Mainline Freight, 58003, Peterborough Holding Sidings, 2nd June 1997

Mainline Freight 58003 Peterborough Holding Sidings (Carriage Road) 2nd June 1997

60087 @ Huntingdon and Peterborough May 1996.

Mainline Freight liveried 60087 @ Huntingdon 12 May 1996

Mainline Freight liveried 60087 on the Carriage Road at Peterborough Holding Sidings on 12 May 1996

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

58013 Peterborough Holding Sidings April 1996.

58013 in Mainline Freight Livery at Peterborough Holding Sidings on April 5 1996.

37047 Peterborough Holding Sidings June 1997

37047, in Mainline Freight Livery, on the Head Shunt at Peterborough Holding Sidings on June 2 1997. It was renumbered from D6747 on December 31 1973. The loco was withdrawn from service on October 31 2007 and disposed of on May 31 2008 being scrapped at EMR Kingsbury.

 

37047 on the Fuel Point at Peterborough on June 2 1997

56069 Peterborough July 1997

56069 at Peterborough Holding Sidings on July 2 1997

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.

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The loco was renumbered from D5531 on 31^st Dec 1973 and was withdrawn from service on 30^th July 2004.  31113 was scrapped by EMC Metals Recy Kingsbury on 31^st August 2008.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

58023 'Peterborough Depot' April 1996.

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

31407 at Peterborough Holding Sidings 1996

 

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

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.