Hunslet Barclay 20902 & 20903 at Peterborough 1996.

Hunslet Barclay 20902 Lorna

Hunslet Barclay 20902 (Lorna) and 20903 (Alison) pictured on the ‘Weed Killer’ at Peterborough on April 3 1996.  

These are British Rail (BR) Class 20, otherwise known as an English Electric Type 1.

In total, 228 the class were built by English Electric between 1957 and 1968, the large number being in part because of the failure of other early designs in the same power range to provide reliable locomotives.

Hunslet Barclay 20903 Alison

This class of locomotives were originally numbered D8000–D8199 and D8300–D8327.

Known as "Choppers" because of the distinctive beat that the engine produces under load which resembles the sound of a helicopter it’s quite common to have the locomotives coupled head-to-head so that the first locomotive is always the one working in reverse. The reason for this is so that whichever direction the locomotives are used to haul a train, there will always be one cab in front of the train, giving the driver a much better view. Even though controls are duplicated in opposite corners of the cab, the view forwards is considerably worse than the view backwards.

In 1989 20902 was named Lorna and 20903 Alison.

56069 at Peterborough in June 1997.

56069 seen here at Peterborough Holding Sidings on 2nd June 1997, moved from Toton to Thornaby in November 1992 and was named "Thornaby TMD" in June 1993.

Following a move to Immingham in January 1997, just five months before this picture was shot, the loco lost its nameplates, but was renamed "Wolverhampton Steel Terminal" in July 1998.

56069 has been stored at Crewe since withdrawal in January 2007.

Preserved South African Railways Pacific.

Preserved South African Railways Pacific which now stands at the entrance to the Hanwange Colliery (Wankie Mining Company) in Zimbabwe. Photograph taken in July 1996.

 

31407 at Peterborough Holding Sidings 1996

 

31407 at Peterborough Holding Sidings dressed up in Mainline Freight Livery on 5th April 1996

Casey Jones House, Museum & Loco, Jackson TN.

Casey Jones Home and Railway Museum in Jackson Tennessee in March 2003.

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 Illinois Central Railroad's 4-6-0 No. 382 that was involved in a now famous train wreck at approximately 5:00 a.m. April 30, 1900 at a little town named Vaughan in Mississippi. The engineer, John Luther (Casey) Jones was the only one killed. The legend of Casey Jones and the wreck of his passenger train known as the Cannon Ball were forever immortalized in a ballad 'The Brave Engineer,' by a black engine-wiper by the name of Wallace Saunders, a friend of the late engineer. The locomotive 382 was scrapped by the Illinois Central, July, 1935.




Casey's Caboose

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Number 382

58019 Kilnhurst 1996

58019 pictured in Mainline Freight livery at Kilnhurst on 16 May 1996.

Connington Tip 1996

Loading up at Connington Tip on 19 April 1996. Must remember to turn off the tail lights before we set sail for Peterborough West Yard!

Running Round in Victoria Falls Zimbabwe 1996

Running Round in Victoria Falls Yard Zimbabwe in July 1996. Getting ready to head off back across The Zambezi into Zambia. 

31271 Stratford April 1996

31271 at Stratford on 5th April 1996. Driver R Phillips in the chair?

37010 Oakham Loop 1997

37010 returning a loaded 6E98 to Peterborough from Mountsorrel to Peterborough in Oakham Loop on 24 July 1997.

The British Rail Training Bus.

 

Who can remember the British Rail Training Bus? It had a weird simulator type of thing for training drivers. It’s pictured here at Peterborough Holding Sidings, just behind the Fuel Point, on 12^th April 1996.

LMS Royal Scot Class 6100 Royal Scot pictured at Bressingham.

LMS Royal Scot Class 6100 Royal Scot pictured at Bressingham in 2000

The original 6100 was the first of its class, built in 1927 by the North British Locomotive Company in Glasgow. It was named Royal Scot after the Royal Scots.

The Loco was renumbered 46100 by British Railways after nationalisation in 1948. In 1950 46100 was rebuilt with a 2A taper boiler, and the words "Prior to conversion" were added to its nameplates. It became a markedly different engine. In October 1962 46100 was withdrawn from service in Nottingham

46100 was bought by Billy Butlin of Butlins holiday camps after withdrawal and after cosmetic restoration at Crewe Works, was set on a plinth at Skegness. It was painted in LMS crimson lake livery

6100 was towed from Crewe Works to Nottingham on 12 June 1963 by Black 5 No. 45038 and then from Nottingham to Boston by B1 No. 61177. It spent a few days at Boston shed before being taken to Skegness by an Ivatt 4MT, where the loco languished for 3 weeks in Skegness goods yard before being transferred to a Pickford's low loader for the short road trip to Ingoldmells. 6100 arrived in the Butlins complex on 18 July 1963 piped in by pipers from the 1st Battalion, The Royal Scots.

6100 left Skegness for the Bressingham Steam Museum on 16 March 1971 and was returned to steam in 1972. It ran until 1978 when it became a static exhibit again. It was sold by Butlins to Bressingham in May 1989.

After sale to the Royal Scot Locomotive and General Trust (RSL&GT) in April 2009, chaired by enthusiast Jeremy Hosking, it was moved by road to Pete Waterman's LNWR Heritage workshops in Crewe. This made 6100 one of two preserved rebuilt Royal Scots, the other being 6115 Scots Guardsman.

