47276 Pictured Sometime in the Early Eighties

British Rail 47276 Pictured Sometime in the Early Eighties

37012 @ Grantham Early Nineteen Eighties.

British Rail 37012 ready for ballast duties pictured at Grantham in the early nineteen eighties

37376 and 58042 Peterborough Holding Sidings November 1994

37376 on the Tool Van Road and 58042 on the Through Road at Peterborough Holding Sidings in November 1994

37014 at Highdyke 197980

37014 at Highdyke 197980

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 It was withdrawn from service on June 30^th 2005 and scrapped on August 31^st 2008.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In 1991 it transferred back to Stratford where it was withdrawn from service in February 1993. 31196 was stored at Stratford until 2001 when it was scrapped on site.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.

31352 at Peterborough August 1996.

 

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

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.

31459 @ 31149 Hertford North 1996

 

 

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

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.

See the full story at...

http://www.rail.co.uk/locomotives-and-engines/electric-engines/british-rail-class-91

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

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.

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?

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

31459 Peterborough April 1994

31459 Peterborough Mayors Walk Depot April 1994

Peterborough Westwood November 1994.

 

Picture taken from Peterborough Westwood Yard in November 1994. The historic Baker Perkins office block and factory still stand in the background. This was the place were Barnes Wallace served his apprenticeship. It's now the site of HM Prison Peterborough.

37209 Doncaster Carr Loco 1997.

37209 at Doncaster Carr Loco on 27 January 1997