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37609 brings up the rear of UTU3 test train running as 4Q08 from Derby RTC to Derby RTC via the Midland Main line on 08/05/08 as it leaves Derby, 37069 was leading the train. Added to Class 37 09/05/08 |
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56303 hauls 4O90 1051 Doncaster-Grain at Lockington on the Sheet Stores Jn-Stenson Jn freight line on 08/05/08, the train is currently running via Newark, Nottingham and this route to save running round at Doncaster St Catherines and
to keep the Jarvis crews route knowledge up in readiness for the start of Fastline coal trains in mid May. The train got held up enroute from the Lincoln area allowing the clouds to build and the sun angle to worsen, I got jobbed by a small cloud and
the shot has been saved in the digital darkroom. Many thanks to Clive at work for stopping on for an extra hour & a bit to cover for me waiting for this train! Added to Class 56 09/05/08 |
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66528 heads South at Chevin near Belper on 08/05/08 with 4G01 Leeds Midland Road-Tyseley wagon trip with wagons for tyre turning. Added to Class 66/67 09/05/08 |
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Newly reliveried in EMT house colours 43058, set NL04 and 43048 make a colourful sight heading South at Chevin near Belper with 1C25 1027 Sheffield-St Pancras on 08/05/08. Added to Miscalleneous 09/05/08 |
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60024 passes Attenborough on 06/05/08 with 6E46 0437 Kingsbury-Lindsey empty oil tanks, seen from a tree recently adapted with this train in mind!. Added to Class 60 06/05/08 |
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66414 passes Trent with a diverted 4L97 Trafford Park-Felixstowe freightliner on 06/05/08, diverted via Nottingham due to engineering work in the Rugby area. Freightliner are hiring several DRS locos due to a shortage of their own locos. Added to Class 66/67 06/05/08 |
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43058 and its set in the new East Midlands Trains livery brings up the rear of the 0630 Nottingham-St Pancras through Attenborough on 06/05/08. Added to Miscalleneous 06/05/08 |
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37608 rolls into Derby station yard on 01/05/08 with 1Q15 Derby-Barrow Hill-Derby-Barrow Hill-Derby calibration run for the track recording train, 37611 is just out of view on the rear. Added to Class 37 02/05/08 |
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After an overnight drive, through Glen coe with numerous deer crossing the road in front of the car with one or two near misses, a memorable journey was topped with finding this view overlooking Morar with D9009 & 55016 working the DPS Freedom of Scotland tour, 25/06/03. Added to Class 50-55 28/04/08 |
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37417 and 37401 approach the M1 overbridge at Lockington on the Stenson to Sheet Stores branch on 26/04/08 with the 1Z37 0600 Crewe-Fenchurch Street Pathfinder tour. Gutted I wasn't able to get for this myself due to work commitments, I'm grateful to Richard Slater for supplying this pic for display taken at the location I would probably had gone to if i'd been able. Added to Class 37 28/04/08 |
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60013 approaches Lock Lane crossing at Sawley with 6E46 0437 Kingsbury-Lindsey empty tanks on 19/04/08. The shot was taken as a silhouette but the sky has been enhanced to look better than it was. Added to Class 60 24/04/08 |
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The last place I ever expected to photograph a Fastline 56 on the Doncaster-Grain containers was on my doorstep at Attenborough. Today however a phone call at 1320 told me that it had indeed been seen
in the Newark Castle area, enter flap mode.. The weather was decidedly hit and miss but with having my daughter in tow I decided against trying the M1 embankment at Lockington, so dashed to Attenborough to
check the light angle, not good, so I set off again heading for Lockington afterall, I got a mile or so down the road and looking at the sky I changed my mind and went back, some harsh sun was better than none at all!
So here is 56301 on 4O90 Doncaster-Grain intermodal at Attenborough on 24/04/08. The train was sent this way for keeping drivers route knowledge up after the recent road learning ready for the coal contracts and also to save having to run round the train at St Catherines Jn, Doncaster. The
train is also routed this way several times over the next few weeks (booked 1222 at Sheet Stores Jn) Added to Class 56 24/04/08 |
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Making its debut hauling a train, 97301 (37100) approaches Derby on 23/04/08 with 5Z47 RTC-West Mids-RTC DBSO test run. 31601 & the DBSO lost communication in the Leicester area and the 37 (now designated a 97) was in the area and was used to drop on top of the train. Added to Class 37 23/04/08 |
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The driver of 40082 opens the power handle wide as this unidentified train rounds Queensville curve just South of Stafford. Date unknown. Apologies for the more intrusive copyright tags, but when the biggest railway company in the country
has ripped shots from your site and blatantly used them without permission, I get a bit upset.... See you in court as the saying goes.. Added to PR Collection 20/04/08 |
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A 66 a day keeps the doctor away? Not today, an appointment at the local surgery was running 30 mins late, so I went down to Attenborough which is a stone throw from the surgery rather than just sit
in the waiting room. I was rewarded with 66200 on the 6D50 Beeston-Toton infrastructure trip followed closely by another 66 on the Beesotn McIntyres-Toton scrap. Here 66200 is taking power after the route has cleared at Attenborough Jn for the route to Toton, hence the traction sand being applied. Added to Class 66/67 10/04/08 |
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50026 stands alongside 37069 outside the RVEL workshops at Derby on 01/04/08, the 50 is awaiting some final work before heading to a preserved railway for completion of its overhaul and running in. Added to Class 50/55 10/04/08 |
