Showing posts with label departmental vehicles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label departmental vehicles. Show all posts

Tuesday, 28 April 2020

Preserved DMUs (2) : Class 121, Chinnor

A Bubble Car under restoration at Chinnor, at the time it still wore it's last service number 960 010.

Monday, 27 January 2020

High Definition

This week's theme is the railways in Manchester, starting with the Network Rail High Definition Switches & Crosses Video Inspection Train at Manchester Piccadilly.

Wednesday, 8 January 2020

Monday, 9 July 2018

LMS-SAV (1) : Leamington Spa

This week's theme is the line from Leamington Spa (LMS) to Stratford-upon-Avon (SAV), starting with tamper DR73805 passing through Leamington Spa.

Saturday, 19 May 2018

Croydon Tramlink 058

Former Croydon Tramlink 058 helping keeping Crich Tramway Village in service.

Saturday, 17 March 2018

NMT and Hoovers

The New Measurement Train passes a couple of Class 50s at Derby.

Saturday, 10 March 2018

RailVac

66 434 hauls a Railvac (a giant vacuum cleaner for ballast) through Derby.

Sunday, 11 February 2018

Chesterfield NMT

The "Flying Banana" otherwise known as the New Measurement Train heads through Chesterfield.

Friday, 19 January 2018

Wednesday, 1 November 2017

Friday, 5 May 2017

Bubble Cars (5) : Aylesbury

960 014 a couple of years ago was used by Chiltern Railways for sandite duties, now it is in preservation.

Friday, 21 April 2017

HST (5) : New Measurement Train

Returning to Derby to show 43 013, one of the HST power cars now in Network Rail service. Here it leads the New Measurement Train through the station.

Tuesday, 13 December 2016

BR Blue (2) : Class 960

Former Class 309 EMU and Class 960 cab signalling test unit, 960 102 at the Electric Railway Museum (alongside 309 616 in Jaffa Cake livery!)

Thursday, 20 October 2016

Wednesday, 5 October 2016

Class 97/6

Former departmental loco PWM 654 / 97 654 at Rowsley South.

Monday, 26 September 2016

DBSO

Driving Brake Standard Open 9708 on the end of a test train at Derby.

Monday, 8 August 2016

Switches and crossings

DR98008 is a video geometry test train that looks after switches and crossings.

Wednesday, 3 August 2016

Don't dazzle

Sporting quite a few extra headlights, 31 233 at Derby - with a test train of course.