#class 50

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Fearless From Barnstaple (Michael McNicholas) by Neil Harvey 156 Via Flickr: 50050 "Fearless" arrives at Penzance with 2C68 05:45 ex-Barnstaple. 23/4/87.

[trainmaniac]

'Vacs' on tour by CJ Rich Via Flickr: 50007 'Hercules' and 50049 'Defiance' power through theirold stomping ground of Maidenhead on the Great Western on 29 July 2023 with 1Z50 Ipswich - Paignton

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50017 Royal Oak at Kidderminster Town on the Severn Valley Railway 4th October 2018

Just came back from a fantastic few days away at the SVR celebrating 50s @ 50! 

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50031 at Kidderminster in July 2017. In service operating Driver Experience runs. Carrying an inter city livery never worn by the class during their days of BR operation. 

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50007 Sir Edward Elgar on a parcels service through Reading around 1988. 

[mjalford98]

British Rail class 50s no 50007 & 50049 double head a southbound train of InterCity carriages under the wires of the West Coast Main Line, passing over the River Penk on the approach to Penkridge with the returning "Grampian Highlander" railtour organised by Pathfinder.

I took these shots from the nearby road bridge, setting up my DJI gimbal camera on a tripod to film the train while I took the still images on my Fujifilm camera, whose annoying electronic shutter squeak can be heard in the video. This was also on a tripod, which was great for getting a full set of reasonably sharp images, from which I could then select the best composition - shame about the noise, but I'm not too bothered. I actually think the bit of noise helps make the shot feel like it might have been taken in the 1980s, when trains looked just like this, and of course the timeless landscape only lends more visual interest and period atmosphere to the scene. Good for prints, merchandise, and stock photo/video downloads, so I'm quite excited to have bagged these, even if I'm currently £50 poorer for it!

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New photo by Richard Smith

D431. Passing St Erth on its way to Penzance on railtour duties.

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OH DEAR!   Prior to sites like real time trains it was sometimes a lot of guess work and luck to capture that perfect picture. And this is one that the luck wasn’t with me at all. This is ‘The 50′s Terminator’ from Waterloo to Penzance with 50007 Sir Edward Elgar and 50050 approaching Gwinear Road Crossing. Having seriously miscalculated, and the train running early, I had only just parked up when the barriers started to come down, a clear indication that the train was approaching. As a result I was wrong side of the sun and with a poor choice of shutter speed. So not a very good result! On the plus side though, one of the pictures I took l little later on of the train at Penzance was included in a book ‘The First of the Last’, the story of 50050/ D400 Fearless,so it wasn’t all bad.