It was originally DA1533.
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