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Preserved Deltic locomotive D9000 "Royal Scots
Grey" was regularly hired by Virgin Trains to work scheduled
passenger trains. It is seen here at Settle Junction, with the
07.38 Glasgow Central to Bournemouth CrossCountry service,
diverted from the West Coast Main Line because of engineering
works on 13 March 1999. |
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60006 "Scunthorpe Ironmaster", in British Steel
livery, passes through Wilmslow station with a northbound freight
on 4 March 1999. |
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Midland Mainline obtained a number of Class 170 Turbostar
units in order to increase service frequencies from the summer
1999 timetable change. Before that date, 170108 is seen at St
Pancras prior to working the 16.15 to Derby on 5 April. The
Class 170s did not stay with MML for long - they have now
obtained the Class 222 'Meridian' units in their place.
St Pancras station has since been transformed into the
international terminal for Eurostar. |
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Built in 1960 for services out of London Liverpool Street, a
few Class 305 units survived until January 2002 on Edinburgh -
North Berwick services. 305501 is departing from North Berwick on
28 August, as the 12.20 to Edinburgh. |
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312797 at Shoeburyness with the 17.05 LTS Rail service to
Fenchurch Street on 4 September. The train operator rebranded as
"c2c" in 2000. |