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Can anyone identify this loco at Huddersfield station in the last century? Diesel is not really my thing.

Looks like a Class 44 or 45 Peak.

Thank you, it seems likely it is a 45. After a bit of searching online there are several pictures of 45s at Huddersfield, but no 44s.

Great atmospheric pic. Plenty of note to aspiring modellers

The Liverpool to Newcastle service in the 1980s was hauled by classes 45 and 47 usually composed of mark 1 carriages. It featured in an episode of Last of the Summer Wine, "Getting Barry Higher in the World", where they described it as a London train. The service was later replaced by class 158 DMUs, then class 185 DMUs, and now the new 802 units work some of the services.

My last 'proper' rail journey before lockdown was on an 802 (or Nova 1 as TPE call them) Liverpool to Edinburgh train.

It looks more like a class 46 to me.

Could be, but when I lived in Chesterfield (at about that time) the fleet was allocated as follows until the HSTs took over the NE - SW and Midland Main line in the early 1980s.

The 45/0 with heating boilers but without ETH (electric train heating) were mostly based at Tinsley and worked mainly on freight.

The 45/1 class which did have ETH, but no boiler worked from Toton mostly on Midland Main Line to St Pancras,

The 46 class which had steam boiler but no ETH were divided more or less equally between Plymouth Laira and Gateshead and were mainly on the North East - South West services via Birmingham.

The Trans-Pennines were normally in the hands of Gateshead class 47s some of which received Provincial livery.

I should have started with the easy ones!

Flying Scotsman.