Railway Photographs 2014
Passenger, Freight, Industrial, Railtours & Special workings

 
68012 drs locomotive first driver training run from London Marylebone to Stourbridge Junction and return

 
67015 & 67027 working a Derby RTC Test Train, Derby - Derby


67017 "Arrow" arriving at Birmingham Moor Street Station

 
47580 "Spirit of the Lakes" Railtour, Skegness - Bath Spa and return              70808 Colas Rail, Hinksey - Toton passing Stechford, Birmingham    

 
66516 & 70017 Freightliner, Leeds - Southampton                                       66162 ews Ford Commercials from Southampton Docks        

 
47790 & 47818 Northern Belle, Coventry - Shrewsbury - Coventry Dining Special


Cross Country Units, 170101, 170518 & 170520
at Birmingham Moor Street, working Tyseley - Birmingham New Street ESC

  
London Midland Units 170506 & 170517 pass  the London Midland Unit  at Birmingham Moor Street,
working Worcester Tyseley ECS


170 520 Cross Country Unit , Tyseley - Birmingham New Street ECS
via Birmingham Moor Street

 
150 107, 170, and 153356 London Midland Units, Tyseley - Worcester ECS passing through Birmingham Moor Street


168001 & 168106 Chiltern Units at Birmingham Moor Street

Click on the link for - West Midland Remembrance to Railway Staff

 
DR 98909 & DR 98959 MPV passing through Aston, heading north to Lichfield  via Birmingham Cross City Line

  
50007 & 56096 working Washwood Heath - Boston Steel Freight                            66848 Colas Rail Freight, Ratcliffe - Glouscester         


66572 Freightliner Southampton - Leeds

  
70001 Freightliner, Lawley Street, Birmingham - Southampton                      66510 Freightliner, Rugeley - Huntslet Yard Heavy Haul        


D9009, 50015, 37109 & 55019 Kidderminster - Castleton


60001 empty tanks passing 66757 on yellow boxes

 
57314 & 57316 working Carnforth - Banbury ecs train, through Birmingham

 
DR98908 & DR98958 Leaf Buster, Kings Norton-Kings Norton                 70020 Washwood Heath - Bescot by the M6 at Fort Dunlop   

  
56103 & 56312 returning to Washwood Heath                                         66757 GBrf Westbury - Cliffe Hill Stud Farm                     

 
66185 & 66004 ews "Leaf Buster", Bescot - Bescot passing through Marston Green

 
      66131 Mount Sorrel - Morton on leg at the site of Bromford Bridge Station           66547 Freightliner Barton Hill Quarry -Willesden Euro, passing Birmingham    

 
   67020 & 67030 Derby RTC Test Train via the West Midlands          70015 Freightliner Leeds - Southampton at Camp Hill, Birmingham

    
66006 ews Empty Cement                                              66199 ews Bescot-Toton                                             66207 ews Heavy Haul

 
66304 drs Daventry - Wentlog at Water Orton                                                    66572 Freightliner Lawley Street - Felixstowe

 
43321 & 43304 Edinburgh - Plymouth at Water Orton                                      66055 ews Birch Coppice-Felixstowe Freightliner       

    
37219 & 37175 Colas Rail, Washwood Heath - Cardiff light engine move

      
66543 & 66534 Freightliners at Castle Brommwich                        66565 Freightliner Heay Haul                          66849 Colas Rail Rugeley-Stoke Gifford     

   
37668 & 37423 drs Derby RTC - Crewe, via northern section of Birmingham Cross City LIne

   
              66424 drs Daventry-Wentlog, Five Ways, Birmingham            67010 Railtour UK, London Marylebone - Severn Valley Railway      

  
43207 & 43378 HST Cross Country, Five Ways Leeds-Plymouth                                   20309 & 20312 drs Berkeley - Crewe                    

  
   57314 & 47804 "The Statesman" Railtour,Gloucester-Scarborough                                       66097ews Bandbury- Mount Sorrel                                   
                        
  
66165 ews Bedworth Tanks, at Castle Bromwich                       66175 ews Saltley - Liverpool, heading to Bescot           

 
170114 & 170113 Cross Country Service to Cardiff , Five Ways                     323216 Redditch - Four Oaks at Five Ways                 


