The Flickr 170Xxx Image Generatr

3-car 170635 heads across Malvern Link Common and approaches Malvern Link station on 24-3-15.

The cutting is benefiting from some major clearance work.

The working is the 1M61 10.39 Hereford to Birmingham New Street London Midland Trains [LMT] service.

LMT is now extinct as is the livery, it is very unlikely you would see a class170 in Malvern all services from Birmingham being in the hands of 196 units.

Ref: IMG_7014 24-3-15

With the first of the refurbished class170's released to traffic in the new Cross Country livery this pleasant colour scheme will eventually be a thing of the past.

3-car 170639 heads south and approaches Spetchley Loop on 3-3-25.

The working is the 1V10 1307 Nottingham to Cardiff Central Cross Country Trains service and running 2 minutes late.

Ref: IMG_0589 3-3-25

43004 leading and 43122 out of sight works across Malvern Wells Common on 24-1-17.

The working is the ECS 14.00 5P57 Great Malvern to Great Malvern. It will shortly depart Great Malvern with 1P57 14.25 to London Paddington GWR service.

170517 passes with the 1M67 13.42 Hereford to Birmingham New Street WMT service.

Ref: IMG_6658 24-1-17

170516 2-car unit heads towards Malvern Link station on 7-4-16.

The working is the 1V26 Birmingham New Street [BNS] to Hereford London Midland Railways service.

Ref: IMG_8416 7-4-16

Single Unit 153356 along with 170511 2-car unit depart Malvern Link on the beautiful morning of 17-5-18.

The working is the 1M55 0702 Great Malvern to Birmingham New Street West Midlands Trains service.

Ref: IMG_2194 17-5-18

Looking at the front number you can be forgiven for feeling you are having a visual disturbance. It appears that the number has been overlaid over the old one and it is not quite right. The new number is in a stronger shade than the old - only the two does not quite match up.

Class 170 2-car 170112 approaches the crossing at Pirton in Worcestershire on 3-1-25.

The working is the 1V10 1307 Nottingham to Cardiff Central Crosscountry Trains service and running on time.

Ref: IMG_0347 3-1-25

W43002 'Sir Kenneth Grange' is on the rear and 43023 out of sight leading as it departs Malvern Link on 24-2-18. The working is the 1P51 12.13 Hereford to London Paddington service.

Coming the other way is 170631 [3-car] unit working the 1V26 11.50 Birmingham New Street to Hereford service.

This is an improved upload of a previous post.

Ref: IMG_8421 24-2-18

170514 approaches Great Malvern heading the [08.09 arrival] 1M57 Hereford to Birmingham New Street on 11-7-15.

43125 [with 43040 on the other end] waits at Great Malvern having arrived from London Paddington with the 1W11 service. It will shortly work the ECS to Malvern Wells and return to form the 08.46 1P37 returning to Paddington

Ref: IMG_9139 11-5-15 HW

158798 passes Malvern Wells loop on 7-4-17, as 170513 heads towards Great Malvern.
158798 is on 5O94 14.33 GM-GM ECS which will form the 14.50 to Weymouth and had originated on the 1V94 08.59 Brighton to GM.
170513 2-car was hauling the 1M67 13.42 Hereford to Birmingham New Street but caped at Worcester Foregate Street as it was running 30 mins late.

Ref: IMG_0928 7-4-17

Class170 2-car heads through the beautiful Herefordshire countryside at Tarrington on 15-2-19.
The working is the 1V26 Birmingham New Street to Hereford service.

Towards the end of HST operation to Hereford a few locations were opened up by lineside clearance including this one. I would imagine after 5 years of neglect this viewpoint is severely restricted.

Ref: IMG_8663 15-2-19

172103 with 170510 depart from Malvern Link station on 18-4-22.
The working is the 1M05 0836 Great Malvern to Birmingham New St West Midland Trains service.
These on loan units certainly bring a splash of colour to the line. What will we have to get excited about once these have gone?

170502 and 170508 approach Malvern Link and pass the site of the old goods yard on 12-1-22.
The working is the 1V27 1250 Birmingham New Street to Hereford West Midlands Trains service.

