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25207 Class 25 'Rat' at St Pancras - before working a relief passenger service
Travelling the railway in the British Rail era - or Memories of a mis-spent youth 😎, Between 1983 and 1991 I spent many happy hours with my friends riding the rails around the UK. Fortunately, I managed to record many of the railway locos and scenes encountered on film for posterity. Those days are now long gone, but happily the photos remain for me to reminisce over and share ;), , 25207 is seen here at St Pancras station, long before the station's transformation into a EuroStar terminal. From memory, I 'copped' the locomotive for sight, and it later worked out on a passenger relief train as there was disruption on the WCML., , 1984 was the last year in service for 25207, with its first passenger working of the year being on January 14th working the 17.42 St. Pancras - Liverpool to Nuneaton (comprised of Mk III stock), the diversion caused by a derailment in the Euston area. Note the Mark 1 Restaurant/Buffet car behind. Also note the wires - 'Bedpan' suburban electrification which arrived in 1983., , Locomotive History - D7557 was new to Nottingham Division (D16) on August 7th 1965. Further transfers were:, , September 1967 to Springs Branch (8F)., June 1968 to Liverpool Division (D08)., September 1968 to Preston Division (D10)., May 1970 to Birmingham Division (D02)., November 1970 to Nottingham Division (D16)., October 1971 to Preston Division (D10)., October 1972 to Nottingham Division (D16)., May 1973 to Toton., , Renumbered as 25207 February 16th 1974., , June 1974 to Bescot., March 1975 to Toton., August 1977 to Longsight., March 1978 to Laira., October 1980 to Bescot., Withdrawn November 12th 1984., , 25207 was the 225th Class 25 withdrawn, one of six retired during November 1984., , After withdrawal 25207 was stored at Toton until moved to Swindon Works February 21st - 25th 1985 (detail of moves below). The Works closed before 25207 could be scrapped, it moved to Cocklebury Yard on June 3rd 1987, Leicester Humberstone Road June 4th and into Vic Berry's yard on June 5th 1987. The locomotive became part of the stack until removed during the third week of February 1988, and scrapped by the second week of March 1988. See here for more details on 25207: www.derbysulzers.com/25207.html, , The British Rail Class 25, also known as the Sulzer Type 2, was a class of 327 diesel locomotives built between 1961 and 1967 for British Rail. They were numbered in two series, D5151–D5299 and D7500–D7677. In 1974, they were renumbered in the series 25001-25327. , , The first 25 locos became known as Class 25/0 and were built at BR Darlington Works. The Class 25/1 locomotives were built at Darlington and BR Derby Works. The Class 25/2 locomotives were built at Derby with some built at Darlington. The final batch of locomotives were designated Class 25/3 and built by Derby Works and Beyer, Peacock and Company of Manchester., , The Class 25s were primarily designed for freight work, but a significant number were fitted with boilers for heating passenger trains. Throughout the 1970s they could be found at work across the whole of the British Rail network although the Eastern and Southern Regions never had a long-term allocation. , , Though regular performers into the early 1980s on Crewe-Cardiff passenger trains, they are best known in that respect for their use on the summer Saturday trains to Aberystwyth, a task they relinquished in 1984. They were also often seen in action when the WCML wires were down, dragging trains, and rescuing failed locomotives, mainly on the LMR. The final Class 25 locomotive was withdrawn from operational service in March 1987. More info here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_25, , A "grainy" shot taken with a Soviet made Zenith TTL SLR camera and standard lens, using Ilford HP5 (ASA400) film Scanned from the original negative with no digital restoration., , You can see a random selection of my railway photos here on Flickriver: www.flickriver.com/photos/themightyhood/random/
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