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No, most of our passenger trains have a driving cab at each end.

Sleaford, 1978 Class 55 locomotive Deltic 55021 “Argyll & Sutherland Highlander” passes Sleaford North signal box with the King’s Cross - Aberdeen service.

Sleaford, 1978.

Sunday Diversions.

Deltic 55021 “Argyll & Sutherland Highlander” passes Sleaford North signal box with the King’s Cross - Aberdeen service.

📷 D Hayes

Pretty widespread. They were definitely as far north as Newcastle, as they appear in the opening credits to “Get Carter”.

I never knew that. I thought they were standard pre double arrow BR.

Rétro cars voiture 🚘 la Citroën Ami6 de nov 1963 . ...

A 1960s BR illuminated platform destination lamp on a disused at Cleethorpes.

An old 1960s destination lamp on a disused platform at Cleethorpes railway station in 2017. Thankfully, shortly after I took this photo it was saved by a museum.

And on that note, I’m off to the seaside for pop and chips 🍻 🍟

Positively Mediterranean! Not called sunny Donny for nowt you know 😉

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Jones the Steam contemplates work whilst drinking tea on the step of Ivor the Engine.

Well, I suppose I’d better go and do summat…

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Die Hard has just started on E4.

Why are they showing a Christmas film in April? 😉

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I were just a nipper at ’time 😉

Seems it was a lonely engine 😁

Leon’s, I seem to remember were sky blue?

I think green was Yorkshire Traction..?

Locomotive Class 40 085 stops near the old Shakespeare Dock and Carriage Sidings at Doncaster, the land looking quite desolate as the sidings have recently been lifted. A yellow BR Sherpa van is parked on the land which is now railway company staff car parks.

Doncaster, 1980

40085 pauses on the East Slow line as it surveys the desolation of the recently lifted Shakespeare Dock and Carriage Sidings. A BR Sherpa van predicts the future as most of that land is now railway company car parks

#Doncaster #Yorkshire

📷 J Miller

Fortunately…

I’m loaded, fuelled, and brake checked. I’ll be taking 66539 and train of containers from Doncaster to Peterborough where an Ipswich driver will relieve me and take it on to Felixstowe. That’s another 75 HGVs off the roads!

Just enough time for coffee and a steak bake before I depart… ☕️ 🥟

Even when Bluesky is having a nightmare, it’s still better than Xitter…

At Doncaster railway works in 1966, Deltic D9002 (55002) ‘The Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry' and a Class 31 straight out of the paint shop and looking resplendent in their brand new BR Blue and Double Arrows.

Doncaster, 1966

Deltic D9002 (55002) ‘The Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry' and a Class 31 straight out of the paint shop and looking resplendent in their brand new BR Blue and Double Arrows.

D9002 was the first Deltic to wear BR Blue.

#Doncaster #Yorkshire

📷 G Wareham

Straight out of the Thunderbirds!

Doncaster, 1959

British Railways EE DP1 ‘Deltic’ takes a break at Doncaster during test runs between Yorkshire and King’s Cross. St James’s bridge is just visible in the distance, but very few of the buildings on the south west side of the station remain today.

#Doncaster #Yorkshire

📷 P Brumby

They make a great noise!

Travelling as a passenger to pick up a job down south then drive it back up to Yorkshire…

Preston docks in June 1967, first reached by the railway in 1845. Here Energy, one of Preston Corporation’s fleet of seven W. G. Bagnall 0-6-0T engines delivered between 1942 and 1948, is seen close to the quayside of the Albert Edward Basin. crecy.co.uk/product/rail...

Travelling as a passenger to pick up a job down south then drive it back up to Yorkshire…

Jarrow, 1937, photo by Bill Brandt.