Chris's Photographs
2008
 
4965 Rood Ashton Hall and 5043 Earl of Mount edgcumbe pause at Dorridge with Vintage Trains Solihull-Didcot charter.08/11/2008
Wed 3rd Dec 2008
November Tours 2008 		156403 arrves at Heckington with the 1250 Nottingham Skegness on 26/08/2008
Mon 1st Sep 2008
July/August 2008 		Bittern passes Birmingham Moor St. on a dismal, wet evening. 19/04/2008
Tue 20th May 2008
April/May 2008
 
55 022 slows for the stop at Codsall, with Pathfinders Central Wales tour of 29/03/2008. The GWR footbridge has been recently restored, having been demolished by a piece of track plant during maintenance work in 2007
Thu 3rd Apr 2008
March '08 Railtours and Lattice Footbridges 		Newly repainted 37401 crosses Oxted Viaduct with the East Grinstead-London Bridge leg of a Pathfinders tour.02/02/2008
Fri 15th Feb 2008
37s in Surrey 		King Edward 1 awaits departure from Crewe.22/12/2007
Tue 12th Feb 2008
Kettle Nocturne
 
Last tram of the day at Woodside 1623.15/12/2007
Fri 11th Jan 2008
December Miscellany
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2007
 
47 813/828 call at Chester on the return from Llandudno to Bristol.
Fri 16th Nov 2007
47s To Llandudno and 6201 at Crewe.10/11/2007 		37410 and 417 leave Dovey Junction with Kingfisher charters Reading-Aberystwyth tour on 22 Sep 2007
Thu 4th Oct 2007
Tours Sep 2007 		Seen from the Hythe ferry, the cruise ship Oriana at Southampton, Queen Elizabeth Dock
Mon 24th Sep 2007
Southampton And Hythe. 08/09/2007
 
Western Champion running round the stock in a short lived bit of sun at Aberystwyth.
Thu 6th Sep 2007
The Alliance Cambrian Coast Express 01/09/2007 		37 405/422 pass Wellington with Kingfisher tours Ealing Broadway-Aberystwyth trip on a very wet 30/06/2007. Ta to Mick for the photo guidance.
Thu 5th Jul 2007
Tours 2007
Fri 23rd Feb 2007
The Bard and Birch Railtour. 17/02/2007
 
60 090 approaches Edale from the east with roadstone empties.
Mon 19th Feb 2007
Edale 03/02/2007 		37 406 and 410 top and tail the Buffer puffer 4.0 railtour past the former Battersea Power Station.20/01/2007
Thu 8th Feb 2007
January Railtours 		Wallasey,Hong Kong and Lisbon trams from Wirral Transport museum at Birkenhead Woodside on a dismal 30/12/2006
Thu 25th Jan 2007
All Trams Out Day At Birkenhead(and an RM)
 
GBRf ED's 73208/206 ease the 1230 Clapham Yard-Hoo Junction engineers train through Wandsworth Road
Tue 16th Jan 2007
Wandsworth Road 16/12/2006 		313 120 pauses at Silvertown at dusk on the last day of services between Stratford and Nort Woolwich. 9/12/2006
Tue 9th Jan 2007
North Woolwich Finale 		166 220 in new 'First' livery, nears Aldermaston on a bedwyn-Paddington service
Mon 8th Jan 2007
Aldermaston 18/11/2006
 

Fri 5th Jan 2007
More Iron Men. 21 October 2006
Thu 4th Jan 2007
Chiltern Bubble car at Birmingham Moor St
Thu 4th Jan 2007
Engineers trains at Shirley. 8 Oct 2006
 
Restored to the North Warwick line via Henley for the last two Sundays of Sep 2006 after 3 years of returning from Stratford to Birmingham via Dorridge. The midday Shakespeare Express from Stratford makes a fine sight and sound attacking the bank near Tanworth with 4965 Rood Ashton Hall in charge.
Thu 4th Jan 2007
Tanworth-in Arden 24 Sep 2006 		1498 approaching Lymington Junction on the 1629 Brockenhurst to Lymington Pier.
Thu 4th Jan 2007
Lymington Branch Oct 2006 		Near Amlwch Port
Mon 1st Jan 2007
Anglesey Coastal Path 12 Aug 2006
 
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2006
 
BR Green 37 411 eases over Barmouth brige with pathfinders 0641 Sheffield-Pwllheli 'Snowdonian' charter.
Thu 25th May 2006
Caerphilly Castle(37411) at Barmouth 20/5/2006 		The train passes over the swing section of the bridge.
Thu 11th May 2006
33202/103 on Barmouth Bridge. 29/04/2006 		37 425 Pride of the valleys passes a soggy Aberdyfi with The Kingfisher Tours St. Albans-Porthmadog charter
Fri 21st Apr 2006
37 425 to Porthmadog. 15/04/2006
 
