Photo Class 153366 Super Sprinter DMU Train Bletchley Sidings 2015

Class 153366 Sprinter Unit, Bletchley

Photo: Charles Moorhen
 

London Midland Trains one-car Class 153 366 diesel multiple unit photographed on the carriage sidings at Bletchley in 2015.

Class 153366 commuter train unit was built between 1987 and 1988 and allocated to Tysley TMD (Birmingham).

It was hit and miss as to whether I would be able to get this shot at all.  The sun had almost set when I spotted the dmu as I drove past the sidings.  Added to that I needed to weave between trees while stumbling through a mass of undergrowth strewn with brambles.

Although not my best railway photo by a long chalk, I did at least manage a half decent record of Class 153 153366 which I hadn't seen before.

 

The sprinter Class 153 diesel multiple units were built by Leyland Bus between 1987 and 1988 as two-coach units before being converted to single-car units in 1991/92 by Hunslet-Barclay. 

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The rail franchise run by London Midland Trains has, from the 10th December 2017, been taken over by West Midlands Trains part-owned owned by Abellio.
 

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Other Class 153 DMU Photos: 

GWR Class 153 370 Super Sprinter Entering Truro

 London Midland Class 153 364 DMU Night Photo at Bedford

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Photo Super Sprinter Class 153370 GWR DMU Enters Truro 2017

Class 153370 'Sprinter' Unit, Truro

Photo: Charles Moorhen

Single-car Class 153 153370 Super Sprinter DEMU, based on a Leyland bus chassis, in GWR green livery, enters Truro railway station, Cornwall, operating a late afternoon commuter service in mid-June 2017.

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The sprinter Class 153 diesel multiple units were built by Leyland Bus between 1987 and 1988 as two-coach units before being converted to single-car units in 1991/92 by Hunslet-Barclay.

Class 153370 was allocated to Exeter St. Davids.
Class 153370 unit coach numbers as follows: 57370.

A 'grab-shot' that very nearly didn't happen as I was totally unaware this diesel multiple unit (strange name for a single-car train) was approaching!

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Other Class 153 DMU's:

Class 153 366 DMU at Bletchley 2015
London Midland Class 153 364 DMU Night Photo at Bedford

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Photo Eurostar Trains 3001 and 3230 Ashford International Station 2013

Eurostar Trains at Ashford Station

Eurostar Train 3001
Photo: Charles Moorhen

Eurostar Train 3230           Photo: Charles Moorhen

Two Eurostar trains, 3001 and 3230, pause at Ashford International Station before proceeding east to the Channel on the afternoon of the 9th June 2013.

More trains photographed at Ashford on this blog:

South Eastern Trains Class 395021 Javelin EMU 'Ed Clancy MBE' Ashford 2013

Class 377521 and Class 465923 EMUs

South Eastern Trains Class 375905 Electrostar

 

Southern Trains Class 171721 Turbostar DMU

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Night Photo Class 20311 HN Rail Diesel Loco Banbury Station 2017

Class 20311 Loco at Banbury

Class 20311 Diesel Loco
Photo: Charles Moorhen

New Underground Trains En Route To The London 

HNRail Class 20 311 diesel freight locomotive, at the rear of a train delivering new London Underground rolling stock, pauses a while at Banbury station on the evening of the 11th April 2017.  

Class 20311 was built in December 1961 and is allocated to GBRf  Peterborough.

Between 7th July 2007 and the 30th September 2010 Class 20311 was named 'The 20 'Fifty' Class.

Other locomotives used in the train were Class 20 20107, 20096 and 20314.

The train diesel multiple unit trying to muscle in at the right of the top picture is Chiltern Railways DEMU Class 165015, about to leave with a service to Marylebone station, London.

 

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Sunset Photo Class 45 'Peak' Type 4 Diesel Locos Whitemoor Yard 1980's

Class 45 'Peak' Locos In The Sunset

Photo: Charles Moorhen

Three unidentified 'Peak' diesel locomotives withdrawn from service, in the twilight of their lives, stabled on sidings at Whitemoor Yard Depot, March, Cambridgeshire, in the late 1980's.

 

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Photo Class 47 Network SouthEast Diesel Loco Oxford Station 1990

Unidentified Class 47 'Network South East' Loco

Photo: Charles Moorhen

Unidentified Class 47 diesel locomotive, in Network Southeast livery, passes through Oxford station on the 23 February 1990.

Unfortunately I had somehow left behind my spotting notebook on this particular day.  Needless to say it has never happened since!

512 Class 47s were built, of which 30 have passed into preservation and can be found (at time of blog-page publication) at the following locations, though this may be subject to change for various reasons.

D1524  47004 - Embsay & Bolton Abbey Railway.

D1693  47105 - Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway.

D1705  47117 'Sparrowhawk' - Great Central Railway.

D1842  47192 - Crewe Heritage Centre.

D1855  47205/47395 - Northampton & Lamport Railway.

D1994  47292 - Great Central Railway Nottingham.

D1787  47306 'The Sapper' - Bodmin & Wenford Railway.

D1886  47367 - Mid Norfolk Railway.

D1895  47376 'Freightliner 1995' - Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway.

D1500  47401 'North Eastern' - Midland Railway Butterley.

D1501  47402 - East Lancashire Railway.

D1516  47417 - Midland Railway Butterley.

D1566  47449 - Llangollen Railway.

D1662  47484 'Isambard Kingdom Brunel' - (Private Location).

D1107  47524 - Dean Forest Railway.

D1778  47183/47579/47793 'James Nightall G.C. - Mid Hants Railway.

D1762  47167/47580/47732 'County of Essex - Carnforth.

D1933  47233/47596 'Aldeburgh Festival' - Mid Norfolk Railway.

D1606  47029/47635 'Jimmy Milne' - Epping Ongar Railway.

D1970  47269/47643 - Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway.

D1948  47505/47712 'Lady Diana Spencer' - Crewe Heritage Centre.

D1619  47038/47564/47761 - Midland Railway Butterley.

D1643  47765/47059/47631 - East Lancashire Railway.

D1946  47503/47771 - Eastleigh Works.

D1755  47541/47773 - (Location Not Known).

D1909  47232/47785/47820 - Wensleydale Railway.

D1656  47072/47609/47834/47798 'Prince William' - York Railway Museum.

D1654  47070/47620/47799/47835 'Prince Henry' - Eden Valley Railway.

D1966  47266/47629/47828 - Carnforth.

D1661  47077/47613/47840 'North Star' - West Somerset Railway.

 

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Night Photo BRCW Sulzer Class 33 Diesel Loco Cab Front at Night 1980s

Class 33 Cab In the Dark, Basingstoke

Photo: Charles Moorhen

Cab front of an unidentified Class 33 diesel locomotive stabled for the night on a siding at Basingstoke station in the late 1980's.

The Class 33 stands close to where one of Basingstoke's lever-operated signal boxes once stood, opposite the current signal box (see photo below) where the track diverges to Reading station.

As a young boy in the early 1960's, I was lucky enough, with a friend of mine, to be able to visit the older wooden signal box in question and watch for a while as a variety of Southern Region steam-hauled trains passed by in both directions. 

A treat I will never forget.

Basingstoke Signal Box     Photo: Charles Moorhen

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