Paul Bartlett's Photographs: Featured Galleries and Collections

RECENTLY ADDED RAILWAY

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:57:32 GMT

]]>Simply a collection in the order in which new scans are added to the site, so newest are first and therefore in reverse order. I will keep it at 500-600 images. The images are also in named collections, in more logical orders.

BR Turbot Ballast open YCV YCW

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 16:32:16 GMT

]]>BR placed new bodies on the frames from Bogie bolster E to make a drop sided ballast wagon. Built over 6 years at Shildon, Swindon and Doncaster. Later a few received new bodies with fixed sides. Drawing and information Bartlett, Paul W. & Mann, Trevor., (1985) Non Hoppered Steel Ballast Wagons. Part 4 The Plaice and Turbot. Model Railway Constructor vol 52 part 615 PP 418 — 422 & 444 — 445.
NOTE – These photographs are low quality scans and may not print well. Do not order larger prints.

BR Bogie Bolster E and engineers conversions BEV YNV YRV YVV

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 18:55:00 GMT

]]>BR built just two batches of Bogie bolster Es in 1961-2 a total of 1200 wagons. So, all were relatively modern on David and LLoyd cast bogies. At just 32ft. over headstocks they were very short - shorter than a tube wagon, but the 4 axles meant they had a higher payload. Very popular with engineers many found other uses. [Many others were used for coil which feature in another collection]. Drawings and information can be found in Silsbury, Roger & Mann, Trevor., (1983a) The 30 ton Bogie Bolster E. Model Railway Constructor vol. 50 (part 587) pp 165 - 169. and in Bartlett et al 1985. From 1982 many hundreds were rebuilt as Turbots for the engineers

NOTE – These photographs are low quality scans and may not print well. Do not order larger prints.

NCB Pulverised Coal Silo Wagons

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 13:51:35 GMT

]]>A pair of Cambrian built, GWR registered, silo wagons for pulverised coal. The discharge pipes were absent from these wagons.
Built for Powell Duffyryn Associated Collieries taking powdered coal to their power station at Bargoed. Nationalised in 1948. Hywel Thomas believes they went out of service in 1965 when the power station at Bargoed Pits shut. Latterly, they were taking coal dust from the tip reclamation scheme at Llanbradach Colliery to Bargoed.

Norsk Hydro Holdall German registered

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Sat, 13 Jul 2019 19:50:12 GMT

]]>Norsk Hydro - Isis within Immingham docks operated a fleet of vans which included Holdall which were registered by the DB - German railways. wagon operated similar wagons (all diagram E690) often carrying steel. The collection includes detail photographs. Also Cargowaggon

BR 24½t mineral MEO B280000 - 3394

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 21:16:39 GMT

]]>BR introduced a novel design of large flat bottomed mineral wagon in 1952. They continued building them until 1962 with a total of 3395. The only diagram change was to record the later wagons having roller bearings from new and twin door stops. None were vacuum braked and the design went out of use in 1981 (the photographs in this collection at Wellingborough were the last wagons moving to internal use in Yorkshire). Some of the number series continued in use for a few years as some underframes received new single door bodies. By 1968 some had lost their side doors and were branded 'NO DOORS'. Parkside make both 4 and 7mm kits of these wagons and full number series and drawings have been published in Bartlett et al (1985).

French Atomic Nuclear Flask wagon IQE475 33 87 998 5 001-5

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 18:26:00 GMT

]]>Eight French registered Atomic Flask wagons with four bogies were built by Fauvet Girel in 1977 Given Design Code IQE475 they worked from Cherbourg to Sellafield until the ferries ceased as they were not permitted through the Chunnel

British Freightliner MWA 81 70 5891 001 - 064: 500-575

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 11:28:07 GMT

]]>Introduced in 2016, a newly constructed box body on bogies recovered from hopper wagons. 64 delivered.
A second order was delivered in early 2019 finished in Genessee and Wyoming inspired livery. Also using bogies and other parts from redundant hopper wagons. This batch of these wagons 76 moved on to Redcar for Iron ore for Scunthorpe.

Class 70 for Freightliner & Colas

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Tue, 20 May 2025 14:56:36 GMT

]]>Introduced in 2014 by Freightliner, who operate 20 and later by Colas with 17.

