The Buxton Forester : The Movie

The Buxton Forester

37248 and 40145 top & tail Past-Time Rails 'The Buxton Forester' through Aston. The charter was 1Z47 06:58 Birmingham International to Buxton.

Royal Bang

Running Bang Road & Doubly Light Engine. 67005 & 67006 (By Royal appointment Skips)
coast through the now Re-Designed Bescot ? on the 13th of September 2007 at 17.56 .

Class 60 And The Tower.

60096 stands on the Arrival line one weekend in 2001. The Arrival is now stopblocked and used for storing locos and wagons.

Bescot Down Tower was commissioned in 1965 and followed the architecture of the Power Signal Boxes of the time. The tower is unusually tall, giving a superb view of the yard.

Bescot Brushes.

In this undated shot (probably sometime in 2001) a pair of Freightliner Class 47s are running on the Engine Release Line as they head for Bescot Depot for fuel.

This line is now stopblocked and is used for storage of wagons and withdrawn locomotives.

Re-Modelling at Bescot

Work commences on the new format of Bescot Platforms & Footbridge . These taken on the 12th of August 2007

Five Alive !

The 30th of August produced two rather nice class 37's on the 6M67 Bridgewater-Crewe Nuclear Flask working.
37510 + 37515 are seen here passing under the Walsall Rd ,Road bridge at Tame Bridge Station .
Blinkin Great BIG Blue Munksters

Coventry PSB 1962-2007

Moving south of Birmingham and away from the Grand Junction Lines for a last view of Coventry Powerbox which closed this weekend.

The end of an era.

Silver 60.

Looking nice and bright in Bescot Down Local is 60006. A couple of these locos were painted in Corus livery around 2000 and always looked smart. The Corus colours replaced the previous British Steel livery.

Tractor Nose

A close up of the cabside of 37408 as it runs onto Bescot Down Local, looking very nice, as 37s always do.