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40135 departs from York with 1E74 to Scarborough on 21 July 1984
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40135 departs from York with 1E74 to Scarborough on 21 July 1984

  • 40163 presents a sad sight as it heads a line of Class 25 locos in the scrap line at Derby Works on 2 Jume 1984
  • 47432 is at the rear of the empty stock from Portsmouth Harbour at Fratton Yard in May 1984
  • 47508 runs into Fratton with a train for Portsmouth Harbour in May 1984
  • 45128 pauses at Oxford on 15 July 1983
  • 46035 replaces the Brush in the background on a Cardiff to Leeds service at Severn Tunnel Junction on 27 July 1984 - for a very sweaty journey in air-conditioned stock behind a loco with a steam boiler!
  • An unusual visitor to Toton depot on 21 August 1984 was 47706, well away from its Scottish push-pull duties
  • Toton depot on 21 August 1984 with 45102, 45108 and 20016 undergoing servicing
  • In 1984 46009 was destroyed in a staged crash with a nuclear flask wagon amid much publicity. 46023 (which had been renumbered on paper to 97402) was prepared as the back up locomotive for the test and was photographed at Toton depot still with the markings for the filming applied to the nose and underframes, seen on 21 August 1984 a couple of months before the filmed 'crash' which destroyed its sister on the Old Dalby test track
  • In the early morning gloom 40152 runs onto the stock for 1M51 0800 York - Blackpool North at York on 28 July 1984 when the class was still a common sight on these workings
  • 40135 departs from York with 1E74 to Scarborough on 21 July 1984
  • 47569 runs through Stratford on 16 May 1986
  • 47008 brings the newspaper vans back up to town to be loaded with that night's papers seen passing Stratford on 16 May 1986
  • 45064 stands in the loco holding sidings at Eastleigh on 22 February 1984
  • 47159 leaves Westbury with the first two Class 59 locos which were tripped down to Merehead in pairs on 24 January 1986
  • 46004 poses outside Bristol Bath Road depot on 1 May 1983
  • 47316 runs past the rear of Chesterfield station with a ballast train on 3 June 1985
  • 45112 runs into Warrington Bank Quay with a down passenger service on 4 June 1985
  • Sitting in the middle roads at Sheffield Midland with a rake of parcels stock was 40069 in September 1982
  • 47226 heads up the through roads at Cardiff Central on 30 August 1982
  • 47166 and 47490 are stabled together outside Bristol Bath Road depot on 30 August 1982
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