A dull day weatherwise; but this is one of my favourite shots, and one of my favourite machines. 87005 City of London, seen after arriving on 1S55 at Glasgow Central in a rare moment when no suburban units obscured the view.
A dull day weatherwise; but this is one of my favourite shots, and one of my favourite machines. 87005 City of London, seen after arriving on 1S55 at Glasgow Central in a rare moment when no suburban units obscured the view.
WCML 5: Carlisle - Glasgow & Edinburgh
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87005 City of London stands at the head of 1M11, at Glasgow Central, in 1994. This machine was scrapped at MoD Caerwent in October 2005: RIP.Previous | NextProbably my favourite shot ever of the West Coast Main Line - despite being taken through a telephoto lens which reveals the limitations of the film's definition.... At a time when Class 87 reliability left much to be desired, with EWS skodas being drafted in to make up the numbers, they were rare north of the border. After a long wait in the car, with the weather changing by the minute, patience was rewarded as the sun broke through just as 87007 City of Manchester appeared on 1S75, in August 2003. The location is just north of Crawford, in the Clyde Valley - a quite magnificent vista which to me typifies this incomparable railway.

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