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20157_1975_06_Nottingham

            My first move from number taking to photography was black and white using a cheap non SLR Hanimex Compact “point and shoot” camera with poor depth of field and poor focus around the edges of the frame. After a year or so of black and white I moved on to 35mm colour transparencies initially using the Haminex. My early efforts were generally on reflection very disappointing with little thought or photographic skill and if taken a few months later as I started develop a bit of basic technique they would have been consigned to the waste paper bin. However this one turned out a lot better than most.

Target 43 hauled by a pair of class 20 locomotives with 20157 in the lead, heads along the Up Goods at Mansfield Junction, Nottingham, 25th June 1975. One of the many local colliery trip workings of unfitted coal wagons that dominated the freight traffic in the Nottingham area at this time. It has probably originated from Gedling Colliery (which at that time was reached by a branch of the Nottingham – Grantham line at Netherfield Junction - Colwich) and is heading for Toton. In the summer of 1975 Toton TMD had an allocation of 105 class 20 locomotives predominantly for these local colliery workings in the Nottingham/Derby/Leicester coalfield and a Sunday would find them stabled at both Toton and the various sub sheds dotted around the coalfields. As a lad in the early seventies I regularly used to push bike on a Sunday to these coalfield sub-sheds (Colwick, Mantle Lane - Coalville, Burton on Trent, Westhouses and Kikby in Ashfield) and they would be dominated by pairs of class 20’s. This scene would not last much longer as the coal traffic was in the process of being transformed with a combination of massive investment in rapid loading bunkers at the collieries and coal disposal points, hopper discharge at the power stations, MGR air braked wagons hauled by initially class 47 and later class 56 locomotives and rationalisation of collieries and power stations. As for 20157 it is one of the later batch of class 20’s built in 1966 and was allocated new to Toton and I have it recorded “on shed” at Kirkby in Ashfield sub-shed (the old steam shed) on the 20th July 1969. It remained in traffic until October 1990 and was broken up at MC Metals, Glasgow in May 1992.

Haminex Compact, Kodachrome 25

Taken in: United Kingdom / England / Nottingham / Standard Hill (show map)

Taken on: June 25, 1975

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25th June

D8157

Kodachrome 25

Hanimex Compact

Epson 4490

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Sets appears in: • Class 20 • June 1975

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