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Under wraps at Doncaster,the new Gresley A1 Pacific 1472 to eventually be named Flying Scotsman waits to be unveiled.

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Jubilee Class loco taken in early BR days. Ceylon of course now Sri Lanka. The country although gaining independence in 1948 was not renamed until the early 1970s

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Another shot of 73059 and LMS Black 5 45227 on shed at Polmadie in the dying days of steam in Scotland in 1967. 1S40 was a summer Blackpool to Glasgow train.

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NNAMDI AZIKIWE-Completed by Swan Hunter in 1963 and named after Nigeria's first President.Taken in KG5 in 1973.
She was later sold becoming RONHILL and as IONIAN SKIPPER was broken up at Karachi in May 1985.

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Two stills taken off the tv recently on the showing of the Alec Guinness film centred on the Gibraltar to Tangier ferry. Can't remember the name but I think she was a Denny ship.

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Two views of the Statue of Liberty taken in July 1983.

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40062 leaving Stirling in September 1979 with the 1335 from Glasgow to Aberdeen.

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40029 Saxonia at Dalmeny in September 1982 with a special from Edinburgh to Leuchars for the Air Display.

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Another cutting of her, this time at Stirling heading for the Highlands.

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A cutting of a photo of a model of her bearing the name BRITISH ENTERPRISE which was evidently planned for her.

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Once allied with part of Rhodesia Nyasaland became Malawi when independence came from Britain.
Jubilee 45622 recalls the days of Empire.

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Nice semi official shot of A2 60526 Sugar Palm the second of the AH Peppercorn designed batch.Named as ever after a racehorse she went into traffic in 1948 and was broken up in 1963.

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Another view of The Twins at Annbank I think. Derek Cross I'm sure was the man behind the lens judging by the posing train crew!

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Well. parts anyway. 25240 at Cardonald in 1977 with the evening Freightliner from the Chrysler factory at Linwood to Glasgow to attach to a southbound service.

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D400/D418 leaving Carstairs with the 1800 Glasgow and Edinburgh to Manchester in May 1970 just shortly after the accelerated times came in using double headers.

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Just over the Border quite a few years ago now, 66130 at Carlisle with the returning Dalston to Grangemouth tanks.

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A couple more Crosti memories.

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Eagle Leslie Ashwell Wood cutaway of a Crosti 9F.

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From a catalogue a Norman Wilkinson painting of a ship under construction on the Clyde in this LNER poster. Looks very like John Brown's so could possibly be one of the Queens.

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Courtesy Chris Howell in New Zealand this photo of American President Line's general cargo ship named after Calvin Coolidge the 30th US President in office from 1923 to 1929. She was built at Newport News in 1954 as CRACKER STATE MARINER and reverting to her original name was broken up at Alang in 1...

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Uruguayan registered ESTEMAR II at King George V Dock in April 1976. She was built in 1950 as VIATOR for Scandinavian owners and broken up on Gadani Beach in 1980.
Behind is Kenyan HARAMBEE built in Germany as BELGRANO in 1953.

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She was the first nuclear powered ship and was intended as a demonstrator for maritime nuclear power. Launched on July 21st 1959 she did not enter service until 1962 following installation and testing of the reactor. Originally a passenger/ cargo ship, her passenger facilities were withdrawn in 1965...

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Moore-McCormack cargo liner taken by Trevor Jones at Durban. She was completed in 1962 as M.M.DANT
I think she later became part of the US Reserve Fleet as CAPE JOHNSON.
Photo as ever courtesy Chris Howell.

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LONDON CRAFTSMAN-London and Overseas Freighters' smart general cargo ship taken in KG5 in March 1976.
She was Swedish built in 1963 and as with most of her type was sold on, becoming PINDAROS later in 1976.
She had a long life arriving as DON at Chittagong 28th October 1990 for scrapping.

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One of the first generation of container ships, MANCHESTER CHALLENGE was built in 1968 at South Bank by Smith's Dock for Manchester Liners and could negotiate the Manchester Ship Canal on service to Canada. This was taken off Greenock in March 1975 as she waited a berth at Greenock's Container Termi...

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GOWANBANK anchored off Greenock in August 1976 waiting for a berth with a sugar cargo. Belfast built, she was delivered in January 1968. She was scrapped in 1985 as KAVO GROSSOS.. Also in the Watt Dock again in 1976 is AVONBANK which came from Belfast also in 1961. She was sold the following year be...

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Two Meadowside memories: ARCHANGELOS G-She was built in Japan in 1960 and I took this in July 1974 when she was discharging grain at Meadowside. She was broken up in Spain in November 1985. ARIS CARRIER-She was built by Harland and Wolff at Belfast as CARRONBANK for Bank Line in 1957 and this was ta...

