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Preserved Class 104 Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Company Diesel Multiple Unit at Sheringham Railway Station on the North Norfolk Railway (aka the Poppy Line) September 2023. Just returned to passenger traffic after a 7-year rebuilding programme. Along with Class 101 DMU 51188 from the Weybourne Traction Group.
Locomotive Services BR Green liveried Class 20's 20107 (D8107) "Jocelyn Fielding 1940-2020" & 20096 (D8096), lead Victor Korzeniewicz's Railfreight liveried Class 26 26007 and Harry Needle Railroad Company's Class 37 37067 through Derby, while on their way to take part in East Lancashire Railway's diesel gala.
Another look through the DMU archives finds the Telecom liveried class 118 set approaching Exeter St. Davids on an overcast Saturday 11 July 1987.
Photo copyright © R. Chilton
BR DMU Class 104 passes Cowbridge having passed under the Bedford Midland Main Line- with a passenger service working from Bletchley to Bedford St Johns Station on 18th August 1982 (Copyright Robin Stewart-Smith - All Rights Reserved)
An image previously posted as a square crop has now been rescanned and reprocessed in its original 24x36 format. While the square version arguably made for a better composition, I think this wider view gives it more room to breathe and offers a bit more interest, especially as it's now coming up to 45 years old.
The train, a 3-car class 506 unit with M59401M leading, is seen here on the approach to Hadfield station where it will terminate. Originally ordered in 1938 by the LNER, the eight sets comprising the class weren't built until 1950 and would enter service in 1954 on the then newly electrified Woodhead route serving the Manchester - Glossop - Hadfield section. While technically they could run all the way over the Woodhead to Sheffield, in practice they were rarely seen east of Hadfield where the challenging gradients coupled with their low gearing rendered them prone to overheating. (Info courtesy of Wiki).
Interestingly these units, built by Metropolitan Cammell and BRC&W, would outlast the class 76 and class 77 locomotives. They were withdrawn in 1984, three years after the Woodhead route closed east of Hadfield, when the remnants of the line were converted from 1500v DC to 25Kv AC operation.
This shot was taken on a cold and misty late autumn morning with the sun just starting to break through. The orange-vested trackside chaps had been giving the point some attention - it was an important one too seeing as all trains terminating at Hadfield used the crossover to access what was the Down mainline back to Manchester.
Agfa CT18
17th November 1977
British Railways Class 33 BRCW Type 3 Crompton Diesel locomotive 33012 "Lt Jenny Lewis RN"
0Z55 12.22 Burton Wetmore Sidings to Swanage
Haselour Lane, Elford, Staffordshire
AEC Q-type with bodywork supplied by the Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Company here at an event in Cobham Surrey during April 2002. Owned by the London Bus Preservation Trust based at the London Bus Museum.
AEC Q-type with bodywork supplied by the Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Company here at an event in Addlestone Surrey during April 1989. Owned by the London Bus Preservation Trust based at the London Bus Museum.
Hastings Gauge 'Slim Jim', Class 33/2 No 33207 'Jim Martin' sits in Platform 3 at Carlisle on 18th June 2008, after having just arrived with Kingfisher Railtours "Settle & Carlisle Tourist Train', 1Z26 1038 ex-Skipton. The locomotive has a lamp bracket mounted diamond-shaped Carnforth Depot plate, depicting its coaling stage. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
West Coast Railway's 'Slim Jim' Class 33/2 No. 33207 'Jim Martin' approaches Hellifield on 18th June 2008 with a Kingfisher Railtours charter, 1Z26 1038 Skipton - Carlisle. It was billed as 'The Settle & Carlisle Tourist Train' and was the inaugural working of a planned series of tours featuring heritage traction over the 'S&C'. However, the concept did not prove to be popular, and this was the one and only such working. The head on view of No. 33207 highlights its 'slimmed down' width, as the Class 33/2 sub-class was specifically built for the restricted loading gauge on the Hastings Line. Note, too, that he locomotive is carrying a diamond-shaped Carnforth depot plate, featuring the coaling stage at the WCRC HQ. Copyright Photograph John Whitehgouse - all rights reserved