6024 arrives at Shrewsbury with the Ik Brunel 200th Anniversary charter from Bristol
Fri 21st Apr 2006
King Edward 1 at Shrewsbury. 08/04/2006 		6201 Princess Elizabeth crosses the viaduct at Runcorn en route from Bescot to Liverpool.
Fri 21st Apr 2006
The Merseyside Express 01/04/2006 		West coast Class 33s nos 33 029/207 approach Machynlleth alongside the swollen River Dyfi with the 0503 Green Express charter from Peterboro to Aberystwyth
Thu 6th Apr 2006
Cromptons to Aberystwyth 31/03/2006
 
Sculptor Anthony Gormley's exhibition of 100 lifesize iron statues, standing along 3km of beach at Crosby, Merseyside.
Mon 27th Mar 2006
Anthony Gormley's Another Place on Crosby Shore, Merseyside.18/03 and 01/04/2006 		11.16 and the late running Holyhead-Cardiff 158 rolls in, formed of a former Central trains 158. 845
Fri 3rd Mar 2006
20 minutes at Gobowen.25/02/2006 		RMs 1218, 1776 and 1627 line up in Prince Consort Road, Kensington, terminus of the Heritage route 9
Thu 2nd Mar 2006
More on the Heritage Routes
 
RM 1224 heads the lineup at The palace.11/02/2006
Fri 17th Feb 2006
Routemaster 50th Anniversary Road Run 		Spanish built Ro pax ferry Liverpool Viking casts off from Birkenhead 12 Quays for Belfast.14/1/2006
Fri 20th Jan 2006
Birkenhead and Seacombe, Boats,Trams and Buildings 		Ten Routemasters are allocated to Westbourne Park garage for the 9, including silver SRM3 on the stand behind the Royal Albert Hall.17/12/2005
Mon 9th Jan 2006
Routemaster Heritage Routes
 
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2005
 
13 days before the end of RMs on the 159 RML 2636, 2521 and RML54 pose at the former Streatham garage with a Travel London Trident.26/11/2005. RML2636 is now owned by the landlord of the Little Mill Inn, Rowarth, Derbyshire.
Thu 22nd Dec 2005
Goodbye Streatham 		BR green liveried 37411(D6990)Caerphilly Castle arrives at the tiny request stoop at Gilfach Fargoed, with the 1215 Rhymney- Cardiff Central
Fri 16th Dec 2005
Last Day of the Class 37s to Rhymney 10/12/2005 		RML 2577, a former 'Kentish Bus' survivor from Route 19(along with RMLs 2387,2586 and 2619),seen amongst the colourful estate agents on Kennington Road, near The Oval.05/11/2005
Thu 17th Nov 2005
Last Routemaster days on the 159
 
RMLs 409 and 2494 under the lay over under the autumn foliage
Thu 10th Nov 2005
Clapton Pond 22/10/2005 		37 416 eases the 0624 High Wycombe-Pwllheli Kingfisher Railtours charter over Barmouth Bridge.29/10/2005
Thu 3rd Nov 2005
37416 at Barmouth 		RM 1568 leaves Aldwych. Sep 2005
Tue 25th Oct 2005
Route 13 Sep/Oct 2005
 
37 427 departs from Birmingham Snow Hill with a the outward leg of a steam charter to Bristol Temple Meads. 10/09/2005
Fri 14th Oct 2005
Class 37s
Fri 14th Oct 2005
Routemasters on Balls Pond Road , London N1.08/10/2005 		RML 2408 and refurbished RM 652 pass some road resurfacing on Rosebery Avenue on 22/10/2005
Thu 6th Oct 2005
Routemasters on the 38(Sep/Oct 2005)
 
Deltic D9000 Royal Scots Grey awaits departure from Shirley with the 0725 Fragonset railtour to York, via Stratford-Upon-Avon.09/12/2000
Mon 26th Sep 2005
Shirley 		4965 passes Shirley signalbox in full bloom with the lunchtime train from Stratford. Alas since August 2003 the Shakespeare Express returns from Stratford to Birmingham via Dorridge, so this photo, and the one at Henley, are no longer possible.
Mon 12th Sep 2005
Shakespeare Express 		RM 548 comes off Westminster Bridge with the Houses of Parliament behind, on 27/08/2005. After the cessation of Routemasters on routes 13 Aldwych-Golders Green Station(21 October 2005) and 38 Victoria-Clapton Pond(28 October 2005), the 159 will be the only route left using the iconic buses until conversion to one person operation on December 9th 2005.
Thu 8th Sep 2005
Route 159, London's last Routemaster route.
 
Fomer Putney RML 2520 on a private hire in Portman St.27/08/2005
Fri 2nd Sep 2005
Private Hire Routemasters 		D1015 near Cowley Bridge on the Barnstaple branch, returning from Okehampton to Bristol on a Pathfinders charter to Crewe. 15/03/2003
Mon 22nd Aug 2005
D1015 Western Champion 		D1015 Western Champion and 37 427 head a Pathfinder Tours charter over Knucklas Viaduct on the Central Wales line.25/06/2005
Wed 10th Aug 2005
Railway Pics
 
With the towers of the Natural History Museum forming the backdrop, RML 2520 passes South Kensington Station on 22/07/2005. See Private Hires Gallery
Tue 9th Aug 2005
Routemasters on Routes 14 and 22,Summer 2005
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