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40091, 40195 and 40044 at Crewe Works, August 1986 40160 at Crewe Works, August 1986 Kingmoor's pet, 40122/D200 runs onto the sidings at Carlisle to join 25032 and 31407, 04/09/85. 40028 at Crewe Works, 1986 40104 at Crewe Works, 1986 Crewe Flag Lane, August 1986. 40150 whiles away her last few weeks alongside 40044/057/058/020/195 whilst in the background 40155/104/028/160 await similar fates. The location is now a housing estate!! 40155 at Crewe Works, August 1986. 40118, dressed up at 97408 for the Crewe regeneration project, at Tyseley, 26/05/86 40044 and 40150 head the scrap lines at Crewe Flag Lane, august 1986, as they await their fates. 40024 'Lucania' awaits her fate in the Flag Lane area of Crewe Works, August 1985. 40024 was cut the following month, and the location is now unrecognisable as a housing estate.

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33034 and 58028 at Saltley, 26th May 1985 33025 'Sultan' runs light engine through Crewe, 3rd August 1985 33108 runs light engine through Westbury, August 1987. 33108 escaped the torch and now plays toy trains somewhere. 33101 at Exeter St Davids, 1988 33052 + 56040 at Cardiff Canton, 25th August 1985

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A real 56, not this Artemis rubbish. 56005 with an MGR at York, 29/10/85 56034 and 37139 at Cardiff Canton, 1987 56113 at Shirebrook, 25/05/85 56128 at Shirebrook depot, 25th May 1985 56027 is stabled at Shirebrook depot 25/05/85 56086 keeps company with 33034 and 58028 at Saltley, 26th May 1985. Its almost a decade since 56086 was withdrawn from traffic in August 1999. 56075 at Frodingham depot, 18th February 1990 Cardiff's 56033 under overhaul at Doncaster Works, 1989 56077 passes Knabbs Bridge with a trainload of coal for Scunthorpe, 1990 56093 awaits admission to Doncaster Works, 01/10/89 56040 at Cardiff Canton, August 1985, in the days before she became a daft toy train. 56077 at Milford Junction with an empty coal train for Gascoigne Wood, May 1988 56133 heads an Immingham-Scunthorpe coal through Barnetby, 1999

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50033 with an Oxford-Paddington service passes Waltham St Lawrence, 8th August 1988 50008 'Thunderer' at Exeter St Davids, 09/08/89. 50013 arrives at Westbury with the evening commuter train from Paddington, 7th August 1987. 50013 survived a few more months in traffic, withdrawn in 1987 and broken up in 1989 by Vic Berry at Leicester. 50042 leaves Exeter with a train of ZFV dogfish ballast hoppers whilst 50009 waits departure for Waterloo in the distance. 07/08/89 50024 'Vanguard' heads towards Twyford with a Paddington-Oxford service, 6th August 1988 50035 passes Waltham St Lawrence with a Paddington-Oxford service, August 1988 50015 at Bristol, August 1987 50037 'Illustrious' at Exeter St Davids, 09/08/89. 50033 at Waltham St Lawrence, 08/08/88 50018 'Resolution' passes Waltham St Lawrence on her way to Paddington, 8th August 1988. She lasted a further three years in traffic and was broken up in 1992. 50040 passes Waltham St Lawrence August 1988

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]]> Tue Apr 21 2009 Class 31 http://marvinpeanuts.fotopic.net/c1685784.html Class 31 Tuesday 21 April 2009: Class 31

