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Arrived Sims Metals, Newport 21/3/24 321337 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/8573164083/

Arrived Sims Metals, Newport 11/3/24 507002 – https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/32104250861/

DB Cargo 66014 passes over North Erewash level crossing working 6E03, 10:05 Wolverhampton Steel Terminal – Toton steel working, 10th February 2024. 66014 – https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/53520767765/

Norwich station pilot on the 19th June 1976 is 03086 and it is seen here pottering around the station throat. In standard Eastern Region practice 03086 is attached to a “Loco Runner” which was provided to ensure that the short wheel base of the 03 reliably operated the track circuiting arrangements found in the station areas where they tended to work. The “Runner” attached to 03086 is TDB733647 is a modified diagram 1/066 14 ton “Conflat L” container flat wagon, one of only 500 built to this diagram at Ashford in 1955. It is also branded “Ipswich Loco Runner” and seems to have strayed from home. 03086 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/15715678670/

Arrived Sims Metals, Newport 14/2/24 319379 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/13143220724/

An afternoon of some low winter sunshine illuminates Bridlington station, 29th December 2015. https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/23618780193/

Arrived Sims Metals, Newport 7/2/24 319369 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/32021185675/

Arrived Sims Metals, Newport 15/1/24 508114 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/20672571256/

11194 is a Swiss Railways class Re4/4II electric locomotive and is seen here at Lausanne on the 8th December 1975. The Re4/4II class were built from 1964 onwards as a development of the original Re4/4 class of 1946. They are rated at 4700 kW, 6300 hp and have a top speed of 87 mph. 11194 was built in 1969 by SLM and currently carries the number 420 194. 11194 – https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/15264379322/

An Arriva Trains Wales Class 150/2 skirts Colwyn Bay on the 8th November 2017 working 1H90, 14:40 Llandudno – Manchester. The seaside town of Colwyn Bay, complete with pier is in the background with the railway flanked by the sea on one side and the busy A55 on the other. 150xxx - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/39064929991/

Arrived Sims Metals, Newport 11/1/24 319368 – https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/20158041894/ 319381 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/52755102150/

Arrived Sims Metals, Newport 8/1/24 319385 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/16525658579/ 319385 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/8601676335/

1724 is the motive power for DD-AR double deck set standing in Amsterdam Central station, 31st March 2012. 1724 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6974586830/

Arrived Sims Metals, Newport 8/1/24 153360 – https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/40476781004/ 153360 – https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/49332300132/

A shot from the “lost” five strips of 126 instamatic black and white negatives from my week long 1973 Western Region Railrover holiday in July 1973. Two class 37’s and a row of class 08’s stabled at Radyr, South Wales, 8th July 1973. My records state that there were five class 37’s stabled at Radyr that day so the two seen here are from 6927/36/71/78/98, the leading class 08 is 3434. 69xx – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/12184007123/