Back to Somerset and the late 1990s....
These shots were taken on the eastern approaches to Whiteball tunnel on the GW mainline.
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EMUs.
Class 333 EMU arriving at Leeds on an Aire Valley service. Class 333 at the west end of Leeds station. At least they have a bit of style built into them unlike...... ... class 321 EMU arrives from Doncaster into the west end of Leeds station.
Countess.
"The Countess" is one of the two original Beyer Peacock 0-6-0Ts built in 1902 for the Welshpool and Llanfair Railway. She is seen here at Llanfair in the early 1990s. Standing on the engine road. There is now an engine shed on this site. "The Countess" stands at Llanfair with No 5 2-6-2T Orion in the background. Here she is seen from Llanfair signal box with No 12 "Joan". The box has been replaced since that time.
More Narrow Gauge.
Like buses, no narrow gauge items appear for ages and then two blogs turn up together. This time the gauge is 2'-6" and we are at the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway in mid Wales... I expect many of you know that. This first pictures are of the Belgian built 0-8-0T numbered 10 by the W&LLR and bearing the name ~ Sir Drefaldwyn. It was built in 1944 and supplied to the German Military Railways in March of that year. The original design was German and the drawings are by Berliner Maschinenbau A.G. and originate from their Kleinbahn Works in Berlin. Thes pictures were taken in the early/ mid 1990s. The loco has been out of action for some years now but is, at present, coming to the end of its rebuild in the works at Llanfair Caereinion. For more details of this and the line in general see www.wllr.org.uk T here have been many changes in the last 20+ years Here the loco is running round its train at Welshpool Raven Square station on a wet afterno...
Welsh Narrow Gauge.
I thought it was time the narrow gauge buffs out there had something to look at..... A wet day on the Talyllyn Railway. Tywyn Wharf station.
Class 68...
Class 68 number 68 003 (named Astute) arrived from the north mid afternoon and was parked in platform 1.
Variety at York station.
An afternoon visit to the station brought the following.... A coal train heading south... a rare sight these days. Each Thursday there is a Carnforth to Scarborough charter which is steam hauled from York to the seaside and back. Here the loco with its support coach is going from the yard at NRM, where it is coaled and serviced, to Holgate sidings where the locos are changed. The train was class 37 hauled up to this point. Class 180 arrives at York with a down train. 185108 shows off its new Trans Pennine livery. A train of long welded rail heads north at speed through platform 3 (which used to be the up platform).