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I've volunteered at the Nene Valley Railway for the last 3.5 years, with the Diesel Footplate crew.

Due to family/work commitments, this was my last footplate duty at the railway, working as Secondman on Class 14 9529, seen ready to work the 1430 departure from Wansford.

LF69UYW 14029

Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 MMC

Stagecoach Manchester

Preserved Class 14 loco D9529 (carrying blue livery and fictitious TOPS number 14029 - none of the Class 14s survived long enough in BR service to receive TOPS numbers) at Wansford on the Nene Valley Railway on 9 October 1994

D9529 was built at Swindon Works and was new in January 1965. It's first allocation was to Cardiff Canton (86A). None of the Class 14s lasted very long in BR service, and D9529 was no exception. By May 1967 it was in store at Worcester depot, and shortly after it was re-allocated to Hull Dairycoates (50B). It appears, however, that this re-allocation never took place and that D9529 never made the trip to Hull. It was withdrawn from service on 1 April 1968 and was sold to BSC for work at Stainby sidings on the High Dyke branch in Lincs. It moved from here to Corby Quarries in September 1972 and then to the BSC Steelworks Disposal site at Corby in December 1980.

It moved into preservation with the NYMR, arriving at Pickering in March 1981. It moved to the GCR (where it was first painted blue) in 1985, and then on to the NVR in 1988.

Since my photo was taken 14029 has been hired out to industrial users (including on the Channel Tunnel main line construction, and at Bardon Hill quarry), but I believe it s now back on the NVR.

Bardon Hill Quarry

Portland Street, Manchester

D9529 (carrying blue livery and fictitious TOPS number 14029), in the shed yard at Wansford on the Nene Valley Railway, near Peterborough. 15th October 1989.

D9529 (carrying blue livery and fictitious TOPS number 14029), in the shed yard at Wansford on the Nene Valley Railway, near Peterborough. 15th October 1989.

D9529 (carrying blue livery and fictitious TOPS number 14029), in the shed yard at Wansford on the Nene Valley Railway, near Peterborough. 15th October 1989.

Built at Swindon and new to 86A Cardiff Canton in January 1965, transferred to 87E Landore that May, stored at 85A Worcester in May 1967, to 50B Hull Dairycoates on the 20th of the month, stored again eleven days later and finally withdrawn on 1st April 1968. An active working life of less than 28 months!

It was the first of forty-nine Class 14s to find further use in industry, initially at Buckminster Quarries in August 1968 where it was given the number 20, and then to British Steel Corby from September 1972, becoming number 61. With the end of iron and steel making at Corby in 1980, it was initially preserved along with D9520 at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway in 1981, where they were the first two Class 14s to work in preservation, then to the Great Central Railway Loughborough in 1984, onto the Nene Valley Railway in 1988 and sold to the Kent & East Sussex Railway in 2000.

Having been the first Class 14 sold into industrial use and one of the first two Class 14s to work in preservation, it also became the first Class 14 to be sold out of preservation and back into industrial use, this time for the Channel Tunnel Rail Link(s) in 2001, where it worked for nearly ten years. Preserved for a second time by the Iron and Steel Traction Group in 2010, it was purchased by the Nene Valley Railway in 2021.

Class 14 number D9529 bearing the post TOPS number of 14029 which it never actually carried during its BR lifetime at Nene Valley Railway on 25th August, 1994.

Stagecoach Manchester's Alexander Dennis Enviro 400EV 14029 LF69UYW is pictured in Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester, on January 25th 2022.