Derek Grant
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St.Mary’s in Nottingham’s Lace Market on a bright but very cold, crisp day in December 2018.
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DOUBLEHEADER - Bluebell Railway's Q class, pilots Sir LAMIEL 30777 during Great Central Railways mid-Winter Gala.
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…a timeless scene, mixed traffic Class 4 Ivatt design, Swindon build of 1952 effortlessly hauls a southbound train of enthusiasts through the leafy suburbs of Loughborough, it’s October 2016 on the Great Central.
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Class 14XX Locomotive, No.1450 of the old Great Western Railway, simmers gently between two Autotrailers awaiting imminent departure…
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Pleasant trip to see the Cathedral at Lincoln on 15th June 2022, enjoy your Thursday everyone?❤️
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ENTHUSIASTS show interest in performance of Class 33/0, during the Great Central's heart warming Spring Diesel Gala.
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THAT red telephone box # somethings never change, like here in BAMBURGH, on the Coast of Northumberland.
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Second Man on the footplate of D6700 is seen, reaching for the tablet, enabling procedure of Locomotive and Train down the Single Branch Line.
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BRINKMANSHIP…Atlantic Grey Seals show each other who’s Boss!
Three miles off Seahouses, Northumberland amongst the Farne Isles.
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A snap by an unknown photographer of our late Queen Elizabeth cracking a joke, whilst visiting Nottingham in June, 2012….happier times.
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Commemorating our late Queen Elizabeth II and her 70 year reign; the Locomotive was built at Eastleigh in 1946 and named ‘Taw Valley’ shortly however, the Locomotive will revert back to British Railways Livery of Brunswick Green, No.34027.
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LAST of the SEMAPHORE. These lovely old Signals are soon to be replaced at Barnetby with Modern Colour Aspect Lights.
http://t.co/a5yyo8SERY
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BEYER GARRETT owned by the Welsh Highland Railway, rolls cautiously across the Street in Porthmadog, working North.
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BADDESLEY CLINTON - 15th Century Tudor Moated Mansion in Warwickshire. (National Trust Property).
http://t.co/w35PSfi5K3
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Great seeing light in the sky at 5…early February & love is all around❤️Nottingham’s Old Market Square.
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Class 20 D8098 passes 33063 at the Great Central's, preserved Main Line during their recent Spring Diesel Gala.
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The HORNBY stand last weekend at the 50th Warley Model Railway Show at Birmingham’s NEC, had a twelve inch to one foot scale Model of a South Eastern and Chatham ‘H’ class Locomotive, borrowed from the Bluebell Railway in Sussex.
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SUPER POWER - doubleheader with Riddles Standard, derivative of Ivatt 2MT piloting Black 5 No.45305 on Great Central.
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15XX Class No.1501, an Hawksworth design, built at Swindon in 1949, shunts wagons at Bewdley, on the Severn Valley.
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Possibly Norman Architecture? St.AIDANS at BAMBURGH CASTLE in NORTHUMBERLAND.
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OLD MEETS NEW # a visit to CREWE WORKS OPEN DAY. Summer of 1977; My snap was of a brand new HST facing 'Cornwall'.
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Reassuring unconditional love…Red Deer. Wollaton Hall and Deer Park, Nottingham.
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PEACE at Ruddington is shattered by Electro-Diesel Class 73/1 (E6016), easing away with the authority of the Home.
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a diminutive P class, 8 were built by Wainwright at SECRly's Ashford Works in 1909/11, 4 survive into preservation.
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Looking great in original Great Eastern livery, preserved J15 stands proudly at the Kidderminster Station Box, during last months SVR Gala.
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It’s Sunday, 28th January 2018.
Steam Locomotives do still pass at speed on the Great Central; that uniquely preserved double-tracked Mainline.
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📷PLENTY OF CLAG; class 37 number D6700 has come off shed and, through the tunnel at Grosmont on NYMRly.🚧
http://t.co/Cnn8qdopV3
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…has we approach that eleventh hour, eleventh day and eleventh month🌺
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Happy recollections photographing the late Queen Elizabeth when she visited Nottingham, way back in June 2012.
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Parklife, an HST in retro livery at Derby and, a Bee investigates Sunflowers.
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TALYLLYN MEMORIES # the terminus at Nant Gwernol Railway Station back in the Summer.
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STORED and perhaps forgotten, R E S liveried Class 47 'Colossus' stands forlorn at the MIDLAND RAILWAY in Derbyshire.
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Swiss built ENID, backs precariously down the side of Snowdon, with a Coach full of Passengers bound for Llanberris.
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Sunlight and Shadow…waiting at Sheffield Midland Railway Station for my homeward bound Train.
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Fond nostalgic memories of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.
