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Stagecoach Cumberland ADL E20D - ADL Enviro200 is seen in Common End working a 600 to West Cumberland Hospital.
2M64 Manuel to Bo'ness. Class 26 in BR Blue livery seen here crossing the Avon Viaduct between Manuel and Birkhill during the Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway spring Diesel gala.
Royal Caribbean International cruise ship at Southampton as seen through the masts.
IMO 9330032
Built 2007 Aker Turku, Finland
155,889 gt
7Aug2026
P&O's 'Aurora' alongside at Southampton, attended by service vessels including the bunkering tanker Whitonia.
IMO 9169524
Built 2000, Meyer Werft, Germany
76,152 gt
7Aug2026
16.54: SNCF's Corail liveried “nez cassé” Class BB15000 No.15007.
It has ran forward a bit and shut down after disconnecting from its terminating IC service.
Once the next service heads out, 15007 will run off L/E to await its next rostered IC.
Loco History:
BIG thanks, as usual, to Christophe Hespel for his trainsso.fr database for the detailed loco history 🙏
15007 was built by Alsthom (now Alstom) at Belfort and delivered to SNCF on 22/03/1973.
It was a testbed loco for SNCF from the mid 70s to the 1990s.
Initially renumbered in 1974 as BB7003, it became the prototype for the DC powered BB7200 Class locomotives.
From 1983, it became BB10003 as SNCF worked on asynchronous induction motors.
From 1997 it was converted back to a standard BB15000.
The last few BB15000s still active were mainly retired in December 2025/ January 2026.
15007 went a bit earlier.
After a 5 year break in withdrawals, 15007 was withdrawn on 05/12/2018 from the STF Champagne Ardenne division, having travelled only 4,400,178 kms.
Most of the Class did 9 to 11 million km’s on retirement. But 15007s testbed work reduced its actual use on passenger services.
There is no record of it being sent to the Sotteville Graveyard and I am not sure which scrapyard it went to, or when.
NB: The 3 approved asbestos removal scrapyards at the time are in the album info section.
If anyone has more details, I would be very grateful as I am trying to complete a database of all the Graveyard arrivals, departures and scrapyard locations🙏 🙏
GWR 7P 4-6-0 Class 4073 Castle No 7029 'Clun Castle' heads Vintage Train's 'The Llandudno Victorian Extravaganza' special on the Llandudno to Dorridge leg of the railtour - passing Chester Racecourse.
BR Class 47 No 47773 at the rear of the train.
Copyright Photograph Robin Stewart-Smith - All Rights Reserved
A Re-Edited Post
LNER Azuma Class 801 No 801228 'Gresley 150' arrives at York Station on the ECML with 1E20 - the 1500 Edinburgh-London Kings Cross on 3rd August 2026
Copyright Photograph Robin Stewart-Smith - All Rights Reserved
Irish Coastguard Helicopter overhead St Patrick off Cork
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Akka passing Roches Point Lighthouse inbound for Ringaskiddy, Cork from Boulogne sur Mer
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Pont Aven outbound from Ringaskiddy, Cork for Roscoff with Fugro Synergy inbound
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Ben My Chree outbound from Larne for Douglas, Isle of Man with Ailsa Craig in the background
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St Patrick approaching Roches Point inbound for Ringaskiddy, Cork from Boulogne sur Mer
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St Patrick outbound from Ringaskiddy, Cork for Boulogne sur Mer
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Flake breaking new ground easing out from the South Terminal working 0E99 0930 Felixstowe South GBRf to Peterborough Maint Shed GBRF.
Ian Sharman - All rights reserved. Please do not use my images without my explicit permission.
Flake breaking new ground easing out from the South Terminal working 0E99 0930 Felixstowe South GBRf to Peterborough Maint Shed GBRF.
Ian Sharman - All rights reserved. Please do not use my images without my explicit permission.
Flake breaking new ground easing out from the South Terminal working 0E99 0930 Felixstowe South GBRf to Peterborough Maint Shed GBRF.
Ian Sharman - All rights reserved. Please do not use my images without my explicit permission.
Seen departing from Rawtenstall with a service for Heywood. A recent addition to the ELR diesel fleet D8069 is now considered part of the operational ELR diesel fleet.
St Patrick approaching Roches Point inbound for Ringaskiddy, Cork from Boulogne sur Mer
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Pont Aven approaching Cork from Roscoff
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