Toton-Rail.co.uk - Railway Photography by Paul Robertson

Toton-Rail.co.uk : Railway Photography by Paul Robertson

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P.Robertson collection: The photographs shown below are images that are not taken by me but belong to my collection of which I possess copyright, these images are available for reproduction in the railway press as are the majority of all the other images on this site.

Class 20-27

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!

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.

20023, 2 other 20s, an 08 and a 47 rest around the turntable in the roundhouse at Barrow Hill on 04/04/1976.

20066 & a green liveried partner pass Stapleford and Sandiacre shunt frame as they approach Toton yard with an MGR probably bound for nearby Ratcliffe power station.

20107 propels a heavy load of steel bars along the Flixborough wharf branch on 07th March 1996.

I bet this was noisy, an undated pic of 20118 piloting 37151 and 37112 passing Mossend North Jn with an ore train from Hunterston to Ravenscraig. I visited this location myself 2 or 3 times and have some nice and loud video footage, but unfortunately no stills of the triple headers.

A class 24 and a class 40 sit in the carriage sidings at Llandudno Junction.

A class 24 passes Brymbo in North Wales with a steel train in snowy weather, date & photographer unknown.

25189 hauls an ex works Merseyrail unit passed Wigan Springs Branch on 02/06/1982.

Amongst a large collection of locos stabled at the East end of Glasgow Eastfield TMD on 03/07/79 are 20089, 25202, 08227 and 27110.

25245 & 25060 approach Acton Grange Jn with a track panel train for Arpley yard on 28/03/1983.

25281 passes Moss Lane near Timperley.

A group of young spotters watch 25313 on a train of cartics at Timperley, Altricham on 07/04/1983. PRC, photo B.Watkins.

25293 arrives at Toton on Sunday 21/04/1974 with the 9Z06 engineering train.

26003 in Trainload coal livery climbs off Jamestown viaduct at Inverkeithing and up towards the Forth Bridge in July 1989.

26010 approaches Burntisland on 13/09/86 with the 1231 Kirkaldy-Edinburgh.

26024 approaches Motherwell on 02/05/1991 with bogie steel bolsters.

26026 pauses outside Invergordon signalbox on 13/03/1984 whilst the signaller comes out to speak with the driver.

26030 pauses at Garve on 16/02/1983 with a Kyle-Inverness working, the steam heat boiler is obviously working well against the February cold.

The traincrew of 26035 pose alongside their steed at Kyle of Lochalsh on 16/02/1983 prior to departing with a train for Inverness.

26039 & 26038 approach Inverness with a train from the Far North line on 16/02/1983.

27017 & partner stand at Dundee in June 1976 with an Edinburgh bound service.

Class 31/33

31264 trundles along the Boulby branch with a short engineers train at Brotton on 23/08/1990.

31180 & 31294 run into Eaglescliffe with 6M60 Tees Yd-Peak Forest cement empties on 05/07/91.

31327 & 31247 approach Luton on 15/07/89 with a Forders-Cricklewood binliner.

Mainline liveried 31422 arrives at Nottingham station on 17/08/1991 with the 0957 Sheffield-Skegness, I was probably at work in the Travel Centre on the station when this was taken.

33002 heads Westbound through West Ealing on 04/11/1988 with Old Oak Common breakdown crane.

Class 37

A selection of Scottish class 37s sit on shed as Grangemouth in June 1974.

D6809, later renumbered 37109 under TOPS and now preserved on the East Lancashire Railway, waits for the signal at the long closed Sheffield Victoria in June 1966.

37006 (which later became 37798) powers passed Gledholt on the Trans-pennine route with a loaded coal train, circa 1982.

37027 & ETHEL unit 97251 stand at Crianlarich on 16/03/84 with the Fort William bound sleepers.

Eastfield allocated 37037 runs off the wagons it has just arrived in fort William yard with from Corpach on 17/03/84.

After chasing to Glenfinnan, 37175 is seen waiting patiently in the platform as 37037 arrives on a Mallaig-Fort William service, 17/03/84.

37043 Loch Lomond arrives at Crianlarich circa 1984 with a Fort William-Glasgow Queen Street service.

37073 "TORNADO" & 37426 Vale of Rheidhol pass Crag Hall on the Boulby branch with a Boulby-Tees working on 14/02/91.

37075 stands with the breakdown train at Morpeth on 25/06/84 after 47452 had derailed on the sharp curve with the Aberdeen-Kings Cross sleepers.

