cornish trains jez Posted October 4, 2016 Author Share Posted October 4, 2016 Good afternoon, One from my collection for today. A rather grubby 90031 in mainline livery waits at Carlisle for the off on 3rd March 1990. This was definitely one of my favorite liveries on the class. Best regards, Jeremy 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieB Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 Two from early 1986. For the only time in my working life I enjoyed the delights of Flexitime. A walk to Old Street tube, then Northern Line to Euston to spend my Friday lunchtimes there in the days when there was still a variety of AC electric locomotives to be seen. 81011 in January 1986, complete with Motherwell depot's "leaping salmon" emblem. 83015 in March 1986. At this time 82005 and 83009/12/15 were allocated to shunting carriages through the washing plant - hence the streaked and faded blue livery. 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornish trains jez Posted October 4, 2016 Author Share Posted October 4, 2016 Two from early 1986. For the only time in my working life I enjoyed the delights of Flexitime. A walk to Old Street tube, then Northern Line to Euston to spend my Friday lunchtimes there in the days when there was still a variety of AC electric locomotives to be seen. 81011a.jpg 81011 in January 1986, complete with Motherwell depot's "leaping salmon" emblem. 83015a.jpg 83015 in March 1986. At this time 82005 and 83009/12/15 were allocated to shunting carriages through the washing plant - hence the streaked and faded blue livery. Great photos. Keep them coming. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SGJ Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 86610 in Leeds ( Midland Road ) 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SGJ Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 86613 County of Lancashire 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SGJ Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 86 614 Frank Hornby 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SGJ Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 86618 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornish trains jez Posted October 4, 2016 Author Share Posted October 4, 2016 Great set of photos there. The 86's do look great in the triple grey railfreight livery. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieB Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 87002 at Euston, November 2003. IIRC the short-lived Porterbrook livery was different on both sides - the opposite side to that in this picture was all purple with a silver flash. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SGJ Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 86620 86623 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SGJ Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 Aldaniti 86628 86631 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieB Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 (edited) One of my earliest shots of an AC loco (and the earliest reproducible!) - from my Kodak Instamatic days. E3179 was recorded at Euston in October August 1972, just before the advent of TOPS renumbering. E3179 would become 86207 (June 1973), but for the moment it still retains its cast numbers. [by this time most diesels had lost their 'D' prefix, except where they had cast plates (such as the "Westerns"), but the electrics still retained their 'E' prefices.] Edited October 6, 2016 by EddieB 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted October 5, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 5, 2016 If it didn't keep its E prefix it would clash with a 350hp shunter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieB Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 If it didn't keep its E prefix it would clash with a 350hp shunter True, in almost all cases the electric number sequences overlapped with diesels. The exceptions - class 76 (E26000) and class 73 (E6000) still carried their prefices through to TOPS renumbering, AFAIK. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted October 5, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 5, 2016 Were the 76s originally E prefixed as I thought along with the five figure diesel numbers were in the BR ' steam' series Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieB Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 (edited) Were the 76s originally E prefixed as I thought along with the five figure diesel numbers were in the BR ' steam' series You're right, the EM1, EM2, ex-NER and Southern Railway electrics in the BR five digit series didn't have an E prefix originally, until sometime around the late 'sixties when it was added to the EM1 fleet (these being by then the only survivors from that group). [Edit] Just to add that I'm guessing that the E prefix was probably added to the EM1s around 1968, at about the time that TOPS classifications were introduced, but before wholesale renumbering into the TOPS scheme was adopted. With the move towards TOPS numbering coming in view, the Woodhead electrics were given an E prefix to their numbers so as to avoid any confusion when the BRC&W Type 2 s would eventually receive new numbers in the 26001 series. Edited October 6, 2016 by EddieB Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieB Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 A slight mix-up on the date of my previous photo of E3179 (now corrected). Here is newly renumbered 86 201 - this rather faded Instamatic shot was taken at Euston on 24th October 1972 (half term holidays!). This was probably my first sighting of a TOPS renumbered loco (the renumbering from E3191 had taken place in August of that year). Among the earliest to be given new numbers, the classes 86 and 45 didn't follow a logical sequence and appeared haphazard at the time (as the locos went into the works and the modifications applied to allocate into sub-classes). Also to be noted is the space between the "86" and the "201" that largely began to disappear around the mid-eighties. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 Here is another pair from Wolverhampton in 1982. 86247 Abraham Darby approaches Wolverhampton 22/3/82 87029 Earl Marischal stabled between duties at Wolverhampton, 22/3/82 cheers 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornish trains jez Posted October 6, 2016 Author Share Posted October 6, 2016 Hi, A modern one from me to today. Here is a Virgin liveried class 91 screaming past Frinkley Lane near Grantham on 12th April 2016. Best regards, Jeremy 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SGJ Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 87003 Patriot at Preston and Crewe, on one picture it has black surrounding the front windows, the other picture it has yellow 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SGJ Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 87003 Patriot at Preston and Crewe, on one picture it has black surrounding the front windows, the other picture it has yellow 87003 Patriot.JPG 87003 Patriot (2).jpg Something else I have noticed is the headlight has changed from a circle to a box type Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombatofludham Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 (edited) It also lost it's multiple working connections replaced by the TDM cables in the second photo Edited October 6, 2016 by wombatofludham 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Phil Mc Posted October 7, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 7, 2016 And the INTERCITY writing has moved ! Cheers, Phil. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike at C&M Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 Rivercider, on 06 Oct 2016 - 16:37, said: Here is another pair from Wolverhampton in 1982. scan0045.jpg 86247 Abraham Darby approaches Wolverhampton 22/3/82 scan0046.jpg 87029 Earl Marischal stabled between duties at Wolverhampton, 22/3/82 cheers Definitely appreciate the 2nd photo of this pair. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
60091 Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 (edited) Both photos from November 1981. Edited October 7, 2016 by 60091 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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