D9516 & D9523 (in its unauthentic maroon livery) pass Castor on 19 March 2000 with the 12:00 Wansford to Peterborough service, during the Nene Valley Railway's Diesel Gala. While no Class 14 ever carried maroon livery in normal service, neither did they ever haul coaches like these! Note that D9516 is displaying its number in the headcode box.

In its distinctive (if unauthentic) maroon livery, D9523 passes Castor on the Nene Valley Railway with more conventionally liveried classmate D9516 with a Peterborough to Wansford service during the line's Diesel Gala on 19 March 2000. I suppose it doesn't matter that the loco is in a fictitious livery, when hauling a train of foreign coaches! This is certainly very far removed from the type of the train the Class 14s actually worked during their short life with British Railways.

D9537 sits in the sunshine at Toddington on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway on 23 April 1994. D9537 had a ridiculously short life with BR, spending less than three years in traffic, initially at Cardiff Canton and latterly at Hull Dairycoates. It did however have a more successful career as an industrial loco before arriving for preservation at the GWR as one of the line's earliest acquisitions in 1982. It has since moved to a private site in Lincolnshire.

An impressive line up of Class 14 hydraulics at Toddington on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway on 10 October 1992. Nearest the camera is D9539, followed by D9553 & D9537, while on the right Bagnall 0-6-0ST Byfield No.2 simmers away quietly. Only the centre loco in this line up is still resident on the railway. As the line is now home to a large collection of mainline diesels there is less need for these 'teddy bears' to be used for passengers services, as was often the case when this picture was taken.

D9539 & D9553 pass Didbrook on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway with the 09:50 Toddington to Far Stanley service on 19 March 1995, during the line's Spring Diesel Gala. Once the mainstay of the line, the Class 14s have seen less use on passenger trains in recent years as the line's ever growing stud of mainline diesels have taken all the limelight. Although a far cry from their intended role as trip freight locos, this double header certainly looks impressive with the contrasting colours in buffer beams and coupling rods.

With a headboard commemorating thirty years of the Class 14s, D9539 & D9553 pass Stanley Pontlarge on a sunny 11 August 1995 with the 14:00 Toddington to Far Stanley service, during the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway's Diesel Week.

D9539 & D9553 emerge into the sunshine after their traversal of the 693 yard long Greet Tunnel, on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway, during the line's Diesel Week  on 11 August 1995. The headboard proudly proclaims: '30th Anniversary of the Class 14. D9537, D9539, D9553. 1965 - 1995. Swindon Works to the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway.' The train is the 16:00 Toddington to Far Stanley service.

D9539 passes Prescott with the 13:35 Toddington to Gotherington service on 6 November 1999, during the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway's Diesel Gala. The train is just crossing over the Gretton to Gotherington road, in a lucky patch of sun by the look of the clouds gathering in the background! This loco left the railway in 2005 and was moved to the Ribble Valley Railway.

D9553 & D9539 clatter past Hailes on 20 March 1993 with the 13:15 Toddington to Gretton service, during the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway's Diesel Gala. These two were a staple of the line's diesel events until put into second place by the arrival of more impressive motive power.

D9553 & D9539 return from Far Stanley and head for Toddington on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway on 19 March 1995. D9553 is obviously applying some power as it passes the conveniently placed photographic prop tree at Didbrook. Notice the amount of cloud that has started to build up compared with the earlier outward run.

D9553 & D9539 have just emerged from Greet Tunnel and are approaching Winchcombe station on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway on 11 August 1995. I had photographed the outward run at Stanley Pontlarge, and this is now the returning Far Stanley to Toddington service.