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Arrived Sims Metals, Newport 10/4/24 507031 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/52614127796/

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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/

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

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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/

26004 stands in Haymarket station on an Engineers train, 28th August 1977. 26004 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5645727196/

London and North Eastern Railway Pollitt Class F2 2-4-2T (Great Central Railway Class 9G) 5777 calls at Ruddington with a northbound local service on the 4mm model railway based on Ruddington on the Great Central Railway which can be found at the Great Central Railway (North), Ruddington, 9th July 2021. (67105) 5777 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/51336129823/

To date the last Peak I have been hauled by is 67 The Royal Artilleryman on the 21st April 2014 at the Great Central Railway (North). However this was not by the 1962 Crewe works built version but by this rather nice 5” gauge version hauling visitors around the Nottingham Society of Model and Experimental Engineers Society extensive facilities at the Great Central Railway (North), Ruddington. 67 (45118) – https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/14157616174/

Class 1200 1500v DC electric locomotives 1254 waits to depart Amsterdam Central with the empty stock of a “City Night Line” overnight sleeper train, 31st March 2012. Locomotive History The Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) Class 1200 1500v DC electric locomotives were designed by the American company Baldwin after the Second World War and were built in Holland by Werkspoor (Utrecht) between 1951 and 1953. The electrical parts were generally built by Heemaf (Hengelo) to a design by another American company Westinghouse. Certain of the electrical parts and the bogies were manufactured in the United States. Twenty five locomotives were built (1201 – 1225) and they remained in service until withdrawn in 1998. Following withdrawal five locomotives (1214/15/18/21/25) were bought by the freight operator ACTS and renumbered 1251 – 1255. In 2010 1251/52/54/55 were acquired by Euro-Express-Treincharter BV (EETC) for use as empty coaching stock pilots between Amsterdam Central and the Watergraafsmeer carriage sidings for the overnight sleeping car services connecting Amsterdam with Munich/Zurich and Warsaw/Minsk/Moscow. They are also used for occasional charter trains and empty stock trains to and from the EETC workshop in Rotterdam. 1254 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6946491034/

In the summer of 1995 I had my first “overseas” business trip. The part of British Rail I worked for had by this time been set up for privatisation as a semi independent business unit and was tendering for a resignalling project in Northern Ireland. 112 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6896574747 458 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6896575947/ 071 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6896577043 Poyntzpass SB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/21186825988/

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Greasley O2 Class 2-8-0 63948 waits in the loop with a freight train on the 4mm model railway based on Ruddington on the Great Central Railway which can be found at the Great Central Railway (North), Ruddington, 22nd August 2020. 63948 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/50426547502/

Part of the Hornby Dublo 3 rail OO gauge model railway on display at Locomotion, Shildon, 21st October 2022. Hornby Dublo was introduced by Meccano Ltd in 1938 and remained in production until December 1964 being overtaken by cheaper and less well engineered 2 rail systems produced from the late 1950’s by Hornby (Meccano) itself and Tri-ang. Hornby Dublo - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/52490474773/

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