Diesel on the Met
20205 approaches Eastcote working the 09.15 Ruislip Depot - Harrow on the Hill empty stock working for the days steam on the met trips to and from Amersham. In the shadows at the rear are 20142, 9466 and Met Number 1 the steam locomotives being the attraction for most. The 20 could be heard approaching for several minutes and was a most welcome sight as I was expecting an underground liveried loco on the front. Sunday 10th September 2017
56301 hauls failed class 37 number 37608 and a class 375 EMU towards Headstone Lane working the 06.01 Leicester LIP - Ramsgate EMUD stock move on Saturday 9th December 2017. The class 56 was attached at Bletchley and the train was some 2 hours late at this point.
37608 crosses the Thames at Imperial Wharf bringing up the rear of the 1Q51 11.15 Derby RTC - Eastleigh test train running via Melton Mowbray, Acton Wells Jn (reverse), Richmond and Weymouth. Monday 28th August 2017. The Union Jack coloured speedboat somewhat dominates the scene!
86101 hitches a ride on the rear of 5E43 the 08.43 Kings Cross - Wembley Inter City Depot empty stock working. The 86 had hauled the train from Kings Cross to Hornsby where the train reversed. The stock was off the Aberdeen/Fort William sleeper which was diverted due to the closure of Euston for some preliminary HS2 work. The Inverness portion ran as a separate train due to platform length restrictions at Kings Cross. Holloway Road, Saturday 26th August 2017.
47812 emerges from the short tunnel between Northolt Park and Sudbury Hill Harrow working the 09.40 Birmingham Moor Street - Marylebone relief service on Sunday 27th August 2017.
Lucky break
37116 and 37025 pass underneath the Metropolitan Line near Kenton working the 3Z04 10.40 Derby RTC - Tonbridge West Yard test train on 2nd April 2017. The train was on time for most of it's journey and had it been so at this point would have come in cloud. It was following a local service but then mysteriously stopped in the station at Harrow and Wealdstone a few miles further north for just long enough to allow the sun to come out.
Inter City liveried 37254 heads north near Kenton working 1Z65 the 10.43 Woking Up Yard - Derby RTC on Sunday 19th February 2017. 37219 is out of sight on the rear of the train which is just passing under the Metropolitan Line and a train heading to Baker Street.
37025 looks fantastic as she rounds the spur at Harringey linking the ECML with the Gospel Oak - Barking line working a test train bound for Shoeburyness. The picture was taken standing on an empty 50 litre paint drum!
37667 heads south between Potters Bar and Hadley Wood hauling a stoneblower en route to Ashford (Kent)
92005 passes Kentish Town West hauling the 4E32 11.52 Dollands Moor - Scunthorpe steel empties. March 2009
67005 drifts south towards Headstone Lane hauling a Bletchly - Wembley trip working comprising of 4 RMC cement tankers. 2009
66194 rounds the curve at Pirbright hauling an Eastleigh - Wembley freight with a class 58 bound for use on Dutch railways marshalled in the consist. 2009
90036 passes Kenton in weak sunshine hauling 1M16 the 20.46 Inverness - Euston sleeper on the morning of 9th July 2011.
37602 & 608 at Silkstream Junction, Hendon working the 6Z50 Stockton - Sheerness scrap metal working.
57302 Virgil Tracy hauls pendolino 390036 south near Headstone Lane whilst working an Oxley - Euston ECS that had run via Nuneaton and so required diesel haulage. The sun angle is a bit tight and with mid summer conditions the result is far from perfect but as it was the first time I had seen a 57 dragging a pendolino I have no real complaints!!
20309 and 20312 approach Kenton hauling a Whitchurch - Canterbury charter on the morning of Saturday 16th June 2012. Not the best view in the area but as it was from the footbridge adjacent to my son's football tournament and was therefore the only place I could see the train it was better than nothing.
An unidentified class 66 crosses the viaduct at Digswell whilst hauling a lightly loaded freightliner service. Feb 2011.
37605 passes Acton Wells whilst working an Old Oak Common - Derby test train, running via Stratford and Richmond before later heading for Derby. This shot requires step laders and the desire to lean on barbed wire fence!! May 2012.
Former Metropolitan Line "A" stock is now in use on a sandite train covering all parts of the Met. The 5 car unit is seen approaching Hillingon station with a Harrow-on-the-Hill - Uxbridge working. October 2012.
37611 awaits departure time from Euston with a Network Rail test train heading, initially, for St Albans Abbey. Nov 2012
37608 and 37402 pass Crofton Park hauling 6M95 Dungeness - Willesden flasks. April 2013.
20189 passes Ruislip Manor on Monday 27th May hauling the Ruislip Depot - Neasden Depot ECS for the "Steam on the Met" workings to and from Amersham.
Metropolitan Number 1 and Panier Tank 9466 hitch a ride behind 20227 and 20142 as they pass the old signal box at Ruislip en route to Amersham for the first day of Steam on the Met, Saturday 25th May 2013.
91106 at Kings Cross after arrival with a service from Leeds. Saturday 25th May 2013.
47727 passes Carpenders Park hauling a 17.05 Wimbledon - Wolverton barrier vehicle move. 1st June 2013.
20311 and 20314 await departure time with 6E20 22.05 West Ruislip - Ferme Park barrier wagon move. Thursday 30th May 2013.
91110 crosses Digswell viaduct on the morning of 10th November 2013 hauling the 09.30 Kings Cross - Newcastle service.
37405 passes Streatham Common working the 14.04 Battersea Loop - Epsom Downs via Denmark Hill, London Bridge, Peckham Rye and Tulse Hill. Saturday 25th Jan 2014.
67014 crosses Eynsford Viaduct whilst hitching a ride on the rear of the 11.48 Victoria - Gillingham VSOE running via Peckham Rye, Ashford and Canterbury West. Saturday 11th Jan 2014.
An unidentified class 375 rushes out of Polhill tunnel with a coast bound service on 2nd January 2014.
