Featured

My First Blog Post

Elliott TC photography

UK

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.

— Oscar Wilde.

. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates. like the next day. or the next month.

A Train spotters blog

EMD Class 66

English, Welsh & Scottish Railways (EWS)

English, Welsh & Scottish Railways (EWS) where the first rail freight operator to buy the EMD class 66 back in 1996 because of the success of the EMD class 59 with Yeoman.

DB Schenker

DB Schenker class 66 66070

DB Schenker is the successor of EWS witch was bought in February 2009.

Great British Rail Freight (GBRF)

66777 (the penultimate last class 66 ever built -Last loco is 66779 ‘Evening Star’-) ‘Annette’ in Euro-port at Brighouse train station

GBRF has a wide selection of liveries so this is still a working process.

GBRF Original livery 66782 with logo ‘GBRF Railtours’

Freightliner

Birds

Long-tailed tit 2
laughing Goldfinch

THIS SHOULD NOT BE HERE

High-heeled Coal tit
‘I wonder why’ great tit
Mandarin duck male
Male Bullfinch
Male + Female Bullfinch
Blue tit
Robin
Canada goose
Female Mallard duck
Green finch
Heron in a Heronry ( Herons nest in trees)
Male Reed Bunting
Dunnock
Male reed bunting
Nuthatch
Reed bunting Male
Male Chaffinch
Jay
Male Great-spotted woodpecker

Crow? Magpie? ^

shellduck

Trains

Catch me on the Bahamas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TPE set with 68 and mk 5
68021 tireless with MK 5 stock at mirfield
class 185 TPE 155118 and Nothern class 153 153315
Northern class 153 153315
GBRF class 60 in de-branded colas rail class 60 at Cromwell bottom on Drax LBT-Drax NOTE. I have now seen a GBRF class 60 in GBRF coulors
TPE class 185
Northern class 185 at Mirfield
Northern class 333 bogie 333027 at Saltair on 25th Janury 2020
MK 5 TPE stock
Drax wagons at Cromwell Bottom
Double orange signal at Mirfield
TPE class 185 with a strange ‘Z’ on the front
Tpe class 185
Trans pennine Express class 185
TPE class 185 at speed
TPE class 185
TPE class 185 Leaving Mirfield
78022 at Oxenhope at the KWVR
78022 BUILT 1954 DARLINGTON
78022 at Keighthly station
Looking through a window, 78022 Filling her up
78022 in coluor
78022 no.2
track
Keighly signal box & water tank

These are all my train pictures on memory card so far. enjoy.

Northern class 158 158855 at Brighouse
Northern class 153 DSU 153378
Northern class 153 DSU 153301
158855 paused at Brighouse Train station
158855 at speed at Brighouse TS
Signal on red at Hellifield train station
signal on green at Hellifield train station
no. 126 also 150126 heading off to morcombe at Hellifield

I won’t show the image of the dead pheasant inside 158859′ snowplough I have 2 images !!

150126 making a move
Northern 150126
Northern 150126
Class 158 face 158859
158872
Northern class 158872
A convoy of Freightliner class 66 Front to back: 66501 “Japan 2001”, 66536, 66551 & 66554 at Colton Junction

Preview(opens in a new tab)

LNER class 91 & MK4 stock + MK4 driving car
TPE class 802 at Colton junction
TPE MK5 stock
LNER class 91 & LNER MK4 stock
220 cross country passing TPE class 802
158860 in Northern livery at Colton junction
GBRF class 60 60026 ‘Helvellyl’
class 60
60026 ‘Helvellyn’
GBRF class 60 ‘Helvellyn’ & 801 213
Inter-city 125 HST class 43 43002 ‘Sir Kenneth Grange’ at NRM’s turntable York
TPE class 68 68023 ‘Achilles’
Northern Pacer unites class 142 at York 2020 x2
SAME AS ABOVE
TPE Class 802 at York
TPE class 185 185102
TPE class 68 68023 ‘Achilles’
cross country vouerger
LNER class 802
UN-liveried TPE class 802 Note: York cathedral in the background.
TPE class 68 68023 ‘Achilles’ at York train station with MK5 stock on 8.2.20
Nothern class 170 at York
DB shenker class 60 at Hebbden Bridge on a crew change NOTE: that is why it was going slowly and I can get photograph on automatic + I have a video of this locomotive at the same place 5 seconds later (roughly) on youtube here is it’s address is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNgv_xjxl2U
Northern Pacer unit class 144 144017 departs from Long preston
Northern Pacer unit class 142 142090 stands at Huddersfield train station
Noerthern cass 153 153363 waits at Huddersfield. Note: this was where the pacer unit was.
DB schenker class 60 60092 whizzes past Hebbden Bridge train station.
Colas rail class 70 with auto -ballasters
DB schenker class 66 66070 at Belford Junction
Same as above
EWS class 66 66011 at Cromwell Bottom local nature reserve
New class 195 195110 blasts past Brighouse train station
Colas 70 same asthe one above
East midlands Trains (EMT) class 43 HST 43048 + 43055
DRS class 57 57304 ‘Pride of Cheshire’ at Carlisle
EWS class 66 66129
West Coast Railways (WCR) coach.
DRS class 57 57304 ‘Pride of Cheshire’ At Carlisle.
Scotrail class 156 156507
DRS class 57 57304 ‘Pride of Cheshire’
I’ve seen this but I only got a video so this is the screen shot of it
Northern class 150 150004 just outside Cromwell Bottom local nature reserve
At the KWVR




All pictures until said so will appear on youtube as… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN6_l0Hq3xs
GBRF De-branded Colas rail freight class 60 60096 on Drax
same as below
DB-Branded EWS class 66 66103 on household waste duty
same as above
Northern class 158 DMU 158867
Northern class 144 144012
same as above
Northern Class 153 153330
The front of GBRF class 60 60095 on Doncaster Down Decoy (DDD) – Liverpool Biomass Terminal
Relegated to Drax
GBRF class 60 60021 ‘Penyghent’
The Image says it all…
Northern class 153 153316 ( same as below)
Northern class 153 DSU 153316 over a public footpath level crossing at Cromwell Bottom LNR
Same as below GBRF class 60
GBRF class 60 60096 ‘Impelus’ the day before my birthday on Drax duties
Same as above
New Northern class 195
EWS class 66 66140
GBRF class 66 66722 ‘Sire Edward Watkin’
Same as above.