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HIGHLEY on the SEVERN VALLEY RAILWAY # a pause whilst the train awaits instructions.
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SCOTT BUGG and the VITAL FEW.........an impressive outfit, having their own unique flavour of Fifties Skiffle with Sixties Folk Blues.
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REPLENISHED Fairlie Patent, unique to the Ffestiniog Railway, negotiates the Trackwork at Porthmadog Harbour.
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‘…their view they loved that would last, until the end of time.’
North of Whitley Bay, Northumberland.
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Mark 3 Driver Van Trailer; the now defunct ONE colour scheme seemed a unique, eye catching livery for there day.
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BRITISH RAILWAYS Standard Mixed Traffic, built around 1954 to an Ivatt/Riddles design, now gladly preserved.
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date:22nd February 2014 # Riddles BR built Locomotive, an LMS design No.78019, passes by Woodthorpe Bridge on GCR.
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I’d really visited Chester Cathedral to see Pete Waterman and Railnuts Making Tracks III, magnificent really long model railway however, couldn’t ignore this wonderful architecture!
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“Guess I can always steal Seeds left for our feathered friends?”
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🚂☁️☁️WITHERSLACK HALL # Modified Hall Class built at Swindon in 1949, slowly reverses back down the Great Central.
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Quiet moments at Inner Farne Lighthouse, just off Seahouses in Northumbria.
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FLYING SCOTSMAN attracts Severn Valley Railway TRAINSPOTTERS at Bridgnorth's Loco Yard.
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A workhorse of a Saddle Tank Locomotive deployed once, by the National Coal Board for work in the Scottish Coalfields around Fife, finds a comfortable retirement home on the Great Central.
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Railfreight Red Stripe Liveried Class 37/5 37502, 'British Steel Teeside' awaits instructions well; it's 4mm scale.
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BEMPTON CLIFFS in Yorkshire, just along the Coast, North of Bridlington.
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D0260 LION, aka the GHOST LOCO back in 1962 when built by, Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon, looks the part today in the shape of a Model
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an humble Class 37 No.37678, waits with it's single Tarmac Bogie Hopper....unfortunately in 4mm scale. (Bachmann).
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STEAM LOCOMOTIVE CREW taking me back to September, 2006 at Arley, on the Severn Valley Railway.
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Small Tortoishell keeps a Beetle company, optimistic moments that hopefully might make us forget about Winter?❤️
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Doyen of the likeable Class 37 number D6700 finds work, hauling freight on the Great Central during that Railway’s, Steam Gala earlier this October. Locomotive has Steam Boiler Heating not ETH, (Electric Train Heating).
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TALYLLYN RAILWAY # tranquil moment at Abergwnolwyn. One of the Romantic little Steam Railways of Wales.
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A nostalgic flashback to the warmer halcyon days of May, 2011 when Direct Rail Services Class 37 seems so much; Star Attraction outside the famous Doncaster WABTEC Plant or Locomotive Works; once birthplace to notables such as Mallard and the Flying Scotsman amongst many!
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STREAK @ YORK # from a B/W photograph I'd taken in the 1970's, Sir Nigel Gresley had the Garter Blue Livery.
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MAMENCHISAURUS, possibly the tallest Dinosaur to have lived, discovered in China, exhibited at Wollaton, Nottingham.
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Class 27 (3F) built by Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1897, seen here on the ECCLESBOURNE Line in Derbyshire.
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Crew of ex-LMS Jubilee Locomotive, BAHAMAS, await the Green Flag & Whistle for the right of way at Haworth, West Yorkshire.
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Early Saturday Morning or, think it were a Saturday at Bewdley; preserved Severn Valley Railway in Shropshire.
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ex-Great Western No.2857 works tender first through the woods, just South of Highley on the Severn Valley Railway.
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a COMMON GULL, keenly watches my attempts with a Camera near Towyn, in North Wales.
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…stolen from a Puffin, an hapless Sandeel seems to be on the Menu for this greedy Artic Tern.
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a Red Legged KITTIWAKE surveys the scene at North Sunderland Harbour in Seahouses, Northumberland.
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BRISK BUSINESS; the Severn Valley Railway's Steam Gala, held in the last Weekend of last Month.
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Flashback to 6th May, 2007 when I spotted 57XX No.4612 gently steaming on the Bodmin & Wenford Railway in Cornwall.
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GRIME and the GLORY DAYS # Kidderminster Railway Station on the Severn Valley Railway.
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My photograph taken, January 18th 2020 when nobody were properly aware or ready for Covid 19; In wake of this Pandemic, have lost dad ❤️ to this terrible disease, something I couldn’t ever have envisaged in my wildest dreams two years back!
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An Heljan Model of a Class 33/0, built at Smethwick in 1961, a mixed traffic design for British Railways Southern.
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