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BR Gas Diesel Turbine Loco No.18000 “John Adams” At Swindon - 1950’s Dave Cobbe Collection -
BR Hymek No. D7062 with a freight train at White Waltham, Berkshire, on 11 June 1969. -
BR Type 2 / British Rail Class 24 - Class 97 No.97201 ex Class 24 No.24061 RTC Red and Blue Livery RTC is Rail Technical Centre and they had their own colour scheme also loco was named "EXPERIMENT" Open day at Basingstoke - 26.9.1987 Dave Cobbe Collection Notes:- Service History Original number: The locomotive was initially built with the number D5061, before being renumbered to 24061 under the TOPS (Total Operations Processing System) numbering scheme in March 1974. Research Department: After being withdrawn from regular service in August 1975, 24061 was transferred to British Rail's Research Department at Derby Works in November of that year. Renumbering: It was renumbered as RDB968007 and then again as 97201 in 1979. Nicknamed Experiment: As a research locomotive, it was painted in a distinctive red and blue livery and given the name Experiment in 1980. Withdrawal: The loco was finally withdrawn from service on December 4, 1987, making it the last Class 24 to be operational on British Rail. Following its withdrawal, 24061 was preserved. Its restoration and current home have been supported by the North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR), where it now runs under its original number, D5061. Waiting overhaul and was taken out of service in 2014 at NYMR. D5061 was built at Crewe Works and entered service at March, Cambridgeshire, on 15 January 1960. It joined D5032 at Willesden in 1960 and, after spells at Finsbury Park and Haymarket, returned to the London Midland Region in 1968. In May 1973 it once again met up with D5032 at Crewe Diesel Depot, from where it was withdrawn on 10 August 1975. In October of that year it went to Derby Works, emerging into departmental stock as TDB968007. It was withdrawn again on 18 December 1978, before entering service with the Railway Technical Centre at Derby. It was renumbered as 97201 on 18 August 1979, named ‘Experiment’ in June 1980, and withdrawn for a third time on 4 December 1987, moving to Vic Berry’s Leicester yard under its own power in July 1988. -
BR Type 4/BR Class 45's 0r Sulzer Type 4 Diesel Locomotives Nos. 45142 and 45139 at St.Pancras Station on parcels train in platform - May 1987 (Evening Shot timed approx 20.28pm) Dave Cobbe Collection Notes :- Numbering D83/45142 D109/45139 They had nickmanes and were called "Peaks" Locos were built at BR Derby or BR Crewe Works 45142 was withdrawn 19.6.1987 and scrapped at MC Metals ,Glasgow March 1992 45139 was withdrawn 27.4.1987 and scrapped at MC Metals,Glasgow March 1994 -
BRCW Type 3 / Class 33 No.33065 ex D6585 On The Bournemouth Belle at Waterloo Station - September 1986 Loco has "Bournemouth Belle" headboard Dave Cobbe Collection Notes:- These locos were nicknamed "Cromptons" Built BRCW Jan 1962. D6585 was renumbered to 33065 - January 1974 In 1991 was named "Sealion" through to Oct 1996 and in August 2002 was again renamed "Sealion" Withdrawn 17.2.1997. Sold to Mike Biddell of Rainham,Essex then Sold in January 2000 to South East Loco Group - East Kent Railway then in August 2004 moved to SPA Valley Railway -
Brush 4 No.D1628 with a passenger train at Mallerstang Viaduct S and C on the last day of steam - 11th August 1968 Dave Cobbe Collection -
BRUSH TYPE 4 No.D 1516 going through Haringey West with an express 1A48.
Photo from The George Woods Collection.
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BRUSH TYPE 4 No.D 1608 leaving Basingstoke with a train for Bournemouth.
Photo from The George Woods Collection.
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Class 08 No. 08913 with Class 20 Nos. 20113 and 20106 on a coal train near Fiddlers Ferry, Warrington, on 17 July 1991.Dave Cobbe Collection -
Class 08 diesel shunter No. 08643 at Bristol Victoria Park on 4 June 1980.Dave Cobbe Collection -
Class 08 No.08669 “Bob Machin” at Wabtec Rail Limited, Doncaster, on 19 August 2013. -
Class 08 diesel shunter No.08853 at Wabtec Rail Limited, Doncaster, on 19 August 2013.
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Class 08 No.8575 Diesel Shunter “Freightliner” moves a 4 wagon container train at Millbrook,Southampton The Dave Cobbe Collection -
Class 08 No.8933 Diesel Shunter moving wagons at Eastleigh The Dave Cobbe Collection -
Class 11 diesel shunter No.12049 at Ropley MPD on the Mid Hants Railway on 7 September 2016. -
Class 141 Pacer DMU No.14114 in red and silver livery heading towards York near Hambleton, North Yorkshire.
