D.J. Henderson's photos with the keyword: class 158

Viewed from the station footbridge, 158703 arrives at Dingwall with 2H73, the 14:50 Inverness - Invergordon. The small groundframe still sees a bit of use, mostly by P-way machinery, but the occasional failure gets put in there.

With the "Points Set" Indicator lit in the distance, 158722 will shortly depart Dingwall with 2H57, the 14:00 Inverness - Wick. The bright orange aspect will light, hopefully, after the driver hits the plunger on the platform. This selects the route that the train will take at Dingwall Jct, either to Kyle, or the Far North. The indicator confirms that the points are correctly set and, without the light, the train can go nowhere.

158722 arrives at Dingwall with 2H57, the 14:00 Inverness - Wick. I seem to photograph this unit at Dingwall every five years - weird. This time, the set is carrying the new Saltire livery, which it acquired in February 2016. The "Night Blue" paint job isn't quite as loud as First Group's "Barbie" colours.

Another unit now in the Saltire livery, 158718 calls at Dingwall with 2H85, the 13:35 Inverness - Kyle. Repainting of the Inverness-based 158s has, pretty much, been completed. The new look 158718 was outshopped from Glasgow Works in January 2017.

Resplendent in freshly applied Saltire livery, 158708 pulls into Plockton station with 2H81, the 08:55 Inverness - Kyle. The unit was repainted at Springburn a few weeks earlier. The much-maligned Rhododendrons add a splash of seasonal colour to the rampant vegetation at the station.

158719 sits at a sunny Muir of Ord station with 2H71, the 11:42 Inverness - Dingwall.

158716 runs into a wet Dingwall station with 2H82, the 12:08 Kyle - Inverness.

158704 at Muir of Ord on the rear of 2H65, the 17:54 Inverness - Wick/Kyle. The leading unit (158705) will detach at Dingwall, running forward to the Far North, leaving 158704 to form 2H87, the 18:30 Dingwall - Kyle. This arrangement continued until the December timetable change in 2014 when 2H87 went back to the previous set-up, still leaving Inverness at 17:54, but running as a simple 2-car to Kyle.

Crossing the Dingwall Canal on Bridge 47, 158707 approaches Dingwall Jct with 2H60, the 06:20 Wick - Inverness. The short canal was never much of a success and, when the railway was built, it seems that no-one insisted on a swing bridge, so the canal fell into disuse from January 1890.

The right unit for the job, 158707 "Far North Line 125th Anniversary" approaches Dingwall Junction, from that very line, with 2H60, the 06:20 Wick - Inverness. Like most of Scotrail's named class 158s, this set lost its nameplates when re-liveried, early in 2017 in this case. 158720 is now Scotrail's only named 158.

Still in NatEx livery, 158724 leaves Dingwall with 2H81, the 08:53 Inverness - Kyle. The "Mallard" road van is continuing a long tradition of vehicles using the Down platform at Dingwall. Post vans were common and anyone picking up (or dropping off) a heavy parcel would drive right onto the platform.

If you're going to derail a 158, you might as well put all the wheels in the ballast and do it at the throat of a junction station. Joking aside though, and the most important thing, there were no serious injuries.