Photo Class 365517 First Capital Connect Networker Express EMU Train Ely 2014

Class 365517 EMU, Ely Station

Class 365517 'Smiley Face' EMU at Ely Station
Photo:  Charles Moorhen

The Happy Train

First Capital Connect liveried Networker Express electric multiple unit (EMU), Class 365517, stands in Ely station Cambridgeshire in June 2014.

This class of electric multiple unit commuter train was nicknamed by the railway enthusiast fraternity as 'The Happy Train'.

 

 

 

Class 365 Thameslink EMU News Update:

Due to much lower numbers of people travelling on Great Northern services out of King's Cross, due to the COVID crisis, Govia Thameslink Railway is scaling back its services.

As a result, Thameslink's fleet of 21 Class 365 EMUs are to be withdrawn in May 2021.

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Photos Class 323209 EMU Train and Class 170514 DMU Train Barnt Green 2016

Class 323209 London Midland Trains EMU

Photo:  Charles Moorhen

London Midland Trains Class 323209 electric multiple unit (EMU), commuter train, photographed standing in a deserted Barnt Green station, not far from the Lickey Hills Country Park in one direction and the incredibly steep Lickey Incline, before continuing on to Birmingham in August 2016.

         Class 170514 DMU at Barnt Green Station           Photo: Charles Moorhen

Looking resplendent in its bright green and black London Midland Trains livery, Class 170514 DMU passes under the station footbridge as it glides through Barnt Green heading towards the Lickey Incline and Bromsgrove station in August 2016. 

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Photo Class 172104 Chiltern Railways 2-Car DMU Train Banbury 2014

Class 172104 'Turbostar' DMU, Banbury Station

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Chiltern Railways Trains, Class 172104 Turbostar diesel multiple unit (DMU), resplendent in bright and whit livery, stabled until needed in its usual role as a commuter train at Banbury station in 2014.

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Photo Class 171721 Southern Trains 2-Car DMU Train Ashford International

 Southern Trains Class 171721 'Turbostar' DMU at Ashford

Photo:  Charles Moorhen

Peeking Through the Girders

Photo of Class 171 721 Turbostar diesel multiple unit (DMU) passenger train, in Southern Trains livery, glimpsed between the platform girders of Ashford International railway station on the 9th June 2013.

More commuter trains photographed at Ashford:

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

Class 377521 and Class 465923 EMUs

Eurostar Trains 3001 and 3230, 2013

 

South Eastern Trains Class 375905 Electrostar

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Photos BR Class 08518 and 08427 Diesel Shunter Locos For Scrap 1989

Class 08518 & 08427 Diesel Shunters

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Destined For The Scrapyard?

Two diesel shunter locomotives, Class 08518, with 08427 at the rear, both in BR Blue livery, stand on sidings in Whitemoor Yard, near March, Cambridgeshire, Uk, on the 9th May 1989 as two of many old BR locos destined for the scrapyard.

When built 08518 carried the number D3680 entering service on the 19th July 1958 after delivery to Stratford depot.

08518 was withdrawn from service on the 22nd July 1986 and cut up at Gwent Demolition (Margam) on the25th March 1994.

Shunter Class 08427 carried the number D3542 when released into service at Perth South depot on the 29th August 1958.

Withdrawn on the 14th November 1986, 08427 was cut up at Gwent Demolition (Margam) on the 25th March 1994. 

 

 

Class 08 Shunter Historical Note:
At Tinsley Marshalling Yard near Sheffield, UK, six '08' shunters were coupled in three pairs for shunting operations.  In each pair one locomotive cab was removed; its power controlled from the 'cabbed' 08.  This combination of power units were classified as Class 13.

The three pairs worked together in Tinsley Yard for twenty years until early 1985 when hump-shunting came to an end.

 

They were numbered thus: D4500 (D3698  D4188), D4501 (D4189  D4190), D4502 (D3696  D4187).

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Photo Class 411/5 1541 4-CEP British Rail EMU Train Kearsney Kent 1980s

Class 411/5 1541 4-CEP EMU Train 

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Class 411/5 4-CEP, 1541 electric multiple unit (EMU) commuter passenger train, in 'Jaffa Cake' livery, leaves Kearsney station near Dover, Kent, heading for London Victoria in the late 1980s.

 

My apologies for the quality of this photo.  It was taken in really contrasty light in late afternoon on a pre-digital  35mm camera.

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Photo Class 170101 Turbostar Midland Mainline Livery DMU Train Wellingborough 2001

Class 170101 DMU Wellingborough

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In Midland Mainline livery, passenger train Turbostar Class 170101 diesel multiple unit (DMU), enters Wellingborough station en route for London St. Pancras  2001.

News Update:

Seeing East Midlands Trains colourful livery of red, white, orange and red flashing along the railway tracks, will soon become a thing of the past.

Abellio will take over the East Midlands Trains franchise on Saturday 18th August 2019. The Class 43 HST Intercity 125 and Class 222 diesel multiple unit will gradually be phased out by brand new Hitachi trains that will be a variant of the bullet-nosed Class 800 bio-mode DMU.

The new trains will have a lavender livery and be branded with 'EMR' on both sides.

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