Peter Kazmierczak Posted April 20, 2014 Author Share Posted April 20, 2014 One of Derby Etches Park's Cl.120 3-car Cross-Country units has a wash and brush-up through the CWM at it's home depot on a warm summer evening. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 (edited) Picking up on post 233 with the single 25 on freightliners, here's one (in the Kettering area I think), about 1982-3, with bricks on freightliner wagons. Sorry about the lack of detail, indexing not up to date on this one. I've another photo of a 25 on the Greater Manchester "binliners", but that's outside the scope of this thread. Edited April 20, 2014 by eastwestdivide 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted April 20, 2014 Author Share Posted April 20, 2014 In the days when the APT was still very much on the agenda, early May 1980 finds 370002 tucked-up in BREL Litchurch Lane Works. Note that the vehicles are on accommodation bogies to move them around the works. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 Alongside the site of Stapleford & Sandiacre station in 1980, Cl.44 44007 draws forward on the Down Goods line, prior to setting back its train onto the New Bank arrival lines at Toton. Meanwhile a pair of Cl.20s await the road on the Up Goods. Would the 44 have come from Etruria with steelwork from BSC Shelton? I seem to recall that was a regular out and back working that would get a 44 home each day. cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 (edited) No reason why a Cl.25 couldn't work a Freightliner, though I've not seen too many pictures of them doing it - cue lots of pictures on RMweb now. Anyway, here in 1981 is one such working between Barrow upon Trent and Swarkestone. This is probably a Birmingham Lawley Street to Nottingham working. Not that common in my experience, I have one photo of a 25 on Freightliner work, at Trent Junction, it may be the same working, though my notes have it as a Dudley - Nottingham service, I may well be wrong 25051 heads past Trent Junction towards Nottingham Freightliner terminal, 15/9/80 cheers Edited April 20, 2014 by Rivercider 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnw1 Posted April 21, 2014 Share Posted April 21, 2014 156403 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6580255535/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted April 21, 2014 Share Posted April 21, 2014 Not that common in my experience, I have one photo of a 25 on Freightliner work, at Trent Junction, it may be the same working, though my notes have it as a Dudley - Nottingham service, I may well be wrong 25051 heads past Trent Junction towards Nottingham Freightliner terminal, 15/9/80 cheers Interesting load - lorry trailer? - on the first wagon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted April 21, 2014 Share Posted April 21, 2014 Interesting load - lorry trailer? - on the first wagon. It's a skeletal trailer, almost certainly for Freightliner's own use; putting it on a flat container would have been the easiest way of moving it, as it would only need to be strapped down to the flat, rather than have special slings and a suitable crane found at each end of its journey. I have somewhere a photo of a bogie flatwagon being moved in similar fashion; each bogie rested on a 20' flat container, both of which were then loaded on to a Cargowaggon flat (the flat containers being retained by tension-straps on the carrying wagon, which didn't have twistlocks) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted April 21, 2014 Author Share Posted April 21, 2014 After having deposited the brake van onto a rake of empties and having run-round their loaded train, the train crew swop ends and prepare to haul their train of HUOs into the sidings at Spondon Power Station. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catkins Posted April 21, 2014 Share Posted April 21, 2014 I like the use of full high vis clothing in that picture. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted April 21, 2014 Author Share Posted April 21, 2014 Slight puzzle here at Derby early in 1981. I think this vehicle, E1322, is an ex-LNER design of CCT built at York in 1950 to Lot 1223. However I can't find it listed so it must've been withdrawn (probably in the 1979), well before I took this photo in 1981. There was an ex-SR PMV with the same number that was still in service at this time (1981), but it doesn't look like one of those to me. Perhaps this CCT was on it's last run, or had it been transferred to departmental stock and not been renumbered? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted April 21, 2014 Share Posted April 21, 2014 (edited) E1322 LNER CCT still in the 1978 RCTS coaching stock book, but gone from the 1980 edition. But departmentals.com lists QRV RDB 975792 ex-LNER 1322 as a "Track Research Stores van", and the RDB prefix indicating (Derby) Research would seem to fit nicely with your pic. Edited April 21, 2014 by eastwestdivide Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest B Exam Posted April 22, 2014 Share Posted April 22, 2014 Was coming back from Pride Park today after seeing Derby County win again today and saw a very unexpected sight. Two fairly old diesel locomotives in a livery that had a passing resemblence to British Railways green double head a short wagon freight over Five Arches bridge. I believe one carried a class 31 number, I think the other was the same class but, I think, had a four digit number beginning with 7. Being a steam enthusiast I could not give the exact class of these locos, but they were definitely the type I have seen running on preserved lines. Sadly no camera to hand! They would of both been Class 31s. Both painted green, but only one in BR green livery. The BR green one would of been 31190 which carries D numbers (D5613) and Devon & Cornwall Railways green 31601. They would working the RailVac train north to Yorkshire when you saw them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted April 22, 2014 Author Share Posted April 22, 2014 One expects most types of rail vehicle to appear in Derby at some point, usually en-route to the then Railway Technical Centre. However on this day in spring 1980 I didn't expect to see a Class 33 on a scheduled freight train. It arrived alongside the station and I took this picture as it was standing on the down goods line. The headcode was "FC" and the train was made up of 2-axle Class A oil tank wagons. I never saw anything about this working in the railway press at the time - not like today when every move is recorded in advance. After 34 years I wonder if anyone can shed light on the working. My best shot is that it was on a working to St Andrew's oil terminal, just south of London Road bridge, possibly from Fawley. