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26 minutes ago, 4630 said:

Crewe Diesel Preservation Group's 47712 Lady Diana Spencer, on hire to Locomotive Services Limited, guest appearing at the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway's diesel gala leaving Keighley on 23rd June 2023 and heading up the 1 in 56 of Keighley bank, with the ScotRail push-pull set in tow.

 

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Excellent selection of photos.

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Locomotive Services Limited's 47614 bringing up the rear of 1Z72, Weymouth to London Victoria, Steam Dreams rail tour.  West Country 34046 Braunton was on the front.

 

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On 24/06/2023 at 14:47, Rugd1022 said:

Photo by David Nash, Newport on 13th April 1971...

 

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And further to my earlier post on D1661 and D1662, from 'Modern Railways' magazine, May 1965...

 

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Photo by Hugh Llewelyn : D1664 at Cardiff General in October 1965...

 

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Photo by 'Dallam Dave' : D1664 at Margam on 5th June 1965...

 

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Notable that at the time of naming these locos retained the 3-part fixed radiator grilles despite being built with train air brake equipment (D1660 named in June 65 was the same) - they didn't look like this for very long, within the year all those newly-built Brush Type 4s sporting this combination (D1631-81 from Crewe, D1782-1806 from Brush) were modified to twin thermostatically-controlled Serck shutters, before winter set in threatening to freeze their radiators.

D1664's condition in Oct 65 proved that having an illustrious nameplate was no guarantee of preferential treatment!

 

The centralised position of 1612's number on the cabside shows that it had new digits applied during deletion of its D prefix (I can't say "prefixes" as a loco's four cabsides were not necessarily treated the same way - OTOH I can recall at least 1745 and 1947, and 1924 I think, carrying different number styles at each end); the absence of patch-painting indicates a repaint of at least the Sherwood green area. Most of the staining near the cab door handrail was probably due to repeated emptying of tea cup dregs out of the cab window!

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5 hours ago, Rugd1022 said:

Photo by Chris Warner : 47 077 'North Star' at Reading in the mid '70s...

 

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S4916… Was the SR still providing coaching stock sets for cross-country workings by the mid-70s? Perhaps one of the sets used on the Poole - Newcastle train? If not perhaps a special train of some sort?

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On 06/06/2023 at 08:42, franciswilliamwebb said:

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47709 “Dionysos” at Saltley Depot on 27/10/01 (my photo)

 

"Apollo was astonished..." 😎

 

I certainly was !!!

 

Brit15

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2 hours ago, brushman47544 said:


S4916… Was the SR still providing coaching stock sets for cross-country workings by the mid-70s? Perhaps one of the sets used on the Poole - Newcastle train? If not perhaps a special train of some sort?

The Poole Newcastle/Leeds trains were formed of SR stock until the change to Mk2s (I can’t recall when this happened but some time in the late 70s I think).

They carried destination boards until 1974 at least (the traditional cantrail level ones, not the WR ‘continental’ style), long after they were discontinued elsewhere. The BSKs also kept their periscopes long after they had been removed from other examples.

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Was trying to think what's odd about the front end and realised there are no OHL flashes!

I know the GCR doesn't technically need them but the loco would've originally had two on each end (one above each tail light) and one on each side (below the cantrail, near the door).

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D1702 when new, ©Graeme Wareham on Flickr

 

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From the May 1965 issue of 'Railway Magazine', covering the naming of D1661 'North Star' at Paddington and D1662 'Isambard Kingdom Brunel' at Bristol Temple Meads on Saturday 20th March 1965, this was also the day that Old Oak's new diesel servicing facilities were officially opened...

 

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D1662 was featured again in 'RM' when it worked a special in October...

 

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4 hours ago, rodent279 said:

Unknown spoon apparently stabled at Bristol TM today. Anyone know what it's been up to?

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Given that it looks to be named and the westie on bodyside, I assume it's LSL's 47593 Galloway Princess.

 

Not sure why it's there though.

 

Regards,

 

Simon

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