BR in the 1980s Leeds City Station in February 1987

LEEDS CITY STATION in FEBRUARY 1987

Catching a Trans Pennine service from York took me to my next photographic location at Leeds City Station. The weather was turning a little drab but the variety of traffic calling and passing through was enough to take one's mind off the damp and cold. The photogenic DMU class 144 serving local areas were abundant and again "Peaks" still hauling the majority of the Trans Pennine long hauls. A class 31 slowly and cautiously powers away from the station so as not to slip, with a very heavy train of silo wagons. Also a favourite working from Carlisle over the S & C usually at that short period was a booked class 40 turn, but today it was a class 47...can't win them all eh...Finally the London trains were HST's. Sit back and keep warm and most of all enjoy this brief time capsule from 1987.