Railway Photographs 2012
The photographs on this page were taken around
Birmingham during 2012


90045 Tilbury - Crewe Freightliner, Stechford, Birmingham


90044 Felixstowe - Crewe Freightliner, Stechford, Birmingham

  
66427 Daventry - Coatbridge Freightliner, Lea Hall, Birmingham

  
66082 & 66186 Engineer's Train passing through Lea Hall, Birmingham

  
66542 Gresley Bridge - Bashford Hall Freightliner                                   66540 "Ruby" Grain - Leeds Freightliner   


221 109 passes through Stechford 
after arriving from Aston, Birmingham

  
37676 working the 6Z47 Hinksey-Doncaster, through Acocks Green, Birmingham




66103 hauling 59001, 59104,and 59004,OF59 Westbury - Bescot
passing through Tyseley, Birmingham.
Later the same evening the locomotives moved forward to Crewe








   
86637 Route learning through Birmingham                                      57309 Crewe -Rugby move                    

           
            47832 & 47501 with the Northern Belle, Coventry - Chester - Coventry


67012 pushing 82301 through Acocks Green, Birmingham
heading to London Marylebone


153334 at Stechford ecs from Tyseley to Coventry via both
Birmingham Snow Hill and Birmingham New Street

  
DR98908 & 98958 leaf buster at Stechford working from
Birmingham New Street  heading towards Birmingham International

   
170109 & 170639 at Stechford, Birmingham working ECS Tyseley - Birmingham New Street, via Coventry

    
           170 106 ecs Tyseley- Birmingham New Street                     66057 Engineer's Ballast Train                             
via Coventry passing Stechford                                  at Stechford heading  towards Bescot    


    
                   47843 Vulcan heading to Doncaster Locomotive Works                                       66850 heading to Carlisle                                                 

   
66087 Roadstone empty wagons from Washwood Heath


66602 with an enginner train
at Castle Bromwich


  
66165 passing through Tyseley, Birmingham with railway sleepers

   
                      172 212 at Hall Green, Birmingham                               66532 with a Freightliner from Lawley Street, at Tyseley



60007 6E41  empty tanks passing over Camp Hill, Birmingham

  
66046 Freightliner at Camp Hill, Birmingham                                 66055 Ballast at Water Orton               

  
 Leaf Clearer DR98908 &98958 Camp Hill, Birmingham              Leaf Clear 98932 & 98982 Bordesley, Birmingham
 


47854 stops at Tyseley Station for a crew change working
a Derby Southall ECS
and below the Nameplate and Brush Plaque



 



47854 & 57006 1Z52 Bridlington -Oxford at Castle Bromwich, Birmingham 

   
and returning at the 1Z53 Oxford - Bridlington at Tyseley, Birmingham



66548 Freightliner Heavy Haul empties


                                                    
DR98958 & 98908 Leave Buster                                                                  950001 Didcot -Derby RTC         
 


47727 Colas Rail , Washwood Heath-Cardiff Canton
with 4 Motorail Coaches, at Camp Hill, Birmingham




67026 & 67029 Crewe - Derby RTC Test Train returning to
Birmingham New Street





56311 dragging 56091  & 50026 "Indomitable"


  
               60054 empty tanks on th 6E41                                              66142 dragging 60011 south from the Sutton Park Line  


  
66514 Heavy Haul passes 66588 Freightliner



31602  Bescot -Bescot route learner


66074 Railtrack ballast


   
First Great Western HST 43151 & 43139 pass St Andrews Junction, Birmingham
with the 1Z43 Oxford - York



London Midland Unit 172340 at Birmingham New Street Station
with a service to Worcester.
This only happens on Saturday and Sunday



