97406/40135 at Gloucester Horton Road in 1987. It had been en route to Swindon for scrapping but apparently developed a hot axle box and so was stopped at Gloucester. This hiatus was enough to gain it a future as it was purchased for preservation whilst stabled there.
Farnley Junction allocated Black Five 45204 pilots Jubilee 45600 Bermuda of 10C Patricroft over Farnley Viaduct above Leeds Holbeck Shed on a Newcastle-Liverpool Lime Street express on 7 November 1960 (G Morrison)
Reminding us of the many years when six-cylinder Birmingham RC&W diesels held sway in the Scottish Highlands, Nos. D5301 and D5300 clatter across the causeway at Craig Highland Farm, Duncraig, by Loch Carron with the 17.05 Kyle of Lochalsh-Inverness on 25 August 1993.