A single 20 in Railfreight livery. Lovely stuff.
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Same day in May 86. 47124 brings the Immingham tank train into Leicester.
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11/08/85. 33114 spoils the view of a lovely rake of luggage trollies at Portsmouth Harbour.
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27/04/86. This one is a new discovery tonight, previously hidden in a tiny contact print. Birmingham New Street was not an easy place to photograph, especially in the gloomy bowls of the station platforms. 47503 peeks its nose into the sun. I like how the sunlight on the left echos the large logo on the side of the loco.
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21/06/85. Probably a slightly less successful attempt at BNS - one of those ones where you would like to be able to have another go, maybe armed with a telephoto lens (which was well beyond my budget at the time). 45120 on a SW service.
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31/07/85. Finally for tonight, 50050 displays its industrial machinery vibe.
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There always seemed to be a shunter to point your camera at when there was nothing else around.
11/1/86. 08653 on late night station pilot duties at Woking.
11/1/86. 08653 on late night station pilot duties at Woking.
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18/08/85. 03069 worked as the scrapyard shunter at Vic Berry's in Leicester.
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06/05/85. 08297 passes the time of day at Derby.
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May 86. The driver of 08908, shunting mail vans at Leicester, looks like he may have done this a few times before in his career.
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Finally, for this weekend before I hit the road again, another of my personal top 10 contenders.
19/05/85. 47377 at Humberstone, Leicester. The 47 is assisting on a PW train for Sunday engineering work.
Talyor Hubbard, whose factory is in the background, were a renowned manufacturer of railway cranes for the first 60 years of the 20th century. By 1985 the factory here was empty, but the painted signage lived on.
19/05/85. 47377 at Humberstone, Leicester. The 47 is assisting on a PW train for Sunday engineering work.
Talyor Hubbard, whose factory is in the background, were a renowned manufacturer of railway cranes for the first 60 years of the 20th century. By 1985 the factory here was empty, but the painted signage lived on.
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lostwin(m)
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Obviously, in the 80's HST's were treated as persona (machina?) non grata as they were replacing all those lovely loco hauled services. I did turn my camera on them occasionally and perhaps now I can - somewhat grudgingly - admit they are something of a design classic.
05/04/85. 43084 is the rear power car on the 11.30 St P - Sheffield service making the stop at Leicester. At this time on the MML, still with a mix of old and new signalling the 99 miles from London to Leicester was timed at 73 mins for non-stop services. The power signal box at Leicester was nearing completion however, which would further reduce timings.
05/04/85. 43084 is the rear power car on the 11.30 St P - Sheffield service making the stop at Leicester. At this time on the MML, still with a mix of old and new signalling the 99 miles from London to Leicester was timed at 73 mins for non-stop services. The power signal box at Leicester was nearing completion however, which would further reduce timings.
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On the same day - 05/04/85 - 43078 Shildon County Durham in new Executive livery heads the 10.55 Sheffield - St P, also making the stop at Leicester.
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12/05/85. 43050 pulls into Loughborough station with a St. P service.
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31/07/85. 43021 heads the up Golden Hind service at Exeter.
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24/03/85. 43157 Yorkshire Evening Post re-starts the 15.30 Kings X - Newcastle after the stop at Doncaster. Overdue a service, maybe!
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Lovely stuff again. 47124 and 47377 are my favourites from this batch!
I know exactly what you mean about HSTs.....I despised them at the time, as they gradually replaced lots of far more interesting loco haulage, and I only have a handful of pictures of them. I now grudgingly accept they were pretty stylish back in the day, and pretty transformational for BR and for Inter City travel. I have now come full circle and purchased a Dapol N gauge full ER 8 car HST set! And I don't have a Deltic yet.....although not for lack of trying!
I know exactly what you mean about HSTs.....I despised them at the time, as they gradually replaced lots of far more interesting loco haulage, and I only have a handful of pictures of them. I now grudgingly accept they were pretty stylish back in the day, and pretty transformational for BR and for Inter City travel. I have now come full circle and purchased a Dapol N gauge full ER 8 car HST set! And I don't have a Deltic yet.....although not for lack of trying!
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18/07/86. Now here is a bit of an oddity, I don't recall ever seeing another example of this. This ETH duff heads the 14.15 service to Cardiff and considering this was taken at the origin station of Edinburgh, i don't fancy the chances of this hanging on even as far as Carstairs! One thought (as my contemporaneous notes are not clear) maybe the 47 has pulled the stock in and the window slip is to assist passengers in identifying the train as they approach from the concourse?
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Yes, you can imagine the driver might have handled the same job in a steam shunter earlier in his career!
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Well, ahem, although that's not my handiwork, I did used to peel off the window stickers and re-attach them into the windows of other train services (and once onto a platform BRUTE trolley).
Someone must have folded back the ends so it would stick, as the sticky bit was always on the printed side. However, I think it must have brought the stock in, as a train heading to Carstairs is more likely to be at the western end of the station, so passengers would walk up from the middle/back of the train. So they wouldn't see that on the loco working the train.
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Finally, as we brace ourselves for a wild night on the South Coast, I realise that I have not posted anything yet taken locally to where I now live. At the time it was my Grandma who used to live at the top of these cliffs just outside of Folkestone and I was forever making the trek down to the railway line through Folkestone Warren. We have made the town our home for the last dozen years or so.
10/04/85. There wasn't much to break up the monotony of EMU's running up and down this line, but I always made sure that I was down at the front for the 11 o'clock parcels that would usually produce a 73, in this case 73101. This one is any early favourite shot with my then new camera (though I should have upped the shutter speed).
10/04/85. There wasn't much to break up the monotony of EMU's running up and down this line, but I always made sure that I was down at the front for the 11 o'clock parcels that would usually produce a 73, in this case 73101. This one is any early favourite shot with my then new camera (though I should have upped the shutter speed).
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Yes, the more I looked at it trying to work it out, I think that is right. The reflections in the cab window would seem to indicate that the 47 is inside at the concourse end of the station.
Lovely photo. Are they Ferryvans behind the loco?
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Indeed welcome.
Great shots so far. The Leicester depot ones I liked. I remember those two locos festering out the back there. A mate and I asked if we could have a look round one day. The supervisor agreed, on condition we both purchased a depot plaque badge. It was a £ worth spent.
eastwestdivide
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First two are SR bogie brakes (B), in parcels service until the mid-80s I think. 3rd is a BR GUV, then more Bs
sprinterguy
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I feel fairly confident in saying that this is Fort William, rather than Mallaig. There's the railing-topped, solid concrete beam at the bufferstops, the corrugated underside of the 1970s platform canopy, the floor to ceiling glass panels facing onto the platform and, seen in reflection on the right hand side, the distinctive sloping profile of the glass-panelled roof of Fort William library, which is across the road at the end of the High Street.Part 2 - Down the Rabbit Hole...
A series of 'progressive' railway photographs for you to ponder and generally shake your hand at!
07/07/86 - I haven't got a clue what is going on here, all I know is that it is 37422 at Mallaig...
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There are a lot of reflections going on and maybe even one exposure overlapping another, but I also note that the image seems to have been mirrored, as the overhead warning flashes and position of the electric train supply socket on the front of the class 37 have both been reversed.
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sprinterguy
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I've certainly seen it done on a couple of West Highland, as opposed to Far North, layouts, as an approximation of the LNER Thompson observation cars that were used there during the early eighties.I foresee a load of Scottish themed layouts now running a Bachy inspection saloon at the end of their Mk1 rakes!
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