| Photo's of Class 43 locomotives. Introduced in 1975, they were built to fulfill a requirement for a high speed train at minimal cost. They have been used by British Railways on Great Western, East Coast and Cross Country Inter City routes. Post privitisation they have been used by a number companies, at current they are used by First Great Western, East Coast Railways, Arriva Cross Country, Grand Central and East Midlands Trains. They are also used by Network Rail for test trains. They will be in service until at least 2015 when the replacement Hitatchi IEP is sceduled to start replacing them.
Units in the collection are; GNER-095,115 Arriva CrossCountry-285,301,303,321,357 (Midland Mainline Livery)-007,104,166,178,184 Network Rail-014,062 |
43095 at Glasgow Central 43095___Glasgow.JPG 2006-12-30 08:13:00 |
43116 'Black Dyke Band' at Glasgow Central 43116_Black_Dyke_Band___Glasgow.JPG 2006-12-30 08:17:00 |
Hornby models of 43002 and 43003, based on Inter City set 253001. The set is over 30 years old, and came with a Mark 3 coach and an oval of track DSCF9458.JPG 2007-02-06 11:46:00 |
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43178 still in Midland Mainline livery at Platform 1 of Glasgow Central DSCF9083.JPG 2008-06-05 08:37:00 |
43184 with the 0640 Crosscountry service from Dunbar crossing Clyde Viaduct DSCF9156.JPG 2008-06-12 08:27:00 |
43166 crossing the Clyde Viaduct and passing Platform 11 outside the station DSCF9409.JPG 2008-06-26 08:31:00 |
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43007 approaching Glasgow Central with a CrossCountry service from Dunbar DSCF9671.JPG 2008-07-03 08:21:00 |
43104 on a CrossCountry service crossing the Clyde Viaduct. Once it goes for re-engineering and to be re-engined it will be renumberd as 43304 DSCF0884.JPG 2008-08-14 08:32:00 |
43301 coming into Glasgow Central with the 0640 CrossCountry service from Dunbar DSCF1054.JPG 2008-08-21 08:16:00 |
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43303 number detail on it's nose DSCF1074.JPG 2008-08-21 08:26:00 |
43285 with the 0640 CrossCountry service from Dunbar DSCF1685.jpg 2008-09-11 08:30:00 |
43321 on the 0640 CrossCountry service from Dunbar to Glasgow Central DSCF2068.JPG 2008-09-18 08:22:00 |
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43303 on service 2D00, the CrossCountry 0640 service from Dunbar DSCF2122.JPG 2008-09-19 08:21:00 |
43357 passing Bridge Street with service 2D00 and a full rake of refurbished Mark 3 coaches in CrossCountry colours DSCF3084.jpg 2008-10-27 09:23:00 |
43062 'John Armitt' on service 1Q24 sitting at the buffer stops of Platform 7 at Glasgow Queen Street DSCF6296i.jpg 2009-05-05 13:38:00 |
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43014 on service 1Q24 sitting at Platform 7 of Glasgow Queen Street in the pouring rain looking back into the station. DSCF6321k.jpg 2009-05-05 13:51:00 |
254007 at York on an East Coast Inter-City service. Originally classed as a Class 254 DEMU by BR (the Class 253 was the HST on the Western region services), this comprised power cars 43068 and 43069. The Class 254 was later dropped in favour of Class 43 because two power cars carried the same 'set number', and problems arose when for servicing reasons different units were used on a train, which would then display a different number at each end. 43068 currently operates with Grand Central, and 43069 operates with First Great Western. Picture taken from a E T W Dennis postcard. 254007.jpg 2010-01-30 11:27:45 |
253007 at Reading on 30th August 1977 on a Western region Inter-City service. Originally classed as a Class 253 DEMU by BR (the Class 254 was the HST on the East coast services), this comprised power cars 43014 and 43015. The Class 253 was later dropped in favour of Class 43 because two power cars carried the same 'set number', and problems arose when for servicing reasons different units were used on a train, which would then display a different number at each end. 43014 currently operates on the Network Rail New Measurement Train, and 43015 operates with First Great Western. Picture taken from an Oxford Publishing Company postcard. 253007.jpg 2010-01-30 11:29:43 |
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253013 and 253017 at Paddington in 1977 on Western region Inter-City services. Originally classed as a Class 253 DEMU by BR (the Class 254 was the HST on the East coast services), this comprised power cars 43026 and 43027 (for 253013), and 43034 and 43035 (for 253017). The Class 253 was later dropped in favour of Class 43 because two power cars carried the same 'set number', and problems arose when for servicing reasons different units were used on a train, which would then display a different number at each end. 43026, 43027, 43034 and 43035 all currently operate with First Great Western. Picture taken from an Oxford Publishing Company postcard. 253013_253017.jpg 2010-01-30 11:32:34 |
