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As said previously many were acquired by preservation groups, however what helped the locos was that the carriages were easier to cut up so the yard workers concentrated on these.
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A good number of the replacement diesel locos had a short life too when classes were deemed non-standard after scant few years service.
Shocking waste of resources especially when you see that some class 20s and 37s have had a service life of 60 years or more.
If EWS hadn't been allowed to be so spiteful in the late 90s then a few more locos could have had a longer life rather than being scrapped to prevent competitors investing in them; the way they have let the class 60s sit and rot at Toton is horrific.
Rail rant over
In the spirit of the thread I bought myself a couple of Rapido N Gauge Peaks last week; class 45 and 46
The class 45 represents the same loco that I had in OO gauge at xmas 1981 and the prototype class 46 I saw at an open day at Coalville depot in the late 1980's
I'm not a foamer but I do love Peaks
Shocking waste of resources especially when you see that some class 20s and 37s have had a service life of 60 years or more.
If EWS hadn't been allowed to be so spiteful in the late 90s then a few more locos could have had a longer life rather than being scrapped to prevent competitors investing in them; the way they have let the class 60s sit and rot at Toton is horrific.
Rail rant over
In the spirit of the thread I bought myself a couple of Rapido N Gauge Peaks last week; class 45 and 46
The class 45 represents the same loco that I had in OO gauge at xmas 1981 and the prototype class 46 I saw at an open day at Coalville depot in the late 1980's
I'm not a foamer but I do love Peaks
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I was based at Bedford Midland Road Station S&T in '80 and '81.
The Class 45 were hauling the Expresses through there then.
The vibrations through the ground and air when a Class 45 pulled out with a heavy train had to be felt to be believed!
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Great stuff - Thanks for sharing
I grew up not too far away betwixt the MML and the Bedford to Bletchley line so 45s and 25s were seen daily.
Did my work experience at Bedford station in 1986.
Spent quite a bit of time (when I was single) helping the guys with 45133 at the Midland Railway centre and as a result had a decent cab ride at the NYMR which was an experience. I never drove the loco but I may have moved it in the yard Swanwick Junction
HSTs were not my favourite when they displaced the Peaks from passenger duties on the MML but I managed to appreciate them after a while.
Caught 45118 at Bedford a few weeks ago on a railtour and it brought back a lot of memories and maybe even the slightest hint of a tear in my eye or was it the cold wind that day l can't be sure
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a customer had most of his shelve space full of those he had a right set of them where i worked
as we serviced the old floor standing cast iron gas boiler often over the years and did lots of work for him
he lit a few up using metholated spirits purple fluid stuff and let them run for so long its why i remember them so well
he gave me some model books and i built the tin steam boat from them the teacher was really interested in the modderling books so when i left school i let the teacher keep the books as they was in his office and he read them all
i called in a few times and he was loving the old model books
i also left the tin boat at school for him to show the students the build and also the old tin soldering irons as well
Pleased to say they went . they caused a lot of fires along tracksides especially in ready to or just harvested wheat ,barley , oats and hay pasture land .
Cornwall fire brigade often attend enthusiasts steam engine originated blazes even these day
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The Poppy Line in North Norfolk don’t run steam engines if there is any chance of causing a fire
