Class 33 Photos

[Southernman46]

EH & HG 33/0's could be found in each others' territory on the SR pretty regularly.

[griffgriff]

The Cardiff and beyond (WR) diagrams were EH though. Sometimes a straggler would get through (I spied slims on occasion) but not often.

 

Griff

[slilley]

14 hours ago, DY444 said:

 

I think all the passenger turns into South Wales and North Wales/NW England were SWD (ie EH) diagrams although HG locomotives turned up on them fairly regularly. 

In my forthcoming 33 book there are a couple of pics of slim jims in north Wales on passenger trains.

[DY444]

1 hour ago, slilley said:

In my forthcoming 33 book there are a couple of pics of slim jims in north Wales on passenger trains.

 

I remember having a conversation with the shed foreman at Eastleigh a few months after the North Wales/North West diagrams started.  He was not a happy bunny with his charges so far from home for extended periods and, only half jokingly, said he always tried to fix it so that any HG locomotives to hand went on those turns if possible.

[SP Steve]

33.102 seen light engine on the approaches to Waterloo, 31st August 1979.

 

The image resonates with me as it depicts a background that has all been swept away.

 

Edited March 31, 2022 by SP Steve

[Pete 75C]

6 hours ago, SP Steve said:

33.102 seen light engine on the approaches to Waterloo, 31st August 1979.

 

The image resonates with me as it depicts a background that has all been swept away.

 

That's a really nice shot.

Did my one-day short circuit bar training by the hut in the background. Don't know why they gave us a day - it took about half an hour. Spent the rest of the day in the pub!

 

Edited June 29, 2020 by Pete 75C

[Cowley 47521]

10 hours ago, SP Steve said:

33.102 seen light engine on the approaches to Waterloo, 31st August 1979.

 

The image resonates with me as it depicts a background that has all been swept away.

What a fantastic photo. Thanks for posting it.

[73c]

The Crown & Cushions just by the bridge and stairs up to the training school ? @Pete 75C

[Pete 75C]

8 hours ago, 73c said:

The Crown & Cushions just by the bridge and stairs up to the training school ? @Pete 75C

 

It must have been about 1988. I remember the stairs up to the training school, and it was close, so maybe, but for some reason the name doesn't ring a bell. Memory fog?

[astropsidings]

A couple of freightliner pics:

 

33 111 & 33 063 near Somerton (between Banbury and Oxford) 26-2-83

 

33 029, Aynho Junction, 21-1-84

[Davexoc]

8 hours ago, astropsidings said:

A couple of freightliner pics:

 

33 029, Aynho Junction, 21-1-84

 

 

Judging by the length of that one it has come from MOD Kineton, on its way to Marchwood perhaps?

That view is somewhat different now as between Aynho Road and the church at Kings Sutton is the M40.

[astropsidings]

10 hours ago, Davexoc said:

 

Judging by the length of that one it has come from MOD Kineton, on its way to Marchwood perhaps?

That view is somewhat different now as between Aynho Road and the church at Kings Sutton is the M40.

 

I seem to recall this was a regular Saturday morning working, probably from Lawley St., and presumably used the loco off the FO Portsmouth Harbour-Leeds.

[Rugd1022]

6503 in the old platform 9 at Reading, November '73....

 

 

[4630]

Always nice to see and especially hear a Crompton in use on the railway these days.

 

A smattering of passengers looking forward to their journey behind classic diesel traction (or, conceivably steam hauled between York and Scarborough) wait as WCRC 33207 'Jim Martin' arrives at Brighouse on 27th August 2020 with the Scarborough Spa Express.   The 33 was accompanied by WCRC 37706.

 

 

The protracted booked stop also allowed me sufficient time to reach a lineside location further along from the station.

[smithlington smithe]

33207 ‘Jim Martin’ at Rosegrove this morning on the Scarborough Spa Express with 37706 tucked in behind 
cheers 

 

David 

 

[ColinK]

A pair of 33s well off their usual area in 1985.

 

 

In case you didn't recognise the location, its Coalville.

 

[ColinK]

Another of my slides, this time 1986,  33035 on the 0902 Cardiff to Manchester near Chelford.

 

[ruggedpeak]

33210 and Turbots at Winchfield, some time in the 80's

 

Unknown 33/1 light engine

 

Edited September 10, 2020 by ruggedpeak
Update

[ruggedpeak]

On 04/09/2020 at 22:27, ColinK said:

Another of my slides, this time 1986,  33035 on the 0902 Cardiff to Manchester near Chelford.

 

Presumably that is Jodrell Bank in the background? Or something out of War of the Worlds!

[ColinK]

Correct.

[adb968008]

I was surprised at how much space there is inside a class 33’s engine room...

 

 

 

powerful, but small beast.

Edited May 16, 2021 by adb968008

[ruggedpeak]

Reading station in the early 80's. 33203 & 33055, MGR wagons and 08946.

 

These are sequential photos, not entirely sure what was going on....don't recall MGR trains being a regular feature during my spotting days at Reading. Appears the 33's were pulling the MGR wagons eastwards/Paddington direction with the 08 attached to the back, then they uncoupled and ran back along the mainline westbound (reverse direction?) whilst the 08 pulled the wagons back where they came from.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 12, 2023 by ruggedpeak
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[ruggedpeak]

33028 stabled with 73103 at Basingstoke, date unknown.

 

 

 

 

Edited May 12, 2023 by ruggedpeak

[The Pilotman]

That’s a very interesting sequence of photos and I’m struggling to work out what was going on there. For a start, a pair of 33s on a train like that at Reading is unusual enough. If there was an 08 on the back as it passed through the station, that could only really have been attached at Reading West Junction and yet the 08 is then seen pulling the wagons along the down goods line, presumably bound for Reading West Junction sidings. Very perplexing... 

[SED Freightman]

Do you happen to have a date for the Reading MGR photos ? I remember sending a load of rejected coal from Hither Green (ex Ridham, originally ex Thamesport) to Didcot Power Station and wonder if these could possibly have been the empties off that working.