‘Scene’ in ‘Network Rail’ service on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

Friend Peter Rose has forwarded some more of his excellent railway images for which I thank him. 

 

As usual they are reproduced here unedited by me and with his permission.

 

9702 ‘Network Rail’ remote train operation vehicle’. Mk. 2F Driving Brake Standard Open. Built at BREL Derby as Brake Standard Open coach No. 9528 in 1974 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

An interesting vehicle.

 

One of 10 so produced.

 

It was converted in 1979 to its current form (DBSO) at BREL Glasgow for use with Class 47/7 locomotives for operating between Glasgow and Edinburgh in push-pull mode.

 

A service that I had some experience of in the mid 1980’s.

 

With the introduction of diesel multiple units, they became redundant and moved South to work on  London-Norwich services where eventually the coaches acquired ‘Anglia Rail’ livery.

 

‘Network Rail’ (NR) bought 5 in 2007.

 

These, numbered 9701, 9702, 9703, 9708 and 9714 continue in service still working in push-pull mode on ‘NR’ test trains.

 

 

 

 

37421 ‘Colas Rail Freight’ . English Electric built Diesel Electric Locomotive

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’ 

 

New numbered D6967 British Rail in 1965.

 

It has also carried the number 37267 during its career.

 

Pictured working the 1500 High Marnham Powergen-Derby RTC on 21/03/2021 in push-pull mode with DBSO No.9702 (see above).

 

Interestingly, this loco has been modelled by both Bachmann and Heljan In this livery in their OO gauge ranges.

 

‘Scene’ on Another Trip Down Memory Lane. When ‘trentbarton’ (tb) reached its Centenary /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

To mark the centenary of the company, ‘tb’ held an open day at its Langley Mill depot on Sunday 26th. May 2013.

 

‘trentbarton’, the East Midlands based bus operator started its own journey on 31st. October 1913 when it took over a route from Derby to Ashbourne run by a company called ‘Commercial Car Hirers’ of London who had been running the route since 1909.

 

The company still runs the route initially as service 1. Then to mark that route’s centenary in 2009 it became ‘the one’ and is now ‘the swift’ and the route now runs beyond Ashbourne to terminate at Uttoxeter. (pronounced ‘Uchetter’ by the locals).

 

‘trentbarton’ took over the ‘Midland General Omnibus Company’ in 1969 at the formation of the ‘National Bus Company’ and ‘Barton Transport’ in 1989.

 

It was buses formerly operated by these three companies that made up most (but not all) of the visiting buses on the day.

 

Today, ‘tb’ is part of the ‘Wellglade’ group along with ‘Kinchbus’ of Loughborough, ‘TM Travel’ of Staveley and ‘notts+derby’ of Derby for whom Langley Mill depot provides engineering support.

 

This blog deals with the vehicles pictured in ’trentbarton’s Langley Mill workshops.

 

‘trentbarton’s Big 100th. Birthday Party banner

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

 

 

 

M131 PRA ‘trentbarton’ No. 131 ‘L’. Volvo B10B / Northern Counties 

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

 

 

 

P256 PSX ‘notts+derby’ No. 28. Volvo Olympian / Alexander Royale

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’ 

 

New to ‘Lothian Buses’ as No. 256.

 

 

 

 

YJ56 KAO ‘TMTravel’. No. 1179. VDL SB120 / Plaxton Centro

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

 

 

 

Registration not known. ‘trentbarton’. Scania L94UB / Wright Solar

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’ 

 

All taped up waiting for attention in the paint shop.

 

 

 

 

M130  PRA ‘trentbarton’ No. 130 ‘L’. Volvo B10B / Northern Counties 

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

’Scene’ Down Memory Lane in Bournemouth 3 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

’Scene’ Down Memory Lane in Bournemouth 3

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’ 

 

These days, I suppose that the majority of photographers store their images on hard drives on various computers, tablets etc.

 

So it was with some surprise that I recently discovered some of my older images in that most familiar of storage locations, an old shoe box.

 

All of the images were taken on film in the days before I had graduated to automatic digital cameras so any slight focus or colour problems are due entirely to me.

 

So enjoy this selection dating back many years.

 

ALJ 340B ‘Bournemouth Corporation Transport’ No. 40. Daimler Fleetline / MH Cars (Belfast)

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

One of two bought (the other one being ALJ 341B No. 41) off the shelf so to speak to cover a vehicle shortage.

 

There were rumours that the 2 buses were taken from production intended to go to Belfast which as far as I know has never been confirmed.

 

Does anyone know ??

 

 

 

 

 8159 EL  ‘Bournemouth Mobile Museum’ No. 159. Leyland PD3 / Weymann

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’ 

 

New in 1960.

