Bombardier Litchurch Lane works pilot 08682 is stabled by the works entrance, 1st April 2015. Note the “non standard” rectangular buffers.
Locomotive History
08682 was built at Horwich as D3849and entered traffic in August 1959 initially allocated to Trafford Park MPD. However its stay was short as six weeks later it was dispatched south, transferred to Camden, In January 1966 it transferred to nearby Willesden when Camden closed. It remained at Willesden for the next sixteen years until transferred to Toton in July 1982. In July 1984 it was nine months overdue classified repair (its last repair being in September 1975 at Derby works) and was placed in store. It remained in store for five months until re-instated in December 1984 following classified repair and fitment of dual train brakes and transferred to Doncaster. In March 1994 it became the Doncaster works pilot and remained on this duty until the works closed and in early 2008 it moved to Litchurch Lane.
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Mark III Restaurant First (RFM) 10205 in use as a static staff accommodation/mess vehicle at Shackerstone on the 18th April 2015.
Vehicle History
10205 was actually built as part of HST set 254003 and was originally Trailer Restaurant First Kitchen (TRFK) 40503 built at Derby in 1977. In the mid 1980’s it was converted to a Restaurant First (Modular) catering vehicle (RFM) for West Coast Main Line duties and renumbered 10205. Following displacement by the introduction of the Pendolino fleet it was sold and used as Café at Minehead on West Somerset Railway. It arrived at the Battlefield Railway in November 2009.
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Standing in the rain in the bay platform at Derby is East Midlands Trains 153319 waiting departure time for 2A95, 17:51 Derby – Nottingham, 1st April 2015.
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156405 approaches the platform at Matlock Bath with 2A34, 12:20 Nottingham - Matlock, 23rd April 2015.
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Spring is in the air and the trees are starting to get their summer foliage as East Midlands Trains 156414 passes Beeston heading towards Nottingham, 7th April 2015.
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