37111 "Glengarnock" passes Golf Street near Carnoustie with a 6A15 Mossend-Aberdeen conveying empty timber wagons, date unknown. This loco was saved for preservation and whilst at Barrow Hill awaiting restoration, was purchased by DRS in May 2001 and sent for an overhaul at DML Devonport which was then abandoned and the bodyshell was cut by EMR at Kingsbury in July 2003.

Large logo 37116 & RFD 37026 approach Eaglescliffe on 07/05/1993 with 4D50 Wilton-Leeds freightliner service.

37116 "Comet" is seen with an empty steel train on Beattock bank at Harthorpe in January 1991.

37126 passes Clay Cross on 30/08/1979.

37175 arrives at Banavie station on a Fort William-Mallaig working on 17/03/84, seen from the signalbox.

37184 in banger blue livery passes over the river Clyde at Crawford with the Dalston tanks returning to Grangemouth, circa 1987. PRC.

37191 & 37240 depart from Grangemouth with an oil train in June 1988.

37260 RADIO HIGHLAND arrives at Mossend from the North with a mixed speedlink trip. PRC.

37262 shunts its train at Georgmas Junction on 15/03/1984, combining Wick & Thurso portions before heading South to Inverness.

One month after being released from Crewe works as the 1st 37 treated to the large logo paint brush there, 37264 arrives at Banavie on 17/03/84 with a Mallaig-Fort William service.

37354 approaches South Bank on Teeside with a Railfreight metals trip from Tees Yd to Lackenby.

37379 & 37214 approach Eaglecliffe on 13/08/91 with 6M69 Eastgate-Carlisle cement.

37379 passes Cargo Fleet in lovely winter light with a Middlesbrough-Boulby potash trip. January 1992.

37415 trundles along the Boluby branch near Brotton on 13/11/1990 with a loaded train for Tees yard.

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.

37419 passes Wilton, Teeside on 18/06/93 with a Middlesbrough-Boulby empty pot ash working.

37423 approaches Chester on 10/07/1999 with a Holyhead-Birmingham working.

37427 passes Brotton on the Boulby branch on 07/01/1991 with a potash train to the Middlesbrough area.

37427 in Trainload Construction livery departs Millerhill yard, Edinburgh with cement tanks.

37428 DAVID LLOYD GEORGE arrives at Burntisland with an Edinburgh bound service.

37509 & 37358 trundle along the Boulby branch with a single wagon from British Steel Skinningrove on 01/11/90.

37512 & 37517 pass South Bank with 6M47 Lackenby-Corby tubeliner on 11/02/91 in lovely winter conditions. PRC.

37517 passes South Bank on Teeside working a Lackenby-Hardendale lime train on 18/02/91.

37690 stands in the power station yard at Cockenzie in August 1991.

Class 40-46

Vacuum braked 40009 approaches Chester circa 1980.

40027 sits at Manchester Victoria with the 0923 to Llandudno on 24/06/1975.

40028 departs from Chester with a Llandudno-Manchester service in 1980.

40028 passes Marsden working an Eastbound trans-pennine working, date unknown.

40067 approaches Chester from the West with a ballast train, probably having originated at Penmaenmawr quarry.

40082 pounds up the grade at Diggle with a Petroleum coke service from Holyhead to Immingham on 03/09/81.

The driver of 40082 opens the power handle wide as this unidentified train rounds Queensville curve South of Stafford. Date unknown.

40082 comes off Saddleworth viaduct with a mixed freight on 03/09/1981.

40088 passes through Llandudno Jn with a ballast train from the sidings at Penmaenmawr quarry, 1979.

An unidentified class 40 winds over the junction at Goose Hill, Normanton, South Yorks.

40122 idles after arrival at Leeds City with a Carlisle-Leeds S&C working in the mid 80s.

40122 is seen with a Leeds-Carlisle working at the Southern end of the S&C, date unknown.

40122 is seen with a steel train at Brymbo steel works near Wrexham in 1979. The steel works here closed in 1985. 40122 was later stored and then re-born as D200 for working BR special charter trains.

40132 departs from Chester with a ballast train, probably from Penmaenmawr quarry, in 1980.

40141 passes through Guide Bridge on 02/09/1982 with a mixed freight for the nearby yard.

40196 and 25254 double head the Ditton to Broughton Lane BOC tanks out of Tinsley yard on 28th April 1984 (Many thanks to Alan Wilson at It's a 40.co.uk for extra caption info) .

44008 stands on the fuel point at Toton with another class mate on 05/03/1976.

D83 (later to become 45142) passes Trent South Jn on 16/05/73 with the up Thames Clyde Express to St Pancras.

