Longsight allocated 25145 approaches Attenborough station with a short Freightliner train I suspect bound for Nottingham Freightliner Terminal located a couple of miles further towards Nottingham at Beeston, 15th June 1981. Under the train can be seen the crossover associated with the connection into Chilwell MOD Depot soon to be severed.
Locomotive History
25145 was originally D5295 and was delivered from Derby works in August 1964, allocated initially to the Nottingham Division (Toton) before transfer in October 1964 to the London Division (Cricklewood). Over the next twenty one years it would be allocated to Toton, Bescot, Longsight Crewe, Cricklewood and Kingmoor from where it was withdrawn in January 1986 with multiple faults, the two hundredth and sixty eighth class 25 to be condemned. Following withdrawal it was dumped at Crewe for a year until January 1987 when it made its way in company with 25048, 25175, 25231 and 25303 to Vic Berry's, Leicester and was broken up during April 1987.
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Nottingham City Transport (NCT) is one of the largest remaining municipal bus companies and is regarded as one of the best operators in the UK. In the early 1960’s City of Nottingham Transport as it was then developed a very strong corporate identity with an attractive “two tone” green livery and its own distinct standard double deck bus body specification for rear engined, front loading buses. The initial purchase of rear engined buses was a batch of forty nine Daimler Fleetliner’s in 1962/63. It then moved on to the Leyland Atlantean chassis and over the next four years would purchase ninty nine chassis fitted with either Northern Counties or Metro-Cammell bodies to the Nottingham specification. Through out this period NCT operated a dual sourcing policy and continued also to purchase Daimler Fleetline chassis and with the spread of one man operation purchased in 1966 thirty Daimler Fleetline CRG6LX chassis fitted with Metro-Cammell H45/27D bodies with one set of doors at the front for entering and one set of doors in the middle for exiting. It would be 1968 before the first dual door Leyland Atlantean arrived when a batch of twenty two (501 – 522) Leyland Atlantean PDR1A/1 chassis fitted with Northern Counties H45/29D bodies appeared. 520 (PTO 520G) is one of this batch and can be seen here on Long Row, Nottingham, 3rd June 1981.
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A rear three quarter view of City of Nottingham Leyland Atlantean 527 (STO 527H) Long Row, Nottingham, 3rd June 1981. It is one of a batch of sixteen (523 -539) Leyland Atlantean PDR1A/1 chassis fitted with Northern Counties H45/30D bodies which entered service in 1970.
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56086 is stabled at Shirebrook on a Saturday afternoon, 20th June 1981.
Locomotive History
56086 was built at Doncaster works and entered traffic in December 1980. After eighteen years service it was stored in August 1999 at Immingham where it would spend the next eight years until it was sold for preservation in 2008 and moved to the Battlefield Line at Shackerstone where it was returned to traffic. However in July 2012, Europhoenix purchased 56086 from the Battlefield Line for use in Hungary but decided to strip the locomotive for spares instead and the bodyshell was broken up by EMR, Kingsbury in March 2013.
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When I married the lovely Lorna I am afraid her trusty Morris 1000 had to go as we could not afford to run it and pay our new mortgage (the mortgage interest rate in those days a mere 15%). Also, the new Mrs Woolley now qualified for my Rail Travel facilities and joined me on the 08:10/17:15 train for our regular commute between Long Eaton to Nottingham.
Eventually our financial position improved somewhat allowing the purchase of this Vauxhall Viva 1159cc HC, FRC 630J seen here at Clumber Park. on one of our first outings, 20th June 1981. As it was first registered in April 1971 it is over ten years old and although looks quite smart here and was mechanically fine it was starting to develop some body rot. The worst of which was the bonnet and not long after we bought it we had to replace the bonnet with one from a scrap yard. This “new” bonnet was gold in colour and stayed gold for the remainder of its life.
We kept FRC 630J for a year before we upgraded to a newer Ford Fiesta with FRC 630J soldiering on with my father in law for another couple of years before heading to the scrapyard.
Note, it would be a further nine years before I learnt to drive.
The Vauxall Viva was produced between 1963 and 1979 starting with the HA series (1963 – 1966), HB series (1966 – 1970 and the final HC series (1970 – 1979). There were multiple versions within each series with around 1.5 million produced of all types.
Praktica LTL, Kodachrome 64
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