D8 was named after Pen-y-ghent or Penyghent which is in the Yorkshire Dales. This locomotive is now based at Peak Rail and is painted in the British Railways green and the small yellow warning panel and numbered D8.

 

Ten Sulzer Type 4 diesel locomotives were built at the Derby works of British Railways from 1959 to 1960. They later became class 44 under Tops. They were named after British mountains.

 

D4 was named after Great Gable which is a mountain in the English Lake District. This locomotive is now based at The Midland Railway at Butterly.  This locomotive is painted in the British Railways green with no yellow warning panels as it would have been when new.

 

 

Derby station is a major hub on the railway network. It was the headquarters of The Midland Railway be for the LMS and later BR took over.

 

Today (2015) East Midland Trains run the trains to London and Northwards to Sheffieldand. East Midland Trains also run trains to trains to Nottingham Lincoln and the east as well as to Birmingham and Cardiff. It also runs the trains to Matlock.

 

Cross Country trains from Edinburgh and Newcastle and to south from Bristol and Penzance, also use Derby station.

 

This website is Ukrailways1970tilltoday.me.uk it is on railways but it is not just on trains but all things railways, with photos, which I have taken from the 1970s till now. I take photos of all things railways, steam diesel and electric trains, signal boxes, wagons any thing that is on the National Rail network, which was BR when I started taken photos.