390049 Virgin Pendolino Euston - Penrith, via Aston

  
66745 GBrf with 43304 Cross Country HST Passing                     66753 GBRf Hams Hall - Cardiff Loco move


70006 Freightliner, Rugeley - Stoke Gifford Heavy Haul

 
60059 with a  Leeds - Stratford on Avon Railtour at Tyseley, Birmingham

 
9701 & 31465 Test Train, Derby RTC - Birmingham - Derby RTC at Lea Hall

 
9714 & 31465 Test Train , Derby RTC - Birmingham - Tyseley, at Tyseley

 
    66118 Bescot - Daventry empty wagons, Lea Hall                                       47739 Colas Rail, Doncaster - Rugby with Barrier Coaches

 
56312 & 56303 working a Vac move from York to Washwood Heath through Water Orton, Warwickshire UK



60024 Westerleigh - Lindsey empty Tanks


 
56098 Colas Rail Freight, Washwood Heath - Boston                                     70810 Colas Rail Freight, Westbury - Bescot                   


   
66703 Gbrf  Peterborough - Morton on Log , Water Orton                               66738 GBrf Westbury - Mount Sorrel, Water Orton             
         

 
60044 Wolverhampton - Immingham Steels                                       66430DRS Crewe - Toton, at Water Orton    


 
57309 & 57308 Northern Belle, London Paddington - Edinburgha Waverley, pass through Stechford, Birmingham
390130 Virgin Pendolino waits at signal with a Manchester - Rugby Service



66848 Colas Rail Freight working Leeds - Southampton Freightliner
on Hire to Freightliner

 
68002 "Intrepid" on a test run from Wembley to Stourbridge Junction passing through Tyseley




66092, 67005,  67006, 67010, and 92002 locomotive convoy to Bescot
passing through Stechford, Birmingham UK






  
66723 Gbrf rescues failed London Underground move with t&t 20s


150109 & 172344 London Midland units pass at Small Heath Station

 
70809 Colas Rail Freight off route at Acocks  Green to Bescot                                   66743 GBRF Freight from Westbury at Tyseley              

 
67025 and 67020 heading north through Acocks Green, Birmingham on Derby - Derby Test Train

 
66074 working a Cartex and Commercials north through Acocks Green, Birmingham UK


56301 & 56311 with Vac, Chaddesdan - Totton

 
47773 "Shakespeare Express", Vintage Trains Steam Railtour. Steam Locomotive replace due to fire service non availability

 
67030 & 67025 passing through Birmingham New Street Station with Derby RTC Test Train

 
47790 & 47828 Northern Belle work ecs to Crewe passing through Adderley Park, approaching Birmingham New Street


  
50017 "Royal Oak" being transported by Allelys Heavy Haulage from Exeter to Washwood Heath, Birmingham


 
56087 & 56113 Colas, Llanwern - Washwood Heath                                             56312 Long Marston - Chaddesden           

 
37605 & 37608 heading for Crewe                                                                      60017 Westerleigh - Lindsey Tanks    

 
     66012 Saltley - Liverpool Scrap Metal                                                               66101 Scunthorpe - Eastleigh           
      
    
66713 GBRf yellow boxes from Westbury                                          70014 Trafford Park - Southmpton Freightliner

  
50007, D8059, 37350 and 37219 approaching Washwood Heath, Birmingham

  
66133 EWS, Beaston - Cardiff Scrap                                                         70804 Colas, Bescot - Long Marston         
       
 
     Network Rail Tamper Convoy, Reading - Bescot                                 Network Rail DR98008 Tamper, Rugby - Bescot

 
37608 Derby RTC - Long Marston                                               66719 Westbury - Cliffe Hill Stud Farm       

 
66164 & 66092 t&t Alexander Docks - Bescot                                              66420 DRS Freightliner from Lawley Street        

   
                                             66606 Freightliner, Washwood Heath - Bescot Sleepers                                     66606 Washwood Heath - Bescot Concrete Sleeper                                                                                 
 

47739, D8188, D8059 and 47727 arrive at Washwood Heath, Birmingham from the Severn Valley Railway

 




37604 & 37667 Derby - Nuneaton - Derby out via Birmingham Cross City Line, with 975091 in train

  

  
66185 with Barrier Wagons heading for Bescot                                                 56302 Colas Washwood Heath - Boston Steel


