Derby station pilot on the 13th April 1981 is 08622.

Locomotive History
08622 was originally D3789 and is a Derby built locomotive entering traffic in October 1959. It first allocation was Leicester and it would remain at Leicester until transfer to nearby Burton in March 1968. Its next move was to Toton in October 1971 and it arrived at Derby in January 1975. In December 1981 it was withdrawn however in early 1984 it was given a classified repair and dual train brake fitted and reinstated to traffic, still allocated to Derby in April 1984. In August 1988 it left the East Midlands and headed north to Scotland being transferred to Motherwell where it remained until withdrawn in December 1995. In 2000 it was sold to RMS Locotec, overhauled and used in industrial service at Flixborough and Ketton.

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This photograph was only taken because of its subject matter as it is taken from the worst possible position in relationship to the sun, shooting almost directly into it. The subject is of course the prototype two car 4 wheeled DMU 140001 whose body utilised standard bus components and which would lead ultimately to the Pacer fleet. 140001 is standing in platform 1 at Derby having just arrived from a test run and is waiting for the road into the Railway Technical Centre, 13th April 1981.

Unit History
The class 140 was the next step from the single car railbus prototypes with bodywork constructed using Leyland National bus components. The class 140 was built in 1980 to British Rail's stringent regulations regarding crashworthiness and resistance to end loading. This meant that its cabs where much more substantial than the prototype railbuses with the body also being strengthened. The original traction power consists of a Leyland TL11 200bhp engine, Self-Changing Gears mechanical automatic gearbox and a Gmeinder final drive unit driving only one axle on each vehicle of the two car set. The unit ran for many years in evaluation service before entering use as a driver training unit at Neville Hill, Leeds. Falling out of use, consideration was given to converting it to a Sandite unit, but this never took place, and the unit was withdrawn and sold for preservation arriving at Dufftown in 1994 on the Keith and Dufftown Railway. For the next eighteen years received only occasional attention. In October 2012 the unit was started up and in summary 55500 is in remarkably good shape however 55501 has a bad engine and is in a generally poorer condition.

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Single class 20 locomotives were not that common, even light engine and therefore 20136 approaching Derby from the north with an engineers crane, on its own and “bonnet” first is quite a catch, 13th April 1981.

Locomotive History
20136 was delivered from English Electric’s Vulcan Foundry works in March 1966 as D8136 and was one of a small batch of class 20’s (D8134 – D8143) delivered new to the Birmingham Division (DO2) which in reality was Bescot MPD. In May 1969 it transferred to the Nottingham Division (Toton) and remained a Toton engine until September 1985 when it returned to Bescot. It transferred back to Toton in March 1987 from where it was withdrawn in October 1990 and was broken up a year later in October 1991 at MC Metals, Glasgow

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London Midland and Scottish Railway designed Brake Third Corridor (BTK) 26921 forms part of one of the service trains on the Severn Valley Railway, 4th April 1981.

Vehicle History
26921 is a Brake Third Corridor (BTK) to diagram 2161 and was built by British Railways at Wolverton works in 1950 under lot 1506. It entered preservation in 1968 and ran in Severn Valley Railway service until1984 when it suffered bogie damage by vandals placed steel on track. It has since been in store awaiting eventual restoration.

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37103 ambles along the Goods avoiding lines adjacent to Derby station with a northbound ballast train, 13th April 1981.

Locomotive History
Released from English Electric Vulcan Foundry as D6803 on the January 1963 and allocated to Darnall (Sheffield). It would spend the next twenty three years allocated to Eastern Region depots (Tinsley, Immingham, March and Stratford before it entered Crewe Works for refurbishment in the early 1986 and emerged as 37511 in June 1986, allocated to Cardiff Canton. In April 1995 it was allocated to European Passenger Services and became 37607. It did little work over the next two years until sold to Direct Rail Services in June 1997 for whom it still operates with over fifty years service.

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