Class 66 GBRf Belmond Royal Scotsman & GBRF 66s

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:09:53 GMT

]]>Five class 66s have been renumbered and repainted to match the Belmond Royal Scotsman private coaching stock which operates across Britain as a mobile hotel.
Includes other GBRF 66s.

DB Schenker Company Train

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 11:13:16 GMT

]]>Originally formed by EWS and painted with silver locomotive and Driving trailer the train consists of 67029 Royal Diamond, three Mark 3 coaches 11039 First Open conference room & cinema , 10211 Restaurant and bar , 10546 Sleeper and Pantry and 82146.

Class 68 for Direct Rail Services

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Sun, 08 May 2022 19:29:39 GMT

]]>The Class 68 was introduced in 2014 built by Vossloh in Spain. These Mixed traffic Bo-Bo are limited to 100mph. Powered by a 3,800 horsepower Caterpillar C175-16 prime mover, giving power to 4 frame mounted ABB traction motors, producing 71,000lbf of tractive effort.

Conserved (preserved) mainline registered coaches

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 04:23:08 GMT

]]>A collection of privately owned conserved (not really preserved) coaches registered for use on the main line. There are several sets of such coaches working on Network Rail. Some are finished in liveries similar to those carried earlier on BR, whilst others are completely fictitious.
Many are heavily altered in comparison with when they were in use with BR.

Industrial Steam locomotives

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 11:41:40 GMT

]]>Almost entirely in their retirement years on heritage railways, sometimes when they were the frontline motive power.

Sri Lanka Railway 2015-16

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 16:19:13 GMT

]]>Photographs taken on a tour of Sri Lanka when a brief journey was made through the hill country between Ambewela and Bandara wara. The railway has many features reminescent of Britains railways although it has the broad 5ft 6in gauge.

SMBP2065 Class A Petroleum tank of 1915

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 18:50:34 GMT

]]>A tank wagon in internal use. Built Metropolitan Ashbury, Manchester 1915. A detailed photographic collection.
Now conserved at Quainton Railway Society

Intermodal wagons for Piggyback road trailer PXA

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 15:13:03 GMT

]]>Rautarukki designed inter-modal wagons designed to carry road vehicle trailers and load/unload without cranage etc. The bogie versions went into production but have since been scrapped.

Trailer Train experiment PXA

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Mon, 11 Apr 2016 22:13:23 GMT

]]>A re-invention of the the road railer concept introduced in 1987. Road trailers are supported on rail bogies during rail movement.

GMC92500 - 40 Bogie container flat PFA

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 12:28:41 GMT

]]>Examples of two of the batches of container flats built to carry refuse containers for the Greater Manchester Council

E G Steele 85731-40 Class B lagged Petroleum tank TDA

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 14:44:54 GMT

]]>A batch of 10 Class B lagged tank wagons built by CFMF France in 1972. They have some unusual features for a UK wagon. When photographed they were off hire, having previously been used by AMOCO.

CGL704xx Charringtons Class B TUA

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Sat, 02 Apr 2016 16:25:59 GMT

]]>There were only 10 of these Class B tank wagons owned by Charringtons Fuel Oils. Eight were lagged but this may have been a 1983 conversion, as the final two - including 70409 were unlagged.

GERS & Network Rail Autoballasters JJA HQA

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 19:45:38 GMT

]]>GERS Network Rail Autoballasters were converted from Tiphook KPA originally built by Fauvet Girel c1988 (see http://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/ferrytiphookaggregate ).
An auto ballaster is a set of purpose built hopper wagons that accurately lay and distribute ballast onto a track formation. Each wagon has four hopper sections into which new, recycled or cleaned ballast is loaded from the top. Each hopper has controlled discharge doors with additional chutes to direct and regulate the flow of the ballast as it is unloaded onto the track.

