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Friday 27/02/26

PUBLICATION TIME/S
19:50 Initial Publication
05:45 (Sat) Republished - additional news items/pictures, additional content in Photo News, Stock Control and the Touring sections

NEWS & INFORMATION
DBC fleet changes/movements
56051 escapes Eastleigh Yard but not for long
56098 returns to Old Dalby
99004 out and about with 66727
08822 on the move

PHOTO NEWS
Freight returns to the S&C after repairs completed following the land slip near Birkett Tunnel
Recently XC liveried 220033 in service

INTERNAL OPERATIONS
37218 utilising the new platform 4 in Cleethorpes after working in from York Parcels Sidings
37501 with 37884 attached operating 0R55 from Derby RTC to Colwick TMD/Rectory Junction

STOCK CONTROL
37501 with 730201 & 730202 on transfer from Gascoigne Wood to Derby Litchurch Lane
810014 on delivery from Merchant Park Sidings to Derby Etches Park
37800 bringing 455721 & 455716 north as 5Q58 from Wimbledon Park Depot Sidings to Derby Litchurch Lane
50050 & 40013 on a pre-tour positioning move from Crewe HS to St Philips Marsh

TOURING
40013 & 50050 running between Bristol and Paignton with a LS Chairman Tour
67007 taking the Belmond Pullman to Bath
Vintage Trains utilised 60103 & 47773 to operate a numbers of Shakespeare Express workings variously between Birmingham Moor Street and Dorridge then to Stratford upon Avon
47805 & 47810 traversing the S&C route with a Statesman S&C Circular tour
67007 & 67021 with a private charter operating from London Kings Cross to Castle Cary
67007 & 67006 with the Belmond Pullman on an outing between London Victoria and Oxford Parkway
66704 working a short pre-season Royal Scotsman afternoon trip to Dundee and back

PORTFOLIO
Images from between February 9th and February 25th 2026

RETRO
55007 in Leeds with the Up Yorkshire Pullman during 1978

VIEW
66689 on 6S68 from the oil terminal at Grain to Doncaster Down Decoy, passing Lidlington and Woburn Sands

DATA & REFERENCE
Fleet Status database updated - 19:29
Storage lists/locations, stock changes and stats sections updated

Tuesday/Wednesday 24/02/26-25/02/26

PUBLICATION TIME/S
14:10 Initial Publication
14:40 Republished - news items for Wednesday 25th added
00:35 (Thu) Republished - Class 99 fleet survey, additional images 0Q33 convoy, 37423 & 37611 moves updated

NEWS & INFORMATION
New Class 99s collected from Portbury
Class 99 fleet survey
GBRf launches surplus locomotives sale

PHOTO NEWS
Two days with 60099 working trains to Machen Quarry
31128 deployed from Burton for the collection of a failed MMT from Basingstoke North Yard
20901 & 20905 bringing the drain train north as 6J09 from Woking Up Yard to Stapleford and Sandiacre
158870 - one of several trains running wrong line between Garsdale and Kirkby Stephen due to a collapsed retaining wall just to the south of Birkett Tunnel

STOCK CONTROL
67021 with Pullman coach 99537 on transfer as 5Z25 from Eastleigh East Yard to Stewart's Lane TRSMD
43025 & 43060 operating 5D25 from Derby Chaddesden Sidings to Brush Works, Loughborough
37800 then 37501 with 730001 at Nemesis Rail, Burton - with a change of traction on 5Q16 from Soho LMD to Gascoigne Wood
12812 leading 68022 on 5Q86 from Tyseley to Banbury Depot
37501 hauling 730220 from Gascoigne Wood to Bletchley TMD
20007 & 20205 with the RailAdventure barrier array working 6O30 from York Yard North to Dollands Moor
37611 & 37423 sandwiching 94515 from Eastleigh Works to Leicester then on to Colwick TMD

INTERNAL OPERATIONS
99001 & 99002 operating light engines from Peterborough GB to Leicester LIP
222005 on continuing Lumo training operations
37421 & 37405 light engines as 0M61 from Barrow Hill to Derby RTC
20007 & 20205 working north light engines as 0G87 from Wembley HS to Kings Norton
92018 running from Wembley ICD to Crewe EMD

PORTFOLIO
Images from between February 12th and February 22nd 2026

RETRO
D6996 (now 37423) on a loaded coal working at Taffs Well during October 1969/Eastleigh bound in February 2026

VIEW
66783 passing Appleby with the 4N00 cement empties from Carlisle Yard to Castle Cement in Clitheroe

DATA & REFERENCE
Fleet Status database updated - 14:37

Monday 23/02/26

PUBLICATION TIME/S
22:55 Initial Publication

NEWS & INFORMATION
First GW HHR liveried/branded Class 66
WBAR hire duo back at CE
Paths now in for collecting the new Class 99s from Portbury

PHOTO NEWS
EPR duo 37423 & 37611 heading south light engines as 0A37 from Colwick TMD/Rectory Junction to Wembley LHS
20142 & 20189 working 6J08 from London Gateway to Ashford Crane Depot
69009 working the 6N71 Doncaster Up Decoy to Tyne Sorting Sidings engineers working
68018 with 66423 in Stafford while running light engines as 0K23 from Daventry to Crewe Gresty Bridge
68015 and Mk3 set in Solihull on one of the last few workings utilising Mk3 stock on workings to/from Birmingham
08927 at the Darlington Railway Museum after arrival from RSS at Wishaw
810011 being problematical and 810013 working to London St Pancras in Derby
158817 & 156489 working the first passenger service to call at the newly opened Northumberland Park station

60095 & 60099
60095 in Appleford Sidings after working in with 6A60 from Machen Quarry
60099 working 6M89 from Middleton Towers to Ravenhead Sidings then 6D85 from Ravenhead Sidings to Derby Chaddesden

STOCK CONTROL
68014 bringing a redundant Chiltern Mk3 set to Burton
43060 & 43025 heading to Kings Norton
37800 with 730001 on transfer from Soho LMD to Gascoigne Wood

CHILTERN
68015 powering the final Class 68 powered Chiltern working from Stourbridge Town to London Marylebone
68013 powering the BLS Chiltern Mk3 Farewell tour

PORTFOLIO
Images from between February 9th and February 20th 2026

RETRO
D240 (40040) on a mixed steel working at Oakenshaw Junction during July 1973

VIEW
68008 & 68034 passing Greensfield Junction with the 6E44 Carlisle Kingmoor to Seaton on Tees flask working

DATA & REFERENCE
Fleet Status database updated - 22:45