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In some ways this doesn't feel so long ago, but the fact that I could photograph two Class 31s on separate Network Rail test trains with the cooling towers of Didcot Power Station in the background does rather date the image...
Locomotive: British Rail Class 31/1 31106.
Location: Didcot station, Oxfordshire.
Didcot Railway Centre - Timeline Event with 2999 Lady of Legend and others - 29 August 2020 (DSC 1653)
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Cooling towers at Didcot power stations. At the time this comprised a 2000Mw Coal/Gas fired station at Didcot A and 1360Mw Combined Cycle Gas Turbine station at Didcot B.
Back in September and evening shoot at Didcot, mainly using 4953 Pitchford Hall. Click on the link to see more from the evening.
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Plane spotting at Didcot Railway Centre. 19th October 2021. ore at davebowles.smugmug.com/Railways/Miscellaneous-Railway/Didcot
A view from inside the Great Western Society shed at Didcot on 25th October 2008 with left to right, 4575 Class 2-6-2T No. 5572, 1361 Class 0-6-0ST No. 1363 and 5700 Class 0-6-0PT No. 3738.
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Didcot in 1982 looked VERY different to today, or even to just before the wires went up. No huge car park. no footbridge to access it, no maintenance shed and the yard was yet to see the upturn in traffic that occurred later in the 80s when it became a hub for domestic coal and MoD services. Its main occupants at the time were, as here, engineers wagons, MGR rakes, and storage for withdrawn SR EMUs
50 004 St Vincent approaches the station with 1A39, the 10:05 Oxford - Paddington
Aldermaston Coach Lines Scania OmniDekka W22 ACL made a guest appearance on Oxford to Didcot rail replacement work on 17th May, 2023 with myself at the helm. It was new to Nottingham City Transport as YN06 TGX.
Another great night at Didcot. This is a small sample, all hand held, many more to be seen at -
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2015 Spring Gala at Didcot Railway Centre. Pannier Tank 3650 shunts up and down the yard, seen here in front of the coaling tower.
08604 stands outside the shed at Didcot with an engineering train. This locomotive used to be one of Tyseley's pet shunters back in the 1980s: www.flickr.com/photos/treflyn/2707764214
Locomotive: British Rail Class 08 0-6-0 diesel-electric shunter 08604 "Phantom".
Location: The Great Western Society's Didcot Railway Centre, Oxfordshire.
With the power station working hard in the background, Railfreight coal liveried 37274 stands in the loco holding sidings at Didcot on 20th June 1991.
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Stabled 'on shed' during one of the GWS's infrequent Diesel Days is this Hydraulic Duo - D1010 'Western Campaigner (masquerading as D1035 'Western Yeoman') and Hymek D7018.
Sadly neither locos were in operating condition at the time.
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Didcot north ; 60075 heads north back to the Midlands with coal empties after a delivery to the Power Station, 20.03.93.
Another great night at Didcot. This is a small sample, all hand held, many more to be seen at -
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Recently repainted into EW&S livery, 58048 stands alone in the loco holding sidings at Didcot in August 1996.
GWR Saint No. 2999 'Lady of Legend' double heads with BR (WR) Modified Hall No. 7903 'Foremarke Hall'.
Didcot Power Station in the background and Class 1x08 3x37s 1x47 and 2x60s stabled for the weekend with further examples at Didcot Station on the 22nd May 1994.
All locos noted as follows: 08523 37012/065/162/264/372/892 47231/354/778 60009/10/71/72. Total 14.
50 001 Dreadnought works north out of Didcot with ECS after arriving with an evening terminating commuter service
97302 makes a rare daylight sighting stabled at Didcot with a night time Test train. I can only assume that this was standing in for an unavailable DRS 37
Clearly 37.037 hadn't been started for some time,more than likely not since before the Xmas break,on this cold and frosty morning as can be seen by the clouds of white exhaust.
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A Paddington - Bristol HST (in Inter-City swallow livery) is about to depart from Didcot in July 1988. A Class 50 can be seen approaching the station in the distance - with what looks like Network SouthEast stock.
Fashion and car design help to date the image!
Copied from one of my Fujichrome colour slides.