Covered Carriage Truck (CCT) M94639 at Derby, 16th July 1977. It was built at Earlestown in 1961 (lot 30564) and these four wheeled vans were originally designed for the carriage of motor cars and have end doors to enable cars to drive through them as well as double side doors, however there use in this role was infrequent and they were generally used for parcels traffic. It is vacuum braked and steam heating through piped with a maximum speed of 70mph.

40070 departs Derby for the Midland Main Line with the summer Saturday 11:53 Scarborough – Leicester service, 16th July 1977. 40070 was originally D270 and was built by English Electric at their Vulcan Foundry works in Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire. D270 entered traffic in April 1960, allocated to the North Eastern Region at Gateshead MPD. It would remain a North Eastern/Eastern Region engine throughout its career being allocated to Gateshead, York or Healey Mills. Crewe works continued to give class 40’s classified repairs through out 1980 (with the last being 40177 released to traffic in January 1981) and even though withdrawals had commenced in earnest this included a few vacuum braked only examples. 40070 was one of these being released to traffic in June 1980. However only twelve months later it suffered a main generator failure and being still vacuum brake only it was withdrawn on the 14th June 1981. It was one of the sixty four class 40’s broken up at Doncaster works, being dealt with in March 1982.

31115 leads 31269 into Derby with 1M35, 13:05 Skegness – Derby, 16th July 1977. Both 31113 (originally D5533) and 31269 (originally D5699) were built at the Brush Falcon works, Loughborough, in 1959 and 1961 respectively. In 1973 selected members of the class began to receive electric train heating equipment and eventually seventy class 31 locomotives would be fitted with electric train heating over a twelve year period. 31113 would be one of the last so fitted becoming 31466 in 1985, whilst 31269 became 31429 when fitted in 1983. 31466 would give forty two years service until withdrawn in February 2001 and was one of only a handful of class 31’s to gain EWS maroon and gold livery. Following withdrawal it was sold for preservation and is currently (January 2010) at the Dean Forest Railway. 31429 was withdrawn in November 1991 after thirty years service and was broken up by CF Booth, Rotherham in April 1993.