31188 with 6D96 Welton to Immingham tanks passes Knabbs Bridge, 1990 31212 at Melton Ross with 6S32 Immingham Norsk Hydro - Leith South fertilizer train, 30th March 1988 31168 approaches Horbury with a ballast train, 3rd April 1985 31154 + 31289 with the Welton-Lindsey tanks at Knabbs Bridge, 1988. 31289 lives on, whilst 31154 was cut up at Rotherham in 2006. Vacuum brake only 31271 runs light engine past Gateshead depot, 1985. 31271 survived the torch and plays toy trains somewhere or other. 31163 with an OBA and a short train of 12 ton vent vans at Warrington, 1990 31222, 47159 and 47376 at Thornaby, 1990 31407 at Hull Paragon with a stopping service for York, 11/02/86 31206 + 31142 at Hull, 1988 31259 at Doncaster Works, 1989 A real light engine move! 31118 drags 47276, 56020 and 45044 past York Holgate Junction en route from York Clifton to Doncaster, April 1987 31221 outside the Test House at Doncaster Works, 1986 31205 at Doncaster Works, 1990 31247 at Hull Paragon station, 1988 Amazingly in 1985 a 31 was seen as a disappointment, as 31141 approaches York Holgate Junction with the SO Leicester-Scarborough. The 31s looked great with discs though! 31453 in Platform 15 at York with a Trans-Pennine train for Liverpool, May 1986

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87032 at Nuneaton, May 1985 86428 at Glasgow Central, 1986 81013 at Warrington, 87015 'Howard of Effingham' at Carlisle, 22nd April 1987 86236 at Crewe, 1985 86434 at Crewe, 1986 87005 approaches Carlisle with a northbound Speedlink service, 22nd April 1987 87021 speeds through Warrington with the northbound Clansman, 31/05/88 81012 at Carlisle, 22/04/87 85015 at Carlisle, September 1987 87034 'William Shakespeare' approaches Warrington Bank Quay, 31/05/88. 87034 was exported to Bulgaria in December 2008. 86426 at Warrington, May 1989 86432 and 47611 at Crewe, August 1986 81017 pauses at Crewe, August 1985 87019 passes Crewe with a northbound Inter-City working, 7th August 1985 85028 with a Liverpool - Euston service at at Crewe, 06/08/85 86434 at Warrington Bank Quay, May 1989 85007 removes a failed 86425 from a northbound InterCity at Crewe, as 86434 waits behind to take over. 6th August 1986. 90002 at Warrington Bank Quay, May 1988

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]]> Tue Apr 21 2009 Peaks http://marvinpeanuts.fotopic.net/c1685779.html Peaks Tuesday 21 April 2009: Peaks

45148 at Hull, February 1986 45140 and 56104 at Worksop Open Day, 1987 Boiler fitted 45052 leaves York with a Newcastle-Liverpool Trans-Pennine, April 1987 45150 approaches York with a Liverpool-Newcastle trans-Pennine, April 1985 45121 at Hull Paragon station, 1986 45114 approaches York with a Liverpool-Newcastle trans-Pennine, 1986 45007 carrying unofficial Tinsley name 'Taliesin' stabled with 37677 and 45040 at Buxton depot, 04/07/87. She lasted another year in traffic and was broken up by MC Metals in 1992. A strange end for 45054 at Toton depot, 25/05/85, before Vic Berry's men moved in. Someone has been busy with the paintbrush on 45038 as she stands at the head of a line of stored peaks at Toton, 25/05/85. 45010 heads over quarter of a mile of scrap locos, in the infamous Toton scrap line, 06/06/87 45111 'Grenadier Guardsman' slows for an unplanned stop at Cottingham after a passenger had boarded the Bridlington-Leicester service by mistake, July 1985 45105 approaches York with a Liverpool-Newcastle trans-Pennine service, April 1985 Denied a dignified end and instead dressed up as a silly toy train, 45041 'Royal Tank Regiment' unaware of her unfortunate fate at Thornaby, 1990 After being turned on the Anlaby Road triangle 45107 'PHOENIX' & 45007 'TALIESIN' dodge the shadows as they leave Hull with the Bristol-Scarborough-Bristol 45 Finale, 03/10/87 45058 heads a Doncaster to York ballast train through Church Fenton, July 1986 45006 approaches York, may 1986 45123 'The Lancashire Fusilier' awaits the road to Scarborough at York, June 1984 45107 & 45007 with the Bristol-Scarborough-Bristol 45 Finale at Cottingham, 03/10/87 45139 runs light engine towards York, April 1985 45130 approaches York Holgate Junction, May 1987 45150 approaches York with a Liverpool-Newcastle trans-Pennine, 01/04/85 45135 powers through Cottingham with 1M84 14.10 Scarborough-Nottingham on 16th June 1984. In its penultimate year of loco haulage the return holiday working was becoming an enthusiasts' favourite.

