A surprise encounter - a photo on Flickriver

            It was a pleasant surprise, as I alighted at Thorpe Station, Norwich, from my humming, bus-like, fibreglass three-car diesel multiple-unit, to see proper locomotives and, what's more, a pair of real old-timers.  My 1973 "Combined Volume" gives the English Electric Bo-Bo Type 1 ...later known as "Class 20"... as introduced in 1957.  I don't suppose these survivors would be from among the oldest of their type, but they must be getting on for half a century old.  It was a pleasure also to hear the old engine note ...a kind of bubbling, chugging sound with a fluttering underlying whistle... once so familiar but unheard for 20 years.  I knew that a few of these were still around, but never expected to see them again.  They appear to belong to some outfit called Direct Rail Services ...whatever that may be.
   

Taken on: September 20, 2008

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locomotive

Class 20

English Electric

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