New build wagons of similar design followed in 2000 & 1
HQAD 380501 - 10; HQAE 380601 - 30; HQAF 380401 - 10; HQAG ex HQAA 380001 - 38; HQAH ex HQAC 380101 - 214; HQAJ exHQAB 380301 - 38
Consist 21/01/2024 NR12902; NR12994; NR12920; NR12922; NR12936; NR12917; NR12913; NR12936; NR12925; NR12972; 380022; 380108; 380113; 380114; 380325

Network Rail MUSSEL ballast open IOA (E) 31 70 5992 00-

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 22:43:43 GMT

]]>A massive wagon used for carrying ballast by Network Rail, introduced in January 2009. The fishkind name Mussel is not written on the wagons. The TOPS code is IOA (E).
All photos are of high quality, the thumbnails do not represent the quality of downloads.

BR Lowmac ET WN WW Diag 2/245 XLV ZVO ZXV

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 17:16:01 GMT

]]>Resembling GWR Loriots, examples of the diagram 2/245 Lowmacs were both unfitted and vacuum braked. 33 of these wagons were built between 1953 and 1955.

Sri Lanka Birds and Wildlife

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 13:06:58 GMT

]]>A tour of Sri Lanka late December - Early January 2016

MOD ARMY ROF Covered merchandise,

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:57:53 GMT

]]>The MOD under various guises had many different vans, some built new for them, others obtained 2nd hand from BR.
There are separate collections for MoD Gunpowder vans and vans which were registered on TOPS for use on BR.

Empire Paper Mills, Kent

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 10:22:29 GMT

]]>This collection includes internal user wagons, general scenes of this fascinating site with wharfs out into the river Thames and a locomotive.
Details of some of the Mineral wagons can be found in appropriate collections for the type of wagon. Search using the wagon number provided here.
A history of the site at Empire Paper Mills (kentrail.org.uk)

SMBP pre nationalisation tank wagons

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:46:21 GMT

]]>Various SMBP tank wagons upto the introduction of anchor mounting (which can be found in a separate collection). 444 and have their own detailed collections.

EWS (now DBS) 75t Coal hopper HTA

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 22:50:13 GMT

]]>EWS used the old carriage works at York for wagon construction by Thrall. 1162 of these hoppers were built to carry coal, replacing the large fleet of merry-go-round HAA hoppers.

GBRF, Fastline, VTG, First, Touax bogie coal hoppers HYA IIA

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 16:19:43 GMT

]]>Several batches of similar bogie coal carrying hopper wagons operated by Fastline, GBRF VTG, First and Touax together with ownership altering as companies like Fastline went into receivership.
Note the Interoperability code has altered from 33 to 37.

British Gypsum & EWS Container flat FBA KFA

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 11:08:12 GMT

]]>A batch of 24 wagons built by Built Transtech Oy Rautaruukki Finland in 1994 to carry open containers for British Gypsum. Later sold to EWS and renumbered from BGL 95310-33 to 600000 - 23.

Freightliner Coal Hopper with automatic discharge HHA

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 21:44:37 GMT

]]>Introduced in 2000, Freightliner Heavy Haul Limited HHA hopper wagons for coal. They have 4 automatic bottom discharge doors and are fitted with Network Rail approved "track friendly" bogies.
In October 2015 it was reported that 64 were to be scrapped, with bogies recovered.

2220xx “Meridian” Midland Mainline, East Midlands

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 22:14:47 GMT

]]>The unusual weekend working of a Midland Mainline & East Midland Meridian set at York.

158849 of 52849 + 57849 Tour de France livery

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 20:30:10 GMT

]]>158849 of 52849 + 57849 British Rail Class 158 Express Sprinter 2 car set Tour de France livery on 12.27 to Blackpool North @ York Station 26/10/2015 © Paul Bartlett

EWS Flat bed freight wagon for containers BVA

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Sun, 16 Aug 2015 13:25:42 GMT

]]>32 of these flat bed wagons were built in 2001 by Kockums Industrier Malmö, Sweden to carry a sea flats cassette loaded with steel coils from Avesta Polarit Stainless. Equipped with Meridian Rails Axle Motion III bogies.
See http://www.kockumsindustrier.se/en-us/our-products/productdetail/?categoryid=1&productid=10 http://www.kockumsindustrier.se/images/leaflet/Kockums_Industrier_Sgmmns-w001.pdf

