Railway News and Photos with David Arkwright
Thursday, April 25, 2024
The E353 series is a DC tilting electric multiple unit (EMU) train operated by the East Japan Railway.
48151, the locomotive pictured, is one of several Stanier 8Fs in preservation. It was withdrawn from service in 1968, sent for scrap, saved by the Yorkshire Dales railway and restored. Picture taken in Coalville, the line is still in use.
GWR Pannier Tank 7754, built in 1930, now preserved.
Monday, April 22, 2024
VLIX Alco C420 No.2064 and former L&N GP30.
Black 5 45027 at Stockport Edgeley on 23rd September 1967.
Amtrack Southampton Street Yard, Boston.
LNER Gresley A4 No 60026, 'Miles Beevor' in 1931 at Kings Cross.
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
BR Class 17 (also known as the Clayton Type1), at my boyhood village station of Mickleover, Derby.
Queensboro Plaza station, New York.
The former Chatham dockyard branch line, Kent, UK.
English Electric gas turbine GT3 owes its 'steam' like appearance to the fact that it was built onto an ex-LMS class 5 steam loco chassis. The tender carried diesel fuel.
Sunday, April 14, 2024
SCNF (France) Alstom TGV 2N2 Lyria No. 4729.
Stanier 8f, 48027, in Leicester.
Pennsylvania Railroad pair of striking E8A's, No.5712-A and No.5892-A, Chicago 1960's.
GWR Castle Class No 7029. Clun Castle.
Two LNER Class A4 on the east coast main line.
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Marylebone Station, London. Two Class 680 unloading right, and one departing, left.
Wabash E8 and E7 at Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1965.
Volk's Electric Railway opened in 1883, Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric railway, Sussex, UK. Known as 'Daddy Long Legs'.
Monday, April 8, 2024
Norfolk and Southern steel coil train Tennessee.
National Coal Board Davenport 0-6-0, It is not widely known that a handful of 'USA' 0-6-0 tanks, such as those purchased by the Southern Railway, worked in Northumberland collieries.
Class 47 coming off Arten Gill Viaduct in the 1980's.
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Danbury Railway Museum, New York, New Haven & Hartford Railway Budd RDC 32.
Stalemate in Brazil.
BSNF 6887 crossing the Yellowstone.
Monday, April 1, 2024
No.70047, the only unnamed BR Standard 7MT in 1963.
Norfolk Southern Yard in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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ETR 252 "Arlecchino" train, a restored Italian historic express train.
Class 55 Deltic 55013 'The Black Watch' Hull Paragon station 1981.
Shinkansen train, nicknamed Doctor Yellow. Currently, there are only two active Doctor Yellow trains--one owned by Central Japan Railway Co. 9022, better known as JR Tokai, and the other by West Japan Railway Co. 9021, or JR West.
The British Rail Class 397 Civity is a class of electric multiple unit built by Spanish rolling stock manufacturer CAF for lease to TransPennine Express by Eversholt Rail Group. A total of twelve five-car units were built to operate services on TransPennine North West.The British Rail Class 331 Civity is a class of electric multiple unit built by CAF, owned by Eversholt Rail Group, and currently operated by Northern Trains. A total of 43 units have been built - 31 three-car units and 12 four-car units - at a cost of £500m.