170516 and 170501 head away from Malvern Link at the 'Americas' on 2-12-21.
The working is the 1M61 1039 Hereford to Birmingham New Street West Midlands Trains service

170533 and 170513 head away from Malvern Link and approach the footcrossing by the 'America's Playing Field' on 10-11-20. At this time of day in the winter the light disappears quite early. If the sun is out then it is very close to backlight here. So with the sun in but out on the hill you are able to get better detail on the front of the train.

The working is the 1M72 1539 Hereford to Birmingham New Street West Midlands Trains service.

Living in Malvern Link and taking photos of the Malvern's since the late 1970's I never tire of the different lighting effects.

170515 2-car unit at Stoke Edith in Herefordshire on 29-4-15.
The working is the 1V26 Birmingham New Street to Hereford London Midland Trains service

170534 departs Malvern Link on 24-1-21. Not really comparable with the previous upload but the setting is still one of my favourites. It is on one of my walking routes so no need to get the car out!
It is also good to see a 2-car working as over the period since last March this is the first WMT service that I have seen which has been of this length.
My first train photo of the year.
The working is the 1M12 1402 Hereford to Birmingham New Street West Midlands Trains service

As promised, the text for the previous 5 pieces, 4 pairs of still shots and one video, has now been uploaded and, as an 'additional', this 3-part piece showing the 'elements' mentioned in the last pair of pictures, see-
www.flickr.com/photos/vinc2020/50513616836/
relating to the two female 'holiday-makers' who had conspired to miss their train connection to Leeds, via the service from Scarborough and Hull to Doncaster, Meadowhall and Sheffield. They ultimately disappeared off towards Tesco in all their sexy-looking outfits now arguing as to whose fault it was they missed the train! I photographed them on the mobile, in relative dark so the pictures aren't very good, from the car after taking the picture on the left and was ready to depart. The whole incident reminded my of a piece from 'Live at the Apollo', preformed by the comedian, Jon Richardson, from 2013, the whole 13 minute clip is here-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqaz7lusvi
with the relevant bit at 3 minutes in from the beginning, and relates to two girls travelling on the London Underground missing their stop, and which matches the scene here very well indeed! I should have taken some shots of the scene with them in it but, as usual, didn't think of it until they had gone..
At the station on platform 6 in the left picture, stands D.R.S., class 37, 37402, ex-D974, 'Stephen Middlemore 23.12.1954 - 8.6.2013' with 'B.R. Large Intercity Logo' and 37419, ex-D6991, 'Carl Haviland 1954-2012, with 'B.R. Intercity Livery, having come in on the 3S14, Grimsby Town via Sheffield to Bridlington working. Later, in about 10 minutes, 37419 will lead the way on the 3S15, Bridlington via Hessle to York Thrall Europa, back to base.

Heading quickly along the platform, just in case the working set off for York early, it was due to leave at 20:13 and did set off 7 minutes early on the return to base working, 3S15, Bridlington to York Thrall Europa, arriving at 22:46, 13 minutes early. So, as it was only just after 19:30 at this stage, there was little to worry about and no-one seemed in any rush. The left-hand shot looks along the old platform 6 bay with the platform 7 and 8 excursion bays over to the far right in what is now a large car park next to the Tesco Supermarket. At the other side of the station, platform's 1 & 2 have gone and the space taken over by housing, leaving only platform 4, the down main to Scarborough and to the right of the camera, platform 5, the up main, to Hull, from which it can be gathered that the station layout has reduced significantly since the 1960s and 70s. At left, 37402 is facing the BAy headshunt with the Tesco 'colour lights' on the back of the building visible beyond the old 'picket fence'. The right-hand shot looks along towards the road over-bridge and a couple of masked 'enthusiasts' with tripods taking shots, towards me, as I make the best of the overhead lighting right at the end of the Victorian canopies over the platforms and showing the mucky state of the blue FEA-B RHTT A Tank Wagons with 37419, also in a bit of a state, ex-D6991, 'Carl Haviland 1954-2012' in 'B.R. Intercity Livery' ready to lead off back to York on the 3S15 working. The exit signal is visible as is, just about, the large, lit N.E.R. signalbox on the right of the line's curve in the background.

* This is a 62Mby MP4, 3m 43sec long video, so will have to be viewed at the link below to see the full length, only 3mins are available in the Flickr interface..