 
66082 with London Underground Unit 378201 at Water Orton, working Willesden  - Derby via Bescot

   
40145 & 57315 Oxford - Castle Hopwood Railtour                                        66126 Corby - Margam empties

 
37604 & 37667 working Derby RTC - Birmingham - Derby RTC , returning by the Cross City Line through Sutton Coldfield


66206 Working Bescot - Wembley Euro Centre with Car Wagons

 
60087 & 86701 Colas Rail Freight, Washwood Heath - Rugby

 
66623 Washwood Heath - Bescot Sleepers                                                          66745 GBrf empties from Westbury             

  
70016 Trafford Park - Southampton Freightliner

 
82126 & 90034 Direct Rail Services, Wembley - Birmingham - Wembley ecs movement

 
            950001 Hall Green on the North Warwick                                      70007 &  66591 Lawley Street - Felixstowe Freightliner

  
55022, 37350, 47292 and 43000 Didcot Great Western Society - Hotchley Hill (East Leake) passing through Tyseley, Birmingham UK

  
37423 DRS Crewe - Royal Devon Port Docks with MODA 95771E &  MODA 95770E

 
56301 with 37906 Severn Valley Railway to Leicester passing through Water Orton, Warwickshire UK

 
66731 Westbury - Cliffe Hill Stud Farm                                                                                66428 Washwood Heath - Crewe           

 
47237 Kidderminster - Southall empty coaching stock                        390 Virgin Pendolino - Royal British Legion WW1 1914 - 1918

 
London Midland Units, 153365, 153 & 150107, Bletchley-Tyseley                                      153366 Tyseley-Coventry ECS                                   

  
                                  Network Rail Tamper DR79247                                             47828 & 47832 Northern Bell, Chester - Kensington Olympia    

 
47727 Colas Rail Freight transfering Porterbrook coaches 6376 & 6377 from Doncaster Works to Wolverton Works

   
        Makers Plate from 47727                                               Service & Maintenance Plate                                        Refurbishment Plate

 

50007 test run with 56105 and 47739 both Colas Rail Freight working the Washwood Heath - Boston Steels
and below right, 56105 leading 50007 t&t 47739 Boston - Washwooh Heath

 


 
70807, 70806 and 70801 Bescot- Westbury, at Tyseley, 70807 and 70806 are "new", heading south from Liverpool Docks

 
4 Class 20's inpairs Top and Tail a London Underground Unit move from Old Dalby to West Ruislip

 
   47727 Colas Rail Freight, Washwood Heath - Boston Steel                                       66193 Castle Cement from Bescot

 
67023 & Arriva DVT 82306 with a Chiltern Service from Birmingham Moor Street to London Marylebone

 
Extra Chiltern Services 172103, 172104 & 172102 and 165032 & 165039 to Birmingham due to engineering on West Coast Main Line

  
47790 & 47832 Northern Belle, Marston Green, Birmingham                                 66130 Daventry - Mossend at Lea Hall, Birmingham

   
57313 & 57316 Derby - Southall ECS working                               67017 Chiltern Service to Birmingham Moor Street

 
60015 Westerley - Lindesley empty Tanks                                                       66095 Southampton - Castle Bromwich Jaguar Cars

 
66745 GBRF Westbury - Cliffe Hill Stud Farm                                                             66956 Tyne SS - Rugby Tamper move       

 
D1015 & D1062 Western Class Locomotives, Severn Valley Railway to Tyseley, Birmingham move, for wheel turning on D1062


 
70804, 70801 & 70805 working Westbury - Bescot via Birmingham Internation, passing through Aston Station

 
70805, 70801 & 70804, Bescot - Westbury light engine              Network Rail DR80208 & Rail Grinder, Washwood Heath, Birmingham       
     
    
                      70803 Colas Rail Freight, Westbury-Bescot                          60024 Westerleigh - Lindsey Tanks                       66606 Freightliner , Bardon Hill Quay - Willesden                                                            Via Tyseley, Birmingham                                                                                                                                          Via Birmingham International                                                                                              
 
70804 Westbury - Bescot via Birmingham International                      168219 New Chiltern Trains Livery heading to London  

 
66114 ex-works t&t with 66116 with the Bedworth tanks at Water Orton, Warwickshie
 