31602 & 31602 Cardiff -Chaddesdan empty wagon move


47727 with 96606 &96602 Rugby - Washwood Heath


66167 6E41 Empty Tanks, normally a class 60


66558 Freigthliner at
Castle Bromwich, Birmingham



56094 Colas Rail and 86701"Orion"



56094 Colas Rail dragged 86701 "Orion"
from Willesden to Washwood Heath, Birmingham



and finally at Washwood Heath






47500 hauling Europhoenix Class 87s 87017 Iron Duke and 87023 Velocity
Long Marston - Willesden

     
             66058 Aggregates                       66615 Ratcliffe-Stoke Gifford                  66132 Scunthorpe - Eastleigh  


66555 Freightliner Heavy Haul at Castle Bromwich, Birmingham

    
66019 Margam - Scunthorpe                                                                     66126 Empty Ballast              



20308 & 20312 Pathfinder Railtour
Shrewsbury - Wolsingham


DR73907 Bordesley, Birmingham


66186 empty wagons at Camp Hill, Birmingham




56303 DCR catches the last rays of the sun as it passes through Tyseley
working a Cardiff- Rotherham freight






31602, 57603 and 31601 pass through Tyseley
with a Old Oak Common - Loughborough locomotive movement




66101 with an engineers train at Tyseley




20314 & 20311 dragged 56303 to Washwood Heath returning light engine





56087 & 56094 heading to Rugby

  
9714 &  37682 heading south, Derby RTC - Bristol


66081 with a China Clay working


66101 with a Freightliner


9702 & 31285 at Castle Bromwich, Birmingham

  
66171 passes 66145 at Water Orton                                     66599 Freightliner Heavy Haul          

       
70001 Freightliner at  Water Orton 

 
66055 Toton - Bescot at Water Orton


66621 Bardon Train at Castle Bromwich


66562 and 66567 Freightliner at Camp Hill, Birmingham


66522 Freightliner Heavy Haul, Bordesley Junction



Birmingham Moor Street
Chiltern Loco 67013 & 82305, Chiltern Unit 165024 and GWR 2885





153366 and 170633 ecs at Bordesley Junction, Birmingham



47853 & 47842 "Boat Train" Southampton Docks - Edinburgh
pass thought Tyseley, Birmingham

   
9702 & 31285 pass through Tyseley with the 3Q40 Derby RTC - Didcot


67013 working London Marylebone - Birmingham Moor Street
at Olton, Solihull

    
220 002 passes 172331 at Olton, Solihull


90043 1G23 London Euston - Wolverhampton


66954 Freightliner at Lea Hall, Birmingham, heading South



Virgin Pendolinos 390119 and 390141 (below) 11 carriages




66024 Bescot-Toton

  
        56094 Boston Steel, Water Orton                60091 6E41 empty tanks at Bromford Bridge, Birmingham

   
            66599 Freightliner Heavy Haul                                     66188 empty cement


66050 "EWS Energy"  Freightliner




37612 & 37606 at Tyseley working the 1Q14 to Stratford on Avon
down the north Warwick, returning to Birmingham Snow Hill





08616 "Tyseley 100" shunting in the yard


70019 with the Southampton - Trafford Park Freightliner


66108 at Tyseley on a ballast working


73923 Colas Rail Track Machine



43049 & 43066 UK Railtours London St Pancras - Kidderminster
heading towards Birmingham New Street Station


 
56312 heading north from Washwood Heath
to work the 0Z11 Derby to Derby via Peak Forest Route Learner


66557 Freightliner Heavy Haul heading for
Washwood Heath to run round wagons


Colas Rail track machine 73919




67026 Diamond Jubilee & 67006 pass through Tyseley after travelling along the
North Warwick Line conveying HM The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh
to Birmingham  as part  of the Diamond Jubilee tour





56094 Washwood Heath - Boston


31602 dragging 47843 Vulcan to Crewe




31601 & 61306 Mayflower at Washwood Heath, Birmingham
and below the following day the pair travelled to Dereham






