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43059 brings up the rear of 1F10 0825 London St Pancras-Sheffield as it passes Breadsall North of Derby on 19/03/07. |
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A Midland Mainline HST heads South at Sawley just after dawn on 30/03/06 with the 0638 Derby-St Pancras (1C07), Ratcliffe Power station looms in the background. |
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A Midland Mainline HST led by 43050 runs along the up slow line at Sutton Bonnington on the Midland Mainline North of Loughborough, as 5C00 Etches Park-Cricklewood for "hot spare" duties in case of set failures in the evening peak. |
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A busy scene at Derby on 07/08/07 as MML's 43049 departs working ECS from Etches Park to Nottingham, a Central 156 departs on a service to Crewe and a voyager arrives on a 5H32 Central Rivers-Derby ECS working. Notice the nearly completed shell of the Network Rail EMCC on the skyline. |
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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. |
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43082 departs Derby station whilst working the 1324 Sheffield-St Pancras and passes Etches Park depot and the Serco yard on 16/09/07. A Network Rail 101 test unit can be seen in the RTC sidings along with an assortment of coaching stock. |
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43007, soon to transfer to the new Arriva cross country franchise, passes Ratcliffe on soar power station on 24/08/07 working the 1424 Sheffield-St Pancras MML service. |
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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. |
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Not quite what I had in mind when I was tempted out for a 5Z40 Neville Hill-Brush move, I'd already left when it was posted that it was 43105 under its own power and not hauled by 47828, but a novelty it is so it was duly recorded. Sutton Bonington 09/06/08. |
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Lookng smart in cross country colours, 43357 leads 9V59 Glasgow Central-Plymouth from Milford tunnel towards Duffield on 21/10/08. |
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Approaching Trent East Jn on 25/11/08, an EMT HST forming the 1530 Nottingham-London catches the glow of the setting sun. |
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I've been practising a few panning pictures after a couple of dodgy attempts after falling out of practice, this is 43083 heading from London to Nottingham at Attenborough, 06/03/09. Panned at 1/100th of a second. |
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43310 & 43251, the final Brush overhauled power cars for NXEC are officially handed over at a ceremony at Brush works on 17/03/09. |
Multiple Units |
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On 28/07/07 a Meridian class 222 DMU departs Nottingham as the 1207 to London St Pancras viewed from the little used multi-storey car park which is a great vantage point for photography. |
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On 28/07/07 156404 & 153364 depart Nottingham as the 1156 Robin Hood line service to Mansfield Woodhouse. |
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Modern Units cross at speed at Attenborough on 03/08/07 with 170630 working a Nottingham-Cardiff train and a Meridian 222 unit working ECS from Etches Park to Nottingham. |
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Serco class 150 DMU track recording unit no.950001 rushes through Attenborough on 08/08/07 working 2Q08 0640 RTC-Lincoln-RTC test train. |
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156410 departs Thorpe Culvert on 21/06/00 with a Skegness-Nottingham service, note the signalbox which is suffering from significant subsidence, this has since been rebuilt and the crossing gates replaced by barriers. |
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156407 passes Pinxton signalbox on 11/10/01 whilst forming 2D11 1015 Nottingham-Worksop, the train was diverted via this route due to an engineering blockade on the Robin Hood line. This signalbox was recently decommissioned during the Erewash valley
resignalling project and the route now comes under the control of Trent PSB, prior to control passing to the new EMCC in 2008. Pinxton signalbox has now been relocated to the Midland Railway Butterley. Note a lamp post and signal have been removed from above the train. |
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Perfection?! Not quite, as 66155 passed over in this position, 156408 on 2E59 0936 Leicester-Lincoln was just coming under the bridge, so this is a composite image of 2 frames taken approx 3 seconds apart. Trent, 18/09/08. To view the original shot of the 66 click here |
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170102 in old MML livery with Central Trains embellishments passes Attenborough Nature reserve on 12/09/07 with a Birmingham-Nottingham service. |
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In the final days of the 101 Met Cam units working on the mainline, 101685 'Daisy' calls at Romiley on a service from Marple to Manchester Piccadilly on 23/12/03. |
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Following overhaul at Delta Rail in Derby & looking very smart in its newly applied EMT livery, 158783 passes Attenborough on 12/11/08 with a Nottm-Leicester-Nottm test run |
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Although I dislike the short days, low sun and long shadows which make standard railway photography more difficult at this time of year, on the other hand I like the arty lighting available and beautiful skies on offer! This is an EMT 156 passing Attenborough in nice lighting on 14.11.08. |
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A busy scene at Vauxhall on 12th February 2009 as 450007 approaches with a train from Waterloo, as a 455 waits to depart and a 444 passes on ECS to Clapham. |
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8011 & 8022 head East passed Barnes on 12/02/09 with a service for Waterloo. |
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EMU's 8011 & 8022 on the left, and 450085 in the middle head West as 450562 call on the right with a train for Waterloo at Barnes on 12/02/09. Behind me just off the bridge is the shrine to Marc Bolan at the tree that brought about his demise in 1977. |
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I must have been mad to do this, but on Monday 26/01/09 I got up at 0415 to make my way to East Midlands Parkway to record the first train to use the station on its opening day. There were a handful of staff (and contractors who are still working at the station), plus one fare paying passenger to greet the 1st train, although there was an official opening with media & guests at a more civilised time! |
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156414 passes Attenborough on 02/03/09 showing the tree felling in progress in readiness for works to build a flood defence wall adjacent to the railway, a £35 million pound project to protect Nottingham from a 1 in 100 year severe flood.. Part of the lake is to be infilled along this section to allow enough space to drive down the piling into the ground. |
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221120 coasts the last 1/2 mile into Derby on 31/03/09 around 15 minutes after sunrise with the 1O18 Nottingham-Bournemouth service. |
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An East Midlands Trains 222 Meridian unit passes Trent South Jn with a London-Derby train as a pleasure boat heads along the Beeston canal towards Nottingham, 01/07/09. |
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101693 in Strathclyde PTE orange and 101676 in Regional Railways livery wait to depart Manchester Piccadilly on 22/12/03 as 5H55 1939 to Longsight, just days before they were taken out of traffic for the final time at the end of the year. |
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101685 stands at New Mills Central after arrival on 2S40 2143 ex Manchester Piccadilly on 22/12/03. |
