27. Odds and Ends
Driver's eye view from the turnback siding at Wembley Stadium. 26th May 2004. |
Wembley Depot under construction, seen from the rear of an up train. 13th February 2005. |
The wash plant at Wembley Depot. |
Tyseley Junction, seen from the road overbridge. 10th August 2002. |
The depot headshunts at Aylesbury. 23rd March 2004. |
Amersham seen early on a dismal morning from the "34 road" turnback siding. 27th March 2004. |
Looking towards the junction at Sandilands on the Croydon Tramlink where the network leaves the former railway alignment and commences street running. 25th January 2006. |
Waiting for Neasden Junction. 15th September 2005. |
The entrance to Tyseley Depot. (Picture courtesy of Greg Scott). |
Multiple logos on 150133. On top of the original North Western Trains livery is First North Western branding, covered by a Northern Rail logo. At this time the unit was on loan to Silverlink and their logo has been added too. |
Looking through the spy hole into the saloon of 165039. 9th January 2004. |
A feature of virtually every class 165/0 cab is a 2p coin jammed into the hole that once accommodated the speaker for the ATP siren. |
My childhood garden railway - sadly long gone. |
Hymec and wagon on my former garden railway (O gauge). |
Stopped at a red. The driver of 47845 returns to his cab after talking to the signalman. Appleford, 12th June 1994. |
Bristol Parkway on 10th April 1993. I just liked the use of English. |
Poster at Wendover. 28/09/02 |
A photograph of Brno which I (perhaps unwisely) removed from a Czechoslovakian Railways coach. |
Comparison between BR standard green and BR DMU malachite green. |
The torched driving wheels from 6023 "King Edward II" on display at Didcot. |
Donald Wilson, Marylebone's former Station Master in his other role as DMU driver on the West Somerset Railway. 8th April 2003. |
Gerrards Cross Tunnel abandoned and unfinished. The gap is the section that collapsed in 2005. 13th September 2006. |
Poem scrawled onto one of the waiting shelters at Hatton. 14th July 2006. |
Part of the badly deteriorated GWR mural near Snow Hill station, Birmingham. 24th July 2006. |
Another section of the GWR mural. 24th July 2006. |
Franchise changeover. Staff applying a white vinyl strip over the red band on a set of GNER mark 4 coaches. 1st December 2007. |
Bicester North in the mirror. 20th May 1994. |
37s reflected in a DOO mirror at Didcot. 12th June 1994. |
Looking along the Moorswater branch from the level crossing just short of the terminus. 26th August 2006. |
Sometimes it's nice to turn the camera on the crowd. Enthusiasts photograph "Leander" at Marylebone on 2nd April 2006. |
A photographer capturing 37799 passing through Didcot. 15th October 1993. |
47478 comes under scrutiny at Birmingham New Street in 1988. |
Olympic bid branding on the side of a GNER HST. 12th March 2005. |
A truly magnficent example of hard-hitting satire by the NUR. |
Driving wheel pattern for a GWR locomotive. |
Stagecoach Island Line logo on a rusty class 483 unit. |
I'm not really a bus enthusiast, but in the knowledge that time was running out for the Routemasters I took this picture outside Paddington on 6th October 2003. |
"Off to bed now". Unusual destination display on a Voyager at Paddington on 27th March 2003. |
Cattle class conditions? A derelict compartment in a mark 1 coach. |
Conductor rail insulators beyond the buffer stops at Princes Risborough. They once supported wooden replica conductor rails and were used for training drivers how to walk across and apply a short circuiting bar to London Underground tracks. |
A fine example of the pub sign painter's art. Note the out-of-gauge wheels, split-level buffers, multiple fireboxes and steam coming out of the wheels. (The Great Western, Aynho, Oxon). |
Another dire pub sign. Even the sleepers look wrong. (The Railway, Ryde, IOW). |
The Station Hotel, Woburn Sands, Buckinghamshire. On the former LNWR Oxford - Cambridge line. In GWR days, apparently. |
The exit from Radley station with a sign prohibiting access. NSE must have been desperate to hold onto their passengers. 28th June 1994. |
The result of a 100mph collision between a bird and a class 168 unit. The unfortunate creature has become embedded in the unit's fibreglass front. |
A pigeon wedged in the skirt of a class 165 unit after a 75mph collision. |
Insect graveyard. The front of a 165 after just a few Aylesbury - Amersham shuttles. |
Vignette, 37 at Hengoed. |
Vignette, class 108. |
Vignette, 47212 at Aylesbury. |
Vignette, Tralee & Dingle. |
British Railways lion & wheel emblem on D8000. |
Schedule card from my first solo turn as a driver. |
My first introduction to train driving. 1971. |
Me, in front of a class 40 and a Western at Swindon Works during an open day sometime in the mid to late 1970s. Photo - P.G. Marks. |
My official Chiltern Railways mug shot that appeared on posters and that sort of thing when I was a Station Manager. |
A picture of me, about to leave Marylebone on 168003. 13th October 2004. |
Self portrait, Wembley. |
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