Crewe Station 4th January 1986
The Manchester Pullman hauled by BR Blue liveried Class 86 electric loco 86245 'Dudley Castle' passes thru - InterCity Mk 3B Coaches yet a Mark 1 Restaurant car!
#BritishRail #BRBlue #Crewe #Class86 #Pullman #Manchester #InterCity #trainspotting 🤓

BREL Eastleigh Works 8th March 1986
Sparkling in ex-works BR Blue, British Rail Class 33/2 diesel loco 33205 looks superb
With the Hastings line tunnel clearance sorted, the Slim Jim was ready to work a more varied area
#BritishRail #Class33 #BRBlue #Eastleigh #trainspotting 🤓

#FrontEndFriday & The Growler Group fix courtesy of friends on the Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway last year & my 80s archive. 37s a big part of my rly career working in Wales; with them on coal, engineers & wagonload. My shots. RAIL EXPRESS The Railway Magazine Phil Marsh #BR #BR blue #Class37

#BRblue 40012 & 50015 at Bury

Todays pair of Bachmann locos weathered for clients recently. Large Logo BR Blue class 37 alongside an incredibly tatty and work worn BR 2 tone green class 47 weathered to match a photo provided by its owner.

#weathered #commission #oogauge #britishrail #brblue #tmrguk #dirty

Barrow Hill Depot 19th October 1985
Carrying its original BR Blue colours, Romanian built Class 56 diesel loco 56016 looks a bit tatty laid up for the weekend in the shed yard
#BritishRail #Class56 #BRBlue BarrowHillRoundhouse #Romanian #Trainspotting 🤓

BR liveried SWR Class 455868 races past Surbiton

#Class455 #BRBlue #SouthWesternRailway

#ThirtyOnesonThursday a Kodak Instamatic snap of 31133 at Liverpool Street on 17 April 1982 #Class31 #Trainspotting #BRBlue

The humble class 31, with its English Electric 12SVT power unit. Very much a big part of the railway scene in my youth. Great memories of them being paired up on the S&C with a rake of Mk1 compartments! #Class31 #BritishRail #NorthWales #BRBlue #EnglishElectric #Brush

#MondayMorningBlues The superb looking 20205 enjoys a weekend break at Peak Forest back in July. Seen stabled alongside sister 20007. How amazing that these veteran locos are still in use, 20205 is 56 years old & 007 was built 10 years earlier in 1957! #Class20 #BRBlue 1/7/23

Crompton of the week. It's a sunny day to arrive at Portsmouth Hbr and 33061 has done exactly that. 6th July 1981. #Class33 #BRblue #Britishrail

BR Bonus. Classic traction at Waterloo. 5111 rolling in on 5th August 1981. Someone out there can tell us what route 42 was ..... #BRblue #Britishrail

73001 waiting to depart from Wirksworth on the 10.50 service to Duffield on the The Ecclesbourne Valley Railway 24.8.23 #Train #Heritagerailways #Class73 #ED #Shoebox #BRBlue

#OnThisDayinHistory 35 years ago, 6 April 1988.
Class 47 hauled tanks heading north at Kettering.
#Class47 #Kettering #BRBlue

British Rail blue doing its thing on 47270 ‘Swift’, seen here in north Lincolnshire on its way back to Immingham over 30 years ago. The loco survives today as part of the West Coast fleet. (2nd Photo captured at York in 2021.)
#Class47 #Duff #BritishRail #BRBlue #Trainspotting

#OnThisDayinHistory 45041 and 20187 on a wet 7 Jul 1987 at Crewe #Class45 #Class20 #Crewe #BRBlue #Diesels #Trainspotting

#fridayflashback #FrontEndFriday and we nip to Newport for some #cl56 action in 1987 and 1985 respectively. Both in the month of September. #BR #BR blue #Grid . My shots below 👇

Crompton of the week. 33111 is spending time on the Portsmouth to Bristol route - seen here at Portsmouth Hbr on a gloomy 6th August 1981. Nice view of the 'secret' track beyond platform 5. #class33 #BRblue #Britishrail

#ThrowbackThursday , we go back 50 yrs; shot by father John Stanford of a cl 71 at Dover. Earlier we had seen one at Snowdon Colliery & Avonside saddle tank shunting coal wagons.Self in shot!. RAIL EXPRESS Phil Marsh #BRblue #Southernregion Friends of the National Railway Museum Est.1977 The Railway Magazine

Serving Liverpool for 46 Years

Finally caught 507001 on the New Brighton Branch of the Wirral line

23/02/24

#class507 #merseyrail #pep #brblue #wiralline