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66727 passing through Leicester 20/05/26 with the 4M29 Felixstowe North to Birch Coppice intermodal working
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SITE UPDATED
Tuesday May 26, 2026 17:00
SECTIONS/PAGES UPDATED
Monday 25/05/26

PUBLICATION TIME/S
17:00 (Tue) Touring section added
08:50 (Tue)  Initial publication

NEWS & INFORMATION
Export Class 56s moved to port
New Class 99s make their debut on the mainline
Romic Class 20s carrying Romic plates
66555 gets HHR decals

PHOTO NEWS
92023 taking a late running 1S26 CS working north at Scout Green
20901 & 20905 returning to Woking with the drain train
66730 & 66775 in an engineering possession at Bromley North
Class 37s and the on-going installation of the new LS facility at Carlisle Upperby
68033 on test from Kingmoor

STOCK CONTROL
20205 31128 & 50049 taking tour stock back to Burton
47813 & 34067 ECS to Carlisle to form the S&C 150 tour
68032 & 68021 on 5Q69 from Eastleigh to Banbury
Redundant LU stock at Derby Litchurch Lane
New LU stock at Old Dalby

TOURING
Thumpers to Scotland with Hastings DEMU duo 1001 & 1013 operating the three day Gosh Ness Monster from Tonbridge to Edinburgh, Inverness and Linlithgow
20205 31128 & 50049 (along with 20007 & 73114 at Nemesis Rail, Burton) working the West Midlands Deviator tour
D1015 working the Golden Hind tour from Birmingham Snow Hill to London Paddington and Plymouth
35028 & 47802 working the Atlantic Coast Express between London Waterloo and Exeter St Davids
60532 & 47802 working the Lakelander tour between Rugby and Carlisle
57313 & 57314 then 45407 working the Northern Belle/Settle & Carlisle Express, from Darlington to Darlington via Newcastle, Carlisle, Carnforth, Preston, Carlisle and Newcastle
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Settle-Carlisle route with 34067 & 47813 working the S&C 150 tour between Carlisle and York
67024 & 67021 with the British Pullman set working between York and London Kings Cross
66746 & 66743 working the Royal Scotsman between Spean Bridge and Fort William
43055 & 43049 operating the Torbay Riviera Pullman between Nottingham and Paignton
57314 & 57313 with the Northern Belle on an outing running from Manchester Piccadilly to London Victoria

PORTFOLIO
Images from between May 18th and May 24th 2026

RETRO
31411 & 37099 stabled in Manchester Victoria during September 1992

VIEW
66093 at West Ealing while operating 0F03 from the fuel point at Didcot to Acton Yard

DATA & REFERENCE
Fleet Status database updated - 08:43 (Tue)
Storage lists/locations sections updated

Thursday/Friday 21/05/26-22/05/26

PUBLICATION TIME/S
04:05 (Sat) Additional news items/images (56302 97302 & 99s), photo news section added including the GBR Class 701 launch, Focus section (looking at the ES3000 shunter) added, additional stock control items (99006 50049) and additional internal operations item (222005)
14:45 Initial publication

NEWS & INFORMATION
Another Class 66 into Romanian blue at Toton
56302 to Leeds for tyre turning/returned to Colwick
Path south for exporting Class 56 now in the system
97302 released from overhaul at Worksop/to Leeds for tyre turning
Commissioning work for the recent/new Class 99s in the pipeline

PHOTO NEWS
GBR debut - at an unveiling event in London Waterloo 701006 has been revealed in the new GBR (Great British Railways) livery
66710 & 66719 with the Rail 200 Exhibition Train operating 3Z52 from Dereham/Mid Norfolk Railway to the Severn Valley Railway
69004 with 66553 & 66846 at the head of the 6Y48 Eastleigh East Yard to Hoo Junction engineers train

FOCUS
Advertisement feature - taking a look at the Express Services ES3000 battery electric shunting locomotive

STOCK CONTROL
93006 & 93003 taking Class 333s from/to Holbeck
50049 with 20205 31128 and tour stock working into Derby from Burton
20007 & 20205 escorting 10551 to Burton
57305 & 57303 with an unidentified LU set on transfer from Goole to Old Dalby
37510 & 37501 bringing 333011 into Holbeck as 8Q18 from Neville Hill
68021 with set CH09 ECS from Banbury to Eastleigh TRSMD
165025 heading home ECS from Doncaster to Banbury Depot

INTERNAL OPERATIONS
222005 back on the Lumo training diagrams forming 5Z88 from Polmadie to Preston
93006 & 93003 light engines from Crewe South Yard to Derby RTC
66093 light from Acton Yard to Toton

PORTFOLIO
Images from between May 19th and May 21st 2026

RETRO
Brand new 66709 Glasgow bound for repainting during July 2002

VIEW
37424 passing through Leicester and at Kingston on Soar light from Rugby to Derby RTC then propelling DBSO 9714 at Marston on Dove powering 5Q27 from/back to Derby RTC

DATA & REFERENCE
Fleet Status database updated - 04:05 (Sat)

 

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