 

Note Bournemouth’s traditional 2 door layout.

 

 

 

 

8156 EL  ‘Bournemouth Heritage Transport’ No. 156. Leyland PD3 / Weymann /1

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

New in 1960.

 

 

 

 

8156 EL  ‘Bournemouth Heritage Transport’ No. 156. Leyland PD3 / Weymann /2

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

‘Scene’ in ‘trentbarton’ (tb) service. The Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D/ADL Enviro200MMC Part 2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

For part 1 see blog posted12/03/2021. 

 

Since the turn of the 21st. century, ‘tb’s single deck bus intake has comprised mainly of the Wright bodied Scania L94UB, The Wright bodied Volvo B7RLE, the Optare Solo and the Optare Versa.

 

There have been other purchases such as the Optare Tempo but not in large numbers.

 

2016 saw the introduction of the Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC.

 

Since that time upwards of 100 have joined the fleet.

 

There has also been a batch joining fellow ‘Wellglade’ group member ‘Kinchbus’ which were illustrated in my blog posted 28/08/2020.

 

The depots in Derby, Nottingham, Sutton-in-Ashfield and Langley Mill have all received new buses so I will show the images in the order in which the buses were delivered.

 

At the moment, there is a significant number of these buses still on order but rumour has it that they have been delayed for the time being because of the fallout from the Covid 19 pandemic.

 

YX67 VFB ‘trentbarton’ No. 124 ‘skylink’. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC 

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk

 

 

 

 

YY18 TRZ  ‘trentbarton’ No. 214 ‘indigo’. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC 

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

‘indigo’ operates from the Nottingham depot 24/7 between Derby and Nottingham.

 

 

 

 

YX68 ULM ‘trentbarton’ No. 139 ‘i4’. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC 

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

i4 operates from Nottingham on services linking Sandiacre, Stapleford and the Queens Medical Centre to Derby.

 

 

 

 

YY69 TMO ‘trentbarton’ No. 142 ‘the cotgrave’. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC 

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

Working from Nottingham to the town of Cotgrave.

 

 

 

 

YY20 OJB ‘trentbarton’ No. 159 ‘rainbowone’. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC 

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

Working from Nottingham to Alfreton, Heanor and Ripley via Kimberley and Eastwood.

 

 

 

 

‘Scene’ in the Derwent Valley on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

Friend and fellow railway enthusiast Peter Rose has taken his camera for another daily walk and has sent me this selection of images for which I thank him.

 

Regular readers will know that he likes to see his images in their environment and I must admit that they look good against the rural background.

 

All the images were taken just South of Ambergate junction on the ‘Midland Mainline’.

 

The junction used to see Manchester bound trains heading Northwest and Sheffield and beyond bound trains heading Northeast.

 

Nowadays, the Northeast branch still sees heavy traffic whilst the Northwest branch is just that, a branch line serving the Derwent Valley stations until it terminates at Matlock.

 

We start with a train that has just joined the main line on its way from Matlock via Derby and Nottingham to Newark Castle. 

 

156922 ‘EMR Regional’. Metro-Cammell built ‘Super Sprinter’ DMU

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

Working 2N23 the 08-37 Matlock-Newark Castle.

 

 

 

 

67027 ‘Charlotte’ leads 67023 ‘Stella’. Alstom built Diesel Electric Locomotives

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

Working the 1011 ‘Network Rail’ Derby RTC-Derby RTC.

 

A round trip so to speak. 

 

 

 

222023 ‘EMR Intercity’. Bombardier built high speed DMU

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

Working IC27 the 0900 Sheffield- London St. Pancras.

 

 

 

 

43207 leads 43366 ‘CrossCountry’. BREL built HST

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

Working 1V50 the 0606 Edinburgh-Plymouth.

 

 

 

 

221139 leads 221136 ‘CrossCountry’.  Bombardier built high speed DMU

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

Working 1V48 the 0640 Newcastle to Bristol Temple Meads.

 

‘Scene’ in ‘trentbarton’ (tb) service. The Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D/ADL Enviro200MMC Part 1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

Since the turn of the 21st. century, ‘tb’s single deck bus intake has comprised mainly of the Wright bodied Scania L94UB, The Wright bodied Volvo B7RLE, the Optare Solo and the Optare Versa.

 

There have been other purchases such as the Optare Tempo but not in large numbers.

 

2016 saw the introduction of the Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC.

 

Since that time upwards of 100 have joined the fleet.

 

There has also been a batch joining fellow ‘Wellglade’ group member ‘Kinchbus’ which were illustrated in my blog posted 28/08/2020.

 

The depots in Derby, Nottingham, Sutton-in-Ashfield and Langley Mill have all received new buses so I will show the images in the order in which the buses were delivered.