   
66420  Freightliner heading for Southampton                          221115 Virgin Voyager heading to Birmringham New Street   

     
66606 waits at signal as 66232 heads north with the Southampton - Halewood                   31105 & 9701 Derby RTC - Didcot Test Train


 

New Southern Unit 377 705 ex-works from Derby, here  66002 working on delivery move from Bescot to Willesden, London

   


DR 73929 Colas Tamper, Walsall - Coventry

 
67013 Chiltern Railways, Birmingham Snow Hill                 150105 London Midland unit, Birmingham Snow Hill
                          Kidderminster - London Marylebone                                      Test Run, Tyseley - Stourbridge - Tyseley                         

 
66707 GBRf Freightliner ,  Ipswich - Trafford Park, Manchester

 
57315 & 57314 "The Statesman", High Wycombe - Carlisle heading for Aston

 
      66714  Felixstowe - Trafford Park Freightliner at Stechford                    66614 Bardon Hill Quary- Willesden Euroterminal at Stechford

 
67010 Chiltern Railways passing Cross Country Voyager heading for Birmingham Moor Street, and returning south to London Marlylebone

 
67008 London Marylebone - Birmingham Moor Street                       47773 Southall - Tyseley Steam Trust at Acocks Green

   
66007 & 66106 "Pathfinder Railtour" Crewe - London Gateway DBSchenker, passing through Birmingham


70006 Washwood Heath - Crewe Concrete Sleepers

 
66567 & 66564 Southampton - Lawley Street Freightliner                             66105 Washwood Heath - Peak Forest empty Wagons     


  
MOD  0-4-0 Shunter "Flack" being Transported by Moveright International to Tyseley for wheel turning.
Coventry Road, Sheldon, Birmingham UK

 
70803 & 70802 working Westbury - Bescot move ready to work an engineer's train the following day, pass though Lea Hall Station,
just north of  Birmingham International

 
70802 & 70805 Westbury - Bescot passing through Water Orton

  
20901 & 20905  t&t  20096 & 20107 London Underground unit move to Derby Works

 
172102 & 168111 Chiltern Units at Birmingham Moor Street             321415 London Midland unit, Marston Green, Birmingham   

 
90013 Ex-works & 47853 Toton - Willesden                                                  60039 Wolverhampton - Immingham Steels

  
47245 & 47580 Southall - Carnforth heading to Tyseley, Birmingham

 
82304 & 67010 Chiltern Trains Service  at Birmingham Moor Street, with 172215 London Midlands unit arriving

 
               56312 & 31190 Totton - Chaddesdan                            60062 Westerley - Lindesley Tanks

 
37606 & 37602 Bridgewater - Crewe                                            47826 Tyseley Steam Trust - Carnforth ECS

 
66418 Southampton - Lawley Street Freightliner                       70018 Trafford Park, Manchester -Southampton Freightliner

 
70804 Colas Rail Freight & 59202 dit, Bescot - Westbury, heading south through Tyseley

 
  67015 & 67020, Derby - Derby RCT, 47805 at Signal                 70017 Trafford Park - Southampton             

 
47805 Eastleigh - Crewe Stock move                                          47853 & 82152 DVT Wolverton - Toton move

 
66164 Corby - Margam, Camp Hill, Birmingham                             60091 Westerley -  Lindsey empty tanks            

 
20189, 20142, 47375, 31459 & 47769 Okehampton - Derby Convoy heading north through Water Orton

 
   66136 EWS, Wolverhampton - Immingham Steel at Water Orton               66528 Rugeley - Stoke Gifford, Camp Hill, Birmingham      

 
37409 & 37609 Pathfinder Railtour, "The Clay Box", Crewe - Daventry at Marston  Green, Birmingham UK

 
66101 Diverted Wakefield - Eastleigh Freightline at Marston Geen                       66420  Diverted Crewe - Southampton Freightliner                

 
            66531 Freightliner Heavy Haul                                              47727 Colas Rail Freight, Washwood Heath - Boston Steels

 
     60063 Westerley - Lindsey tanks at Duddeston, Birmingham                                   66007 Corby - Margam, Duddeston, Birmingham                 

   
   66155 Eastleigh - Cliffe Hill Stud Quarry at Lea Hall                                       66302 Daventry - Wentlog at Adderley Park             