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest B Exam Posted April 23, 2014 Share Posted April 23, 2014 One expects most types of rail vehicle to appear in Derby at some point, usually en-route to the then Railway Technical Centre. However on this day in spring 1980 I didn't expect to see a Class 33 on a scheduled freight train. It arrived alongside the station and I took this picture as it was standing on the down goods line. The headcode was "FC" and the train was made up of 2-axle Class A oil tank wagons. I never saw anything about this working in the railway press at the time - not like today when every move is recorded in advance. After 34 years I wonder if anyone can shed light on the working. My best shot is that it was on a working to St Andrew's oil terminal, just south of London Road bridge, possibly from Fawley. 33s were more common at Derby than what you would imagine. I have a photo of a 33 on the Beeston-Derby St Mary's trip in Aug 1987. Its not been scanned yet, so you'll have to wait. For a rare East Mids 33 photo.... https://www.flickr.com/photos/53299842@N08/5963149115/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted April 23, 2014 Author Share Posted April 23, 2014 Yes, I'd like to see that please. There was a Cl.33 at the RTC in the 1980s for awhile (think it was 33012) but 33002 was the only one I ever saw on a "normal" train. Of course things changed after privatisation..... Regards, Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted April 23, 2014 Author Share Posted April 23, 2014 These sturdy Midland Railway level crossing gates were a common sight throughout the East Midlands and further afield on former MR metals. These ones at Attenborough lasted longer than most. In this 1980 shot can be seen some surviving LMR maroon enamel signs too. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted April 23, 2014 Share Posted April 23, 2014 Another 33, number not legible, in 1987 at N Staffs Jn with a couple of what look like departmental coaches. Oil tanks as well as coal hoppers in the power station. Couple more from the same day, 20s and a 56 on power station duties, and a steam loco with an apparently withdrawn coach, plus a preserved one. Odd, and also unexpected, as I didn't have any gen. Pure luck. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyram Posted April 23, 2014 Share Posted April 23, 2014 I have thoroughly enjoyed looking through the posts showing some local shots from yesteryear. There has been plenty of diesel traction so I thought I would redress the balance a little. Here is a shot of "Princess Elizabeth" passing through Swarkestone on a special a couple of years ago. I did manage to get this shot published in the Derby Evening Telegraph. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnw1 Posted April 24, 2014 Share Posted April 24, 2014 08018 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6145809853/ 20193 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/8058561181/ 20195 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/8378658129/ 44005 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5528693004/ 44007 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6297156575/ 45073 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/6297685136/ 153381 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/10064434334/ 66512 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/8716858726 66532 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/8728091306/ 153310 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/8728090512/ 153379- https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/8726973193/ 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allegheny1600 Posted April 24, 2014 Share Posted April 24, 2014 (edited) I too have really enjoyed this thread so I thought I'd better make my contribution at last! Now, I don't have a scanner or anything sophisticated so my apologies for the less clear shots as these are digital photos of the original prints, hope they look ok. Unknown pair of class 45 Peaks heading into Derby Platform (5?)(the bay platform between 4 & 6!), probably for a shuffling move. Hang on, that can't be right! Wasn't P5 a single track bay? Looking again, this looks more like the North end of P1? Sorry about my memory! Overall view of Derby Loco works, complete with a 'mess' of engineering vehicles in front! 25 254 and unknown class 20 moving from the fuelling point in front of "Engine Sidings No. 2" box. These pics are undated but included for later (if anyones wishes to see!) is the destruction of the original Derby Midland station, shame! Some more personal ones would appear to date these to around Spring 1985? Cheers, John E. Edited April 24, 2014 by Allegheny1600 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allegheny1600 Posted April 24, 2014 Share Posted April 24, 2014 Right! I'll just get these uploaded while I'm in the 'mood'! 151 002 coming in to Derby P2 from a run from Nottingham (Lincoln?) 47 631 on aircon Mk2's on P1, heading North. Possibly a service from Portsmouth or even a SW/NE run? (South West/North East but it looks like the vernacular for a pig!!!) "Flying Scotsman" passes through the goods lines on a flying visit. As before, these are probably from about Spring 1985. Cheers, John E. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted April 24, 2014 Author Share Posted April 24, 2014 Hello John, First pic of the x2 Peaks is, as you say, the north end of plat 1. They're signalled to cross to the goods line. Regards, Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted April 24, 2014 Share Posted April 24, 2014 Aah, Derby... with the Railway Technical centre just round the corner, it was always worth a visit for a glimpse of the future. Here, in 1983: 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted April 24, 2014 Author Share Posted April 24, 2014 Of course the future wasn't always as bright as hoped for.......... The solitary Cl.140 at Derby in 1981. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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