Polyrus' photos with the keyword: train

I was precariously balanced on the back of a wooden bench, so that I could take an uninterrupted shot over the 2m high fence ...of the marvellous Battledown Flyover (built 1897), when out of nowhere a steam hauled train encroached on the scene. Such is life. HFF!

Seen clagging well on leaving Birmingham International station with a BBC "Children in Need" special from Euston to Manchester Vic with class 47 47768 'Resonant' behind the loco as insurance. November 1995 A scan from my Agfachrome slide then a mono conversion as a result of a prompt by fratton parker Since I quietly posted this unobtrusive image, Norbert has designated it a fence photo, so HFF! Explored!

7903 - The basics: Built at Swindon: April 1949 Withdrawn by BR: June 1964 Arrived Woodham's scrapyard at Barry: August 1964 Recovered from Barry Scrapyard: June 1981 Restoration completed by 2014 Returned to traffic after first major overhaul in preservation, May 2016 This is a scan from a Kodachrome 64 slide taken at Christmas 2004. Clearly showing a somewhat improved appearance from my previous image. Explored!

...just before Ash in Hampshire 15th June 1963 A scan of a 35mm slide, by the late Trevor B. Owen from which copyright was recently released. 31625 is a Maunsell U class loco built at Ashford Works in 1929. It was withdrawn from service by British Railways at the beginning of 1964 and sold as scrap to Woodham's Brothers in south Wales, arriving at their scrapyard in June of that year.

....with D-Day 50th Anniversary rail tour to Southampton Docks 5th June 1994. A scan from a 35mm SupaSnaps slide. E828 (BR 30828), was one of the S15 class of 25 heavy freight locomotives and was built in July 1927 at Eastleigh Locomotive Works. Although designed for freight haulage, E828 and its classmates also hauled frequent stop local passenger trains when needed. This loco was withdrawn from service by British Railways in January 1964 and after a few months in storage at Salisbury it was sold for scrap to the Woodham’s Brother in Barry, south Wales and arrived there in June 1964. As with most locos (200+) sent to the same scrapyard it was eventually rescued for preservation and left there in March 1981 for restoration at Eastleigh Works. However, due to having to re-machine or replace most components restoration was not completed until 1993 and was then based on the Swanage Railway in Dorset. For the next nine years E828 was kept busy and was regularly seen on the national network hauling railtours until its boiler ticket expired in 2002. During that time it was probably my most photographed locomotive. Since 2007 this loco has been undergoing its second major overhaul in the preservation era. My previous uploaded image shows this loco in the scrapyard. Please view LARGE to appreciate the craftsmanship.

A scan from the original print. E828 (BR 30828), was one of the S15 class of 25 heavy freight locomotives and was built in July 1927 at Eastleigh Locomotive Works. Although designed for freight haulage, E828 and its classmates also hauled frequent stop local passenger trains when needed. This loco was withdrawn from service by British Railways in January 1964 and after a few months in storage at Salisbury it was sold for scrap to the Woodham’s Brother in Barry, south Wales and arrived there in June 1964. As with most locos (200+) sent to the same scrapyard it was eventually rescued for preservation and left there in March 1981 for restoration at Eastleigh Works. However, due to having to re-machine or replace most components restoration was not completed until 1993 and was then based on the Swanage Railway in Dorset. For the next nine years E828 was kept busy and was regularly seen on the national network hauling railtours until its boiler ticket expired in 2002. During that time it was probably my most photographed locomotive.

Hauling this unusual train is 'Trangkil' No.4 at Statfold Barn Farm Railway. A comprehensive multi-gauge private railway near Tamworth, Stafffs, during 2007. Trangkil was the last industrial steam locomotive built in Britain by Hunslet & Co. of Leeds in 1971. Trangkil was originally built to 750 mm gauge and supplied by Robert Hudson for use on the Trangkil sugar mill estate on the island of Java in Indonesia, where it worked for 33 years until made redundant by dieselisation and then was returned to the UK in 2004 to become part of the Statfold collection. During a thorough overhaul in the Statfold workshops this loco was re-gauged to 2’0” (610 mm). A scan from my original Kodak slide.

The Fairbourne Railway is a 12 1⁄4 inch (311 mm) gauge railway running for 2 miles (3.2 km) from the village of Fairbourne on the Mid-Wales coast, to the end of the peninsula at the Barmouth Ferry railway station. The railway has four steam locomotives and one of the four, 'Beddgelert', seen here returning to Fairbourne with four coaches, is one of them. All four steam locos are half sized replicas of previous narrow gauge engines. In the background, across the Mawddach estuary, is "The Cardigan Bay Express" hauled by 7819 Hinton Manor! A scan from my Agfachrome 35mm slide, showing the juxtaposition of two completely different trains.