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Peak bashing with Class 45 45116 on 1F11 16.48 Derby - Nuneaton seen at Derby - seen shortly before departure
Peak bashing around the Midlands and North 😎, With the Class 40s long gone, excepting D200, I took the opportunity in the summer of '86 to bash some of the Peaks on the pennine services, and in the Midlands - before their demise a couple of years later., , In this view, we see Class 45 'Peak' 45116 (ex D47) on 1F11 which was the 16.48 Derby - Nuneaton local service. The shot was taken shortly before I grabbed the front window - note the open door:), It's amazing to think back now on all those loco-hauled trains that we once took for granted! The Sprinter invasion was yet to take a firm hold., , Locomotive History D47 / 45116, D47 was built at Derby works and entered traffic in 1961. In 1973 the Midland Main Line services started to migrate from steam heating to electric heating of the coaching stock and D47 was one of fifty class 45 locomotives selected to have its steam heating boiler replaced with electric train heating equipment (a Brush BL100-30 ETH auxiliary alternator) and emerged from Derby Works in 1974 as 45116. It would give twenty five years service before withdrawal in Dec 1986. The locomotive was broken up by Vic Berry's, Leicester in Sep 1988. (Details courtesy of John Woolley), , Something new for 2023...Sound & Vision on SoundCloud - more memories from a mis-spent youth 😎 , During the 1980s, I spent a lot of my time riding around the British Rail network, mainly chasing Class 40s and then Class 50s, but also seeing and riding behind a number of other classes. I made a number of tape recordings at the time - many from the front window, some from the platform - using my trusty 'ghetto-blaster' or 'boom box' - you can now savour the Sulzer sound via my SoundCloud archive:, , Join me at the front window for two recordings of Class 45 Peak 45145 on 1E98 12.00 Liverpool - Newcastle. Firstly, we leave Liverpool Lime Street and hear the Sulzer scream against the cutting walls up the bank to Edge Hill, then for the second recording, we leave Manchester Victoria and start the climb up to Miles Platting - 9th August 1986., soundcloud.com/sound-vision-10193594/peak-power-45145-at-..., , And again, join me at the front window as Class 45 Peak 45119 departs Manchester Victoria and attacks the climb to Miles Platting on 1E59 18.05 Liverpool to Newcastle service on 9th August 1986., soundcloud.com/sound-vision-10193594/peak-power-45119-dep..., , And finally, some Peaks from the platform, with a three track medley, each a recording of a Class 45 Peak - starting with 45132 which arrives and departs York on Pennine service 1E74 on Sat 27th Sep 1986. This is followed by 45128 departing Chester on 1J16 on Sun 10th August 1986. Finally we hear a noisy 45114 departing Warrington Bank Quay, which I have noted as being 'the very last working of 1J31' departing at 21.31 on Sat 27th Sep 1986., soundcloud.com/sound-vision-10193594/peaks-from-the-platf..., , Taken with a Zenith TTL SLR camera and standard lens. Scanned from a print with minimal 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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