{"id":4783,"date":"2014-10-02T07:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T06:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alanrowley.info\/?p=4783"},"modified":"2015-03-16T08:49:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T08:49:56","slug":"diesel-weekend-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alanrowley.info\/?p=4783","title":{"rendered":"Diesel Weekend Event"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the weekend of September 13th \/ 14th 2014, the Midland Railway Centre<\/a> at Butterley<\/a> held a Diesel Event. The chance to ride behind some of the diesel engines<\/a> from my youth wasn’t something I was going to miss, so on the second day of the event (a Sunday) I visited the Centre with eldest son Jamie.<\/p>\n

\"45108<\/a>

45108 en route to Riddings.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"47401<\/a>

47401 North Eastern<\/p><\/div>\n

\"20048<\/a>

20048 and 31465 entering Swanwick station.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"141113<\/a>

141113 at Swanwick Junction station.<\/p><\/div>\n

For once, the weather was fine and we arrived at the Centre shortly after 10:00 am. Our first port of call was Swanwick Junction Station, five minutes down the line where we spent half an hour or so taking photos of the engines in use on the day. The full list of engines in use was as follows:<\/p>\n