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Privatisation has yet to fully take hold with pre EWS grouping liveries still extant in June 1998. Mainline liveried 37274 leads large logo 37408 past Doveholes quarry with an empty stone train - the scan still needs a bit of work done on it.
GWR 4-6-0 6024 'King Edward I' at Hatton with the Cathedrals Express in March 1998.
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First South Yorkshire 69017 SF55UAK in it's heritage Mainline livery at Olive Grove Open Day 16th September 2018 making it the first single decker heritage livery for the area, dominated by Volvo B9TLs
Make: Volvo B7TL
Body: Alexander H49/27F
Year : 2002
Eastwood Trading Estate
Rotherham
South Yorkshire
24-07-2022
On its first day of Mainline Testing, Newly built V/Locity set VL80 speeds through Garfield on the High Speed (160kmh) rated South Track.
VL80 had missed out on venturing onto the mainline the day before due to a windscreen wiper fault, making this the first day of operation for the set.
As of December 2019, both the North & South Tracks have had 115kmh TSRs applied in large sections, downgrading their track speeds from 130 & 160kmh respectively.
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Garfield, Vic
18/09/2019
Night falls at Retford Station.
The Station, now Grade 2 listed was first built in 1852 as part of the “Town’s Line”, however what you see here was rebuilt in 1892 by the Great Northern Railway.
Serving both the ex GC Lincoln to Sheffield and the East Coast Mainline between London to Leeds, York and Scotland.
The window seen boarded up luckily has not been broken, it awaits repairs to a rotten frame. Beneath the ply lies a beautiful original glass panel with ornate decorations and the word’s “Booking Hall” inscribed.
#Retford Station
As mentioned a few postings ago, several enclaves of Routemaster operation broke out in the early days of 'Deregulation'. Some had more success than others, but the basic headline concept was usually to provide a faster 'conductor operated' service and thereby benefit the travelling public harking back to the better days of their youth. In reality, the general idea was to run rings round the incumbent operator's 'OPO' buses in the quest to boost revenue ... unless the operator was an enthusiast who saught just a vent to his hobby, a scenario which usually has a short shelf life.
Here in late '80s Reading, one of Reading Mainline's RMs has one of Reading Transport's Metrobuses on its tail. The Mainline fleet was usually (from my experience) well kept, but this re-registered Routemaster seems to have had some repairs to a damaged NSF wing uncompleted. Maybe someone out there in Flickrland can tell us how long the firm traded please?
‘Mainline’ blue 60078 passes Besford in Worcestershire with 6E09, Margam to Lackenby steel on 14 June, 2004.
Berkhof Axial Scania K114EB4 new 9/2005 to Mainwaring, Tonyrefail Taken at the Magor Service Area M4
Mainline
Leyland Atlantean/Roe
CWG756V (1756)
South Yorkshire Transport Trust, Rotherham
3 October 2021 (SYTT Open Day & Rally)
95027 departs Quedlinburg as an empty coaching stock move to Blankenburg having worked from Wernigerode
8th July 2006 48151, Bolton Percy ? , my photo just not sure of location other than South of Colton Junction
More pictures from August 1997 on main website at mark5812.smugmug.com/Recently-uploaded-Scanned/August-1997/
27-6-92 Dallam
90128 on 6M27 Larbert - Oakleigh ICI tanks as far as Warrington Bank Quay
Kodachrome 200
Two models, on the left, the old Transdev Mainline livery applied to 1044 on Route 27.
On the right, the 2009 onwards, and current Transdev Mainline livery I applied to 1046, on Route 28
Both models are both wright renowns, but 1046 was refurbished
As I was driving from the office the back way I usually drive that takes me through the Meadowlands, I pass these tracks each time, the tracks of New Jersey Transit’s Bergen Mainline which before the United States Government takeover of the private passenger/freight railroad companies in 1972 belonged to the Erie Lackawanna Railroad with trains that ran from their Scranton Pennsylvania Terminal to the Hoboken Terminal. As I snapped this shot I could not help think of the movie with Steve Martin and the late John Candy, “Planes, Trains and Automobiles”. A plane, barely discernible, can be seen to the right on One World Trade Center, just over Four World Trade Center as it leaves La Guardia Airport. The Mainline train tracks obviously representing trains. Finally the Eastern Spur of the New Jersey Turnpike the overpass over the train tracks, the busiest freeway in the Garden State is just chuck full of semi’s and cars or automobiles.
A mirror image model kit that ive recently compleated, Sheffield Mainline livery has been applyed to the model and is seen on the route 47 SHIREGREEN.
Major rebuild undertaken on the chassis/interior as the kit comes as a flat floor model, so the chassis was chopped into two pieces and raised at the rear end, also the skylights were added, as too was the Wayfarerer red ticket box attached to the cab side builkhead, she is also fully flush glazed.
two views of rebuilt bullied pacific 35018 british india line passing winsford on the way from carnforth to southall
Stabled-Empty Stock. Worked forward with the 1750 York-London St Pancras.
YORK- 29 Nov 2003.
(SPT Slide Scan)
Mainliner Alexander, con carroceria de Dennis Dominators. En total seis de estos fueron donados a Cuba por la organisacion Salud Internacional; De estos, 3 fueron a Oriente, dos al hospital Ambrosia Grillo y uno a un hospital infantil en Santiago de Cuba.
Este en la foto realiza un recorido de prueba desde el hospital Ambrosia Grillo, al fondo las montanas de La Sierra Maestra.
Foto del magazine Bus & Coach Preservation, Mayo 2004.
Nota: Tenian motor Rolls Royce.