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While arriving with my train in Brussel I noticed this colorful sett standing on the other side of the platform. So I quickly found my way to a better spot and took this image with the Samsung A53 that I received as work phone earlier that day. I’m not an Android person and to be hones I am not impressed with the photo quality of this phone either. To be frank, I actually think it’s quite sh^t.
Picture is un-edited SOOC.
Virgin Trains East Coast 91103, seen about to work a service from Leeds to London Kings Cross. Seen working in a slightly uncommon formation with the loco facing south.
South Western Railway's 'Trainbow' 444019 & 444032 pass through Potbridge working 1W58, the 11.20 Weymouth to London Waterloo service.
Class 91/1
Built 10/1990
Renumbered from 91 021 on 31/01/2003
Powered by GEC G426 traction motors
Kings Cross Rail Station, London
Parkstone
Thursday 18 April 2024
1W21 - 10.35 London Waterloo to Weymouth
SWR Trainbow Pride branded on both cab ends Class 444 Siemens 5-car Desiro No. 444019.
I usually have difficulty identifying the XC Voyagers with not a single fleetnumber on the front, but this one is a little easier!
220005 received the trainbow treatment in May 2024 for Birmingham Pride. Felt like it would be appropriate to throw this into the upload now it is of course June!
Network Rail state that the power supply in this area was switch on, on June 9th. Four months later and trains still run diesel power. Trainbow vinyled 800008 is seen leading 800028 with the 1B42 14:15 London Paddington - Cardiff Central.
Class 91/1
Built 10/1990
Renumbered from 91 021 on 31/01/2003
Powered by GEC G426 traction motors
Kings Cross Rail Station, London
South Western Railway's Pride liveried 444019 on the rear of 444044 at Potbridge working 1W64, the 15.22 Bournemouth to London Waterloo service.
91 121, in LNER's Trainbow livery, heads the 1S15 for Edinburgh at Lolham crossing to the north of Peterborough.
GWR Hitachi class 800/0 bi-modal IEP unit 800008 PDTSO 811008 carrying trainbow vinyls that were applied on 07/06/2018 is seen awaiting departure on 1C13, 12:00 London Paddington - Bristol Temple Meads service at Reading station, Berkshire on 21/08/2018.
South Western Railway 'Trainbow' 444019 on the rear of 444029 at speed through a sunny Potbridge working 1Z16, the 14.30 Southampton Central to London Waterloo service.
Leading BN01 & DVT 82207, LNER no. 91103 "Celebrating Pride" rejoins the Down Fast in front of Peterborough PSB on 1S25, the 1630 semi-fast IC225 service from London King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverley.
LNER have also given 91121 "trainbow" branding, so 91103 might lose its vinyls soon.
South Western Railway 444019 leads 444011 through Potbridge at speed working 1W70, the 17.20 Weymouth to London Waterloo service.
South Western Railway 'Trainbow' 444019 on the rear of 1W24, the 15.53 Bournemouth to London Waterloo service passing through Potbridge.
Somewhere over the trainbow
Way up high,
There's a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby.
Southern Pacific's Sacramento Locomotive Works sit silent awaiting a new era.
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Thameslink Siemens 700155, with both driving coaches in Trainbow livery for the Brighton Gay Parade, leaving London Bridge on 10.08 Brighton to Cambridge
Freightliner 66558 ticks-over at the rear of the 6A10 08:41 East Usk yard-Hayes loaded bogie flats. The load comprises concrete sleepers of various degrees of quality and we first thought the coloured supports were to show where to stack each type. We now think this is part of the GWR #trainbow campaign.
The updated face of traction on the South West Main Line in the summer of 2021. Class 444 Desiro 444 019 leads 1B27, the 13.35 London Waterloo to Poole as it skirts the edge of the Itchen on its approach to the Mount Pleasant Road crossing in Southampton. Fully refurbished and repainted in new SWR house colours, the unit has also been embellished with rainbow stripes on its cabsides as SWR’s ‘Trainbow’, having assumed the role to mark the start of Pride Month in June 2020.
The 45-strong fleet of Class 444s were built by Siemens at their Vienna plant before undergoing extensive trials on the test-track at Wildenrath. The trains are formed of five cars, comprising a DMSO, two TSOs, a TSRMB, and a DMCO. One carriage in each unit is fitted with a recess for a pantograph. The 444s entered service in early 2004, replacing 4-CEP, 4-CIG, and 4-VEP slam-door stock, and latterly the Class 442s, on main line services from Waterloo to Weymouth, Bournemouth, Southampton, and Portsmouth. Originally delivered in their own largely white ‘Stagecoach Long-Distance’ livery, the 444s operate alongside, and frequently in multiple with, their fellow Desiros, the 450s, rarely straying from former L&SWR metals.
South Western Railway 444019 at Guildford working 1P45, the 15.00 London Waterloo to Portsmouth Harbour service. 450053 was the rear unit.
The fleet of five-car Siemens class 444 Super Desiro EMUs were built between 2004 and 2005 to replace the veteran fleet of South West Trains' (as was) former BR Southern Region class 411 (4 CEP), class 421 (4 CIG) and class 423 (4 VEP) slam-door EMUs dating from the early 1960s through to the early 1970s on South West Trains' express services from London Waterloo out to the likes of Portsmouth Harbour, Southampton, Bournemouth, Poole and Weymouth. When new these class 444s originally carried the traditional BR Southern Region unit type code of '5 DES' although this terminology was never applied to the front ends of the units. Since their operation with South Western Railway from 2017 the class 444 EMUs are normally confined to the express services from London Waterloo out to Southampton, Bournemouth and Weymouth with the London Waterloo to Portsmouth Harbour services normally being in the hands of their higher-density class 450 sisters.
IETs are not at the top of my list for preferred photo subjects but with a period of bright sunshine, autumn colours to contrast from the drab green and a rainbow vinyl on the leading car I can be happy with that. This train is supposed to be a 2+4 HST but was replaced with an IET. Whether this was a knock on effect due to the 'non-strikes' and stock displacement or an impending sign of the gradual decline of the 255s I don't know. This set is GWR's new 'Trainbow' livery applied in May 2022 to honour the second World War code breaker Alan Turing. His story is in the link below. I could have gone for a side on shot at Ivybridge station as I knew this set was working the train but I opted for the autumn colours at one of my regular spots at Daveys Bridge near my home. Annoyingly Network Rail have now replaced the wire and wood fence either side of the bridge with yet more green metal high pointy fence sections. I have moaned about the GWR drab green livery for a long time now but my crank radar is focussing on gen sites every day now following the new advertising livery for Lily's Kitchen pet food that was applied to IET set 802106. Watch this space.
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