Loco sheds and other railway buildings...

Yes, spot on, he and his older brother are both shutters at Leicester (Coalville Division!). I don’t know if anyone remembers this but back in the ‘80s there were stories of locos mysteriously being taken for joyrides on the Coalville branch during the night, well - I couldn’t possibly comment on the slight possibility of any connection between the two brothers and said purloining of locos taking unauthorised jaunts down the line to Barron Hill and back again

I did some of my class 66 training at Carr Loco, nice bunch up there. We also went to Healey Mills and Immingham, all places I hadn’t seen for about twenty years at the time with lots of changes in between. On one of the days at Donny there were no spare 66s about so we took a 60 for a ride out, at Rotherham some of the local scrotes showered us with stones from a bridge and ran off.

As I type this I’m sitting at Luton Crescent Road yard while my train is being unloaded, wouldn’t it be nice if a Peak flew by on the Up Fast to St.Pancras....?

Edit - I’ve been here barely two hours and had four cups of tea

Four cups of tea in two hours is why I couldn't stay on the freight. My bladder isn't big enough 😂😂

When I was a kid, 33s were the only diesel loco that we got on the SE region, and even then you had to go looking for them, e.g at Hither Green. So they were always quite exciting for us.

Wish I could contribute to this thread instead of just reading and enjoying it; the best I have to offer is a picture of the farewell tour 313 in Hornsey the day before departure!

I was on that job for a few weeks, the smoothness of the new P/Way through there is wonderful whereas previously the old point work at the south end of the station used to throw you across the cab at 60mph. The new overhead wiring from Bedford to Glendon and Corby is ugly and spoils the nice views somewhat, but that’s progress.

I’m still at Luton, nursing cup of tea number five

Well it is a lot quieter in MH now that pointwork is gone!
Returning to Nine Elms, here is the turntable at work. The people in those flats certainly had a good view....

Found some scans of a trip around Reddish in the eighties, this would be just after they closed the Woodhead . The 76's were out of service as I think were most of the 40's I took.


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'Rodders' was a good one, I managed to drive all fifty at Old Oak and some were definitely better than others, even with regular major component swaps which might seem odd. 39 was by the worst and spent weeks at a time on restricted local workings such as the Park Royal Guinness factory tripper or endless empty stock runs in and out of Padd. Somewhere in the loft I've got a box full of cab fittings from 50s, fault lights, switches and the like.


D400 in the Pullman Shed at Old Oak in late '72 / early '73 when it was one of the crew training locos, I think 402 was the other one (it took about three years to transfer the entire class from the LMR to the WR). They were usually put on the Bristol jobs first to get as many drivers as possible passed on them....



I'd just prepped these two on the shed shift one day in 1984....



47 125 and 31 127 on the blocks at Padd in June '83, behind the camera was an old wooden shack tucked into a dark corner that had a large kettle on the go round the clock for us to top up our mash cans, the largest rat I've ever seen lived underneath it....



1982....

Nope, I'm not a driver but you have to do lots of system checks etc.