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Ex Arriva London ENL94
On loan to Stagecoach Midlands (vehicle was reported as sold to HGV Training in July/August by Ensign)
Perhaps not as good as the photo as I might have liked...
Under some patchy autumnal sunshine, Greater Anglia Class 755 bi-mode unit 755423 is seen on electric power as it passes Widdington working the 5Q53 12:48 Cambridge C.S.D. to London Liverpool Street test run 13/11/20
New Merseyrail Class 777 (005) built by Stadler Rail, is seen on a test run this evening at Formby Station working 5T77 2247 Southport to Liverpool South Parkway. Running 7 minutes late.
Taken on Samsung S20
(C) Liam Blundell 2020
Drive All Night
Bruce Springsteen
‘I swear I'll drive all night just to buy you some shoes
And to taste your tender charms
And I just wanna sleep tonight again in your arms’
New Year’s Eve sees two drivers about to board their train at York. I hope the picture serves as a little tribute to all the railway staff, and indeed other workers, who put in such long and unsociable hours, particularly at holiday times.
Many thanks to all of my Flickr friends for all of your kind and highly valued support. I always thoroughly enjoy viewing your streams, it’s great to have such wonderful lessons in photography, I’ve learned so much through Flickr.
Thank you for the friendships too, I always greatly appreciate the time people take to comment on my stream, and feel blessed to have such a lovely community of very talented people.
Wishing everyone a very Happy New Year.
68021 ‘Tireless’ awaits departure from York with 0B70, a driver training trip to Scarborough on 31st December 2018.
43055 is seen heading north through Wigan Boars Head G.F. along with 43046 "Geoff Drury 1930 - 1999" bringing up the rear working 5Z43 07:02 Crewe H.S. to Carlisle on the 10th May 2021.
Stock :- 41176, 41108, 40802, 41059, 41182, 40801, 41169, 44078.
© Andy Parkinson 2021 - No Unauthorised Use Please.
Shortly after leaving Hellifield M43046 "Geoff Drury 1930 - 1999" heads LSL's Midland Pullman liveried HST on a driver training run 12:00 Carlisle to Crewe H.S.
Copyright Stephen Willetts - No unauthorised use
And another horrid day...
As new Stadler units continue to come online across East Anglia, test runs to iron out more faults and introduce drivers to their new equipment also continue across the network.
In rather grim weather conditions, 755401 passes by Stansted Mountfitchet working 5Q06 10:50 Cambridge Recp 1&2 Dbc to Orient Way Cs, a relatively rare venture of a 755 south to London 28/02/20
Arriva Midlands Volvo B10BLE/Alexander ALX300 9501.V601DBC with Driver Under Instruction at Derby Bus Station on the 10th April 2015. (Ex 3601 (Wardles)
Volvo B7RLE with Wright Eclipse Urban body transferred to driver training duties in Sheffield South Yorkshire.
And so the trains are back...
As the coronavirus continues to cause disruption to daily life across the world, the UK railway network moves forwards in progression.
Recent months have seen Class 720 and 745 units for Greater Anglia begin testing purpose on the West Anglian lines, in preperation for their entry to service in due course.
Passing by the fields, Class 745 EMU 745002 approaches Elsenham working 5Q93 14:24 Cambridge C.S.D. to London Liverpool Street on test.
745002 is a example designated for use on the Norwich express services, different from the Stansted Express designated 745/1 sets, however in practice it is expected that sets will become mixed into either route operation 19/05/20
That cloud was hinting at rain, it never proved so...
With their entry to passenger service likely only a few months away, Greater Anglia Class 720 EMUs 720515 and 720511 race through the Essex countryside past the outskirts of Widdington working 5Q23 14:17 Cambridge C.S.D. to London Liverpool Street.
The Class 720 order for Greater Anglia breaks down into 22 seperate 10-carriage units (720/1) and 89 seperate 5-car units (720/5), designed to displace the Class 317, 321 and 379 type EMUs 14/07/20
GM27 and GM22 with a Southern Shorthaul Railroad driver training movement from Nhill and Dimboola on their way back to Dynon as they pass Corio.
SSR will shortly begin a contract with emerald grain to run grain trains in Victoria to Western Victoria (Dimboola and Nhill) also North East Victoria as well as NSW Oaklands and The Rock.
