No such a name for the class but reference to what I did here. I had the foresight to rush to this spot when the sun shone briefly to use the scene as a template for what appears to be a sunny shot. I used my limited editing skills to make this shot from the actual result (inset). For those with a trained eye (pardon the pun) it would be obvious that the train didn't pass in good light.
Nevertheless I did enjoy spending a fair amount of time to produce this fake image.

The working is of course D1015 on 1Z56 13.52 London Paddington to Birmingham New St crossing Blythe Viaduct, Hampton in Arden on 14th April 2024.

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Transport for Wales 158 821 heads towards Shrewsbury passing Woolascott working 1I08 Chester to Birmingham International

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On 4th June 1999, Mainline-liveried 37371 heads out of Healey Mills yard with the Widnes to Immingham 'Enterprise', as EWS sister class member 37714 awaits its next diagram. At this time the yard was used to store withdrawn RFD/RES Class 47’s and pictured here are (from right to left): 47200, 47360, 47219, 47475, 47053, 47229, 47218 and 47237, plus several others out of the image.

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On a glorious spring morning 66101 climbs Dainton bank near Stoneycombe Quarry with the 6V74 0948 Exeter Riverside to St Blazey clay empties which were tripped down from Cliffe in Stoke the day before.
Being the only booked west bound freight during the week it is always a target for photographers. Days like today have been few and far between this year which makes this picture even more fortuitous.

Tags:   Class 66 Diesel freight locomotive Railway Railway Photography train 66101 Dainton Stoneycombe yellow

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Much to my annoyance at the time, in the process of taking a work call that couldn't wait, and in "pre-Realtime Trains" days with no precise information of imminent workings, however the chances of capturing two loco-hauled services via the Trans-Pennine Standedge tunnel route actually passing is probably now a nigh-on impossibility! On 3rd June 1999, a RES Class 47-hauled Serco test train heads west whilst eastbound was the Widnes to Immingham 'Enterprise' with Mainline 37216 growling past the Dobcross Mill at Diggle. With the Pentax 35mm camera resting on the footbridge and a phone in my left hand, this was the hurried result. The Grade II-listed Dobcross mill, then used as a pallet works by company W H Shaw, and used for munitions manufacture in the Second World War, has now been demolished and replaced by a new school building. Such is progress over 25 years later...

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