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7 minutes ago, Galteemore said:

Bottom 2 are Stranraer, aren’t they? Ernie and I clicked the keys simultaneously I think ! 

Could well be! I would not be familiar........ last time I got a train from Stranraer was about 1970! And I've never been to Inverness. I hear there are lots of Scotsmen there..........

OK, one more for today, since ye've all been good. Again, possibly posted before, but there ye go.

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13 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

Today's 1st November offering:

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And another few, for good luck:

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Closer:

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Top ones are Inverness. Class 24 diesel.

The fact that it's in the 'south' side platforms and has a Class 1 'Express' headcode in the headcode box, suggests a Glasgow or Edinburgh service.

Aberdeen trains were Class 120s DMU from 1959-80, so I'm ruling that out.

The mix of Blue/Grey & Maroon Mk1s suggests late-60s/very early 1970s.

 

Bottom two are Stranraer Harbour with a Class 126 DMU, these were repainted from Green first to all-blue then to Blue/Grey as here. 

The 126s only received Blue/Grey from 1977 and the Class was mostly withdrawn in 1982, a couple of sets surviving until January 1983.

The Stranraer services became loco-hauled in 1981/2.

So bottom photos are 1977-81; likely more in the middle of that range.

5 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

Could well be! I would not be familiar........ last time I got a train from Stranraer was about 1970! And I've never been to Inverness. I hear there are lots of Scotsmen there..........

OK, one more for today, since ye've all been good. Again, possibly posted before, but there ye go.

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Class 52 'Western' (2,700bhp 90mph Diesel-hydraulic), no idea of location or year though but they were all based on the Western Region! ;)

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3 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

OK, one more for today, since ye've all been good. Again, possibly posted before, but there ye go.

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A lot of cranes and big machinery - implying a possible dock setting, maybe with a steelworks adjacent?

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12 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

Another for tonight. I believe this to be mid-1930s.

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Looks like Crewe. Shed code is Crewe North. Wheel size suggests an LNWR 5’7 2-4-2T. Would have been nice had it been one of the similar 4’6 tanks which ended up on the DWWR! 

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Indeed it is, ‘ E C Trench’, one of the ‘Patriots’. Amazingly, the first few were actually rebuilds of the Claughtons like ‘Baltic’ above, although not much of the original loco survived……hopefully the new build Patriot will be on the rails soon….

The lower loco is a Beames 0-8-4T - one of the final LNW designs before amalgamation. Beames was educated in Monkstown. 
 

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8 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

Next, this: I've posted it before, but putting it here for completeness with the other ones.

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Class E1R at Halwill Junction in the platform built for the Light Railway to Torrington. Loco is an ex LBSCR E1 0-6-0t one of 10 rebuilt by the Southern Railway as E1R 0-6-2t's to provide more coal/water space.

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Pre-preservation Festiniog. This may have been taken by my grandfather in the 1920s, though the severing of the bottom of the locomotive's wheels tends to point towards a teenage Senior as the culprit, a decade later! Still, highly interesting image, without a camera-totin' gricer in sight.

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Finally for the moment (from Senior's Brexitstan material), the Vale of Heavy Rain in about 1956.

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