45003 powers through Guide Bridge on 09/08/83 with a Tunstead-Northwich ICI limestone train formed of the vacuum braked PCV hoppers.

45036 passes New Mills South Jn on 26th June 1984 with an empty train of PHV limestone hoppers heading back to Tunstead. Photo M.Taylor/PRC.

45048 THE ROYAL MARINES arrives into platform 4 at Derby with a NE-SW corridor working, 1979.

45053 arrives at Exeter St Davids on 30/07/77 with a train off the NE-SW corridor, passing 33002 stabled in the headshunt.

45063 passes Milnbridge with empty parcels vans returning to Manchester Redbank sidings in April 1980.

45070 passes Stratford station with a mixed freight on 07/10/86.

45076 heads around the Manchester suburbs with a scrap metal train.

45111 GRENADIER GUARDSMAN heads South on the up main at Tupton between Chesterfield & Clay Cross with the 1759 Sheffield-St Pancras on 27/08/1981.

45119 passes Trent South Jn on 01/07/1974 with a St Pancras-Sheffield (via Nottingham) express.

45121 adorned with Toton white stripes enters Exeter St Davids on 13/06/1981 with an NE-SW inter-city working. Photog unknown.

45124 is seen near Paddock, Huddersfield on the Trans-pennine route whilst working a Liverpool-Scarborough service during winter in the early eighties.

A peak class 45/1 on a Trans-Pennine service is about to enter Standedge tunnel in the Pennines, if only trains such as this existed regularly on such scenic routes now.

45125 approaches York on 09/07/86 with the 0610 Liverpool Lime Street-Newcastle. This loco is now preserved on the Great Central Railway.

45125 heads along the down slow line at Hendon on 19/03/85 working the 1805 St Pancras-Nottingham.

45128 on a Trans-pennine service passes 25285 in the loop at Diggle. I bet the guy walking along the sleeper ends was a bit chilly!

45150 passes Radlett on 16th May 1985 whilst working the 1735 St Pancras-Derby.

A Peak loco brings a Glasgow-Nottingham express off Ribblehead viaduct on 31/03/1984.

46027 accelerates passed Tupton between Clay Cross and Chesterfield on 03/07/1981 with a Bardon Hill-Beighton ballast working.

46044 departs from Doncaster in 1978 with a Newcastle-kings Cross service.

Class 47

BR blue liveried 1806 (47325) passes Trent South Jn with 6D59 Ratcliffe-Toton MGR empties on 16/05/73.

D1893, later renumbered 47374 under TOPS, arrives at the long closed Sheffield Victoria in June 1966.

47009 waits in the platform as 47219 approaches Elgin on 27/02/1985.

Its days as celebrity GWR green liveried G.J.Churchward now over, de-named Trainload construction liveried 47079 comes to the rescue of an ailing HST at Newton Abbott on 04/06/88. This loco was later re-engined to become 57009.

47099 passes Eaglescliffe under a threatening sky with 6O49 Tees Yd-Eastleigh on 21/06/91.

47115 heads along the up main at Melton Ross on 12/02/90 working the 6D52 1236 Lindsey-Leeds Hunslet tanks.

47219 unofficially named "Sandpiper" passes Lackenby grids/Grangetown at the head of 4L64 Wilton FLT-Stratford FLT on 08/05/91, BSC Lackenby is visibile in the background.

47229 passes Toton Jn on 29th July 1989 with a Sheffield-Skegness additional working, no requirement for ETH on this warm summers day. I have a print I took of this working at Nottingham station.

47302 in the attractive red stripe railfreight livery passes South Bank on 18/02/91 with 4O62 Wilton-Southampton freightliner.

47321 stands in for a class 50 as it approaches Woking on 14/08/1992 with the 0750 Yeovil-Waterloo.

47402 GATESHEAD stands at York on 02/01/82, note all the people around on the platforms awaiting the final Deltic operated special.

47406 RAIL RIDERS crosses Downham Bridge, Whalley Lancs with the 0937 Carlisle-Euston which had been diverted over the Settle & Carlisle line, 2nd April 1983.

47448 comes off the Britannia bridge in the early 1970's with a Holyhead-Euston train, during the period of reconstruction following the fire in 1970, this photo is from the period during the prep work for the A55 roadway being installed above the railway line.

Large loco liveried 47453 "ELAND" squeels around the tight curve between March station and Whitemoor yard as it arrives on 6H96 from Norwich on 25/04/91.

With its Stratford white roof, BR blue liveried 47457 stands at the Buffer stops at Kings Lynn after arriving with an express from London Liverpool Street on 29/07/85.