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]]> Tue Apr 21 2009 Class 25-27 http://marvinpeanuts.fotopic.net/c1685776.html Class 25-27 Tuesday 21 April 2009: Class 25-27

25268/40012 at Crewe, July 1985 26030 at Polmadie, 30th July 1984 26010 and 37078 take a break at Millerhill, 29th July 1984 25181 + 25048 at York Clifton, 01/04/85 Filthy 25057 and 47377 at Toton, August 1985. This was the usual condition for a 25 in the 1980s! 25303 + 25230 at Crewe Holding Sidings, July 1985 25200/25095 at Crewe with the Oakamoor sand sidings - St Helens sand train, 9th August 1985 27037 and 26011 at Haymarket depot, 28/07/84 26003 at Millerhill, 28th July 1984. 26003 was broken up by MC Metals, Glasgow, in 1995 With plenty of spluttering and fuss, 27005 backs off the stabling point at Carlisle station, September 1987 25060 heads a scrap line of 25s, 45s and 46s at Goole Docks, 28/09/86. 25912, the former 25322, at Crewe Diesel Depot, 24/08/86 26006 and 26004 at Millerhill. 26006 was cut by MC Metals in 1995, whilst 26004 survived to play toy trains. 25080 leaves York with DMU sets for Neville Hill, 31/07/85 25300 at Doncaster Works, 1986. She became one of the last locomotives to be cut at the Plant. 25237 at BREL Doncaster Works, 20/04/86. She was reduced to a pile of scrap over the following few days. A forlorn 25287 dumped with a row of Class 45s at Toton, 25/05/85. She lasted another year, broken up by Vic Berry in October 1986. 26004 at Millerhill, 1987 26005 at Millerhill, 1986 25059, 20113 and 20141 at Stoke, 1986 25054 in the Doncaster Works scrapyard, 1986 25316 at Crewe, 08/85 25109 at Crewe, August 1985 27032 and 20105 in the rain at Eastfield depot, Glasgow on 30th July 1984. It is 22 years since 27032 was cut up at Thornton Yard in March 1987. 25095 and 25200 pass Crewe with an Oakamoor-St Helens sand train, 8th August 1985 25037 + 25201 at Crewe, August 1986 25257 awaits disposal at Doncaster, 1986. The 25 was moved to Goole later in the year when Doncaster stopped cutting locos, and was finally broken up by Vic Berry in 1987. 25311 at Toton, 25/5/85

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20068 + 20137 at York, 1987 20176 and 20099 at York Clifton, 22nd June 1985 20007 + 20009 prepare to take the York avoider with a train of track panels, 12th April 1985 20101 and 20081 at Shirebrook, 1st August 1987 Haymarket's 20219 and 20224 at a very wet Warrington Bank Quay, 27/7/88 20081 at Shirebrook, 1st August 1987 20043 at York Clifton, 29/10/85, which was a chopper heaven in the mid 1980s! Its 14 years since 20043 was broken up by MC Metals. 20068 + 20159 at York Holgate Junction, 1985. Hard to believe its 22 years since 20068 was withdrawn from service! 20178, 20190 and 45012 at Toton depot, 1st June 1985 Haymarket's 20224 and 20219 await the road into Arpley at a very wet Warrington Bank Quay, 27/7/88 20026 + 20070 take the middle road at Crewe and head for Fiddlers Ferry as the sun sinks on an August evening in 1985 27059 + 20148 at Eastfield, 29th July 1984 20088 and 20095 join forces to head a ballast past Knabbs Bridge, 30/03/88 20054 at Toton, 1985 20201 and 20099 at Warrington, 1987 Literally and metaphorically the end of the line for 20068 at the head of the Immingham scrap siding, December 1990. 20174 (well most of her anyway) at Thornaby 1988 20088 and 20095 head a ballast past Knabbs Bridge, 30/03/88 20006 + 20075 head an empty MGR from Fiddlers Ferry to Liverpool through Warrington Bank Quay, 1988 20078, 20209, 20101 and 20081 at Shirebrook, 1st August 1987 20077 shows what happens when a colliery conveyor collapses on the cab roof of a Class 20. Doncaster Works 1989.

