Photo EWS Class 66086 UK Diesel Loco and Coal Hopper Train 2004

Class 66086 EWS Diesel Locomotive Didcot Parkway

Photo:  Charles Moorhen

EWS Freight, Class 66086 diesel loco hauling a long rake of 102 tonne coal hopper wagons, photographed about to enter Didcot station on a bright summer's day in 2004.

UK Diesel locomotive Class 66086 was built in April 1999 by General Motors Electro-Motive Division (EMD)

The three remaining Didcot Power Station cooling towers, seen top right of photo, were demolished in August 2019.

More Class 66 Locomotive Images on 'Along These Tracks'.

Class 66005 at Wellingborough

Class 66013 & 66502 at Rugby (Scroll down for '502' image)

Class 66044 at Northampton

Class 66086 and 66237 at Didcot

Class 66117 at Northampton

Class 66130 at Banbury

Class 66145 at Banbury

Class 66187 at Wellingborough

Class 66206 at Northampton

Class 66414 at Northampton

Class 66509 at Wellingborough

Class 66536 at Banbury

Class 66551 at Rugby

Class 66717 at Wellingborough

Class 66729 at Wellingborough 

Class 66765 at Wellingborough

Four Unidentified Class 66s Didcot.

Four Unidentified GBRF Class 66s Wellingborough

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Photo Class 43033 Intercity 125 HST First Great Western Train Didcot 2004

 Class 43033 Intercity 125 Train, Didcot Parkway

Photo:  Charles Moorhen

An early evening image of UK Class 43033 Intercity 125 High Speed Train waiting at Didcot station, Oxfordshire, whilst operating an express service from the South West of England to London.

In 2004, Class 43033 carried the name, 'Driver Brian Cooper  15 June 1947 - 5 October 1999', one of the drivers who died in the Ladbroke Grove rail crash on the 5th October 1999.

Although it cannot be seen in this black and white photo, Class 43033 Intercity 125, is in First Great Western blue livery.

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Photo Four EWS Class 66 UK Diesel Locos Didcot Train Station 2004

 EWS Class 66 Diesel Locomotives, Didcot Parkway 2004

Photo:  Charles Moorhen

In colourful EWS Freight livery, four UK Class 66 diesel locomotives stand on Didcot sidings on a sunny day in 2004.

The front locomotive is Class 66153 and behind is Class 66016.  The third '66' number is unreadable.

Above the locos a thunderstorm threatens to engulf Didcot station.  In fact a short while after taking this picture the heavens did open.  The after effects of which can be seen on the platform as First liveried Class 166205 3-car dmu pulls into the station elsewhere on the blog.

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Photo Alstom Adalante Class 180103 First Great Western DMU Train Didcot 2004

First Great Western Class 180103 Alstom Adalante DMU

Photo:  Charles Moorhen

In First Great Western Trains livery, 5-car unit Class 180103 Alstom Adalante diesel multiple unit enters a damp, Didcot Parkway station on the 5th October 2004.

 

Fourteen 5-car Alstom Adelante dmu passenger train units were built by French company Alstom in their former works at Washwood Heath, Birmingham, UK

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Photo Class 166205 Network Express Turbo DMU Train Didcot 2004

First Great Western Trains Class 166205 Diesel Multiple Unit, Didcot Parkway

Photo:  Charles Moorhen

First Great Western Trains Class 166205 diesel multiple unit, (DMU), Network Express Turbo, enters Didcot Parkway after a sudden torrential October downpour.

 

This photo of  3-car UK passenger train, Class 166205 dmu, was taken at the station in the 2004.

The class of 166 Turbo Express diesel multiple units (DMU) were built between 1992 and 1993 by ABB Yorks works.

The Class 166 3-car units, a fleet of 21, (fleet numbers are 166201 - 166221) were designed as a faster variant of the Class 165 Turbo and both classes were originally known as Networker Turbos, but today are generally referred to as Thames Turbos.

The Class 166 diesel multiple units are operated by the Great Western Railway and the lines they serve are; Severn Beach Line, Golden Valley Line, Heart of Wessex Line, and the Wessex Main Line. 




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Photo Class 165112 First Group Trains Network Turbo DMU Train Didcot 2004

Class 165112 Diesel Multiple Unit, Didcot Parkway

First Group Class 165112 DMU
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In bright sunlight for an October day, Class 165112 Network Turbo diesel multiple unit, (DMU), in First Great Western Trains livery, enters Didcot Parkway in 2004 en route for Stratford.

This UK passenger train photo, Class 165112, was taken in 2004.

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Photo Class 66086 and Class 66237 Diesel Locos Didcot Sidings 2004

Class 66086 and 66237 Locos, Didcot Station

Photo:  Charles Moorhen

On my first ever trip to Didcot railway station in Oxfordshire, in 2004, I was fortunate to capture an image of these two General Motors EMD EWS Class 66 diesel locomotives stabled on Didcot sidings - Class 66 66086 and Class 66 66237.

 

Class 66086 was built in April 1999 and allocated to Toton TMD (Notts.).

Class 66237 was built in May 2000 and allocated to Poznam (ECR Poland).

The way they look it is almost as if they were deliberately posed.  "Oh! to have that sort of power!" 

On the same day that I took the above image I was fortunate enough to photograph Class 60 60016 'Rail Magazine' one month before it was renamed, 'Langdale Pikes'.


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