 

At the moment, there is a significant number of these buses still on order but rumour has it that they have been delayed for the time being because of the fallout from the Covid 19 pandemic.

 

YX66 WLN ‘trentbarton’ No. 103 ‘the mickleover’. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC 

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

The first delivery was for Derby for ‘the mickleover’ linking Derby with the suburb of that name via the Royal Derby Hospital.

 

One of the batch was on ‘The Alexander Dennis Ltd’ stand at the 2016 Bus & Coach Show at the NEC. 

 

See blog dated 1/11/2016 for images.

 

 

 

 

YX66 WMP ‘trentbarton’ No. 164 ‘the nines’. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC 

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

Originally No. 164 but later re-numbered to No. 264.

 

Based at Sutton-in-Ashfield on services from Derby via Ripley, Alfreton and Sutton to Mansfield.

 

 

 

 

YX17 NTL ‘trentbarton’ No. 110 ‘mango’. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC 

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

Nottingham also had a small number of buses branded for ‘mango’ which is ‘tb’s electronic discounted travel card.

 

As part of the ’20' delivery, a further number of buses were delivered in the ‘Mango’ livery.

 

Unfortunately, due to the Covid-19 regulations virtually banning ‘unnecessary’ travel.

 

They have as yet avoided my camera.

 

 

 

 

YX67 UXY ‘trentbarton’ No. 118 ‘mainline’. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC 

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

Nottingham received a batch for ‘mainline’ services to the East of Nottingham towards Bingham.

 

Pictured leaving ‘Showbus 2017’ which was held at Donington Park.

 

 

 

 

YX67 VGC ‘trentbarton’ No. 266 ‘the allestree’. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC 

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

Used from Derby to the suburb of Allestree.

 

’Scene’ Down Memory Lane in Bournemouth 2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

These days, I suppose that the majority of photographers store their images on hard drives on various computers, tablets etc.

 

So it was with some surprise that I recently discovered some of my older images in that most familiar of storage locations, an old shoe box.

 

All of the images were taken on film in the days before I had graduated to automatic digital cameras so any slight focus or colour problems are due entirely to me.

 

So enjoy this selection dating back many years.

 

J269 SPR ‘Yellow Buses Bournemouth’ No. 269. Dennis Dominator / East Lancs

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

 

 

 

 

 

D200 ELJ ‘Yellow Coaches Bournemouth’ No. 200. Volvo B10M / East Lancs

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

 

 

 

E208 GCG ‘Yellow Buses Bournemouth’ No. 209. Volvo B10M / Alexander RV

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

 

 

 

OUC 45R ‘Yellow Buses Bournemouth’ No. W5. Leyland Fleetline FE30ALR / Metro Cammell Weymann

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

 

‘Scene’ outside Nottingham’s Railway Station (NRS) 3 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

The original ‘NRS’ was opened in 1839 by the ‘Midland Counties Railway’.

 

Substantially rebuilt in 1904 by the now ‘Midland Railway’ using brick, terracotta 

and faience (a form of glazed terracotta) instead of stone.

 

Further re-worked in 2013 when the trackwork was remodelled resulting in the beautiful building seen today.

 

Most of the images in this blog show part of the station exterior in the background.

 

Nottingham  Railway Station frontage 2020

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

 

 

 

YX69 NRJ ‘Nottingham City Transport’ No. 303 ‘Bridgford Bus’. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC 

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

Nottinghams short version of this best selling bus have replaced Optare Solo SR’s.

 

 

 

 

YJ61 CGO ‘Nottingham City Transport’ No. 347 ‘Navy Line 3. Optare M995 Solo SR

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

 

 

FE02 KFJ ‘Kinchbus’ (Loughborough) No. 460. Optare M920 Solo 

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

 

Inbound on the half hourly service from Loughborough.

 

 

 

 

YX17 NTK ‘trentbarton’ No. 109 ‘mango’. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

 

 

 

FN54 AEZ ‘trentbarton’ No. 662 ‘skylink’. Scania L94UB / Wright Solar

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

 

 

 

 

 

‘Scene’, ‘Travelling Light’ in the East Midlands on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

60002 GBRf. Brush Traction built Diesel Electric Locomotive

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’ 

 

There has been a very pleasant ‘early spring’ feel for the past few days here in the ‘Great East Midlands’ and to celebrate it, friend Peter Rose took his camera for a walk.

 

As usual, these images are posted with his permission

 

Here are the pick of the crop.

 

I rate this image as the best I have seen from anybody for sometime.

 

Working the 11-17 from Belmont to Toton.

 

 

 

 

66789 GBRf ‘British Rail 1948-1997. EMD built Diesel Electric Locomotive

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

Working the 10-50 Doncaster Down Decoy to Eastleigh yard.