Photo Brush BR Ruston Class 56302 Diesel Loco Wolverton 1980s

Class 56302 Diesel Locomotive, Wolverton Station

Photo: Charles Moorhen

Class 56302 diesel locomotive, in Fastline livery, thunders through Wolverton station, on the West Coast Mainline, with a freight train of containers.

The locomotive was built by British Rail Engineering Limited (BREL) at Doncaster Works and the whole fleet of 135 Class 56s were built between 1976 and 1984.

Class 56302 is seen passing through Wolverton station in the 1980s.




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 Alstom Adalante Class 180103 First Great Western DMU Train Didcot 2004

First Great Western Class 180103 Alstom Adalante DMU

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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

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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 222009 East Midlands Trains DEMU Wellingborough 2016

East Midlands Trains Class 222009 DMU Wellingborough Station

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East Midlands Trains Class 222009 Bombardier Meridian diesel multiple unit, pauses at Wellingborough station before continuing its service to London St. Pancras station.

The former Midland Railway Victorian goods shed can be seen at the far left of the picture.  The shed attained Grade II listing on the 5th May 1981.

This photo was taken in 2016.

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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Night Photo Class 220028 Cross Country Voyager DEMU Train Leamington Spa 2016

Class 220028 Diesel Electric Multiple Unit, Leamington Spa

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Night photo of Cross Country Trains Bombardier Voyager diesel multiple unit, (DMU), Class 220028, stands at Leamington Spa station before continuing on to Birmingham New Street station on the 23rd August 2016.

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Photo Electrostar Class 377207 Thameslink EMU Train Bedford 2015

Class 377207 Electric Multiple Unit, Bedford Station

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Thameslink Trains, Class 377207 Electrostar electric multiple unit, EMU, in Thameslink Dark Blue livery, arrives at Bedford station in the early evening of the 2nd December 2015.

   

When this photo was taken, time was nearly up for this class of Thameslink train.  They would soon be replaced by Class 700 units.

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