On March 20, 2009, Royal Scot caught fire en route to a steam gala at the West Somerset Railway. The locomotive was being transported along the M5 Motorway when a fire started on the lorry under the loco's leading wheels.

6100 Royal Scot Pictured at Bressingham in 2000.

31459 @ 31149 Hertford North 1996

 

 

31459 and 31149 in multiple, ballasting at Hertford North on the New Line on 28 April 1996.

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37013 & 31165 Peterborough 1996

37013 and 31165 on the Run Round Road at Peterborough Holding Sidings on April 5 1996

Trams San Francisco November 2006

 

Two trams pictured near Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco in November 2006.

58040 March Up Yard 1995

58040 with other locos ready for weekend ballast work on a nice day in October 1995.

91017 Newark Northgate May 1996

British Rail class 91 electric locomotive 91017 passes Newark Northgate on the 15th May 1996

When British Rail gave the go ahead to Electrify the full length of the East Coast Main Line from London Kings Cross to Edinburgh and Leeds it was obvious that new trains would need to be built to operate fast and regular services, these in turn would replace the High Speed Train Diesel units that had been running up and down on services since the late 1970’s.

The original intention was that trains would be timed to operate up to a maximum of 140 mph (225 Kmh) although in practice they have been restricted to the same speed as the trains they replaced (the Inter City 125) due to a number of infrastructure constraints.

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Ballasting Near Molewood Tunnel 1997

Ballasting near  Molewood Tunnel on the Hertford 'New Line' July 27 1997

2 X 58 Peterborough Holding Sidings 5th April 1996

2 X 58 on the Run Round Road at Peterborough Holding Sidings on 5th April 1996

58015 Kilnhurst 16 May 1996

58015 at Kilnhurst on 16 May 1996. Who is the grey haired guy in the high vis' vest in the picture?

31271 at Peterborough Holding Sidings 1996.

 31271 on the fuel point at Peterborough Holding Sidings April 5 1996

31271 on the Carriage Road backed up by 31459 and 31460 at Peterborough Holding Sidings on April 5 1996.

British Railways Deltic D9016 and EWS 37427 Bounds Green 1997

British Railways Deltic D9016 and EWS 37427 at London Bounds Green Depot on 14 February 1997

BR standard class 7 70000 Britannia Nene Valley Railway Peterborough 1996

BR standard class 7 70000 Britannia, photographed here on a visit to the Nene Valley Railway, Peterborough, on 19 August 1996.

Britannia was built at Crewe, completed on 2 January 1951. She was the first British Railways standard locomotive to be built and the first of 55 locomotives of the Britannia class. The locomotive was named at a ceremony at Marylebone Station by the then Minister for Transport Alfred Barnes on 30 January 1951.
The BR Locomotive Naming Committee were determined not to use names already in use on other locomotives. They tried to observe this by not selecting the name Britannia for use on 70000 because it was already in use on one of the ex-LMS Jubilee Class locomotives, but Robert Riddles overruled them and the Jubilee had to be renamed.

Britannia was initially based at Stratford (30A) in order to work East Anglian expresses to Norwich and Great Yarmouth, but was also particularly associated with the Hook Continental boat train to Harwich. Subsequently, the loco was based at Norwich Thorpe (w/e 31 January 1959) and March (June 1961) before spending the remainder of her career on the London Midland Region Willesden (1A) (w/e 30 March 1963), Crewe North (5A) (w/e 25 May 1963), Crewe South (5B) (w/e 19 May 1965) and finally Newton Heath (9D) (w/e 5 March 1966) from where she was withdrawn w/e 28 May 1966

31459 Tottenham South 3 April 1996

31459 at Tottenham South on 3 April 1996

Cutting Up Wagons at Ely 1994.

Cutting Up Wagons at Ely in 1994. Not quite sure why the old fire tender was there?

08957 and 09010 @ Stratford 1996

08957  and another 08 @ Stratford Locomotive Depot in East London in April 1996. Notice 09010 in the background.

44767 Peterborough and the Nene Valley Railway 1996

 

LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 44767 Visits Peterborough and the Nene Valley Railway 12 May 1996.

London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Stanier Black Five, LMS number 4767, BR number 44767 is a preserved steam locomotive. In preservation it has carried the name George Stephenson though it never bore this in service.

4767 was completed on the last day of the LMS, 31 December 1947 at Crewe Works. It was unique amongst the 842-strong class in that it featured outside Stephenson link motion in addition to other experimental features; a double chimney, Timken roller bearings throughout and electric lighting.

These modifications were part of a series of experiments by George Ivatt to improve the already excellent William Stanier-designed black five.

4767 was renumbered 44767 by British Railways after nationalisation in 1948. Its double chimney was removed in 1953. It was withdrawn in December 1967 after a working life of only 20 years.

Peterborough Eastfield November 1994

08580 @ Peterborough Eastfield and Eastfield Box November 1994

37706 Doncaster Carr Loco January 1997

37706 in EWS Colours at Doncaster Carr Loco on 27 January 1997.

37331 Peterborough Westwood Yard November 1994

 

37331 on the Heck empties at Peterborough Westwood Yard in November 1994

2 X 47 at Peterborough November 1994

2 X 47 at Peterborough November 1994