08703 is Toton Up Sidings Pilot and stands in the Up Sidings adjacent to the site of the Up Hump Control Tower, 11th May 2008.
Locomotive History
Built at Horwich works it entered traffic in February 1960 as D3870, allocated to Liverpool Speke Junction MPD. By 1973 it had migrated to Crewe and in June 1974 it received a classified repair at Derby works and was equipped with train air brakes in lieu of its vacuum brakes. On release it was transferred to Toton. By 1982 it was back at Crewe and apart from a short spell at Bescot remained at Crewe throughout the the remaining decade. The 1990’s found 08703 allocated to Allerton before moving to Ferrybridge for overhaul in September 2001. On release in February 2002 it was back at Toton. On the 12th June 2008 08703 left Toton by road for Sheerness, replacing 08886 and remained until the 13th August 2009 when it left Sheerness by road for Doncaster Carr for repair. Twelve days later it was on the move again, by road to Ketton Cement works as a replacement for the out of use 08888. It remained at Ketton until the 9th February 2010 when it was replaced by 08995 and transported to Toton and stored. Reinstated in June 2010 it was transported to Immingham and became the docks pilot until November 2010 when it fell out of use. In December 2010 it returned to Toton and was stored. It was re-instated on the 1st February 2011 and left Toton for Immingham. Stored in July 2011 it was moved to Crewe for an exam and then to Hoo Junction arriving in March 2012.
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110017 is seen here in the middle of a rake of empty MFA, MHA, MTA mineral open wagons in Toton Yard, 31st May 2008. Built in 1977 at Ashford it is one of eight hundred air braked open merchandise/steel wagons, to diagram OB001A built to replace vacuum braked tube wagons. It has since been fitted with new Bruninghaus suspension and judging by the different coloured or untreated planking to a number of “casual” repairs since its last repaint.
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112089 is seen here in Toton Yard, 31st May 2008. One of four hundred OCA air brake steel sided open wagons built in 1981/82 at Shildon. The OCA was the final development of the traditional, general-purpose open wagon although the decline in general merchandise traffic resulted in the type never being fully employed on such traffic. Most of the OCA fleet were by the 1990’s transferred to departmental use were many were later rebuilt as ZCA 'Seahorses', with low-sided steel bodies suitable for ballast and spoil loads., while other OCA’s were rebuilt as OTA timber carriers. 112089 was for a time coded ODA but would appear to have been recoded recently back to OCA (very crudely amended on the wagon itself).
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144009 is an example of the final design of “Pacer” DMU with Alexander bus bodywork and BREL underframes. It was built in 1987 and is seen here working the 15:02 York to Sheffield, one of only two trains a day all stations direct service via Pontefract (all other services being routed via Doncaster or Leeds) at Church Fenton, 19th May 2008.
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150268 is one of the final batch of 85 two-car class 150 units which were built with front-end gangway connections and numbered in the range 150201-285. They had different interiors to the earlier class 150/1 units and were used on longer-distance services. The end gangways make them very similar in appearance to later batches of the electric class 317 units, also based on the Mark III bodyshell. 150268 is operated by Northern and is seen here in there livery about to depart from York on a service to Harrogate and Burley Park, 2nd May 2008.
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