Cambridge Fuel Point April 11 1996

2 X Class 47 at Cambridge Fuel Point on April 11 1996.

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

Deltic 55003 'Meld' @ Peterborough 1979/80

Deltic 55003 'Meld' @ Peterborough 1979/80. Withdrawn from service on the last day of 1980.

Isle of Mann Horse Tram June 1999

Isle of Mann Horse Tram June 1999

A testimony to Victorian engineering and endurance, the Douglas Horse Trams have been in existence on the Isle of Man since 1876.

The trams were first introduced to take advantage of the booming tourist trade in Victorian times and to this day still carry tourists, and locals, along the promenades in the summer.

The three-foot gauge tramway is owned and operated by Douglas Borough Council and still runs with 21 original carriages including a special double deck tram.

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58043 Ballasting April 1996.

58043 ballasting near Stoke (ECML) on 21 April 1996

58013 Peterborough Holding Sidings April 1996.

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

Eurostar at Peterborough West Yard March 1996

Eurostar at Peterborough West Yard 26 March 1996

British Railways 70000 Britannia @ Orton Mere on NVR August 1996

 

More pictures of BR standard class 7, 70000 Britannia, photographed here on a visit to the Nene Valley Railway, Peterborough, on 19 August 1996. 70000 was piloted from Peterborough Station to Orton Mere Station on the NVR by 37171. For more pictures see Train Snaps Blog for 10 November 2013.

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 The loco was withdrawn from service on October 31 2007 and disposed of on May 31 2008 being scrapped at EMR Kingsbury.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

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 It was withdrawn from service on June 30^th 2005 and scrapped on August 31^st 2008.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.