70003 Freightliner Heavy Hall, Camp Hill, Birmingham
and, below left, the following day at Castle Bromwich

   
                                                                       70007 Bashford Hall - Southampton



66095 with an Aggregates working

  
                       47739 Boston Steels at Castle Bromwich                                                       66603 Barton Aregates                                        


66005 Cartex heading for Sutton Park


66078 EWS Heavy Haul


20901 -20905 & 20189 -20227 with a London
Underground stock move at Tyseley




67013 & 82301 with a service from London Marylebone
at Tyseley


66059 6V46 Bescot - Westbury


66128 6m28 Hinksey- Bescot



55022 D9000 Royal Scots Grey working ECS
5Z56 Birmingham International - Crewe


 
37516 & 37676 working ESC 5Z38 Birmingham International - Carnforth


 
66025 & 66009 working an Engineers train 6R02 Bletchley - Bescot


 
47270 & 47854  on the North Warwick with the
Stratford on Avon -Berwick on Tweed Railtour


  
47805 5Z55 Manchester Victoria - Ascot                             66136 Southampton -Halewood              
Ladies Day Special                                                                                                    


                                                                                
                                    
67014 stands in platform 3 at  Birmingham Moor Street
waiting  to depart with the 10.55 Chiltern Service
to London Marylebone
                       

67014 and  2885 GWR Locomotive Moor Street Station




37259 and 37038 working a Derby RTC - Eastleigh
at Acocks Green, Birmingham






Cheshire Cat Pathfinder Railtour " Whitchurch - Canterbury "
20309 and 20312 work the Tour, seen here at Stechford, Birmingham

  


  

First Great Western HST 43003 & 43002
Working a Railtour from Bristol Temple Meads - York




 
66035 with a EWS Heavy Haul                                                         66957 Freightliner Heavy Haul



47790 & 47832 Northern Bell, at Bordesley Junction, Birmingham
working Doncaster - Bath Spa

 

  
43013 & 43012 HST Test Train heading south towards Birmingham International

 
47802 & 47805 London Euston - Inverness heading north through Birmingham

  
    66131 Ipswch - Birch Coppice Freightliner                                  66182 Ipswich - Hams Hall Freightliner        




D9000 Royal Scots Grey "Didcot Parkway - York"
above passing through Stechford and below Nechells, Birmingham




   
                                             350109 New Street - Euston & 323216 International -New Street                          66568 Freightliner from Birch Coppice                                                                                                                                                     
  
158830 & 158825 Arriva Trains at Stechford                    350252 London Midland Unit at Stechford, with
                                                                                      a service to London Euston
                                                
  
66566 Freightliner                                                              66432 Daventry- Wentlog



47739 Colas Rail, Washwood Heath - Boston

       
                 66431 Tesco Rail, Daventry - Wentlog               66121 EWS Heavy Haul Coal            66510 Heavy Haul Coal Empties                 
    


66250 Corby- Margam 



66250 Eastleigh - Stud Farm


  
70009  Garston - Southampton Freightliner at Acocks Green, Birmingham

   
168217 & 172103  Birmingham Snow Hill
- London Marylebone
                                 



57311 Drag Pendolino 390034 ecs from Oxley to London Euston




    
                                   47739 running to Oxford for a tamper machine                    47812 returning to Washwood Heath                                       


  
70013 worked the 0Z76 Route Learner , Crewe - Northampton - Crewe, here at Stechford crossing over
the points heading for Aston, Birmingham


66564 Freightliner at Lea Hall, Bimingham
Fexilstowe - Birch Coppice

    
                           66097 Freightliner Tyseley                                  66541 Freightliner Tyseley                      


66571 Freightliner Acocks Green
                 

47760 & 47245 Ecs Derby - Southall at Acocks Green



57315 & 57308 t&t the 1Z15 London Euston - Birmingham New Street
through Water Orton




170502 Train wash Tyseley

 
153371 & 170634 Local service at Tyseley


168217 heading for Snow Hill through platform 4

   
          43303 & 43285 Water Orton                         170102  Water Orton                 
           heading North                                heading towards Nuneaton

