Loose_Grip/Pete's photos

Bradford Trolley bus 782, registration CBX912, en route to Clayton Spring 1969. An empty street scene close to Bradford city centre. I have only just noticed that there is a second trolleybus in this view - extreme left. I was walking between Bradford Exchange and Foster Square stations en route from Sheffield to Keighley when I took the photograph. I spy a Ford Corsair taxi tucked in behind the trolleybus. Adams Best Butter is now in a carton pack, you know?

French steam SNCF 141-TD-740 on a special passenger train at Meymac station. 141-TD-740 was built in 1932 by la Compagnie des Chemins de Fer de l'Est for suburban services in Paris. It was later transferred to the Western Region & worked out of Gare Saint-Lazare until electrification in 1967. Withdrawn from SNCF in 1968 it was chosen for preservation at the Mulhouse Railway Museum but after languishing for 14 years out in the open it was deemed irreparable and was sold. C.F.T.L.P., Chemin de Fer Touristique Limousin - Périgord, purchased the engine in 1982 and it was restored to working order. It was classified as a "monuments historiques au titre de la préservation du patrimoine industriel" by ministerial decree in 1987. The CFTLP still run special trains in SW France the next being 23rd/24th June - see: www.trainvapeur.com/programmes/programme.htm for details.

Kicking the railings at the end of the prom.

I was firing LNER B1 4-6-0 61264 for only the second time & this was the first time I had fired any engine on the TPO at the Winter Steam Gala. We had been held at the Advanced Starter but by this time we were cracking along. The photo obviously was not taken by me.

Bangor railway Station, North Wales. Diesel Class 24 5039 on a west-bound sheeted freight waits on the signal while 5030 shunts a parcels train past the London & North Western Railway signal box at Whit 1973. The semaphore signals are still active but the platform-end water tank had just been felled. The remains can be seen to the left of the railwayman. Bangor station is located between two tunnels, the one seen here takes the line westwards towards Holyhead.