Dockyard cranes at St Sampson, Guernsey, 11th July 2019.

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Visiting some of the wife’s relatives in Shildon with three of my grandchildren in tow enabled the four of us to visit Locomotion whilst the wife gossiped with her relatives. Nice surprise when we got there, the most famous locomotive in the world was also visiting, Flying Scotsman, 27th July 2019.

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Northern 142025 arrives at Rotherham Central working 2C65, 10:30 Sheffield – Hull, 16th July 2019.

Unit History
The Class 142 (Pacer) was built by British Rail Engineering in Derby between 1985 and 1987 and the train body is based on that of the Leyland National bus. 142025 is from the first batch of fifty units, built in 1985/86 and amazingly, for what was at the time a cheap and nasty stopgap, is still going strong after well over thirty years service. It also one of thirteen units (142015 – 142027) that were delivered in “chocolate and cream” livery and allocated to Plymouth for use on the Cornish Branches. They were not a success on these duties and were soon transferred north to Neville Hill/Newton Heath.

With the Pacer fleet due to withdrawn by the end of 2019 142025 was one of the first of the Northern Pacer fleet to be “withdrawn” when it was stored a month later at Heaton and is unlikely to see any further use.

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East Midlands Trains Meridian 222020 powers through Barrow on Soar working 1B36, 11:12 Nottingham – St Pancras, 4th July 2019.

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A venture out into the rain to capture Mark I Tourist Second Open (TSO) M4939 at Shenton, Battlefield Line, 6th July 2019.

Vehicle History
M4939 was built at Wolverton works in 1962 as part of lot 30690 and feature 64 second class seats in an open plan layout (eight bays of four each side of a central aisle). These coaches had the highest seating capacity of all the Mark I’s built and were primarily built for excursion traffic. It is dual braked, dual heated and is running on Commonwealth bogies and survived in service until the mid 1990’s when it entered the departmental fleet as a test train brake force runner and renumbered DB977971. Withdrawn from departmental service it arrived on the Battlefield Line in 2005.

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