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An atmospheric image of a DMU in Birmingham Snow Hill on 1 March 1967. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Class 100 set 64 with a Class 101 twin on the rear, having just departed from Reedham station on its way to Lowestoft, circa early / mid-1970s. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Class 125 DMBS E51164 at Birds Long Marston on 21 May 1978. Stuart Mackay Collection.
A council sponsored Dales Rail local stopping service at Armathwaite on the Settle and Carlisle line on 2 May 1981. A Class 105 power twin leads, followed by a four-car Class 108. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Class 116 set TS512 (presumably 53113 + 59608 + 53051) in Birmingham Moor Street. The slide process date was April 1984. Stuart Mackay Collection.
101309 on Ayr depot, 51233 closest. Undated, the 107 centre car suggests circa early 1987. On the left is Class 107 centre car SC59798. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Two withdrawn Met-Camm Lightweights that were used for a local rescue training exercise, thought to be near Leiston. They are being hauled by a Brush type 2, with a tanker between them. Circa 1970. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Withdrawn Met-Camm Lightweights at Leiston for a rescue training exercise. Undated, likely circa 1970. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Two Class 114s, E50007 closest, at Doncaster with the 17:17 Cleethorpes - Sheffield service on 10 June 1978. Stuart Mackay Collection.
116387 (presumably 53822 + 59330 + 53881) in Dundee station circa mid-1986. Stuart Mackay Collection.
It is a chill day at Lapworth on 4 December 1982 as a fisherman peers glumly at his float which refuses to bob. The angler is at one of the large pounds which connect to the Stratford canal. Back in 1982 these pounds had a clear view of the railway but of course today the line is all but obscured by trees. Rattling along in the background a Class 116 with a Met-Camm centre car is at work on the 12.00 Birmingham Moor Street to Leamington Spa train. Geoff Dowling.
Marylebone 1982 BC (before Chiltern), on 30 November 1982. Marylebone Station under British Rail was a run-down unkempt disgrace, the old carriage road used as a car park. Clapped out diesel units sat with their engines idling filling the grimy roof space with fumes as this 4 car class 115 is doing. Under Chiltern Railways the station is clean and an architectural gem, no rusting heaps of cars sully the station and as soon as diesels arrive they shut down their engines. Geoff Dowling.
The driver of the Swindon unit (the far car is 50686) opens up having negotiated the junction at Smethwick West. The train is bound for Hereford and will continue though Stourbridge and Worcester, these comfortable units has curtains and little Formica topped tables just big enough to put two cups of tea on. Smethwick West would soon have a rebuild, the engineering blue brick platforms were too low, as can be seen on the far platform a set of steps was provided for the less sprightly. Peter Shoesmith took this from under the footbridge circa 1966, the smoke deflector is seen at the top, the pre-rebuild station was a fine building with a good size awning to protect the passengers although of course the would be a disinfectant smelling waiting room to retreat into. The platforms are still there today with their tiny bus shelters and platform lights but everything is slowly disappearing into a verdant wilderness. Geoff Dowling and John Whitehouse Collection.
W50686 is leading this service for Hereford, it has run from Snow Hill and is picking up the Stourbridge Line at Smethwick west Junction, circa 1966. The line which the train has used was closed to passenger trains when Snow Hill closed but remained in use for freight, when the Jewellery line opened passengers returned once again. The train is approaching Smethwick West station, the station was replaced just after the Jewellery line opened by the more convenient interchange station at Smethwick Galton Bridge. To the right of the signal box the tunnel to Galton Junction can be seen, also on the right a ladder is against the signal box at an insane angle. Above the train is the top of a blast furnace, a very common sight back then but nearly extinct now. Image taken by Peter Shoesmith. Geoff Dowling and John Whitehouse Collection.
With that familiar rasp of exhaust, a class 101 DMU leaves Riding Mill on 12/06/1981. The train was the 10.42 Carlisle to Newcastle service. Geoff Dowling.
This scene was taken on a fine summer day at Whitchurch around 1960. The platforms have a fine display of direction signs including the all important Postal Telegraph Office. Staff have the traditional uniforms of heavy dark blue serge with brass buttoned waistcoat and shiny peaked cap. On the right a teetering pile of pigeon baskets wait to be returned (I trust they are empty), a young man leans nonchalantly against the building perhaps he owns one of the bicycles, a drop handlebar sports job rather than the sit-up-and-beg Raleigh by the pigeon baskets. Standing at the platform is a BRCW class 104 DMU and on the right is 4300 class 6335, a long time Oxley resident. Image taken by Peter Shoesmith. Geoff Dowling and John Whitehouse Collection.
51439 is leading a white / blues stripe DTCL on the 14.45 Newcastle to Carlisle train as it ambles into Haltwhistle station on 08/06/1981. In the background are the rusting rails of the closed branch line to Alston. Geoff Dowling.
M985 was an SLS rail tour on 15/04/1961, using a Derby 108 and a Cravens unit to the Cromford & High Peak railway on that railway they had 68013 & 68030. The participants are "enjoying" a photo stop in the rain at Ashbourne. The tour, officially known as the North Staffs, Buxton & Cromford and High Peak, had started from Burton on Trent. The Station Hotel is a Bass house and the signal is upper quadrant, it had a timber platform and the signal box is on the right. Image taken by Peter Shoesmith. Geoff Dowling and John Whitehouse Collection.
Watched by a member of the station staff, a Metro-Cammell DMU calls at Coseley (Deepfields) with a Birmingham bound service from Wolverhampton. In this 1966 photograph the overhead wires are in place but surprisingly so is the canopy. The old station building is intact with quite a collection of sturdy barrows sheltering between the benches under shade of that canopy. In the platform are a comprehensive crop of wild flowers including lupins, I say "in the platform" because they seem to have escaped from what I assume was a flower bed on the right. A glance at the end wall reveals a poster of a young lady looking passionately up at her male companion, it would seem her hero has painted their house with 'Snowcem' a white cement paint made by The Portland Cement Company, how very romantic. Image taken by Peter Shoesmith, 25/09/1966. Geoff Dowling and John Whitehouse Collection.
A Gloucester single car in Bewdley station circa mid-1960s. Set number 109 is in the left cab window, this is thought to be 55012. Stuart Mackay Collection.
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