When I retire I will scan all my - and god that is a lot!
I could swear they have a preserved one at the National Rail Museum.It's a pity I'll have to go to Utrecht to see a preserved one.
Perhaps I should go one day......although if I had to choose between Crewe and Utrecht as destinations.......I could swear they have a preserved one at the National Rail Museum.
Aye....26020 (TOPS No. 76 020)I could swear they have a preserved one at the National Rail Museum.
My pleasure. I'm happy you are enjoying them!Oh, wow. Proper time machine stuff. @D1511 thank you so much for these. Please keep them coming
My pleasure. I'm happy you are enjoying them!
56076 under construction in 1980 in its green primer at Crewe probably. Being a BREL one it probably performed a bit better when in service than the Romanian predecessors! You can see the production line in action.....there's another chassis next to the camera
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It’ll be Doncaster, not Crewe. The 56 build was across three sites: 56001-030 in Romania (sub-contract from Brush), 56031-115 at BREL Doncaster and 56116-135 at BREL Crewe....with what looks like a bogie on the left (with a cab behind it) and probably a traction motor blower on the floor in front of 56076. 40+ years later some have been rebuilt into cl.69's, retaining the (refurbished & modified) original bodyshell and bogies - Crewe obviously built them well!
York is nice though.Perhaps I should go one day......although if I had to choose between Crewe and Utrecht as destinations.......
Yes, good point!York is nice though.
Thanks! I was never any good at exposing night shots with colour slide film but the occasional one comes out a bit less green than the majority! Those old plank wagons behind that 40 remind me of a noise that freight workings don't make nowadays!Excellent stuff again. It works really well to group the photo's around themes and I like the old yards / depots idea. I travel through Stratford International everyday, but it was only yesterday that i read on another thread that this was the site of the old depot - funny it should come up again here. i will take a look for the plaque as I haven't noticed it. You might have braved the cold and the over exuberance of your fellow enthusiasts, but you had the last laugh with that shot of the line of units at Bury, very nice indeed.
Nice to see you took on night photography too, it was something I really enjoyed and I have a selection of shots lined up for my thread. That shot of the whistler is really moody.
Thanks both!
Also, glad the period motors are also getting noticed!
On that note, here's Longsight shed in Jan 1979 with a range of motive power on show. The source of the smoke filling the shed was the DMU, which is probably why the cyclist was getting out of there!
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I had a few minutes to spare this evening, so I went to search out the plaque commemorating the works at Stratford International station. It’s stuck in a corner, but is quite a nice size. 9 hours to build a locomotive - wow!I'm sure there is probably a book on 'former railway depots that are now shopping centres'
Here is a bustling scene at Stratford TMD, once the largest shed on the Eastern region with a works that held the record for building a locomotive in the shortest time.......now it's Westfield shopping centre and bits of the Olympic Park. The only trace of the former works and shed here is a small plaque in Stratford International Station. I think the heritage of the railway in Stratford should be celebrated more. It was an amazing and important place back in the day, and Stratford Open Day was a must every year.
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@lostwin(m) Not at all, thank you! It proves I wasn't making that stuff up in my earlier post!Hope you don’t mind me posting the picture on your thread.