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Class 45 'Peak' 45144 'Royal Signals' arriving at York from the south
Class 45 'Peak' 45144 'Royal Signals' - one of the Peaks with the rarer split centre headcode - seen arriving with a cross-country service from the south-west most likely. Still carrying her name but 'sans' regimental crest. Note the 'Peak' basher front window. , , Locomotive History D55 / 45144, D55 was was originally to have been constructed at Derby Works during the latter part of 1961, but the order for D50 - D67 was transferred to Crewe Works and D55 was delivered during October 1962, originally allocated to Derby MPD. It was named 'Royal Signals' on the 30th June 1965. In 1973 the Midland Main Line services started to migrate from steam heating to electric heating of the coaching stock and D55 was one of fifty class 45 locomotives selected to have its Stone Vapour steam heating boiler replaced with electric train heating equipment (a Brush BL100-30 ETH auxiliary alternator) and was fitted with the equipment and renumbered 45144 during a classified repair at Derby Works in December 1974. It received its last classified General repair at Crewe Works during March 1984, the last of the class 45’s to be so treated at Crewe. On 16th December 1987 45144 worked the 19.00 Taunton - Bristol, shortly afterwards it sustained derailment damage at Malago Vale carriage sidings, bringing to an end a career of just over twenty five years. It was broken up six months later by Vic Berry's of Leicester. (Details courtesy of John Woolley - see his photo from 1974 in Comments below), , Taken with a Soviet made Zenith TTL camera and standard lens. Scanned from the original negative with just some minor digital improvement - a tad grainy this one :), , You can see a random selection of my railway photos here on Flickriver: www.flickriver.com/photos/themightyhood/random/
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