50020 ‘Revenge’ stands forlorn in the scrapyard at Booth’s in Rotherham. With many miles under its belt, a no doubt a flashover or two, its time was almost up. A sad goodbye to what was one of my personal favourites.
#Class50 #Hoover #Booths #Scrap #Rotherham #BritishRail
Many thanks, always so appreciative. As you rightly say, both have survived the test of time and are testament to their designers and builders. For me it’s always been EE, just can’t get enough of those engines!
Thanks Neil, seems a different world from today doesn’t it?!
Sulzer vs English Electric! Two absolute giants of the modernisation era. Seen here displaying early Railfreight and the later two tone grey variant metals sector.
#Class47 #Sulzer #Class37 #EnglishElectric #Railfreight
I know, proper mix and match set!
They had their moments Neil! 🙂
Morning all, I hope you’re all doing okay. A wintery scene in Leeds City station in the late 1980s today, happy days of bashing these machines. This 45/1 is about to depart for Liverpool Lime Street from the old platform 12.
#Class45 #Peak #BritishRail #LeedsCityStation
The Broadmoor Manitou Pikes Peak cog railway in Colorado. Photographed at the top of the 14,115ft peak back in 2001, just before I almost passed out! My body doesn’t deal too well with the altitude, as I found out that day! 🥴#PikesPeak #Colorado #ManitouSprings #CogRailway
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A not so sunny summer weekend in north Wales, and the peace is well and truly broken as 31438 arrives at Llandudno Junction. Great days of loco haulage courtesy of Regional Railways.
#Class31 #BritishRail #RegionalRailways #LlandudnoJunction
The sound just reverberated of the walls, it was great. Always nice behind a 37, or a 45, or even a 31 come to that! Many happy memories. 👍
A station that no longer hums with the sound of AC electric locos, or ticking over Sulzers…
The modern day Liverpool Lime Street, full of modern trains, but still bustling as it always did.
#LiverpoolLimeStreet #Class802 #Class331 #NetworkRail #Northern #TPE
Early Spring in the West Highlands, the snow remains on the peaks, and the greenery of the hills is yet to come through. The Metro-Cammell built 156, the mainstay of the line for many years eases its way off the Horseshoe curve.
#Class156 #Scotrail #WestHighlandLine
This has to be red stripe Railfreight in its truest form. The class 58, the final class of loco to be built at Doncaster Works.
58019 passes through Crewe with a rake of MGRs, doing what it was built to do.
#Class58 #Bone #RedStripeRailfreight #Crewe #BritishRail
47522 ‘Doncaster Enterprise’ stands at York with a northbound mail train on cold winters evening, many years ago. How times change…
#Class47 #RoyalMail #York #Trainspotting
Another day draws to a close, and hopefully everyone has got home okay. A quiet evening in Leeds, and 185113 ‘Hull Paragon’ stands in platform 12, its job done for the day.
#LeedsCityStation #Class185 #TPE
A wonderful selection of GBRf liveries on 0D63 heading back to Doncaster after weekend of engineering work. 66712 ‘Peterborough Power Signalbox’ heads the convoy through York.
#Class66 #Shed #GBRf #York
The NMT creeps through York with 1Q35, the Hull to Newcastle. 43062 ‘John Armitt’ brings that V16 MTU sound back to the station, which is always welcome.
#NMT #FlyingBanana #NetworkRail #York
GBRf 69009 ‘Western Consort’ approaches York with 6N71, the Doncaster Decoy to Tyne Yard.
Nice to see a 69 out in the wild, still love the varied liveries of these locos. #Class69 #GBRf #York #WesternConsort
Worth the walk! 👍
An old shot of the cab of Whistler 40088, which spent time at Crewe Heritage Centre. Purchased by the Class Forty Preservation Society, and more recently sold to the Cab Yard, a specialist sub-group of the Llanelli & Mynydd Mawr Railway.
Good to know it’s in safe hands.
#Class40
37240 Adorned with its Transrail logo hooks up to the Flying Scotsman at the NRM prior to its trip to Tyseley earlier in the month. I have very fond memories of this loco during summers on the Kyle line.
#Class37 #Tractor #NRM #Transrail #FlyingScotsman
Still holding to its original EWS colours, DB 66151 brings the steel empties from Lackenby through York with 6D37, heading onward to Scunthorpe.
#Class66 #Shed #York #EWS #DB
Absolutely Andy! That’s what I keep telling myself, just be thankful it’s still around, despite looking like this. 🤣👍
Probably because it’s an afterthought. I don’t like how it clashes with the angled stripes near the roof line. And it should have cut straight near the door, not half curved over. 🤔
Bring back the blue stripe Scotrail! Now that would be a sight to see! 👍
Europhoenix 37218 stands in the sidings at York. The 60 year old loco has become the latest test bed for synthetic biofuel in the form of Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO). Also a shot in its previous guise on the adjacent line from 2022.
#Class37 #Europhoenix #HVO #York
I’m sure I’ve seen this idea to indicate first class accommodation somewhere before! 🤔 Funny how things come around again! Shame it doesn’t have a short red bar towards the front too! British Rail making a comeback…
#Class802 #FirstClass #TPE
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A chilly morning at Northallerton, but there are plenty of passengers awaiting the service to Kings Cross. Other than that, it’s an AT300…A red and white one…🥱😴
#Azuma #LNER #Northallerton