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What would you give to go back in time and do this shot? The mega pairing of 37417 & 37420 pass Brotton on 20/07/1990 with 6P66 Middlesbrough-Boulby empties. Added to PR Collection 18/03/08 |
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57601 tails on the rear of a Wakefield-Salisbury tour as it passes Trent on 15/09/07, the train took a circuitous route using the ECML as far as Grantham then via Nottingham & Birmingham. Added to Class 47/57 10/03/08 |
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With frost glistening on the cab roof, 56303 stands outside Derby RVEL workshops on the morning of 25/02/08 awaiting the completion of an exam before returning to use for Fastline Freight. Added to Class 56 07/03/08 |
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37218 stands on the RTC undergoing attention from DRS fitters on 26/02/08, this was the last photo I managed whilst working on the RTC complex prior to moving into a new state of the art building, the East Midlands Control Centre. Added to Class 37 07/03/08 |
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37708 stands at Bardon Hill waiting to work 8B37 1230 ballast drop to Knighton Jn just prior to a rain storm on 28/10/98. Added to Class 37 03/03/08 |
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27066 stands on the River bridge at Wansford Nene Valley Railway during an EMRPS photo charter on 23/02/08. Added to Class 20/27 24/02/08 |
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33053 stands near Sutton Cross on the Nene Valley Railway during a photo charter on 23/02/08. Added to Class 31/33 24/02/08 |
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170107 glints and reflects the setting sun as it passes Attenborough on 27/01/08 with a Nottingham-Cardiff Arriva Cross Country service. Added to Miscalleneous 22/02/08 |
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An East Midlands Trains 222 Meridian unit heads into the sunset at Attenborough with a Nottingham-St Pancras working on 12/02/08. Added to Miscalleneous 22/02/08 |
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60100 passes Stanton Gate on the up Goods line on 12/02/08 with 6Z87 0810 Doncaster Decoy-Stud Farm ballast empties, I was hoping for this train to be on the up main which is a lovely shot
from the lattice footbridge but unfortunately it came on the goods which you cannot get any width with unless you have steps to get above the concrete part of the bridge, which I didn't have with me as I hadn't expected to make a move to here. Added to Class 60 22/02/08 |
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I've had the idea for this shot for months, maybe years but never got round to trying it out, until last week. This is approx 70 x 30 second exposures
combined in a freeware program called 'startrails.exe'- the shot is genuine, the signal wasn't added afterwards. I'm disapointed with the blockiness of the sky, but you can't have everything..Added to Miscalleneous 17/02/08 |
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BR blue liveried 1806 (47325) passes Trent South Jn with 6D59 Ratcliffe-Toton MGR empties on 16/05/73. Added to PR Collection 17/02/08 |
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Green 8023 & BR blue 8301 pass Stapleford immediately North of Toton yards with a a loaded coal train believed to have emanated from the Kirkby area on 14/06/1972, note the industrial skyline provided by Stanton ironworks which has now all closed
and also the colour lights on the gantry which have route indicators for movements into the now lifted Stanton Gate up sidings. photo: PR Collection. Added to Toton 17/02/08 |
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BR blue 8136 & green 8016 depart Stapleford and Sandiacre sidings adjacent to Toton TMD with a loaded mineral train on 10/05/1973, note how there are no lines of stored locos in front of the
shed like there is now! Photo: PR Collection. Added to Toton 17/02/08 |
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47377 waits access down the hump into the North yard as unusually 20155 leads a freight out of Toton to the South after climbing the down hump, 04/05/84. Photo: Alan Walker. Added to Toton 10/02/08 |
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This is 56129 descending the high level goods line at Toton with 6E40 Corby-Lackenby empty steel circa 1984, 56's were used on these trains
during the miners strike to keep them employed due to the lack of coal trains in the North-East. Photo by Richard Stanton. Added to Toton 10/02/08 |
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37055 stands faded and forlorn on the back of a trailer in the Heanor Haulage yard at Langley Mill on Sunday 10/02/08 whilst laying over for the weekend whilst en-route from Thornaby to
Kingsbury for scrapping. Added to Class 37 10/02/08 |
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Network Rail's Structure Gauging Train (SGT) uses this optical car to project high intensity light onto lineside structures to measure the distance between the
car and the structure, this data is then compared to the data from previous trips the train has made along that line and any changes are investigated as for example a sudden change of
gauge inside a tunnel could be a serious problem. Here the vehicle stands beneath the calibration frame prior to departing from Derby RTC. Added to Miscelleneous 08/02/08 |
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Stored 60003, 60011 and 37402 stand at the rear of Toton TMD on 07/02/08. Added to Class 60 08/02/08 |
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37379 passes Cargo Fleet in lovely winter light with a Middlesbrough-Boulby potash trip. January 1992. Added to PR Collection 06/02/08 |
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37906 blasts South towards Bury at Ewood Bridge on the East Lancs railway during the 3 day EWS classic traction event in 1998. Added to Class 37 06/02/08 |
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37114 passes Stanton Gate with 6M21 0911 Toton-Castleton, this loco was always a favourite of mine, especially when in Eastfield large logo livery. Added to Class 37 06/02/08 |
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45112 stands in Gas tank siding at Derby on 26/01/08 awaiting a tow to Barrow Hill and what future????. Added to Class 40-46 03/02/08 |
