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Toton Diesel Shunter Allocation – 1967/68 A few years ago I did the following bit of research and thought it might be of interest at this time when a lot of us are “confined to barracks”. Apologies if you have seen it before. In the 1950’s and early 1960’s British Railways built/purchased...

The Peaks Being born in Nottingham in 1956 and having lived in the Nottingham area for all my life the class of engine that I most associate with my youth has to be the British Railways Type 4, more commonly known as the Peaks. The Peaks actually consisted of three similar but slightly...

A selection of photographs from earlier days of recent scrapyard arrivals 142088 – https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/16021685083/ 142088 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/25194896640/ 142088 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/25938171068/ 142093 -...

Traction Changes – January 2019. Stored: 37605, 70001, 90024 Reinstated: 37402, 47813, 56098, 60092, 66060/90 37402 – https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/20754384806/ 37605 – https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/20207073339/ 56098 –...

Traction Changes – October 2016. Stored: 08632, 66250, 67009 Reinstated: 20302, 37099, 56096, 66774/75/76/77/78 Exported: 66193, 66201/13 A number of the above can be seen in this collection 08632 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5732832728/ 08632 –...

All Our Yesterdays – 55 Years Ago –October 1961 Diesel and Electric locomotive building was in full swing with British Railways workshops at Darlington building class 10’s and class 25’s, Horwich building class 09’s, Doncaster class 85 electric locomotives, Derby building class 45 and the...