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]]> Tue Apr 21 2009 Class 47 http://marvinpeanuts.fotopic.net/c1685749.html Class 47 Tuesday 21 April 2009: Class 47

47068 at Cottingham, North Humberside, 1985 47604 at Edinburgh Waverley, 1986 Eastfield's 47470 at Crewe Holding Sidings, August 1985 47408 at Hull with an evening train for York, 13th May 1985 47369 at Barnetby, 1987 Stratford's 47123 at Leamington Spa, May 1985 47124 at Tinsley, 1990 47543 winds her way into York with a Liverpool-Newcastle Trans-Pennine service, October 1984 47222 passes Barnetby with an Immingham - Haverton Hill ICI anhydrous ammonia train complete with barrier wagons, 3rd June 1988 47446 storms out of Nantwich with a Cardiff-Manchester Piccadilly train, August 1985 47319 6S32 Immingham-Leith South Norsk Hydro fertilizer train, 1988 47365 at York 1985 47432 + 47093 at York Clifton, October 1985 47157 at Bristol Bath Road, 6th August 1987 Bescot allocated 47015 at Crewe Holding Sidings, July 1985 47310 at Hull, 26th June 1988 47714 and 47710 at a damp Glasgow Queen Street, 13th August 1986 47111 at York Holgate Sidings, 22nd June 1985 47407 in the Number 2 Diesel Test Area, Crewe Works 29/07/86 Gateshead's 47016 with 37283 and 47451 at Crewe Works, 29/07/86. 47016 met her end at Wigan CRDC in 2000. 47054 at Knabbs Bridge with the afternoon Lindsey-Leeds tanks, 1989 47586 at Crewe Works, 1984 Cardiff Canton's ill fated 47111 in York Holgate Sidings with a northbound container train, 22nd June 1985 47431 approaches York, 1985 They should have left it in the field! Gateshead's accident-prone 47522 at Cheltenham Spa, 24th August 1985 47010 runs round 1N35 SO 1018 Scarborough - Newcastle service at York, 14/06/1986 47451 at Cheltenham Spa, 24th August 1985 47552 crosses over at York Holgate Junction, 1986 The former 'Mammoth', 47085 and 47119 share siding space at Hull with 47098 at Hull, 1988. The former two were en route to Dairycoates for repainting into Trainload Petroleum colours. Bescot's 47002 at Hull Botanic Gardens, 8th February 1987 Crewe's 47321 approaches Carlisle with a train of empty BDAs from Workington, 04/09/85. 47321 was broken up at CF Booths, Rotherham in 1998. Still carrying Stratford's trademark silver roof, Gateshead's 47569 reaches her destination with a Newcastle-Carlisle passenger service, 22/04/87 47226 with unofficial Tinsley name 'SEAGULL' passes Melton Ross with a late running Leith Docks-Immingham empty Norsk Hydro fertilizer train, 4th April 1990. 47226 met her end at CF Booth, Rotherham in 2008. 47116 at Severn Tunnel Junction 47702 at Haymarket, 28th July 1984 47277 at Saltley depot, 26/05/85 47372 approaches Holgate Junction, York with a Jarrow bound oil train, 13/04/87. 47372 had the insult of being transformed into 57314 - surely a pile of scrap would have been better. Fire-damaged 47713 awaits her fate along with 47235 and 31260 at Doncaster Works, 1st December 1990 47606 'ODIN' at Nantwich, 05/05/85 47427 displays the fire damage that brought about her demise, parked with 47302 at Doncaster Works, 1990 47110 shows the first signs of being robbed as she awaits the scrap man at Thornaby, 1990. Cab doors, couplings and battery box covers have been first to go! She was cut on site by Gwent Demolition in 1993. A toasted 47645 stands at Doncaster Works in 1990, before donating her Number 2 cab to repair 47522. 47703 just needs her yellow ends finishing off before being released into traffic in new ScotRail colours. Crewe Works, August 1986. 47125 and 47190 share siding space with 31205 and 47245 at Hull. The former two await forwarding to Dairycoates for repainting into Trainload Petroleum colours. 47187 takes the Scarborough line at York with a summer Saturday holiday train, 1985 47648 approaches York with a Trans-Pennine service, July 1986 47258 at Doncaster Works, 01/10/89 47189 at Doncaster Works, 01/10/89. 47330 at Crewe Works after admission with collision damage, 29/07/86. 47565 at Doncaster Works, 1/12/90

