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D9009 ALYCIDON sits quiet in the late evening surrounded by strangers at Toton Depot on 02-07-15 ready to work The Torbay & Dart Explorer from Derby a few days later.

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I'll start with a photo passed onto me by John Simpson who was a fireman at Colwick Depot showing Peak class D148 at Nottingham Midland Station in July 1966.

Yesterday I popped my head over the bridge and took a photo from roughly were John had taken his picture many years ago and as you can see much has changed.

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You've tapped into my Photobucket account, that's appalling, I'd never do that to anybody. I'm not impressed.

I've not tapped into anything and find it hard enough to post my own pics off my Flickr account

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A poor quality photo taken on a poor quality 110 camera but historically important

It shows Class 50 015 at Toton having popped into the depot for 10 minutes of attention before returning to Beeston to continue its booked diagramthe afternoons Beeston - Lawley Street Freightliner.

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Some real crackers you got there firbeck I do love the old stuff and you can send them all over for safe keeping if you want

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Hi Fredjee, if you search around on Nottstalgia you'll find a considerable number of photo's that I've published from the Firbeck archives. I took my first photo back in 1958, WC 'City of Wells' on the Golden Arrow at Folkestone. I have so many photo's most of which I haven't put on here, it's so time consuming to upload and put them up, not helped by the fact that my PC crashed badly a few weeks ago and stuff vanished into the ether. I have a 35mm colour slide cassette entitled 'Trains 1970's', must be loads of local diesel stuff on there, I probably haven't looked at it for 25 years!!

I have approx 10,000 colour slides plus countless black and white photo's, I'd love to have the time to sort them out but I work full time and doing that is hard.

I'll see what I can do today. Your pics by the way are really cool.

I've already had a quick look at your pics on the site and think i've stumbled upon your Photobucket account firbek

I like to see railway images from all over the UK but have a passion for things along the Erewash Valley / Ilkeston / Long Eaton / Stanton and diesels do it for me.

I search constantly for the images I still have inside my head but at the time was too poor for a camera like the single class 25 sitting on the GNR overbridge just outside Kirk Hallam at the bottom of Bulls Head as a team of engineers surveyed the line and bridges for demolition .

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Here's a 'Peak' at Nottingham - 45046 'Royal Fusilier'. Not sure what that is coupled behind it.

Think this is the breakdown train from Toton Depot or the carriage is ..

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Just joined after finding a pic of steam loco Alberta at Trowell Junction on Google.

I've always been interested in railways but sadly missed all the steam.

Would be good to see Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire related diesel locomotive pictures.

I'll start with a photo passed onto me by John Simpson who was a fireman at Colwick Depot showing Peak class D148 at Nottingham Midland Station in July 1966.

D148 at Nottingham Midland July 1966 by Fred Castor, on Flickr