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66705 with 4V13 from Tonbridge West Yard to Avonmouth passing 66618 with 6C48 from Appleford to Whatley at Swindon 09/05/24
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SITE UPDATED
Tuesday May 14, 2024 01:00
SECTIONS/PAGES UPDATED
Monday 13/05/24

PUBLICATION TIME/S - 20:05 (Mon) 01:00 (Tue)

NEWS
LISTS/LOCATIONS
EP collect 37407, BB 20s on tests, 97304 with plates, DBC sales progress table updated/republished, WBHT Class 66s round up/survey, 66306-66316 progress table updated

FLEET STATUS REFERENCE
Database Updated - 19:52

JOURNAL
PHOTO NEWS - 56103 & 56098 working 6Z89 from Middleton Towers to Derby Chaddesden, 69004 & 69008 on 6E88 from Middleton Towers, 69004 with 4L66 from Goole then 4E88 to Peterborough, 56103 & 56098 working 6D85 from Ravenhead Sidings, 88006 & 68034 on the Dungeness flask run, 68002 & 68018 powering 4Z45 to Coatbridge, 66155 leading 66109 on 6D37 to Scunthorpe, 66622 in Hull with 6Y33 from Hessle Road Junction, 66720 in an engineering possession at Ravenstruther

REPORTAGE
STOCK CONTROL - 37800 taking Class 507s to Sims, 37409 taking stock to Kidderminster, 69008 collecting 458413 from Widnes, 69011 taking 701029 to Marchwood, 69009 transferring Class 360s between Kettering and Northampton, 47828 taking stock  to Southall, 805006 ECS to Merchant Park Sidings
TOURING - 7029 & 47773 powering the two day Great Western Railway tours, 47712 & 47805 taking the Royal Windsor Statesman to Windsor & Eton Riverside, 46100 & 47828 operating a Steam Dreams outing between Colchester and Barrow Hill, 43055 & 43049 working the Settle to Carlisle and Tyne Valley Pullman tour, 43055 & 43047 working the Midland Pullman Experience to Bath, 66737 taking Lesia the birthday girl out, 60007 then 47805 with 47828 operating a Steam Dreams outing between London and Chester, 44871 & 57315 on the Cumbrian Mountain Express, 67024 & 67005 to Chesterfield with the Belmond Pullman, 47712 & 47805 operating the Llandudno Victorian Statesman
SWANAGE - Views from the Swanage Railway's Diesel Gala, 50021 being assisted, 50026 off the rails at Corfe

PORTFOLIO
Images from between April 29th and May 9th 2024

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66080 passing Woofferton with the 6V75 Dee Marsh to Margam steel empties

Thursday/Friday 09/05/24-10/05/24

PUBLICATION TIME/S - 21:00 (Fri)

NEWS
STOCK CHANGES, LISTS/LOCATIONS, STATS
DBC fleet change, Crewe 37s moved, 56103 re-enters service

FLEET STATUS REFERENCE
Database Updated - 20:50 (Fri)

JOURNAL
PHOTO NEWS - 59201 returning to Merehead after visiting St Philips Marsh, 56096 replaced in Eastleigh by 56094 from Westbury, 70806 & 66791 taking 6C42 to Fishguard, 66761 & 69010 taking 6E20 to Doncaster, 69006 on the Monk Bretton sand

REPORTAGE
SWANAGE - 69002 & 73109 initially then with 33012 working the Jurassic Crompton tour to Swanage/after arrival on the Swanage Railway, 37219 making its way to the gala, 69007 sitting out the gala at Eastleigh, 34028 33012 33111 D1015 69002 & 73109 in action during Swanage Railway's gala preview running day
STOCK CONTROL - 69011 moving Class 701s to/from Marchwood, 37884 collecting 769935 from Long Marston, 1750110 & 175011 run to store at Ely Papworth
56113 60028 & 66711 - 56113 on the Preston Docks/Haverton diagram, 60028 & 66711 on the Tytherington/Appleford circuit
66179 & 66244 - Former Eurosheds 66179 then 66244 on Felixstowe intermodal workings
BANK HOLIDAY WEEKEND STEAM - Bank Holiday steam gala activities at the Epping Ongar Railway, the Churnet Valley Railway and West Somerset Railway
HERITAGE TRACTION - D2310 08701 33008 & 33053 at Shackerstone, D1062 working trains on the SVR, D1015 working trains on the SVR, 31327 & 46512 at the Strathspey Railway, 31130 at work during the Avon Valley Railway's diesel running day, 31270 in Didcot, 45125 on a GCR freight working at Loughborough, E1 08830 37152 44008 & 47402 at Rowsley, 4079 in action on the East Lancashire Railway, 142018 with other Pacers in Bedale, LEV1 after its move to Locomotion, 26010 & 47449 at work on the Llangollen Railway

PORTFOLIO
Images from between April 30th and May 4th 2024

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69002 & 66732 working through Feltham with the 6Y48 Eastleigh East Yard to Hoo Junction engineers

Wednesday 08/05/24

PUBLICATION TIME/S - 22:30

NEWS
STOCK CHANGES, LISTS/LOCATIONS, STATS
More Class 90s collected from Crewe EMD, WQDA deletions, Poland bound Class 66 leaves the UK, 55009 on the road, D1015 to/taking traction to the Swanage Railway, 66309 into service/66737 with new decals, Europhoenix Class 37s notes/survey

FLEET STATUS REFERENCE
Database Updated - 22:23

JOURNAL
PHOTO NEWS - 60096 on the Rylstone/Hull diagram, 66729 on 6E09/Rylstone diagram notes, 69006 at Kirk Sandall after arrival with 6E85 from Middleton Towers, 66651 on the Knowsley bins, 66797 & 66148 on 6O01 to Eastleigh, 56096 residing in Eastleigh, shiny 66002 taking 6M45 through Didcot, 153376 in the little used platform 1 at Huntingdon

REPORTAGE
STOCK CONTROL - 69009 transferring Class 379s between Worksop, Doncaster and Hornsey/light to Doncaster, 69011 taking 701003 to Long Marston/returning to Eastleigh, 37884 dragging 507033 & 507028 to Sims, 37601 & 37608 returning to Derby with barriers after a Class 175 transfer to Landore was cancelled at Central Rivers, 37608 collecting 730012 from Old Dalby, 37668 & 37517 with one from Burton as 5Z75 to Carnforth, 47828 taking tour stock to Southall, 47749 taking barrier coaches to Leicester, 47805 & 47712 returning to Crewe with tour stock from Southall, 47746 & 44871 running ECS to Bristol Kingsland Road, 57313 & 47815 returning to Carnforth with stock from Burton

PORTFOLIO
Images from between April 27th and May 3rd 2024

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66651 at Heck Ings working 6N31 from Scunthorpe to Tees New Yard

 

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