GWR 5600 class 0-6-2T 5643
Swanwick Junction, 1 May 2010
15 years ago today Great Western Railway (GWR) 5600 class 0-6-2T 5643 (b.1925, Swindon) was on hire to the Midland Railway-Butterley (from the Ribble Steam Railway if memory serves…) and is seen here taking on water at Swanwick Junction between workings.
507025
Waterloo (Merseyside), 24 April 2010
15 years ago today I spent half an hour or so at Waterloo station… Waterloo (Merseyside) that is!
Merseyrail’s 507025 was in charge of train 2U30, the 12.58 Every Week Day (EWD) service from Southport to Hunts Cross.
I think this is my only pic of a Class 507 electric multiple unit but I am looking forward to seeing preserved 507001 at The Greatest Gathering in August.
LNER class D49 4-4-0 62712 MORAYSHIRE
Sheringham, 6 March 2015
London & North Eastern Railway (LNER) class D49 4-4-0 62712 MORAYSHIRE (b.1928, Darlington) runs around train 2M30, the 13.45 service from Sheringham to Holt on 6 March 2015 during the North Norfolk Railway’s Spring Steam Gala. 62712 was visiting the NNR from the Bo’ness & Kinneil Railway in Scotland.
Also visible is Sheringham East signal box, a Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway (M&GNJR) structure dating from 1906 and beautifully restored by NNR volunteers.
Thomas Hill (Rotherham) Ltd 0-6-0DHF Tommy (works no.246V of 1973)
Ecclesbourne Valley Railway, 27 February 2010
Photographed on a murky Saturday afternoon 15 years ago were this pair of Thomas Hill (Rotherham) Ltd 0-6-0DMF locomotives at the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway (EVR) in Derbyshire.
Both locomotives were supplied new to BP’s Llandarcy Refinery in South Wales and arrived at the EVR in February 2009.
No.246V has since been rebuilt by LH Group/Hunslet Engine Co Ltd (as works no.9377) and is currently to be found at Trostre Steelworks in Carmarthenshire.
Thomas Hill (Rotherham) Ltd 0-6-0DHF Hydra (works no.194V of 1968)
Ecclesbourne Valley Railway, 27 February 2010
No.194V was also sold to LH Group/Hunslet Engine Co Ltd but ended up being scrapped in June 2017 at EMR, Kingsbury.
GWR 4900 class 4-6-0 4965 ROOD ASHTON HALL
Stratford-upon-Avon, 18 July 2004
Twenty years ago today I took a trip on The Shakespeare Express from Stratford-upon-Avon to Birmingham Snow Hill.
Great Western Railway ‘Hall’ class 4-6-0 4965 ROOD ASHTON HALL (built in 1929 at Swindon Works) was in charge of the eight coach train and I remember enjoying the journey in spite of the torrential rain!
ROOD ASHTON HALL nameplate
Birmingham Snow Hill, 18 July 2004
British Railways Mk.1 Sleeper First (SLF) E2080
Peak Rail, 11 January 2014
While British Railways Mk.1 passenger carriages are incredibly commonplace on heritage railways, Mk.1 sleeping carriages are definitely a rarity with (as far as I’m aware) only six still in existence.
Most were built with asbestos insulation, which was expensive to remove professionally and so were sold for scrap but a few were bought by preservation societies for use as volunteer accommodation.
E2080 was built in 1959 by Metropolitan-Cammell Carriage & Wagon Co Ltd and was preserved in 1983, initially on the Dart Valley Railway (now the South Devon Railway) before moving to Peak Rail in the late 1980s.
When I visited Peak Rail in April last year it was still undergoing restoration.
My (so far, only) visit to the Bo’ness & Kinneil Railway has featured here before but this vehicle is something I’d pretty much forgotten about.
19001
Bo’ness, 2 November 2018
Previously used on West Coast Main Line (WCML) services this Mk.3b Driving Van Trailer, number 82113, was being used by Artemis Intelligent Power to test the viability of using hydrostatic transmission to reduce engine emissions and had been fitted with two JCB diesel engines and…
19001
Bo’ness, 2 November 2018
A second driving cab.
Following conversion 82113 was renumbered as a diesel locomotive and allocated the TOPS number 19001. Since my visit it’s changed hands and is being/has been used to carry out magnetic wheel adhesion testing by Lenz Labs of Edinburgh.
60079
Derby, 3 March 2015
Seven years ago today I was changing trains at Derby when 60079 (b.1991) passed through with train 6M82, the 12.43 MX-Q (Mondays excepted, as required) empty box wagons from Walsall Freight Terminal to Briggs Sidings Steetley Company (Dowlow).
Six years ago today I spent a few hours travelling around the Nottingham Express Transit (NET) system, visiting the second phase routes to Toton Lane and Clifton South that had opened a few months earlier.
First up was a trip to Toton Lane on one of the original Bombardier Incentro trams, 209 Sidney Standard (named after the former president of the Beeston Road (cycling) Club and proprieter of a bike shop in Beeston for 27 years).
The trip back to Nottingham railway station was on one of the newer Alstom Citadis trams, 217 Carl Froch (named after the super-middleweight boxer born in Nottingham in 1977).
Bombardier Incentro Five-section Bo-2-Bo Tram 209 & Alstom Citadis 402 Five-section Bo-2-Bo Tram 217
Toton Lane, 25 November 2015
The trip to Clifton South was completed in two stages, Alstom Citadis, 234 George Africanus (named after a West African former slave who became a successful entrepreneur in Nottingham in the 1780s) taking me as far as Clifton Centre and classmate 235 David Clarke (named after the former ice hockey player and captain of the Nottingham Panthers ice hockey team) from Clifton Centre to Clifton South.
Alstom Citadis 402 Five-section Bo-2-Bo Tram 235
Clifton South, 25 November 2015
Another pair of Citadis trams, 226 and 236 Sat Bains (named after the chef/proprieter of Restaurant Sat Bains) transported me back to first Nottingham railway station and then Beeston… for dinner with wifey!
Eight years ago today I spent an enjoyable couple of hours at the National Railway Museum (NRM) photographing all six preserved London & North Eastern Railway (LNER) class A4 locomotives at ‘The Great Gathering‘
60007 SIR NIGEL GRESLEY & 60008 DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
National Railway Museum, 11 November 2013
Gathering all six A4s together was no mean feat, although four of the locos were located in the United Kingdom, 60008 DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER was housed in the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin and 4489 DOMINION OF CANADA was in the Canadian Railway Museum in Montreal!
60009 UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA, 4464 BITTERN, 4468 MALLARD & 4489 DOMINION OF CANADA
National Railway Museum, 11 November 2013
I did manage to get all six locos in one image (just) but the distortion caused by the wide-angle lens used makes 60007 and 4489 look twice as wide as the others so you’ll have to make do with two separate pics!
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