  
               390104 Pendolino, Oxley - Euston ECS at Ward End, Birmingham                          43013 & 43062 Old Oak Common - Derby  RTC

  
158837 & 150231 Arriva Trains Wales, Chester - Birmingham International at Adderley Park

  
170108 & 170104 Birmingham - Stansted Airport, Duddeston                                 168004 Chiltern Trains, New Livery, Tyseley                 

 
 170109 Train Wash, Tyseley, Birmingham UK                              170515 & 107511 Train Wash, Tyseley           

 
47832 & 47501 Northern Belle, Coventry - Chester - Coventry Railtour, seen here at Marston Green with the ECS from Crewe

 
56094 & 56113 6Z08 Llanwern - Washwood Heath heading north though Lea Hall Station, Birmingham

 
D1015 Western Challenger on Metro Cammel

 

D1015 Western Challenger & 47773 t&t a Vintage Trains Railtour, Solihull - London Marylebone, leaving Tyseley




 
47727 "Rebbeca" Colas Rail Freight, Washwood Heath - Boston Steel working



56094 Colas Rail Freight, Llanwern Exchange Sidings -Washwood Heath Special working, diverted via Stechford and Aston,
arriving at Washwood Heath and then backing onto Metro Cammel

   

  
66705 GDRf Biomass Movement and "GoldenJubilee" nameplate

 
DR73923 Colas Rail                                                                                DR73907 Colas Rail              

     
Changing Points                                     DR79262 & DR79272 Network Rail Grinder                                        43301 & 43285 Cross Country HST set                 

   
66008 EWS empty Steel returning to Margam                                                                66192 EWS Ballast Wagons from Eastleigh            

 
70004 Freightliner leaving RCM at Washwood Heath and nameplate "The Coal Industry Society"

  
                66076 EWS Southampton - Halewood empty car wagon                                     66416 DRS Trafford Park - Southampton Freightliner             


66501 "Japan 2001" Freightliner from Lawley Street, Birmingham


 

37604 hauls ex-works 90014 "Norfolk and Norwich Festival" from Toton, Nottingham to Willesden, London



  
31465 & 9701 work a Derby RTC Test Train south through Marston Green.

 
W55034 Bubble Car Route Learning                                                     DR79272 & DR79262 Network Rail Unit

 
66504 Freightliner - Leeds - Southampton                                    66088 & 66086 Bescot Toton Engineer's Train

 
66847 Colas Rail Freight Heavy Haul power Station working                     66131 EWS Heavy Hall Freight, power Station working   

  
   66200 EWS Empties from Washwood Heath      66846 Westbury - Bescot at Water Orton       



Colas Rail 47727 hauling Class 20 20188 from Washwood Heath to
the Severn Valley Railway



 
     56312 working from Washwood Heath to Holgate siding                                                         56312 nameplate "Jeremiah Dixon"                

 
                                    66957 Freightliner Heavy Haul                                                   66957 Nameplate "Stephenson Locomotive Society 1909-2009"
          
  
60059 6E41 empty Tanks, Washwood Heath, Birmingham                                                         70009 Felixstowe - Lawley Street Freightliner                


66850 Colas Rail Freight, Ratcliffe - Avonmouth passing Fort Dunlop, Birmingham


66518 Freightliner, Rugeley - Stoke Gifford
passing the site of Bromford Bridge Station, used on Horse Racing Days

 
70004 Freightliner, Washwood Heath - Crewe                                             66742 GBRF, Washwood Heath - Wellingborough

 
66047 Banbury - Mount Sorrel Aggregates

 
Network Rail HST Test Train heading towards Birmingham New Street Station

 
960014 Bubble Unit on driver training heading for New Street, and leaving to run through Sutton Park  to Nuneaton,
for Cross Country Diversions in February

 
97303 & 97302 Stafford - Birmingham Test Train, heading for Birmingham International and Returning

 
37609 & 90014 Norwich CP to Toton Depot heading north through Birmingham

 
66002, 59204 and 59201 working Bescot - Acton, after working Toton - Bescot earlier

  
66605 Freightliner Locomotive hauling Track Machines from Rugby to Stapleford passing through Lea Hall, Birmingham



London Midland Unit 350110 in Special Livery, with details for "Project 110"

 

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