  
20312 & 20308 t&t 37409 Pathfinder Railtour "Hampshire Hopscotch" 1Z61 Crewe- Eastleigh


31 106 & 9714 Eastleigh - Derby RTC



37608 &  37601 t&t 47810 on "Boat Train"
Southampton Eastern Docks - Edinburgh

 

  
47832 & 47790 "The Northern Belle" Manchester Victoria - Kensington Olympia


66414 Southampton - Birch Coppice

   
                                           56311 Stockton - Cardiff Scrap                                66238  Bedworth - Margam Tanks                                           
                     

170519 Train Wash Tyseley

   
20901 & 20905 and 20142 & 20227 pass through Acocks Green, Birmingham
with a new London Underground Unit move, Old Dalby - Amersham




47851 & 47826 pass through Tyseley with the
1Z80 Oxford - Cleethorpes




172221 at Tyseley witha service to Worcester



 
67029 & 82146 on the 5Z06  Birmingham International - Bescot





47812 & 56312 at Bordesley
with 6Z56 scrap wagons from Cardiff



66589 with an early evening Freightliner at Lea Hall

         
66556 & 66570 Trafford Park - Southampton                    66433 Daventry -Wentlog at                        
                                                                                 Lea Hall, Birmingham diverted

  
       66956 freightliner                                     153365 Wolverton Works -Tyseley


60071 6E41 empty tanks


390 156  working 16.50 New Street - Euston

  
37605 & 37610 test train 1Q18 Crewe - Derby

  
20227 & 20142 t&t 20901 & 20905 working Old Dalby - Neasden through Water Orton


Water Orton Station

  
66144 & 66009 Toton- Bescot                                           66136 Freightliner at Water Orton  


47245 & 86215 Floyd at Bordesley, working Long Marston - Willesden


66204 working 6E41 empty tank wagons over Camp Hill

  
              56312 Cardiff - Scunthorpe empty scrap                                  50049 - 37380 -50044 Kidderminster - Derby             

  
20301 & 20302 Bridgewater - Crewe

  
66124 ews working a freightliner                                            66745 Colas Rail Chirh- Gloucester


DR 80212 Stoneblower track machine

  
                                             66020 ews heavy haul empties                                   66551 Freightliner empty Heavy Haul Coal                
                                                      
    
66105 ews empty ballast wagons                                                     66619 Freightliner empty ballast wagons


150242-158 & 158 Units work a Arriva relief service
Shrewsbury - Birmingham International

the 4 photographs were taken 
from Sheldon Country Park in about 60 minutes


66142 Halewood - Southampton Docks


66077 Southampton Docks - Halewood


66169 Westbury - Bescot


66532 Birch Coppice - Felixstowe

more photographs


37667 1Q14 Derby RTC - Bristol - Derby RTC


66522 Concrete Sleepers

   
60011 Westerleigh - Lindsey Empty Tanks                          66053 Ballast working                         


66420 Manchester - Southampton

      
56302  Cardiff-Burton                                           66725 empty wagons

  
37601 & 37059, 1Z12 Derby RTC- Hither Green, passing through Tyseley

             
                                                    90048 London Euston- Birmingham New Street      43014 & 43013 NMT HST Test Train at Stechford                                                     


66002 Pathfinder Tour, Bristol Parkway - Appleford Sidings


66089 Marston Green

   
60099 & 60024 working a sunday morning Bescot - Coventry - Bescot Engineers Train


66101 Halewood Jaguar - Southampton Docks
after leaving the Sutton Park line at Castle Bromwich

  
97301 & 31285 1Z06 Derby-Grove Park passing Water Orton

  
                                                      9701 & 31602 3Z15 Derby- Eastleigh                           950001 2Q08 Tyseley-Tyseley                                                                       
                                  at Castle Bromwich                                                      Marston Green                                                   

  
47749 heading towards Water Orton                   66593 Manchester - Southampton FL


66086 & 66187 t&t heading for the
Sutton Park Line


66021 with a "Rail" working


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