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Birmingham And Derby Junction Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![Johnson 0-4-4T no 58086 stands in sidings at Saltley in August 1960 alongside other condemned locomotives. Having been withdrawn from Bath Green Park at the end of July, no 58086 is thought to be part way through its final journey which would end in the scrapyard at Gorton Works 2 months later.<br><br>[K A Gray 13/08/1960]](/images/35000/35014.jpg "Saltley")
![Fowler 0-6-0 no 44226 stabled in a siding alongside Saltley shed on a grey autumn day in 1964.<br><br>[K A Gray 22/10/1964]](/images/35000/35174.jpg "Saltley")
![Sulzer Type 2 (class 25) no D7512 on Saltley Shed in November 1969. Sister locomotive no D7604 is attached to one of the short lived brake tenders, designed for use when working non or partially fitted freights.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 01/11/1969]](/images/27000/27680.jpg "Saltley")
![Class 31 no D5852 standing immediately behind D7512 in the shed yard at Saltley in November 1969. 8V66 was the code for the 0320 Normanby Park - Cardiff Tidal Sidings (albeit a few years later than the date of this photograph), so 5852 being an Immingham loco at the time, would fit with such a working.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 01/11/1969]](/images/27000/27746.jpg "Saltley")
![Brand new HST power cars 43143 and 43144 at Saltley in January 1981. They were taken into service the following month and so are either on test here or being delivered from BREL Crewe where they were built.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 21/01/1981]](/images/21000/21558.jpg "Saltley")
![Saltley, always a busy spot, sees a Class 25 banking a coal hopper train up towards the Camp Hill line as a Brush Class 31 takes a passenger train from Norwich round towards New Street. Above the Sulzer Type 2 the flood lights of Birmingham City football ground can be seen.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 21/01/1981]](/images/28000/28320.jpg "Saltley")
![An unidentified Class 56, in <I>Rail Blue</I> livery, rumbles past Saltley with a loaded MGR train in January 1981. [Ref query 435]<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 21/01/1981]](/images/57000/57723.jpg "Saltley")
![The world's shortest Voyager - these driving cars are kept as spares at Bombardier's Central Rivers Depot, Burton on Trent, their coaches having been shared out among other units. Photograph taken from the BLS 'Another Trent Explorer' railtour, which passed through the depot on 24 April. [See image 34105]<br><br>[Ken Strachan 24/04/2011]](/images/33000/33912.jpg "Central Rivers Depot")
![A lineup of Voyagers inside the shed at Central Rivers Depot, Burton on Trent, on 24 April 2011. Seen from the BLS special <I>Another Trent Explorer</I>, which ran through the shed on the tilt test line. [See image 33912]<br><br>[Ken Strachan 24/04/2011]](/images/34000/34105.jpg "Central Rivers Depot")
![No, people don't often walk into the side of Harry Needle's shunting engines. Why do you ask? 08943 stands at Central Rivers Depot, Burton-on-Trent, on 24 April 2011.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 24/04/2011]](/images/35000/35050.jpg "Central Rivers Depot")
![British American Rail Services 56312 runs through the High Level platform 4 at Tamworth heading south towards Birmingham on the afternoon of 4 April 2012. The locomotive is hauling three china clay tanks, possibly returning to Cornwall after repair at Nemesis Rail depot, Burton on Trent. <br><br>[David Pesterfield 04/04/2012]](/images/38000/38278.jpg "Tamworth High Level")
![View south at Melbourne Junction in February 2013, with the Voyager just over a mile short of Derby station. The tracks to the left used to run to Ashby-de-la-Zouch; and are still used to deliver jet fuel to the Rolls-Royce engine test beds. The vestigial passenger service to the Sinfin stations - which was met by RR security staff to let workers through the otherwise locked gates in the factory fences - finished about 20 years ago.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 21/02/2013]](/images/42000/42169.jpg "Melbourne Junction")
![The chap on the right is very focussed. Perhaps he has just worked out that if you remove the digits 70 from 170.509, you get 15.09, which just happens to be the departure time of this train from platform 3 at Tamworth High Level to Nottingham. Or perhaps not...<br><br>[Ken Strachan 26/08/2013]](/images/44000/44383.jpg "Tamworth High Level")
![The 13.41 ex-Nottingham CrossCountry service, formed by 170117, arrives at a rather wet Tamworth High Level platform 4 on Valentines Day 2014. The train will continue forward from here as the 14.34 to Birmingham New Street.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 14/02/2014]](/images/46000/46459.jpg "Tamworth High Level")
![DBS 60091 rumbles through Tamworth High Level towards Birmingham with a train of bogie tanks on 20 December. 'Tugs' at work are now a rare sight, but a 66 might not be able to haul this tonnage.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 20/12/2014]](/images/50000/50006.jpg "Tamworth High Level")
![DBS 66140 runs light engine towards Tamworth on 28 August, passing a <I>pillbox</I> in the grounds of the National Memorial Arboretum. The locomotive is crossing the River Tame to the south of Wichnor Junction.<br>
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<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 28/08/2015]](/images/52000/52469.jpg "Wichnor Junction")
![Seen from the grounds of the National Memorial Arboretum, a Cross Country Class 170 DMU crosses the River Tame heading north towards Burton-upon-Trent. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 28/08/2015]](/images/53000/53836.jpg "Wichnor Junction")
![A nice view of the ironwork on the overbridge at Burton-upon-Trent on 16 July 2016 as class 170's head South (right) and North (left).<br><br>[Ken Strachan 16/07/2016]](/images/56000/56022.jpg "Burton-upon-Trent")
![The 19.05 to Leicester calls at Coleshill Parkway on 1st October 2016.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 01/10/2016]](/images/57000/57578.jpg "Coleshill Parkway")
![Cross Country 170398 hurries through Willington station, heading towards Derby, on 8th May 2017. Willington closed to passengers in 1968 but reopened in 1994. It is unstaffed but well cared for by a local community group.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 08/05/2017]](/images/59000/59426.jpg "Willington (Derbyshire)")
