Gallery 45 045 - 45 055

      1975. 64 COLDSTREAM GUARDSMAN awaits the off at Bristol Temple Meads with 1E30 0820 Plymouth - Leeds on 21/02/1975. One of the last locos to run unrenumbered, note also only one BR emblem and the unusual position of the OHE flash.

photo Stephen Dowle.  

 1982. A pair of Peaks, 45 045 COLDSTREAM GUARDSMAN and  45 133 rest on the blocks at St Pancras after bringing in 1M25 1808 vans from Manchester Piccadilly. 07/03/1982.

photo Paul Barlow. 

1978. 45 046 ROYAL FUSILIER awaits time at Exeter SD whilst working 1V76 0845 Liverpool - Penzance from Gloucester to Plymouth on 16/09/1978. The loco carried the domino's for no more than six months before going into Derby Works on 24/01/1979 to be fitted with a flush front and marker lights.

photo Chris Nuthall. 

1980. 45 046 ROYAL FUSILIER heads northward on a loaded MGR, believed Betteshanger - Toton, train at Chiltern Green on 10/09/1980.

photo Roger Geach. 

1982. 45 046 ROYAL FUSILIER working at full power upgrade towards Corby North Jn and the recently closed BSC Plant at Gretton Brook, at the head of a lengthy and heavy 8V26 Toton - Acton Yard coal service. 

photo Nigel Mack. 

1983.  In the grey afternoon of November 29th 1983, 45 046 ROYAL FUSILIER heads back to Leicester Humberstone Road with the afternoon trip from Hotchley Hill near Stanford on Soar. 

photo Mike Kerry.

   1971. 1E26 1405 St Pancras - Sheffield about to get under way in the more than capable hands of 69 in October 1971.

photo Roger Geach.

 1977. The Holbeck Miracle Machine, 45 047, at Derby on 1E36 0910 Paignton - Newcastle on 07/05/1977. The loco would soon enter Derby Works for its final overhaul which saw it reappear with the boxes intact, albeit with dominoes.

photo Steve Parker. 

                  1973.  70 THE ROYAL MARINES prepares to depart from Plymouth with 1E21 1135 Penzance - Leeds on Sunday 25/03/1973.

photo Roger Geach.

                  1983.  45 048 THE ROYAL MARINES at Birmingham New Street on 18/6/83 working 1V64 0741 Derby - Penzance. Note the 41A sticker.

photo Trevor Dorrington.  

 1970.  D71 THE STAFFORDSHIRE REGIMENT(PRINCE OF WALES'S) with converted No 1 end at Nottingham, after bringing in 1O43 0905 summer SO Leeds - Poole, which ran up the Midland Main Line in the early 1970's. The loco never lost the D prefix until becoming 45 049 and also note the red buffer beam.

Photo courtesy of Fred Castor.   

 1977.  45 049 THE STAFFORDSHIRE REGIMENT(PRINCE OF WALES'S) is running northbound Light Engine at Ayers Road, near Harpenden on the afternoon of 20/08/1977.

Photo Roger Geach.   

  1967. D72 after arrival with an afternoon service from St Pancras on 01/04/1967.

photo, the late Anthony F Cole, courtesy Andy Cole.  

  1977. Affectionately known as "Captain Cricklewood", 45 050 has charge for the final 73 miles of The Cornishman, Leeds - Penzance service on 11/08/1977 seen approaching Moorswater viaduct.

photo Roger Geach.  

 1967. D74 on Saltley MPD 21/05/1967. note the small disc covering the hole used for communications when on Royal Train duty.

Anthony F Cole, courtesy Andy Cole.  

   1978. 45 051 heads a long passenger service west from Dawlish on 25/08/1978.

photo John Atkinson.  

     1967. 08/10/1967 finds the usual selection of Peaks at Saltley. In this view are lined green liveried D76, still without taillight grabrails and unplated boiler grille, but with shedplate, and D44 behind.

photo, the late Anthony F Cole, courtesy Andy Cole.  

 1973. 76 is working 1E21 1135 Penzance - Leeds near Moorswater in Cornwall on Sunday 18th February 1973. A classic view of the period by Roger Geach, please do not reproduce without permission. 

 1981. 45 053 passing Cowley Bridge Jct as it approaches Exeter Riverside Yard with a mixed freight from Severn Tunnel Jct on 20/07/1981.

photo Paul Barlow. 

 1981. Late in its working life, here is 45 053 at Newquay on 29/08/1981. Photographer Clive Smith takes up the tale " 45053 basks in the sun on the 09.50 Newquay - Newcastle on Saturday 29th August 1981. After a Friday covering peaks on various relief trains I had ended up at Wolverhampton on 45054, followed by 45123 from Brum to Cheltenham for a few hours in the Midland Hotel outside the station with Ken Williams and Kev McCarthy. I seem to remember this was a bastion of Flowers Original ale. One of the first overnights heading west was the Nottingham - Newquay at 00.01 scoring with 45046. I think this was booked a loco change at Newton Abbot for an engine off the depot there as the train was booked half an hour at the station. Fully expecting to bale out at 03 blip we were pleasantly surprised when 45053 was the chosen loco so pulled down the blinds of our compos, turned the lights off (or not if the bulbs had gone out the window somewhere near Gloucester) and continued with our zedzz prior to the thrash up Luxulyan bank on load 10, followed by the standard greasy fried breakfast at Cornwall's premier resort. 45053 worked the pictured train as far as Plymouth where 45007 took over. Halcyon days." 

1967. D95 in economy green livery at St Pancras during  early 1967.

courtesy Ben Groovey Darby Oh My Goodness FB page. 

1975. 95 stands at Immingham TMD on 02/03/1975, just days before going into Derby Works, where it was initially to be converted to an ETH loco as 45 150. However, it was found to be not suitable, and became 45 054. The 45 054 which was already renumbered, the former 78, was converted instead.

photo Sean Brazel. 

1973. 84 ROYAL CORPS OF TRANSPORT cruises through Dawlish Warren in October 1973 whilst working 1V67 0628 Leeds - Paignton. The loco would most likely be removed at Newton Abbot.

photo Steve Montgomery. 

1982. Painted up for a special freight earlier in the month, in conjunction with the departure of the Armed Forces Task Force to liberate the Falkland Islands, 45 055 ROYAL CORPS OF TRANSPORT is seen light engine at Bristol Temple Meads on 28/08/1982. The loco is believed to have brought a Portsmouth bound train from Cardiff.

photo John Goodale.