The Voyager Family
By Fred Kerr
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Fred Kerr
Fred Kerr was born in Edinburgh in 1948 where he gained an interest in railway locomotives from both the LMSR and LNER companies whose services permeated the local network. When his parents moved to Corby in 1956 the local steelworks provided further interest from its mix of freight services, including seeing the last of the Beyer Garrets and the replacement Standard Class 9Fs whilst the industrial locomotives of the internal steelworks network offered further insight into the variety of steam locomotives. This was a time of change and during the 1960s the interest in locomotives included the new order of diesel and electric traction without reducing the interest in steam traction. While his interest in Diesel Traction led to his early involvement with the Diesel & Electric Group and its preservation activities during the 1970s, his move to Southport in 1982 restored his opportunities to return to his first love of viewing steam locomotives at work and this album records some of the locations that he chose to visit and the locomotives that he was able to photograph.Today his interest continues as a life member of the A4 Locomotive Society, Keighley & Worth Valley Railway and Ribble Steam Railway whilst he also support bodies concerned with preserving steam locomotives, diesel locomotives and infrastructure extensions.
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The Voyager Family - Fred Kerr
Section 1:
Class 220 ‘Voyager’
1.1: Virgin Trains
The thirty-four Class 220 ‘Voyager’ trainsets were ordered by Virgin Trains as part of the franchise agreement and formed part of an order that included the Class 221 ‘Super Voyager’ trainsets [see Section 2] and Class 390 ‘Pendelino’ tilting trainsets to replace the mix of trainsets operating services on the West Coast Main Line (WCML). The Cross Country services were operated by a mix of traction including Class 43 HST trainsets, Class 47 diesel locomotives and Classes 86, 87 and 90 electric locomotives with some journeys being worked by diesel traction throughout, some with changes between diesel and electric traction en route and some with electric traction throughout. The majority of Cross Country’s longer distance services involving locomotive changes en route or using Class 47 locomotives were the first services for which the Class 220 trainsets entered traffic as direct replacements. The ‘Voyager’ order was set to speed up services by eliminating traction changes en route whilst improving efficiency by operating a standard fleet; the trainsets were built by Bombardier at their Bruges factory in Belgium and deliveries began during 2001. As part of the contract the trainsets were maintained at a dedicated site at Central Rivers (Barton under Needwood) by Bombardier; this continued when the Cross Country franchise was awarded to Arriva Trains in November 2007 and still operates as at June