Railtrack rolling stock (pre- Network Rail)

[resluke]

Hi all,

Does anyone have any information and images of the rolling stock used by Railtrack? There is a lot of information on Network Rail stock, but the era I am modelling is around the establishment and early years of Railtrack. I’m happy to take a bit of creative licence with the stock, and am also prepared to manually adapt coaches to suit, but can find little to base this on.

 

Thanks,

 

Luke

[micknich2003]

Luke, Christmas morning 2007, relaying at Hessle Road Hull.

[NVRWagons]

If you are thinking of the infrastructure monitoring and rolling stock test trains these were operated by Serco..

http://www.traintesting.com/Serco-index.htm

 

TRU did however carry a rail track livery.

[PerthBox]

www.departmentals.com has lots of images and information on former Railtrack rolling stock. You’ll need to register to be able to search for particular types or number of vehicles.

[hmrspaul]

https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/mra - see the MRA when new. 

 

https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/perchporpoise  DB979133 and others

 

https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/gersautoballaster/e597c63aa best I can do on Autoballaster 

 

Some of the Windhoffs were written for Railtrack, but non of my photos show this - NR covered over Railtrack quickly https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/windhoff    https://www.ontrackplant.com/ will have some photos from the Railtrack era for many different items of plant, such as this Windhoff https://www.ontrackplant.com/photo/98902  

 

Railtrack didn't own much stock, even new wagons for engineers use were owned by the separate companies, such as the Jarvis sleeper carrying wagons  https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/jarvissleeperkra

 

As we know Railtrack weren't a great company for spending money on important things like maintenance, let alone luxuries like paint. However, as early as 1997, Railtrack was being criticised for paying little attention to infrastructure investment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railtrack

 

For example the Starfer went from new to late Network Rail without looking as though a paint brush had been near them in 25 or so years. https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/starfer  

 

Paul

PS how is your modelling of water pumping at track joints coming along 😉

 

 

[aictosphotos]

There's also Flickr where I found this photo: 

Looks like a ex Mk1 Class 4xx but can't say for sure, anyone know what it is? 

 

The other source I would suggest is the freightmasters which may help as would the sites above. 

 

 

 

 

[Hairy Bear Digital]

That's 977335 Rocket ex 4-tc driving trailer.

A rare shot of it actually in driving mode.