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British Railways 1970

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"Warship" D818 "Glory" departs from Exeter St Davids with a Waterloo train

August 1970



Class 45 D80 at Filton West Jn with a freight from Avonmouth

August 1970



Class 73 on freight passes Gatwick Airport on Down Brighton Slow

April 1970



A down freight passes through Cardiff General

August 1970



Whitland looking down the Pembroke Dock branch

August 1970



Near Wolfs Castle on the Fishguard branch

August 1970



Trecwm branch at Letterson Jn

August 1970



Dropping down to Fishguard

August 1970



Motorail train loading at Fishguard & Goodwick

August 1970



Fishguard Harbour with MV "Caledonian Princess" alongside

August 1970



Leaving Fishguard

August 1970



Because of the fire on the Britannia Bridge, my return was via Heysham. Here is D214 with the Irish Mail to London

August 1970



The carriage sidings at Heysham

August 1970



The Irish Mail ran in 2 portions on this day, both class 40s are heading trains for Euston

August 1970



I travelled to Birmingham. Here is the class 47 D1731 running round at Morecambe Promenade

August 1970



The fine gantry at the north end of Preston

August 1970



The south end of Crewe

August 1970



Being a Sunday, the train was routed via Cannock and Walsall to Wolverhampton, then back via Bescot and Soho Rd to New St. This is Wolverhampton LL

August 1970



D1731 runs round again at Wolverhampton

August 1970



A very blurred shot of Wolverhampton LL from the Portobello line

August 1970



I changed at New St for a train to Exeter, which was routed via Worcester and Honeybourne. Here we are taking the junction at Honeybourne for the Cheltenham line

August 1970



The line north to Stratford at Honeybourne

August 1970



Cheltenham Spa station from the Honeybourne line. We then reversed back into the platform

August 1970



Bath Road with all sorts of locos plus a Blue Pullman set.

August 1970

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I was born in 1953 and educated at Tonbridge and Bristol University. Since then I have been employed on the Railways, most of the time in the West Midlands. From 1980 I lived in Wolverhampton, and for the last 20 years in Bridgnorth