Monday 31st July 2017
Appears this spot is overgrowing itself again...
With the summer weather bringing the lineside plants back to life, Greater Anglia Class 720 EMU 720548 approaches the Twyford Road crossing to the south of Bishops Stortford starting out its working on 5G61 12:39 Bishops Stortford Up Loop to London Liverpool Street.
No date for passenger introduction of 720s to West Anglia appears to yet be set, however with the fleet of 317/7s now withdrawn from use and other 317s hitting the scrapyards at a rapid pace, their entry to service cannot be far off... 10/06/21
Travel West Midlands 4163, was an Alexander bodied Dennis Trident. It was one of many purchased by TWM from 2001 onwards. These buses came as part of TWM's on-going fleet replacement in favour of low-floor buses.
New to Wolverhampton, 4163 was transferred to Walsall garage in 2006. In 2011, it was moved further afield to Birmingham Central garage.
In June 2017, 4163 returned to Wolverhampton to see its service days out. Withdrawal came in January 2019. After a period of storage, 4163 was sold for breaking to a Barnsley based scrap merchant in July 2019.
In happier times, 4163 is pictured when new at Park Lane bus garage before entering service. The bus is standing on the garage apron being used for driver familiarisation training.
14th May 2001.
Go North West (ex Go North East) NK54NUJ 4979 seen outside Bury Interchange on driver training duties
Stagecoach Manchester (Stockport depot) SF57LUB 22521 seen on Chicago Way, Manchester Airport on driver training duties
Go North West (ex Go North East) NK54NUP 4982 seen on Corporation Street, Manchester on driver training duties
Three Dennis Dart SLF Training buses are officially allocated to Lincoln, (34459/73/74) although the other five in the East Midlands fleet are sometimes on loan when required.
The instructor is behind the wheel on this occasion passing along Skellinghthorpe Road. A friendly guy who gives a wave whenever he observes us and paused briefly to allow a static shot here, which was greatly appreciated.
No sun for this one .
68026 " Enterprise " passes Chaloners whin with 5M68 the 11.05 Scarborough to Longsight Car. M.D. driver training run 19/08/2019.
First West Yorkshire YJ05VVD 66762 seen turning onto Kirkgate, Huddersfield on Driver Training duties
Photographed south of the viaduct 47839 is seen crossing Ribblehead on a driver route training outing.
Contax 645
80mm/F2
250/F11
Fuji Astia
Rossendale Transport (Rosso) Driver Training vehicle 400 FD02SFJ at Transdev Blackburn Depot. Optare Excel L1180 new to Nottingham City Transport no: 559.
DB Cargo Class 67 No. 67005 "Queen's Messenger" passes Dinting as it works the 0Z50 09:50 Peak Forest Up Sidings to Peak Forest Up Sidings crew training run on 22nd September 2020.
Training time.
Stagecoach in Cumbria were busy training new recruits during my short visit to the area in July 2021, with a Dart spotted heading through Bowness-on-Windermere one day, and two Darts seen in Carlisle the following day. One of the Carlisle Darts, 34688, was seen soon after I had arrived in the city.
In recent months nine Enviro 300s have filtered into the Driver Training fleet of Stagecoach East Midlands. One of them, numbered 22573 has yet to receive the house standard red and white corporate colours of the training fleet
Gleaming in the sunshine is one of the current regular Lincoln based vehicles which has seen the demise of the once stalwart Darts in this capacity.
Working its first mainline train, 37025 "Inverness TMD" (owned by "The Scottish Thirty-Seven Group") passes Miskin with 6B11 13:08 Barry - Barry Driver training run on 27/1/2016.
Former First Leicester, Volvo B7RLE / Wright Eclipse KX05 MGY ( 66975 ) has joined the First West Yorkshire Training fleet. Fresh out of the Hunslet paintshop.
And so ends the Christmas break...
Whilst teething problems have slowed the progression of the new units across the Greater Anglia reaches, testing of the Class 755 units still continues.
755329 is seen slowing for a simulated station stop at Stansted Mountfitchet on the working of 5Q34 13:36 Cambridge to Bishops Stortford C. Sdgs 02/01/20