Class 150 - 159 Sprinter photos.

[Davexoc]

Ruskington between Christmas and New Year about 20 years ago....

Far from the current temperatures we are seeing....

 

[6990WitherslackHall]

Class 158s 158792, 158796 & 158797 at Leeds on 31/08/23

[Hal Nail]

 

Cardiff back in September 

[Dunsignalling]

SWR 158886 in multiple with a classmate had formed a restarted down Waterloo service from Salisbury due to extreme lateness of the booked 6-car 159 service on 28/06/2022.

 

It had terminated short in the little-used bay platform at Exeter Central to reduce the delay to the return working, with passengers from St Davids coming up the bank on an Exmouth service.

 

Due off Central at 1130, it eventually departed about 15 late IIRC, enabling a clean cross with the less-seriously-late next down train at Pinhoe. Service was fully recovered by mid-afternoon.

 

By then, I was finding lugging a DSLR and hefty zoom lens about something of a chore, and I'd bought a Lumix LX-100 compact to ensure I had a camera with me on occasions such as this. The little beast proved so capable, and such a joy to use, that the Nikon has barely seen the light of day since.   

 

Edited December 25, 2023 by Dunsignalling

[6990WitherslackHall]

Class 150 150205 at Leeds on 31/08/23

[6990WitherslackHall]

Class 150 150004 at Leeds on 31/08/23

[Dunsignalling]

Out and about with my little Lumix in 2020.

 

GWT's 158763 at Exeter Central on an Exmouth - Paignton working on 29th July.

 

SWR's 159016 on a down Waterloo, crossing 800 309 on a diverted up Paddington, at Honiton, 1st October. 

[Dunsignalling]

During the lockdown year of 2020, I was one of the fortunates who found myself with a fair bit of unspent money (being on a "fixed income" became a positive, for once). My old 12mp Nikon had, for most purposes, been made redundant by the 12mp Lumix LX-100, but I still felt the need of a system camera for work the compact couldn't do, extreme close-ups, and medium-long telephoto.

 

I'd made the mistake of "having a play" with a Lumix G9 CSC and 12-60mm Leica "kit" lens soon after launch, and fell in love with everything but the price (a bit over two grand). 18 months later, on offer for almost £700 less, and with nothing much taking my fancy on the model railway front; I gave in and diverted a hefty chunk of that budget to buying one.   

 

Post lockdowns, and well off my home turf; holidaying at the R&ER's Hilton Cottage, here are some Northern 156's, a class quite unfamiliar to we southerners. Greatly superior to the 155s (later 153's) down our way, by my reckoning; and we judged Northern's friendly conductor/guards to be superb ambassadors for the industry. 

 

156454 at Carlisle, July 6th, 2021.

156447 at Ravenglass, July 7th, 2021.

and 156451 at Seascale, later the same day.

 

John

 

 

 

Edited December 26, 2023 by Dunsignalling

[6990WitherslackHall]

Class 150 150201 at Leeds on 31/08/23

[6990WitherslackHall]

Class 158s 158816 & 158789 approaching Leeds in 31/08/23

[6990WitherslackHall]

Another pic of 150201 on the same day.

[Dunsignalling]

Another night shot, Nikon D5000 + Sigma 17-70mm. Indestructible 1980s Manfrotto tripod. 😉

 

159010 at Honiton, 1st March, 2010.

 

Edited December 26, 2023 by Dunsignalling

[6990WitherslackHall]

Class 155 155347 at Leeds on 31/08/23

[Davexoc]

Haltwhistle on the evening of April 4 back in 2007....

 

[Dunsignalling]

On 21/04/2022 at 18:07, Oldddudders said:

159106 sits on Exeter Depot 21.4.22.

 

 

 

 

Unusual to see a 159 over that side. Presumably in need of attention or fuel.

 

Edited December 27, 2023 by Dunsignalling

[johnw1]

156401 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/49637994658/

156406 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/49618728687/

156902 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/49505984372/

158889 – https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/49634021987/

[Dunsignalling]

A couple of rarities.

 

159103 in an experimental SWT livery that wasn't pursued beyond a couple or three sets, passing Exmouth Junction box on 4th February 2016. There's still one knocking around like this with added SWR branding, maybe this one, but I've not been close enough to it to know. Morrisons clock may be a minute or two slow, but indicates the train to be the 1625 Exeter - Waterloo, so I'd clearly not adjusted the one in the camera the previous autumn! 

 

GWR 150925 (3-car), coming out of the the turnback siding at Exmouth Junction to form a service to Barnstaple, 21st July 2016.

 

Both taken on my old Nikon D5000 with 50-200 Sigma zoom. 

 

John 

 

  

Edited December 27, 2023 by Dunsignalling

[Dunsignalling]

Exmouth Junction again, with 150246 plus unidentified 153 in the turnback siding, and 159105 passing on a down Waterloo working.  15th October 2015.

 

The Pampas Grass makes a change from Buddleia, but the latter hadn't yet taken hold in the area at the time!

 

John

Edited December 27, 2023 by Dunsignalling

[6990WitherslackHall]

Class 158s 158816 & 158789 at Leeds on 31/08/23

[6990WitherslackHall]

Final one of Sprinters at Leeds on 31/08/23:

 

Class 158 158752

[6990WitherslackHall]

Class 155 155343 races Class 195 195114 out of Church Fenton on 31/08/23

 

Edited December 27, 2023 by 6990WitherslackHall

[6990WitherslackHall]

An unidentified Class 158 approaches 45699 Galatea (masquerading as classmates 45627 Sierra Leone and 45562 Alberta) at Church Fenton the same day.

[6990WitherslackHall]

Class 158 158754 departs from Scarborough for Hull

[6990WitherslackHall]

Class 150 150275 being passed in the middle of nowhere.

[LBRJ]

Northern 158 902 at Sheffield in about 2013.

This must be one of the ex WYPTE liveried ones.

Edited December 28, 2023 by LBRJ