Monday 25th August was definitely a
good day to be at the Midland Railway Centre. I arrived in the early
afternoon, just in time to see this well polished pair of BR Standard Classes No
73129 and 922214 return to the works area after carrying their first passenger
train duty of the day. They were paired up later in the afternoon to
repeat the exercise. Information and photographs of 73129 at its last major
overhaul can be found on this link to
The Midland
Railway Centre. Information relating to 92214 can be found on this
link to The 9F Steam Locomotive Site
Later in the afternoon the BR
Standard Class 2-6-4 Tank Engine 80089 and Jinty with a pre nationalisation
number of 16410, having returned to Swanwick are uncoupled from the train and
return to the works area. 92214 and 73129 await in the right hand side of
the video clip to take over the passenger train duties. Further
information is available about its working life, restoration and preservation on
this link for 80098.
The Jinty's number 16410 was the original LMS number. It was renumbered to
7327 in the 1930's and became 47327 upon nationalisation.
Click this
link for more information, comment and photo's.
Always a highlight of a visit to the
Midland Railway Centre, LMS 7P Pacific 46203 'Princess Margaret Rose', sits in
on display for admirers at the West Shed, Swanwick. There is lots of information
on the engine at this link -
Princess Royal Class Locomotive Trust (PRCLT)
A former LMS locomotive, but a little
way off its beaten track, is the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway (SDJR) 7F
2-8-0 No 53809 sitting next to its 9F big brother. It was only when I started
looking for information relating to the engine that I found the SDJR has its own
devoted web ring with information and pictures on
this link.
And a brief history on the
Somerset & Dorset Railway
Trust pages
The later reclassified to 'Class 40' D212 'Aureol' sits resting in the
afternoon sunshine at Swanwick. As the engine is named after an ocean liner
brief details of its BR life are to be found on a sit related to
ocean liners
on the link on the left.
Reclassified as class 03, this
shunter retains its original BR number D2138. There is oodles of information on the
British Railway diesels is available on the
Rail Blue site.
Diesel Multiple Unit Class 101
formerly of Strathclyde Passenger Transport (SPT) sits in Swanwick Station
before taking its passengers up the colliery branch line. More information
on the class 101 DMU's in Scotland, where I live is to be found on the scot-rail web site
link.
The Midland Railway Centre's
workshops, and there's not much more to be taken apart from this engine! I
think it is the frame and wheels for BR Standard Class 4MT 2-6-4 tank engine No 80080.
At least that looks like the number I could see, partially obscured, on a coal
bunker on another photo I have!
