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Further Afield
This section comprises a selection of photographs around the UK and Overseas.
UK
Cornwall
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- HSTs and mechanical signalling in Cornwall are shortly to become history. Both are seen at St Erth on April 18th 2024 as 43097 and 43187 pull out of the station and head for their next stop, Hayle, which they will reach in three minutes’ time on the 12.50 Penzance-Plymouth. Although very pleasant as a form of local transport around Cornwall, the economies of running HSTs on all-stations stopping services must be questionable. Photo: Michael Smyth.
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- In addition to the almost 50 year old HSTs, another veteran class in Cornwall is the Class 150/2. In a modest way these units also marked the start of a new era, in the mid-80s, as pioneers of BR’s second generation DMU fleet. Exeter has an allocation of twenty two-car Class 150/2 units which have refurbished interiors with comfortable 2+2 seating, grab rails, good lighting and information displays. On April 18th 2024, 150221 and 150224 were working the St Ives branch and are seen arriving at St Erth with the 13.03 from St Ives. Photo: Michael Smyth.
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- Originally thirty-four Class 43s were modified to work four coach ex-HST sets, but many have now been scrapped, exported or stored at Laira depot. The final examples were scheduled for withdrawal at the end of 2023 but this did not happen and currently the survivors have three daily diagrams between Plymouth to Penzance. With St Michael’s Mount off to the right, 43186 and 43188 approach Penzance on April 16th 2024 with the 10.42 from Plymouth. Photo: Michael Smyth.
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- A generous thirty-five minutes are allowed for the turn-round at Penzance on the 10.42 from Plymouth, giving ample opportunity to inspect the motive power. With ‘Welshman’ logo on the side, 43188 forms the 13.15 to Plymouth on April 16th 2024. These sets give an excellent quality of ride compared to the more usual Class 150 units that work the Cornish locals. Photo: Michael Smyth.
Cumbrian
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- Northern Rail’s Civity Class 195 No. 195104 received extensive damage when it became derailed on unsupported track just before Grange-Over-Sands at approximately 06.00 on Friday 22nd March 2024 whilst working 2C37 05.18 Preston to Barrow. It is suspected that a culvert beneath the track may have collapsed and an investigation is in place to establish the facts. Photo: Derek Walmsley.
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- The extent of the damage to the Down Line at Grange-Over-Sands is clearly shown in this view of Northern’s Class 195 No. 195104 taken on March 25th 2024. The train became derailed at around 06.00 on Friday 22nd March 2024 whilst working 2C37 05.18 Preston to Barrow. Photo: Derek Walmsley.
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- Heavy lifting machinery in the forma of a Kirow 1200 crane is seen at Grange-Over-Sands on Monday March 25th 2024. This crane was used to re-rail the derailed vehicles of 2C37, the 05.18 Preston to Barrow which de-railed after passing over damaged trackwork at around 6am on Friday 22nd March 2024. Photo: Derek Walmsley.
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- By Wednesday 27th March 2024, the two three-car Class 195 units forming 2C37, 05.18 Preston to Barrow on Friday 22nd March had been re-railed at Grange-Over-Sands. The 125-tonne capacity of the Kirow 1200 crane is sufficient to lift the circa 44 tonne Class 195 vehicles. Photo: Derek Walmsley.
General
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- On Thursday 27th July 2023, LNER A4 Pacific 60007 ‘Sir Nigel Gresley’ worked 1Z49, the 05.47 High Wycombe to Shrewsbury railtour from Bristol to Shrewsbury and back. After arrival at Shrewsbury, the empty stock turned on the triangle at Abbey Foregate/English Bridge then propelled to Coton Hill. 60007 is seen propelling the ECS past the former LNWR box at the North end of Shrewsbury station, towards Coton Hill. Photo: Ron Hynes.
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- A busy scene at Shrewsbury on 1st July 2023. From Left to Right are: 158827 and 158823 heading from Wolverhampton to Aberystwyth and Pwllheli (dividing at Machynlleth); 158837 and 158830 in the opposite direction; 153382 to Swansea via the Central Wales Line and 196108 for Wolverhampton (the line beyond being closed for engineering work). Photo: Michael Smyth.
