Photo Alstom Coradia 1000 Class 180113 First Group DMU Train Didcot 2004

Class 180113 Coradia 1000 Diesel Multiple Unit, Didcot Parkway Station

Photo:  Charles Moorhen

Diesel multiple unit Alstom Coradia 1000 Class 180113 dmu UK passenger train in colourful First Group Trains livery is photographed as it pulls into Didcot station on a sunny summer day in 2004.

In all fourteen Class 180 Coradia 4-car dmu units were produced by the multinational Frence company, Alstom, at the former Metro-Cammell works at Washwood Heath, Birmingham, between 2000 and 2001.

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Photo Sunset Shines On Freightliner UK Diesel Loco Class 66551

Class 66551 Freightliner Diesel Loco At Sunset

Photo:  Charles Moorhen

As the sun shines on the Warwickshire town of Rugby, UK Freightliner Heavy Haul diesel locomotive Class 66551 stands in a bay platform of Rugby station.

 

Unfortunately the identity of the other Freightliner locomotive is unknown.

A photograph such as this would be virtually impossible these days owing to the profusion of safety barriers that now exist at Rugby station.

This image was taken shortly before the station was modernised between 2006 and 2008.

Freightliner Class 66551 locomotive was built by General Motors Electo-Motive Division (EMD) in December 2001.

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Photo London Midland Trains Class 321412 EMU Train Wolverton 2000s

Class 321412 Electric Multiple Unit, Wolverton Station

Photo:  Charles Moorhen

Electric multiple unit, (EMU), passenger train Class 321412, in London Midland Trains livery, waits at Wolverton station in Buckinghamshire with a service from London Euston to Northampton.

The Class 321 EMU fleet of 117 units were built between 1988 and 1991.  These passenger trains superseded the Network South East Class 317 units that themselves had replaced the old and worn out British Rail Class 310s.

Wolverton was once well-know for the Carriage and Locomotive Works since being established in 1938 by the London and Birmingham Railway Company.  Part of the works stood approximately where the block of flats in the background now stand.

Nowadays Wolverton Works is much reduced but remains notable as the home of the British Royal Train. 


Wolverton railway station historical note:
It was at Wolverton railway station in Buckinghamshire, on the 9th September 1845, that bare-knuckle fighter, Bendigo, stepped from a carriage of a London & Birmingham Railway train surrounded by a horde of his supporters.

His destination was the nearby town of Newport Pagnell where it was arranged that he would take part in an illegal fight with Ben Court.

At the last possible moment, for various reasons, the venue was switched to the village of Lillington Lovell, 4 miles north of Buckingham.


The match went ahead with Bendigo being heralded the winner after 96 gruelling rounds.

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Photo Chiltern Railways Trains Assorted Diesel Rolling Stock Aylesbury Depot

Assorted Diesel Traction, Aylesbury Depot

Class 165 025 DMU, Ruston Diesel Locomotive 01509, and Class 117 DMU
Photo: Charles Moorhen

A collection of the old and the new photographed at Aylesbury Rail Depot, Buckinghamshire.
From left to right is Chiltern Railways Class 165 025 DMU; one of a total of 39 trainsets for 165/0 with a further 37 trainsets for 165/1.

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At the centre is Class 117  960301 DMU used by Chiltern Railways for departmental purposes.

Owned by Chiltern Railways, on the right is Ruston diesel locomotive, No. 01509, 'Lesley'.

From an entirely personal perspective, I love the collection of brand new axles in the bottom right-hand corner of the picture which was taken from the railway station footbridge.


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