** It has just come to my notice (10/12/23) that the Download option below and to the right of the media _does not_ allow you to download the full version, only the 3 minutes available here. So, I am going to try and 'fix' this for all videos lasting more than 3 minutes, this is the link to obtain the full version shown here-
www.flickr.tightfitz.com/Video/DRS_class_37s_on_the_RHTT_...

A sequence of 8 phone camera videos were taken of varying lengths, 15s to 1m 30s, whilst on the station and this video is a composition with the best 6 of them in it. Some work had to be done with them as they turned out quite dark and so the 'gamma' had to be adjusted in the Video Processing tool I use, 'AVS Video Converter 6', to 'lift' the picture levels All this done once more on the Lenovo Yogabook, the process using quite a bit of CPU and battery power to do all 8, before selecting the 6 which form this 3m 43 sec video; the other two not really adding all that much interest to the scene. I haven't edited out the EOS camera shutter release noise, it was too much to do on the Lenovo and I didn't have the 'Adobe Soundbooth' software available to do it anyway; apologies though the repeated noise isn't that intrusive.

D.R.S., class 37, 37402, ex-D974, 'Stephen Middlemore 23.12.1954 - 8.6.2013' with 'B.R. Large Intercity Logo' and 37419, ex-D6991, 'Carl Haviland 1954-2012, with 'B.R. Intercity Livery, on the 3S14 , Grimsby Town via Sheffield to Bridlington working. Later 37419 will lead the way on the 3S15, Bridlington via Hessle to York Thrall Europa, back to base.

last time here for this working was on the 9th October, last year with a couple of D.R.S. operated, H.N.R.C class 20s, 20311 & 20314, on the inbound working to Bridlington and then the subsequent return to York Thrall Europa.
www.flickr.com/photos/daohaiku/48908387376/
and
www.flickr.com/photos/daohaiku/48908593217/
and a video-
www.flickr.com/photos/imarch2/50513105551/
just up-loaded having over-looked this from the 2019 season uploads on the 10th October.

This final pair of shots shows, at left, the departing class 170 unit, on the Scarborough via Hull to Sheffield passenger service, 1H54 now accelerating towards the camera along platform 5 and providing some extra illumination at this end of the station. 37419 now has its own headlamps on, with red on the back of the rear loco, 37402, which brought the set into the station on the 3S14, Grimsby Town via Sheffield for reversal, to Bridlington working. There are a few folk at the other end of the station, a couple of 'enthusiasts' and having grabbed the shot of the 37 and with the 170 approaching, I headed back along the platform. In the right picture, I am on my way out, so thought I would grab the last shot of the rear loco, 37402, ex-D974, 'Stephen Middlemore 23.12.1954 - 8.6.2013' with its 'B.R. Large Intercity Logo', with the driver and second-man now having moved to the front and are preparing for the off and the platform now pretty much deserted. Amongst the folk I had spotted in the picture on the left as I started to walk back along the platform was a couple of young women, dressed for a holiday abroad it looked like, who were heading, with brightly coloured pink & white suitcases, to Leeds. I could only assumed they were heading to the airport via a connection at Doncaster, Meadowhall or Sheffield as they told me they were waiting for the next train but didn't know which platform it came in on. I informed them it was the one they were on, platform, 5, but it wouldn't arrive for about a half hour, so they went off into the waiting room. The next I saw of them was when I was walking back along the platform to head back to our place at Carnaby and saw they were sat on the benches with their suitcases.. Informing them that the train they wanted had just left, they said they knew and would have to wait for the next one, in an hour.. Hmmm I thought, wonder if the plane is also going to wait .. they had a bit of a journey to get from here to Leeds anyway without having missed two trains it transpired. On exit from the station I decided to get a shot back of the 37 over the picket fence, seen in the earlier photograph, so I was hanging about a bit getting the camera set up when, out of the station the two women came, now arguing the toss as to who's fault it was they had missed their train(s).. and disappeared off towards Tesco in all their sexy-looking outfits! The whole incident reminded my of a piece from 'Live at the Apollo', preformed by the comedian, Jon Richardson, from 2013, the whole 13 minute clip is here-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqaz7lusvi
with the relevant bit at 3 minutes in from the beginning, and relates to two girls travelling on the London Underground missing their stop, and which matches the scene here very well indeed! I should have taken some shots of the scene with them in it but, as usual, didn't think of it until they had gone..