Gallery 46 001 - 46 010

    1967. Steaming nicely, D138 awaiting departure from Derby with the afternoon Manchester Central - Nottingham service on 11/10/1967.

Anthony F Cole, courtesy Andy Cole.  

     1971. The twelve coach 1V69 Derby - Penzance Summer Saturday holiday train rounds the curve off the sea wall at Teignmouth on 08/06/1971 hauled by D138. 

photo Ixion172.  

1974. 46 001 pulls into St Erth with 4M05 1250 Penzance - Crewe perishables on 20/03/1974. 

photo Roger Geach.

1980. 46 001 rounds the curve at Teignmouth, yet again, heading 1V78 0836 Leeds - Paignton on 09/08/1980. 

photo Paul Barlow.

1967. Freshly painted into BR Blue livery after refurb and sporting a shiny new air reservoir below the battery boxes, a resplendent D139 is seen at Saltley MPD on 20/08/1967. 

Anthony F Cole, courtesy Andy Cole.

1975. 46 002 is seen near Liskeard running light engine on 01/05/1975

photo Roger Geach.

     1962. D140 at the head of 7M00, a mixed freight bound for Toton, passing the erstwhile Castle Donington station(closed 1930). May 1962 

photo NJ Lemon. 

     1978. 46 003 was provided by Newton Abbot depot for the Deltic Ranger railtour leg to Par and return to Newton Abbot, where it is seen coming off the train for 55 003 MELD to take it back to Paddington on 05/03/1978. 

photo John Cook. 

     1971. Twenty four days before going into Derby Works and losing the green livery for good, not just the driver's door, D141 heads towards Cardiff at Gaer Junction, Newport on 02/07/1971. The 0S27 headcode suggests it may have worked the Plymouth - Edinburgh to Bristol that morning. 

photo Jim Sparks.

1974. Working up into Liskeard with 7S38 1010 St Blazey - Glasgow Sighthill goods, is 46 004. The loco worked this to Exeter Riverside before returning to Cornwall on 7B33 to Truro. D1025 is on a special ballast working, in spite of the headcode. 20/02/1974. 

photo Roger Geach.

1980. 46 004 gives it "some of what for" departing Dawlish with 1V84 1235 Birmingham NS - Newquay on 09/08/1980. 

photo Paul Barlow.

1982. The heavy cement trains from Earles Sidings, Hope, were meat and drink to a big beast like 46 004 seen at Derby on an unknown date in 1982. 

photo John Goodale.

     1978. Just released from Derby Works after its final overhaul, 46 006 is seen on the fueling and inspection shed at Derby on 02/03/1978. Showing the range of the Peaks, the loco was at Penzance two days later. 

photo Mike Kerry.

1979. 46 006 leaving Exeter St Davids with 4M05 1245 Penzance - Crewe vans on 11/07/1979. 

photo Paul Barlow.

1961. D144 newly painted at Neville Hill MPD on 17/12/1961. The loco entered traffic on 09/12/1961 in all over lined green, so has acquired the small yellow panel during this week. The 55H shedplate and blue star  signage has not been re-applied, so this paint job may have been done at Darlington Works, or even at Neville Hill, itself, where the loco was being used for crew training. D144 was one of the first ten (D138-D147) of what would become class 46 which didn't receive taillight grabrails during construction. 

photo Keith Long.

1976. On an unknown date in April 1976 46 007 heads north with a Cardiff - Crewe train at Abergavenny.

photo Roger Geach.

1977. 46 007 is leading 1M74 1355 Penzance - Birmingham New Street near Liskeard on the first leg of this service. 22/08/1977

photo Roger Geach.

1981. After spending over a year in open storage at Swindon Works, 46 007 was asked to do the improbale and work trains day in, day out over the winter of 1981/82. Showing its resilience, it is seen at Newton Abbot working 1V62 0815 Birmingham NS - Plymouth on 23/12/1981. 

photo Paul Barlow.

1976. 46008 runs LD around the back of Newcastle Central en route from Gateshead TMD to Heaton CS to pick up an ecs working for a NESW service in June 1976. 

photo Alan Rintoul, copyright, if any, unknown.

1977. 6V53 Stoke - St Blazey clay empties runs towards journeys end past Respryn in Cornwall behind 46 008 on 26/05/1977, just shy of four months after General Repair where the loco had its headcode panel removed in favour of marker lights. 

photo Roger Geach, not to be reproduced elsewhere, please.

      1974. 46 009 brings 1B81 0800 Bristol TM - Penzance up towards Treverren Tunnel between Lostwithiel and Par on 22/08/1974.

 photo Roger Geach.  

1981. The last class 46 to receive a classified repair, 46 009, is seen at Darlington on 1O19 0752 Newcastle - Poole on 18/02/1981 , six weeks after being released from Derby Works. 

photo John Cook.

1972. D147 with unique OHE flash positions is seen outside Bristol Bath Road MPD, probably in Spring 1972.

photographer unknown.

1978. 1V71 0735 Leeds - Penzance with 46 010 in charge at Bolitho, near Liskeard on 26/04/1978. The loco had worked from Plymouth. photo Roger Geach.