This scene may look like a quaint heritage line station. In fact it is a main line station on the Manchester to Leeds line. Preserved in its Lancashire and Yorkshire glory. The signs etc. are as o... (more)

Back in 1981, 45132 passes Lea Marston, east of Birmingham, with the 0700 Newcastle to Bristol.

45 108 heads the return of a Santa Special through Summerseat on the East Lancashire Railway on a Snowy Sunday 28th November 2021. This was the first weekend of the Santa Specials and the first sn... (more)

Driving position on class 45 Sulzer No 45023.

Class 45 Sulzer No 45030 and English-Electric 40042 are being scrapped at Derby loco works in 1981. Looks like someone has bought the panel with the loco number on from 40042.

A very colourful SNCB single railcar approaches the tunnel at Voneche past some, even then, rare semaphore signals on a service from Dinant to Bertrix.

Preserved Class 45 loco 45060 "Sherwood Forester" emerges from Foley Tunnel,on the Severn Valley Railway.127 of these 2500hp locos were built between 1960 and 1963,and I had the pleasure... (more)

Preserved Class 45 No. 45060 "Sherwood Forester" crosses Victoria Bridge with a Kidderminster to Bridgnorth service,on the Severn Valley Railway.

Built in 1961,Class 45 "Peak" locomotive 45149 was withdrawn from service in September 1987.These heavy locos (135 tons) were fitted with Sulzer 2500 h.p. engines.I worked on them for m... (more)

Following the collision of 45045 into Saltley Viaduct, this shows the damage to it`s train and the track. See... www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=294746&nseq=7

The highlight of the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway Diesel Gala,over the weekend of 26,27 and 28 July 2013,was the return to traffic,for the first time in 26 years,of class 45 no. 45149.... (more)

45045, Coldstream Guardsman, had a heavy collision with Saltley viaduct while shunting the nearby Lawley Street freightliner terminal. The loco was withdrawn following this.

A pair of Sulzer Type 4 locos (known as "peaks") head north through Gloucester in May 1968,a period of great change for the area. The leading loco,D65 "Grenadier Guardsman",was renumbered as 4511... (more)

Peak D123 passes Woodthorpe during the Great Central railway diesel gala

The cab of long-scrapped no 45 128 stored for spares for preserved classmate no. 45 149 at Toddington on the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway