GB Railfreight ran two
charters over the weekend 15th/16th July 2017, both raising
substantial amounts of money for charity.
On the 15th 66778 & 66775 worked a staff charter from
Ipswich to Cleethorpes and back. At Cleethorpes 66778 was
named 'Darius Cheskin' in honour of the son of a rail
enthusiast from Gloucestershire who lost his fight against
cancer in 2004. GBRf wrote "A few months ago we auctioned
off the opportunity to choose a name for one of our
locomotives, with the proceeds being donated to our
nominated charities. The auction winner was Mike Cheskin, a
life long rail enthusiast from Charfield, Gloucestershire.
Mike sadly lost one of his sons Darius in 2004 to a rare
form of bone cancer called Ewing's Sarcoma. Mikes other son
has since named his 7 year old grandson after him and Darius
Junior is also an avid rail fan. So when our staff charter
train arrived in Cleethorpes on Saturday with Mike and his
grandson on board, Darius Junior was asked to uncover the
nameplates on 66778..."
The following day saw the Charitable Chibble being worked
from Ipswich to Peterborough by 66775 & 66778 at where they
handed over to 20132 & 20118 for a jolly about the East
Midlands to Sheffield and back. 66777 was deployed for the
final leg of the tour back to Basingstoke from Peterborough. |