47470 arrives from the North into Newcastle Central on the 29th April 1978.

47471 Norman Tunna GC approaches Leeds City station as 40033 shunts the parcels platforms.

47491 passes a class 33 in Malago Vale carriage sidings, Bristol Circa October 1981.

47528 passes Eccles on 08/05/1980 with the 1605 Liverpool LS-Newcastle.

47550 University of Dundee which looks 'monsterous' in large logo livery departs from Inverness with a service to London Euston. This image is slightly smaller than usual to try and counter slight motion blur on the loco.

A selection of loco types sit outside Motherwell TMD circa 1984 with 37139/47550 & 20138 able to be identified.

47563 WOMENS GUILD hauls an internal Scottish region service. Large logo livery along with black headcode boxes and either a Highland stag or Eastfield terrier motif really suited these locos.

47564 "Colossus" passes South Bank on 29/04/91 with a steel bloom trip from BSC Lackenby to Tees Yard.

A large logo liveried class 47 crosses the Forth rail bridge and approaches North Queensferry with an Edinburgh-Aberdeen working on 19/05/1990.

47706 & 37372 stand outside the shed at Thornaby on 19/04/1992, (I have removed a lighting stanchion from above the 47). Photo PRC.

47708 passes Horse Cove, Dawlish on 31/08/91 with the 1114 Southampton-Plymouth.

47717 drifts through Princes Street Gardens on final apprpoach to Edinburgh on 25/05/90 on a service probably from Inverness or Aberdeen.

Class 50-55

An unidentified 50 departs from Teignmouth with an up express.

50007 HERCULES approaches Reading station in 1981 with a Paddington bound express, prior to the loco being chosen to be reliveried in GW green and renamed Sir Edward Elgar in the mid 1980s.

50030 REPULSE departs Exeter Central on 31/08/91 with the 1020 Exeter St Davids-Waterloo.

50038 & 50044 race through Iver on the GWML with an express for Paddington, 04/08/75.

50043 EAGLE pauses at Reading with an Up van train.

50046 AJAX passes Talerton on 31/08/91 with the 1315 Waterloo-Exeter.

D400 and 50033 head South at Colton Jn on 05/06/1993 with 1Z41 "Bishops Triple" charter returning from York to Minehead. The train had headed North with 50007 also on the front, this had been takej into the NRM for short term display. Also note the Pilkington 'K' Glass liveried stock.

1023 WESTERN FUSILIER passes a snowy scene, no other details re date of location known, please drop me a line if you recognise the spot.

An unnamed 55010 rests at the buffer stops at Kings Cross, Date unknown. Note the spotter complete with flared jeans, Parka, long hair and adidas bag, as good as getting a car in your shot to date the era in the future.

Class 56/58

Dutch-Transrail liveried 56047 approaches Eaglescliffe with 4L79 Wilton-Felixstowe liner. Although this was a Freightliner service, class 56's were hired from EWS and worked singly or in pairs on this working.

56073 with its orange flashing light prominent above the cab windows passes through Leeds with an oil train in June 1987. PRC, Photog unknown.

Large logo blue liveried 56119 passes Eaglescliffe with an MGR from York yard on 20/09/91.

Newly completed 56132 stands in the shops at Crewe works on 28/04/1984 awaiting painting. PRC, Photog unknown.

DMU's/EMU's/HST's

A green Metro-Cammel class 101 unit departs Perth on 01st May 1965 on a train to Dundee. This view is no longer possible due to the growth of vegetation and new building works.

A class 110 DMU departs from Todmorden after setting down several passengers as a class 101 unit arrives from the oppsite direction, 22/08/84.

South Yorkshire PTE liveried 54004/53045 pass Barkston Jn signalbox with a Skegness-Nottingham service on 13/06/1987.

304032 stands in one of the bay platforms at Crewe in December 1982 waiting to depart for Liverpool Lime Street.

Hadfield 1500v DC EMU lead by vehicle M59604M stands at Manchester Piccadilly.

Prototype HST set 252001 is seen at a special event at Shildon in 1978, no problems with the H&SE in those days obviously! Can you imagine an event nowadays where you could stand on the track adjacent to an open running line??.

43142 in original 'Flying Banana' livery leads an HST into Paddington from the West of England, 29/05/85.

Electrics

82007 heads South passed Crewe Basford Hall Jn in 1980.

86329 passes Brock on the North west section of the WCML on 26/08/81 with a Ravenscraig-Llanwern steel coil train.

87006 makes a fine sight in the Lune Gorge on 13/07/89 with the 0650 Plymouth-Glasgow.