Class 508 units in Kent and Merseyside.
GO TIGER! TIGER-stripe Class 508 EMU No. 508139 sprints along the short electrified section from Hooton South Junction to Ellesmere Port on April 23rd, 2005, with a Merseyrail service from the Liverpool circle. The train has just departed Hooton station itself on The Wirral, Cheshire.
Union Pacific power.
RECORDED AT THE west end of Fremont, Nebraska, on May 18th, 2006, Union Pacific SD60 diesels Nos. UP 2219 & UP 2215 (ex-UP 6064 & UP 6062, blt. EMD, LaGrange, IL., 02/88) awaiting a crew with a works train.
Three shots from a day out in the Fens.
PICTURED AT ELY, Cambridgeshire, First GB Railfreight Class 66/7 No. 66724 Drax Power Station throbs through the station with the 4L78 11.43 Selby (Potter Group)-Felixstowe intermodal on June 25th, 2009.
A classic Type 5 turns up at the NVR.
WHAT’S GREEN, HAS two engines and is named after a thoroughbred that won the Princess of Wales’s Stakes in 1948 and five other major races? Yes, it’s the Deltic Preservation Society’s D9009 Alycidon, which has moved to the Nene Valley Railway for a six month holiday, being dragged to the Cambridgeshire line on June 23rd. The BR Class 55 ‘Deltic’ is pictured on shed at Wansford the following day.
Two more shots from the Gotthard - can you ever have enough?
UBIQUITOUS ELSEWHERE IN Switzerland, the Re 460 ‘Lok 2000’ machines are less common visitors to the Gotthardbahn, although there are a few regular diagrams for these trademark SBB CFF FFS’s electrics. No. 460 013-6 Nord Vaudois rushes a strengthened IR2163 07.03 Basel SBB-Locarno between Altdorf and Erstfeld on April 25th, 2009.