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CANOPIC was completed in 1954 by Vickers Armstrong's yard at Walker-on-Tyne in 1954 for Shaw Savill Line.
She stayed with them until the mid-1970s when she was sold and renamed CAPETAN NICOLAS under which name she was scrapped in 1986.
I took this in King George V Dock in 1964.

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BIA RIVER was Japanese built in 1965 for Ghana's Black star Line and I took this in King George V Dock in London in 1974.
She remained with the Black Star Line for all her working life and was scrapped on Gadani Beach in 1987.
A sister, NAKWA RIVER was built by Barclay Curle.

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40033 formerly ACCRA at Stranraer in 1983 with the Ayrshire Ranger railtour which came from York.

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27007 and 27014 heading out of Glasgow Central with the 1135 to Stranraer during 1984. Two Class 27s were supposed to work these trains but because of troubles especially in the winter when heating boilers very rarely worked this hardly happened so it was an event to be recorded when on this occasio...

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Class 27 27103 arriving at Kilwinning in January 1983 with the 1135 from Glasgow to Stranraer.
27103 was one of the batch fitted with electric train heating for service on the Edinburgh to Glasgow runs in the 1970s.

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BRCW Type 2/ Class 26 26025 leaving Edinburgh Waverley with the 1425 to Dundee just before Christmas 1981.
Sharp eyed might notice that the NB Hotel clock reads 1430. However the Dundee is on time as the Hotel clock was kept 5 minutes fast to save folk missing their trains.

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73109 and 73114 at Southampton in June 1988 with a Bournemouth to Waterloo service. Remarkably the Class 442 units were being powered by the motors of the units they were replacing and a substitute service using Class 73s double headed with the non-powered vehicles was brought in until the 442s coul...

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Found this variation to an old BR poster on an auction website catalogue.....

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Blue Funnel cargo liner launched on March 23rd 1906
On 11th January 1942 Whilst on a voyage from Hong Kong and Auckland via Cristobal and Halifax to the UK was torpedoed and sunk by U123 off Cape Sable, New England.

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By remarkable coincidence Shane Suggett was there as well and took this nearly exact view as mine! He corrected me on the train-it was actually the 6.15pm to Carlisle. I with some others were waiting for our train to Chester where we were to spend the weekend at the Youth Hostel there as a base for ...

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During the same period, 37425 unnamed at Hyndland with the diverted morning train from Oban to Queen Street.

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56076 BLYTH POWER at Heworth in Newcastle with a coal train in September 1982.

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BR/Sulzer Type 4 D23 emitting plenty of steam from the heating boiler at Glasgow Central heading for Nottingham in February 1975.

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Damage to a GUV at Queen Street in 1975 after the Class 40 in the pic suffered a brake failure on its way down Cowlairs Bank and entered the station at a great pace.... Another GUV landed at the George Square entrance minus it's bogies and had been removed to the car park by the time I was in the st...

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37137 and 37154 at Rutherglen in 1979 with empty ore tipplers from Ravenscraig to General Terminus.

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Like Morecambe and Heysham and Brighton and Hove, the Indian states of Bihar and Orissa went together.
Jubilee 45581 at Manchester Victoria judging by the wooden platform.

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Class 47 47472 heads 87012 COEUR DE LION on the 1330 from Glasgow Central to Euston in March 1979 on an occasion when overhead power was off for engineering work.

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She was completed in Japan in 1971 and came in at 270000dwt. This was taken in Europoort in 1976.
As far as I know she stayed with her original owners until 1984 when she was scrapped.

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A better shot taken at Grantham from the collection of the late Jon Gerralde courtesy Mike Redmayne.

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Royal Fleet Auxiliary STROMNESS passing Renfrew in February 1974 following refit at the nearby Elderslie Drydocks. She and her two sisters, LYNESS and TARBATNESS were built by Swan Hunter on Tyneside. I saw one fitting out at Wallsend away back in 1967. They all went to the US Military Sealift Comma...

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During the 1970s a fine series of conventional general cargo liners for Andrew Weir/s Bank Line were built at Sunderland. BEAVERBANK was one of these and I photographed her at Grangemouth in 1976.

In 1981 sold she became SANJOHN BAY and as LUCKY 25 arrived at Alang on 30th May 1998 to be broken up.

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Her launch on the Tyne and sojourn in the Firth of Clyde Drydock.

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Bulleid Battle of Britain class Pacific named after the wartime airfield taken at Waterloo in the mid 1960s with a late afternoon Bournemouth departure. She came into traffic as 21C156 in February 1947 being renumbered on Nationalisation. She was one of the batch scheduled for rebuilding this being ...

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