56069 Peterborough July 1997

56069 at Peterborough Holding Sidings on July 2 1997

Happy Christmas Dudes!!!

 

Happy Christmas Dudes!!!

08529 at Peterborough on August 18th 1996.

08529 at Peterborough on August 18^th 1996. It was built at Darlington Works (British Railways) and was completed on March 3^rd 1959. It was withdrawn from service on June 30^th 2005 and scrapped on August 31^st 2008.

31196 at Stratford 1996. It Took Another Five Years To Finally Scrap It!

Brush Locomotive 31196 was built at the Falcon works in Loughborough in 1960.  The Loco’s original number was D5620 and it was allocated to March Depot in Cambridgeshire. It later transferred to Stratford and then to Immingham where it worked for the next twenty odd years.

In 1991 it transferred back to Stratford where it was withdrawn from service in February 1993. 31196 was stored at Stratford until 2001 when it was scrapped on site. It’s pictured here falling to pieces and being cannibalized at Stratford Depot in April 1996. It had to wait like this for another five years before finally being scrapped.

31407 and 31459 at Peterborough April 1996.

31407 and 31459 seen on the Carriage Road at Peterborough Holding Sidings on April 5 1996.

31407 was renumbered from D5640 on December 31 1973 and eventually scrapped in 2006. 31459 was renumbered from D5684to 31256 on the same day and again to 31459 on 14 December 1984. The loco was named Cerberus on June 16 1999. I believe that the loco was allocated to Fragonset Railways at Derby but am not sure about it’s eventual fate.

31352 at Peterborough August 1996.

 

31352 looking about ready to give up the ghost at Peterborough on 18th August 1996.

Centric Crane Peterborough June 1997

Centric Crane Peterborough West Yard June 17 1997.

60077 Langley June 1997

60077 Langley 6th June 1997



Locomotives 3 & 4 on the The Talyllyn Railway May 1987.

 

Locomotives 3 and 4 on the The Talyllyn Railway May 1987.

 

Locomotive N0.3 Sir Haydn.
Built in 1878 by Hughes' Loco & Tramway Eng. Works Ltd of Loughborough this 0-4-2ST (originally 0-4-0ST) worked on the nearby Corris Railway until the closure of that line in 1948. In 1951 it was purchased by the Talyllyn Railway I think that Y Tren Carnifal means something like the Carnival Train.
 

Locomotive No. 4 Edward Thomas.

This 0-4-2ST was built in 1921 by Kerr, Stuart & Co. Ltd. for use on the Corris Railway, and was purchased by the Talyllyn in 1951 and named after the TR's former manager. 

For details of all Talyllyn Railway locomotive see...

http://www.talyllyn.co.uk/details/locos

 

 

Abergynolwyn (Welsh for Mouth of the River with a Whirlpool) railway station is on the Talyllyn Railway.

 

CSX Marshalling Yard Nashville TN March 2003

The Railway Marshalling yard in Nashville Tennessee is operated by CSX Transportation which is a Class I railroad in the United States. It is the main subsidiary of the CSX Corporation. The company is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, and owns approximately 21,000 route miles (34,000 km). CSX operates one of the three Class I railroads serving most of the East Coast, the other two being the Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) and Canadian Pacific Railway. This railroad also serves the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec.

The pictures above were shot in March 2003.

31113 Peterborough and Connington June 1997.

 

31113 Pictured here at Peterborough Holding Sidings on June 2^nd 1997.

 

31113 was buit by Brush traction in 1959 with a works number of 130.

 

The loco was renumbered from D5531 on 31^st Dec 1973 and was withdrawn from service on 30^th July 2004.  31113 was scrapped by EMC Metals Recy Kingsbury on 31^st August 2008.

 

 

31113 is pictured below on T11 Trip from Peterborough West Yard to Connington Tip on June 7th 1997.

 

 

 

            

 Connington Tip June 7th 1997 with a 225 hurrying by on the Down Main.

Isle of Man Steam Railway No.11 Maitland @ Port Erin 1999.

Isle of Man Steam Railway No. 11 Maitland pictured at Port Erin June 6 1999

Stalwart of the fleet, rarely out of service, the second of the company's 1905 locomotives was named after company director, Dalrymple Maitland, and is fondly remembered by several generations of enthusiasts as the longest-serving fleet member. Having been in regular service since delivery, a re-boilering in 1959 ensured her future well into the final years of company operation, through the Ailsa years and into nationalisation

 

No. 11 Maitland is currently withdrawn from service and undergoing long-term re-build

 

For a full detailed history of Maitland visit

...

http://iomsrsa.com/steamlocos/68-11

 

 



37242 at Statford in 1996.

37242 pictured at Stratford in April 1996 on a route learning mission for Peterborough Drivers learning the Lea Valley Line (WEBPANTS) Here the loco was in Mainline Freight livery and was later owned by EWS before being withdrawn from service. in around 2001 there was talk of it being restored but it was scrapped in 2006.

58023 'Peterborough Depot' April 1996.

58023 'Peterborough Depot' seen here at Peterborough Holding Sidings in Mainline Freight livery on 5 April 1996.

EWS Shunter 08714 at Peterborough 1997.

Built at Crew Works in 1960, renumbered in 1974 and named 'Cambridge' in 1994 EWS 350 shunting loco 08714 is pictured here at Peterborough on 2nd June 1997.

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.

Casey Jones Village online @...
http://www.caseyjones.com

 

 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

Casey Jones Village online @...

 

http://www.caseyjones.com 

 

 

 

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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