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37095 at Doncaster Works, 1990 Ouch! 37102 at York, 1985 37504+37503 pass York Holgate Junction, 01/04/87 Real iron ore! 37351/37106, Santon-Immingham iron ore empties, 1988 37285 at Hull Paragon station, 1987 37511 at Doncaster Works, 01/12/90 37227 at Frodingham, 1990 37225 at Severn Tunnel Junction, 27th August 1985 37012 at York, April 1987 37381 + 37377 at Barnetby, 1987 37244 in Radyr Yard, 1985 Ouch! 37246 at Crewe Works, 1985 Healey Mills' 37249 at Hull Paragon station, October 1984 37176 heads a Sunday Bridlington-Doncaster engineers train conveying lifted track through Cottingham, 1989. Hard to believe that 20 years ago this one was considered a pest!! 176 became 37883 and now resides in Spain. 37250 + 37063, York Holgate Sidings, April 1985 Before it became a silly toy train, 37518 joins forces with 37514 to do a proper days work hauling 6V40 Lackenby to Llanwern slabs. Milford Jcn, 1988 37515 + 37516 6E47 Corby - Lackenby tubeliner empties passing Milford Jcn 1989 37072 at Hull Botanic Gardens, 1987 Remember summer Saturdays at York? Tinsley's 37024 leaves York on 20/07/85 with 1V31 1030 York - Plymouth Relief A last look at Tinsley's 37283 on 29/07/86 before she was admitted to Crewe Works to become 37895. A pair of Cardiff Canton's 37s, 37248 and 37371, in the sun on a Sunday morning at Frodingham, 18th February 1990 37195 heads a line up of class 37s at Thornaby depot, 29th March 1986 37262 under overhaul at Doncaster Works, 1989 37512 'Thornaby Demon' approaches Milford Jcn, 1989 37293 and 37184 after a rainstorm in Radyr Yard, 25th August 1985 37250 at Hull Paragon station, 1989 37160 leaves York, April 1985 37062 at Kinottingley station, 1988 Cardiff Canton's 37371 + 37248 at Frodingham depot, 18th February 1990 37517 and 37114 top n tail a weedkiller train at Buxton, 1997 37209 spends the weekend at Hull Botanic Gardens, 29th March 1987 37039 is stabled at Eastfield depot, Glasgow on Sunday 29th July 1984. 37039 became 37504 and in turn 37603 and is still with us working for DRS. A rebuilt 37901 is ready for the paintshop after conversion from 37150 at Crewe Works, 29/07/86 One time Eastfield favourite, 37043 during her last month in traffic at Cardiff, August 1999. She was cut at Sims Metals, Beeston in 2003. 37242 at Hull, 1987 37154, sporting a strange headcode panel, and 37156 at Motherwell, 29/07/84. Both locos met their end at Wigan CRDC in 2000. 37014 at Eastfield depot, 28th July 1984 Former 'Radio Highland' 37260 makes a sorry sight at Doncaster Works, 01/10/89. Withdrawn in 1989 as a result of fire damage, she was cut at MC Metals in 1991. 37520 + 37513 head 6M47 Lackenby - Corby Tubeliner through Milford Jcn, 1988 37405 'Strathclyde Region' keeps company with 47405 and 37114 at Crewe Works, 29/07/86 37058 stabled in the sunshine at Goole, 1989 37096 awaits the inevitable at Doncaster Works, October 1990 Collision damaged 37062 goes through the final stages of stripping at Doncaster Works, 01/10/89. The stripped remains of 37062 at Doncaster Works, December 1990 Former 'Radio Highland' 37260 makes a sorry sight at Doncaster Works, 01/10/89. Withdrawn in 1989 as a result of fire damage, she was cut at MC Metals in 1991. How unusual!! 37895 pushes Class 308 EMU out of Leeds, 1991 Early Class 37 casualty 37096 at Doncaster Works 37s were regular power for engineers on the Hull-Scarborough line in the 1980s. 37031 passes Thwaite Gates box, Cottingham, with a Sunday afternoon train of ZFV 'Dogfish' and ZEV 'Catfish' ballast hoppers, 1985. 37381 + 37351 with an Immingham - Santon ore train, 1989 37252 + 37274 with 6E47 Corby-Lackenby tubeliner empties at York, 9th April 1985

