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.
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