Deltic class 55019 at Doncaster station
Class 55019 Royal Highland Fusilier entered service with British Rail in December 1961
An Inter-City 125 at Doncaster on the fast line at Doncaster station in British Rail blue and grey and yellow. I think they looked very smart in this colours.
Inter-City 125 class HST 254 007 at Doncaster station
The Deltics had taken over from steam. The HSTs then took from the Deltics on the top trains trains to Scotland. The class 91s then took over. With no overhead wires north of Edinburgh the HSTs are still going in 2019. Theyare still doing a great job on the trains to Aberdeen and Scotland. The new LNER Azuma's are to take over these trains, but the HSTs may well have another a year or two left ?
Short sets of these HSTs with only 4 or 5 mark 3s with new plug doors like the mark 4s are being made up. So it could be years be for HST's are not used on any UK lines.
Class 37028 with a full train of coal in hopper wagons on up fast at Doncaster station.
A class 40 on a very short parcels train at Doncaster station.
Class 31221 on a PW train at Doncaster
Two Class 31s on a sand train of hoppers with 31308 and 31116 at Doncaster
Class 47 150 at Doncaster
Doncaster railway station
Doncaster railway station is in South Yorkshire and it is 156 miles from London Kings Cross. Doncaster station is now (2019) managed by LNER. Doncaster station is on of the East Coast Main Line (ECML). Doncaster is one of the main railway stations on the ECML.
Doncaster station has eight platforms on two islands platforms. Platforms one three and four and eight are through platforms. Platforms six and seven are bays at the north of the station on the down side. Platform two and five are south-facing bays on the up side. It now has another (new) platform with the number 0 on the up side at the norther end.
There is a good mixture of train operators who now run thier services to from and though Doncaster station. LNER now ( 2019) runs the main ECML trains replacing Virgin East Coast East Coast and NXEC and GNER be for them . First Hull Trains also run there trains though Hull to London. Cross Country and Northern Rail trains together with First TransPennine Express and East Midlands Trains also use this station
The Plant
Doncaster's Great Northern Railway railway works was called The Plant. It was established by the Great Northern Railway in 1853. This railway works is (or what is left of it now ) next to the station on the west or down side of the station. LNER A3s and A4s were just two of the many classes of steam engines that came out of these works.
