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BR Derby Type 4 - Class 44, 45 & 46 Locomotives

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Class 44

 

Peak D1 Scafell Pike at Hornsey Broadway. A Bachmann model finished by Greg Brookes for his Shenston Road layout.

 

D4 Great Gable at the head of a freight held in the Up loop at Shenston Road.

 

Peak number 5 'Cross Fell' hauls a mixed freight northbound through Wibdenshaw.

 

Cross Fell is seen again at the head of a southbound coal working at Hornsey Broadway.

 

Toton allocated Peak number D6 Whernside (Bachmann) passes by with a rake of 24.5 ton hopper wagons. The wagons are a mix of scratchbuilt and detailed Accurascale versions depicting both variants of hopper body.

 

D6 Whernside running light through Shenston Road station.

 

From the Shenston Road fleet is Peak 7 Ingleborough with a southbound coke train, whilst Hornsey resident Peak 5 Cross Fell waits in platform 1 light engine.

 

Peak 7 buffers up to a loaded strip coil train in the BSC Shenston exchange sidings.

 

Shenston Road Bachmann conversion to D9 Snowdon by Greg Brookes was carried out a few years ago with replacement etched brass side grills and a headcode fitted to one nose end (as a result of a rebuild after collision damage).

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Class 45

 

Split box Peak number 27 heads through Shenston Road station with a rake of 16 ton mineral wagons.

 

Seen again at Hornsey Broadway, Peak number 27 hauling HAA hopper wagons.

 

Captured at the head of a freightliner service is 45003 - a Heljan model.

 

Greg Brooke's Peak number 102 at Wibdenshaw.

 

Another Shenston Road loco 123 at Wibdenshaw with a freightliner service.

 

Peter Johnson's 45025 is seen passing light engine through Wibdenshaw.

 

45048 The Royal Marines is seen at Shenston Road station.

 

ETH fitted split box Peak 45127 at Shenston Road.

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Class 46

 

Canada Road loco 46014 - a regular at Wibdenshaw.

 

Gateshead allocated Peak 153 (later to become 46016) with an Aberdeen to London sleeper service.

 

Class 46 number 153 heads north through Wibdenshaw with a Freightliner train.

 

A pair of Class 46s seen at Wibdenshaw, dual braked 153 in blue, and vacuum only 166 in green.

 

D163 Leicestershire & Derbyshire Yeomanry - Shenston Road.

 

D163 is seen again at Wibdenshaw.

 

D165 at Wibdenshaw.

 

Green liveried Peak class 46 number 166 leaves the Bradford route at Pudsey Junction on the approaches to Wibdenshaw, with the Up Yorkshire Pullman on a summers day in 1970.

 

Class 46 with a stone train at Shenston Road.

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