I am leaving a link to my Youtube channel trailer,

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKDnM0swLf9rX1FsgqnUG5w

45596 ‘Bahamas’
GBRF class 66 66747 ‘Made in Sheffield’
DB/Maritime class 66 66162 ‘Maritime Intermodal five’ on household waste from Knowsley- Wilton
Maritime Intermodal Five 66 162
GBRF class 66 66765
Northern class 195 195003 & 195012
Northern class 158 158758
Northern class 153 153360
Colas rail class 70 70813 on Colas Ribble Rail-Lindsey oil refinery
GBRF class 66 66765 in torrential rain today on Liverpool biomass tml -Drax ps
DB Schenker (DB Cargo) class 66 66152 ‘Derek Holmes railway operator’ on Binliner empties from Wilton EfW -Knowsly freight terminal
again in torrential rain.
Same as above and definitely in torrential rain so all my equipment got soaking wet!
DB Schenker class 90 90036 working on LNER trains from London to Leeds this is at Leeds.
EMT (East Middlands trains) class 08 shunter 08908
BR green class 08 shunter D3941

Northern rail

Northern class 150 150126 It mustn’t get around much considering I’ve only seen it once (earlier on this year) and this being at least five months before only a few miles away!
Northern class 331 331 101 My Hero (Because it slowed 66780 down otherwise I would not of caught it)

Transpennine Express

Heritage railways

20031 in Coal sector is seen passing the ‘Flying Scotsman’

Memories of the East Coast Main Line

82222 + 91106 1A30 1245 Leeds to London Kings Cross

New operator of the ECML (Lumo)

Lumo class 803001 pictured at colton on it’s first trip out

Main Line Steam

NRM 60103 Flying Scotsman as the 5Z44 1112 Bury East Lancs Railway to Milford Loop
46115 ‘Scots Guardsman’ as the 5Z86 1145 York N.R.M. to Carnforth Steamtown
British Railways A3 60163 ‘Tornado’ Taken on April 29, 2017

Main Line Diesels (Misc)

20205 + 20007 Barrow hill – Leeds balm

Railtours

West coast railways (WCR)

WCR class 47 47245 with the return journey of the ‘Scarbough Spa Express’
WCR 47
Newly repainted 47812 at Castleford
burst
Grangemouth ineos – Gascogne woods
burst
37706 paused at Leeds

Locomotive services

LSL 47773+20189 on The Scarborough Bell 25.8.21
47593 Dragging a failed 47712 on the Yorkshire Coast Statesman
47593 on the return service of the Yorkshire Coast Statesman

Freight traffic

GB Railfreight

GBRF class 60 60026 ‘Hellvelyn’ 1.1.22
GBRF class 50’s 50007 (50034 ‘Furious’ on the side) with 50049 ‘Defiance’ trailing
GBRF 66731 ‘Captain Tom Moor’ Brighouse
66769 Arcow quarry – Pendleton?
GBRF class 66 66780 ‘The Cemex Express’
GBRF class 66 66721 ‘Harry beck’ with the Arcow quarry – breadbury tilcon serice
GBRF 66779 ‘Evening star’ Crossflats Hulldairy coates – Rylstone tilcon
66711 ‘Sence’ In Aggregate Industries livery
66718
I changed the sky so it would be less dull

GBRF 66796 'The Green Progressor'
66796 ‘The Green Progressor’
66797

DB Cargo/EWS

67028 Working the 5E18 0959 Doncaster Works Wagn Shops to Neville Hill T&R.S.M.D on the 15th March 2023
66114 Working the 4L45 1004 Wakefield Europort to Felixstowe South Dbc

Colas rail freight

70810 In the snow as the 6E32
70810 – 6D79 0835 Lindsey Oil Refinery Colas to Neville Hill Depot (Ews)
70813 & 70810 Form the 0C01 1237 Leeds Balm Rd Loco (Fhh) to Carlisle N.Y. at Hellifield
66850 on the tanks
56113 Leaving Doncaster C.H.S
37612 and 37607 tnt working the 1Q61 1536 Barlby Loops to Gascoigne Wood Down Loop
37612 and 37607 growl through Brighouse
37607 at Doncaster
Colas 37 37219 at Brighouse. Doncaster C.H.S – Wigan North western
Colas 37 37175 at Brighouse. Doncaster C.H.S – Wigan North western

Direct Rail Services

DRS 66303 ‘Rail riders express’ stabled with 66433
66108
DRS 57002 York thrall Europa – Stowemarket D.G.L
66426

Freightliner

66558
66554
66596 – colton jn
66413 leads up the 6Y30 to Bradley Jn

D.C Rail freight

DC Rail Freight class 56 56103 Hare park junction

Rail operations group (ROG)

37510 + 68026 5Q37 0933 Scarborough to Crewe South Yard
37510 – leading the return to Chesterfield

Loram

37418  leading 975025 ‘Caroline’ and Nr MPV DR98008

Network Rail

950001 leaving Hatfield and Stainforths GL
Wigan L.I.P. – Knottingly TMD
Design a site like this with WordPress.com
Get started