Photo Camden Bank

Pennine MC

Western Thunderer
Wouldn't the MK11a's be more or less brand new ?.................interesting pic :cool:


Aye, very nice. Being pedantic, those will be MkII (or Mk2, whichever); Mk2a was the very similar (but airbraked) later build for the ECML and WR.

The Mk1s are relatively late builds also, they have the ally window frames and Commonwealth bogies.
 

iploffy

OC Blue Brigade
The most interesting part of the whole of the picture in my eyes is the equipment carried on the 81 AC, ETS fitted but not required. I love the transitional period when everything was a total miss match of colours, Gas restaurant cars, Mk1's on stopping services even though a little before my time a fascinating spectacle. The best part about it when I joined the railway in the late 1980's it was still the same Vacuum Braked Mk1's running with 81's, 85's, 86's the colours changed but not the complicated and some times exasperating rules that went with them. One a further note I will try over the next couple of days to take a few pictures of Camden Bank as it is now just to compare, the layout had changed completely.
 

iploffy

OC Blue Brigade
Just to add the line in the front of the Picture WAS called the rat hole it ran from the down side crossed under the main lines and came up south of Primrose hill. It had a speed limit of 5 MPH and was steep to say the least. It fell into disrepair and was not used from the mid 1990's as the number of shunt moves and ECS's and light engine moves from Wembley and Willesden where dramatically reduced due to the better reliability of the DVT's.
 
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