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The Up 'Waverley ' Express is pictured between Plumtree
and Stanton tunnel hauled by Stanier Jubilee Class 4-6-0 No: 45564
'New South
Wales'.
T G Hepburn -
Rail Archive Stephenson
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In the early days of British Railways, Stanier Jubilee
4-6-0 No: 45565 'Victoria' in BR livery with 'British Railways' on the
tender, lays a smoke screen across the Nottinghamshire countryside as it approaches Plumtree with a Nottingham bound express.
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Ex-Western Region Britannia Class No: 70017 'Arrow ' has just passed Plumtree Station heading the Up
'Waverley' towards Stanton Tunnel on June 8th 1960.
T G Hepburn, Rail Archive Stephenson
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An unidentified 4-4-0 Compound heads south between Plumtree and Stanton Tunnel in the 1930's
T G Hepburn - Rail Archive Stephenson |
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In BR days, but with LMS on the tender, a Fowler 4F
No: 4412 0-6-0 returns a Great Yarmouth holiday special to Nottingham on 24th
July 1948, and is pictured between Stanton Tunnel and Plumtree near 117½ MP.
T G Hepburn - Rail Archive Stephenson |
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A Class 8F hauls a northbound iron ore train out of Stanton Tunnel towards Plumtree in May 1964
Unknown
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70017 'Arrow' again pictured heading south with Plumtree
station in the background - sometime in the early 1950's
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1C50 is about to enter the north end of Stanton
Tunnel in this shot from the 1960s
Courtney Haydon Collection R.C.T.S. |
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A BR Sulzer Type 4 exits the north end of
Stanton Tunnel with 1N38 in the mid-1960s
Courtney Haydon Collection R.C.T.S. |
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A Nottingham express pictured after leaving Stanton
Tunnel in the 1960s
Courtney Haydon Collection R.C.T.S. |
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A Nottingham express has just left Stanton Tunnel in
this view
Courtney Haydon Collection R.C.T.S. |
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Test Coach Iris
is pictured inside Stanton Tunnel whilst conducting a radio survey into
'Leaky feeder' cables in the mid-1970's
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An R&DD employee on board Iris monitors the signal
strength in the tunnel
John Goss - Central Photographic Unit (British Rail) |
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Iris is about to enter the south end of
Stanton Tunnel
John Goss - Central Photographic Unit (British Rail) |
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LEV1 at the south portal of Stanton Tunnel in 1980
Ian Dinmore |
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In the late 1980's 90001 rounds the curve at 117½
MP at the end of an aerodynamic pantograph tuning run. The locomotive and two
coaches were propelled by a class 47 locomotive.
Derek Young |
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165135 pictured just inside Stanton Tunnel
undertaking sanding/wheelslip tests in the early 1990s
Chris Ward |
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165130 pictured inside Stanton Tunnel undertaking
sanding/wheelslip tests in the early 1990s
Chris Ward |
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58008 head south through the curves at
Plumtree after a ballast drop on 16th July 1997
Andrew Royle |
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The prototype MPV on
Plumtree curves during tis commissioning runs in 1999
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Amey's compact tamper DR 73911 on test near Plumtree in the summer of 1999
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In November 1999 Coradia unit 175002 heads through the curves south of Plumtree on a test run
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The prototype MPV emerges from the north end of Stanton
Tunnel in 1999
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A
Serco test train running through the curves approaching Plumtree on 24th
January 2007
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