The Dalesman 11 August 2015

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 18:03:46 GMT

]]>A regular steam special from York to Carlilse return, with pickups on an unusual route of Normanton, Wakefield Kirkgate and Westgate, Leeds, Keighley, Skipton. Then Hellifield to collect 46115, Appleby for water and Carlilse.
Formation 80217 (support), 21241, 4905, 5035, 99318, 99347, 99350, 3136, 3058, 99316, 3150.
Some nice film of the train https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La3NXhvUiLk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR_iwkneV1A

Great Green Macaw (Ara ambiguus)

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 19:11:00 GMT

]]>The Great Green Macaw (Ara ambiguus) also known as Buffon's macaw or the great military macaw, is subject to considerable conservation effort in Costa Rica with a breeding programme at The Ara Project in Punta Islita (from where they are released on the other Caribbean side of CR) and Manzanillo. The IUCN conservation status is endangered. Wild Macaw were observed near and over Lugana del Lagarta in the North and Manzanillo.

83 70 0698 001 - 255 Biomass Tafoos bogie hopper

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 18:38:24 GMT

]]>At the beginning of 2014 W H Davis introduced a unique enclosed hopper wagon designed to maximise the volume of Biomass that could be carried within the UK loading gauge from the docks to Drax power station. 83 70 0698 001 - 225
Design code IIE970. A second batch were built in 2023 83 70 0698 226 - 255
The attractive vinyl finish has been updated on some of the first batch but is biomass truly sustainable clear felling vast tracts of north American forests? Even replacing mature trees with replants does nothing for biodiversity.

Kurunda Scenic Railway

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 15:25:16 GMT

]]>Kurunda Scenic Railway runs on the Queensland Railway narrow gauge (1067mm) line from Cairns to Kurunda. (33.233 km.) The line was built with considerable difficulty between 1886 and 1891. The locomotives are all 1720 Class Diesel Electric. Iintroduced to traffic in October 1966 and built by Clyde Engineering Company under licence from General Motors USA and subcontracted to Commonwealth Engineering in Brisbane. A 1000 HP is generated by the units’ diesel engine, Model 8- 645E. It is a two-stroke V8 General Motors Engine. Nos 1720 through to 1775 were finally delivered in 1969. See http://www.ksr.com.au/Pages/Default.aspx

We travelled down the railway and later stayed at a hotel near the railway at Cairns as it passes the historical graveyard.

Puffing Billy Railway, Dandenong Ranges nr. Melbourne

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 13:43:52 GMT

]]>The Puffing Billy Railway is a heritage line. Although only 2ft 6in narrow gauge considerable trains run into the Mountains from Belgrave, north west of Melbourne. Trains were only running on the lower half of the line when we visited. The surroundings are beautiful and the Lakeside Park is a lovely destination, with a simple walk back to Emerald. Two century old 2-6-2Tank locomotives hauled our train.
see http://www.puffingbilly.com.au/about-puffing-billy/

The Tansy beetle (Chrysolina graminis)

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 08:39:07 GMT

]]>On the Ings near Fulford. A long stretch of the river Ouse through York is claimed to be the only location in Britain where the colourful Tansy beetle (Chrysolina graminis) is established. With fused elytra, they are unable to fly but will walk many metres. They have a conventional life cycle of overwintering in the soil, egg laying in spring, pupation during July with the adults emerging and feeding from July onwards. see Tansy beetle | Bug Directory | Buglife

Correction, Buglife in August 2014 reported another population being discovered at Woodwalton Fen, Cambs.

Steam Locos rotting at Barry Woodhams 1 Nov 1970

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 12:16:05 GMT

]]>Every railway photo site has to have this; the Barry locomotive scrap yard 1 November 1970. Although I visited more in the 1980s I didn't waste any film on them (a GWR 2-8-2T cab made a good umbrella when the last of the Cokes had to be measured).
Unlike the wagons all of these locos still survive, many work! I should have saved my film and taken more wagon photos! Live and learn.
Photos of wagons in Barry at http://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/barrydock

Borneo Sabah and Sarawak, 2014

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 20:50:39 GMT

]]>Photographs and video from March-April 2014 on an Exodus organised Wildlife Explorer visit

BR Steam locomotives

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 14:52:27 GMT

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Seychelles

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 13:06:51 GMT

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