The Railway Magazine – July 2019

1. BR’sInterCityliveryisnibbling

away at the blue & grey dominance

asClass87No.87003Patriot

heads southbound along the West

Coast Main Line, near Abington,

with the 09.10 Glasgow Central-

Euston service on June 22, 1985.

RAIL PHOTOPRINTS

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2.An unidentified Class 76 Bo-Bo

DC electric passes Woodhead

signalbox as it heads east light

engine back to Wath depot in April

1978.DAVE RODGERS

3.Three years after the West

CoastMainLinewaselectrified

northofWeaverJctinMay1974,

little appears to have changed.

Class 86 No. 86028 slows on the

approach to Lancaster (Castle)

station with a northbound express,

formedofMk1stock,inJuly1977.

DAVE RODGERS

4.An immaculate ‘Brighton Belle’-

liveried 5-BEL unit No. 3052

stands at London Bridge station

on April 19, 1969. The unit

appearstohaveonlyrecently

had its new corporate paintwork

applied.COLOUR-RAIL

5.The first of what would become

the Class 305 EMUs entered

service in 1959 and spent the

next three decades on commuter

routes into London’s Liverpool

Street and Fenchurch Street

stations. Ilford’s three-car unit

No. 305408 is seen at Wolverton

WorksonAugust17,1985.

GORDON EDGAR/RAIL PHOTOPRINTS

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