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- The delightful ex-GWR semaphore starting signals on Platform 7 at Shrewsbury on 1st July 2023. To the left is Wolverhampton and to the right is the North and West line to Newport and the Cambrian Lines to Aberystwyth and Pwllheli. Photo: Michael Smyth.
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- East Midlands Railway’s four Class 222/1 Meridian units were formerly with Hull Trains until the arrival of their Class 802/3 units in 2018/19. Set 222104 stands in Sheffield’s Platform 5 with the 10.00 to St Pancras on August 9th 2023, whilst Trans-Pennine’s 185101 and 185137 stable on the centre roads. Photo: Alan jones.
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- One of the last remaining HSTs in service, 43304, enters Sheffield on August 9th 2023 with 1V50, the 06.06 Edinburgh-Plymouth. Photo: Alan Jones.
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- The sun illuminates the scalloped-out cab front curves nicely and makes the whole front of Vossloh/Stadler-built Class 68 No. 68008 ‘Avenger’ look quite aggressive as it stands at High Wycombe with the 15.02 Marylebone to Moor Street on August 15th 2023. Photo: Alan Jones.
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- With a high pantograph as it passes over Chathill level crossing, Crewe-built Class 91 No. 91124 races Southwards with the 16:30 Edinburgh to Kings Cross on August 8th 2020. The marvellous Up platform buildings to the left of the locomotive are a reminder of the days of the North Sunderland Light Railway which operated from the bay platform (to the left of the picture) to Seahouses until closure in 1951. Photo: Alan Jones.
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- Most London trains use platform 8 at Leeds, but bay Platform 6 is long enough to accommodate a full-length train and is used several times throughout the day. On September 8th 2023, Class 91 No. 91127 ‘Neville Hill’ is at the rear of the 13.15 to Kings Cross, with 82208 at the front. Photo: Alan Jones.
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- The Guard of LNER’s 16.45 Leeds to Kings Cross enjoys a moment in the Winter sun as he waits time in 82223 at Leeds station’s platform 8 on 23rd February 2023. Photo: Alan Jones.
Ireland
Mallorca
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- On 18th September 2023, Motor car #1 (built 1913) threads through the parasols and tables in Plaça de sa Constitució, Sóller. Photo: Tony Field.
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- Four photographs taken on 18th September 2023 of the ‘Tranvía de Sóller’ heritage electric tramway, which runs over a 4.8km, 3ft gauge route between Sóller and the Port of Sóller. It opened in 1913 and is electrified at 600V DC, using a variety of (immaculate) motor and trailer cars dating from 1890, 1913, 1937 and 2001/2002. On this day, services were formed of a motor car hauling up to two trailers or four trailers sandwiched between two motor cars – and were packed with tourists! Clockwise from top left are the tram shed, an enclosed trailer, motor car #23 (1937, ex-Lisbon) and an open trailer. Photos: Tony Field.
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- A montage of four photographs, taken on September 18th 2023, of the ‘Ferrocarril de Sóller’ (Sóller Railway), a 3ft gauge heritage electric railway which carries over a million passengers a year between Palma and Sóller on the island of Mallorca, on a steeply-graded 27 km route through the mountains. It was opened with steam power in 1912 and electrified in 1929 at 1200V DC, using four 33 ton, 360 hp Carde & Escoriaza-Siemens Schuckert-Brill railcars, which are still the motive power and normally haul up to six carriages. The four photos are at Sóller station, showing clockwise from top left the busy main platform, a railcar, a carriage and tramcar, and the workshop. Photos: Tony Field
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- A modern CAF-built Serveis Ferroviaris de Mallorca (SFM) EMU is seen arriving at Inca station on the double-track line from Palma on 20th September 2023. 5km beyond Inca the line splits into single-track branches to Sa Pobla and Manacor. The Mallorca system was originally 3ft gauge but over 40 years ago the surviving Palma – Inca section was converted to metre gauge. The Sa Pobla and Manacor branches were re-opened in the early 2000s, and the whole system electrified at 1500V DC in 2018. Photo: Tony Field.
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