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]]> Tue Apr 21 2009 B&W Oldies http://marvinpeanuts.fotopic.net/c1616209.html Rolls and rolls of Ilford HP5 and gallons of developer and fix. Those were the days, and nobody cared if the sun shone! Thousands of these to scan in when time permits, this is just a start. Saturday 11 April 2009: Rolls and rolls of Ilford HP5 and gallons of developer and fix. Those were the days, and nobody cared if the sun shone! Thousands of these to scan in when time permits, this is just a start.

Tilcon old style. 31322 + 31249 pass Milford Jcn with the Rylstone-Hull Dairycoates Tilcon train, 1989 Thornaby pets 37667 'Wensleydale' + 37668 'Leyburn' 6M47 Lackenby - Corby tubeliner, Milford Jcn 1989 37668 'Leyburn' + 37667 'Wensleydale' with 6M47 Lackenby - Corby tubeliner, Milford Jcn 1989 56110 at Milford Jcn, 1989 20178 + 20137 with a train of coke from the Avenue Works at Clay Cross, 1988 31294 + 31289 at Doncaster, 1989 50032 at Dawlish Warren, 1989 47625 at Dawlish, August 1988 47483 at Dawlish, August 1988 47463 at Dawlish, August 1988 47417 at Bristol Temple Meads, 1989 37110 + 37255 at Clay Cross, 1989 47009, 37894 and 37701 head the line up at Cardiff Canton, 1990 37225 + 37106 at Barnetby, 1990 Dedicated 47085 'Conidae' passes the first signs of ECML electrification at Ferryhill, Stanlow-Jarrow Terminal Shell tanks, 1988 47448 with the morning Leeds-Carlisle at Dent Head, 1988 47222 at Barnetby with Immingham - Leith Norsk Hydro fertilizer train, 1988 47202 at Bristol Temple Meads, 1989 58050 at Worksop Open Day 56100 with a Scunthorpe-Immingham empty coal train, Brocklesby 1989 A shiny 60007 passes Milford Jcn, 1989 47314 passes Milford Jcn with a Wilton-Leeds working, 1989 Brand new 60095 at Milford Jcn with the Hull Dairycoates to Rylstone empties. 58042 passes Milford Jcn, 1989

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