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NEXT UPDATE/S -  TUESDAY PM

Monday 28/04/25

PUBLICATION TIME/S - 20:30 23:40

NEWS & INFORMATION

NEWS
69013 repainted & 69016 tested
More Class 93s arrive into the UK/Class 93 table
Class 08s moved out from Barrow Hill

PHOTO NEWS
66315 & 66304 either end of a rake of autoballasters working from Downham Market to Whitemoor Yard
66720 66197 & 66041 with one loaded FEA-W wagon forming the 6D44 Bescot to Toton engineering working
93002 & 93001 (with 93006 parked behind them) & 08799 at Worksop
Hybrid formed 150242 back in service with TFW
150005 on a Sheffield service starting at Lockwood due to Trans Pennine upgrade works

TOURING
37403 with a pre-tour running as a tour ECS from Carnforth to Kings Norton then Stratford then 37403 20205 & 20007 working the East Anglian Freighter tour
60532 47593 & 57311 working the Lakelander between Rugby and Carlisle
35028 & 57314 with the Great Briton XVII running between London Victoria and Bristol Temple Meads
7029 & 37240 operating the Shakespeare Express
45212 & 57314 with the Great Briton XVII running between Bristol Temple Meads and Pembroke Dock
57601 & 57313 with the Northern Belle on an outing from Coventry to Carlisle and back
35028 powering the British Belmond Pullman between London Victoria and Dover Priory
43047 & 43059 working the first of the three day Lord of the Isles Pullman from Leicester to Inverness

HERITAGE TRACTION
Views from the East Lancashire Railway's Western Region Weekend event featuring D7076 D832 45108 & 50015 along with single car DMU W55001 while 34092
Views from day one and day three of the three day Great Central Railway Spring Diesel Gala
D9529 20227 & 50021 working trains at the Epping Ongar Railway's Diesel Gala
The three day Severn Valley Railway Spring Steam Gala

PORTFOLIO
Images from between April 21st and April 26th 2025

RETRO
37228 passing through Bradford on Avon during 1977

VIEW
66118 passing Tamworth with the 4L56 Trafford Park Euro Terminal to London Gateway intermodal

DATA & REFERENCE
Fleet Status database updated - 20:09
Storage lists/locations, stock changes and stats sections updated

Friday 25/04/25

PUBLICATION TIME/S - 13:20 (Fri) 03:45 (Sat)

NEWS & INFORMATION

NEWS
Mexico bound power cars set sail
Another red 66 at Toton
Colas Class 70 livery reapplied

PHOTO NEWS
20901 & 20905 taking the drain train from Oxenholme CE Sidings to Bridgeton Yard then working to Slateford Depot
68009 & 68008 operating the 6M95 Dungeness to Crewe Coal Sidings flask working
66207 & 66032 then 66027 & 66207 working the Kingsbury/Humber oil diagrams
66752 heading to the Down Yard with a rake of cripples from Whitemoor for the Wagon Repair Shop at March

STOCK CONTROL
43468 & 43480 in Leicester with 398022 on transfer from Old Dalby to Pengam Sidings
69008 in Northampton with Class 360s on transfer
37510 with 730230 on transfer from Old Dalby to Crewe LNWR
47848 & 57314 with a WCRC charter set heading south from Carnforth to Southall
69008 collecting and hauling 720122 back to Ilford
37800 taking 321316 away for disposal at Unimetals, Newport Docks

INTERNAL OPERATIONS
37057 operating the 0Z37 Derby RTC to Derby RTC via Coleshill Parkway training turn again
57310 with a ERS Mk3 coaching set has been formed up for Class 1 training to Tursdale Junction and back

TOWERS
An overall view of Toton TMD with the cooling towers of Ratcliffe Power Station as a backdrop
66122 66186 & 66051 stabled in Didcot with the exhaust towers of the remaining gas fired power station viewable
43013 & 43062 working through Clay Mills with Willington Power Station's cooling towers still viewable in the distance

TOURING
The Locomotive Services' Chairman's Train Easter 2025 tour of most of the UK - Part 3
43049 & 43058 powering the Yorkshire Coast Pullman between Paignton and Scarborough

FL60TH 66S
66501 & 66601 'Freightliner 60th' liveried Class 66s at work between 01/04/25 and 24/04/25

PORTFOLIO
Images from between April 14th and April 24th 2025

RETRO
27063 on a mixed freight at Greenhill Lower during the 1980s

VIEW
66789 hauling 4L05 from Ditton to Felixstowe South through Manea

DATA & REFERENCE
Fleet Status database updated - 03:42 (Sat)
Storage lists/locations and stats sections updated

Wednesday 23/04/25

PUBLICATION TIME/S - 06:35 (Thu)

NEWS & INFORMATION

NEWS
Great Yarmouth power cars/stock being loaded
08308 on the road
DBC fleet changes

PHOTO NEWS
Original condition 66140 near Northampton working 6M45 from Dollands Moor to Daventry
90047 leading 90049 & 90016 through Whifflet light from Coatbridge to Mossend after working 4S52 from Crewe Basford Hall
69014 on 6Y48 - with 66310 & 66848 then solo
66207 & 66032 on the 6E54 Kingsbury to Humber empties

STOCK CONTROL
37510 & 37884 escorting 175006 & 175011 to Wolverton Works
57310 to Yarmouth CHS, then with ERS coaching stock from Yarmouth CHS to March Up Yard
37800 hauling 730215 from Gascoigne Wood to Doncaster Belmont
43058 & 43049 ECS from Crewe HS to Goodrington CHS

INTERNAL OPERATIONS
88001 being hauled from Crewe to the wheel lathe at Leeds Midland Road by 66031
37057 operating the Derby/Coleshill trainer which has resumed operating after the Easter break

PORTFOLIO
Images from between April 14th and April 23rd 2025

RETRO
43103 in Edinburgh during October 1990

VIEW
66798 at Brondesbury working 6L37 from Hoo Junction Up Yard to Whitemoor Yard

DATA & REFERENCE
Fleet Status database updated - 06:24 (Thu)
Storage lists/locations, stock changes and stats sections updated

Tuesday 22/04/25

PUBLICATION TIME/S - 15:30 (Tue) 03:10 (Wed)

NEWS & INFORMATION

NEWS
67003 to be collected from Toton
37422 joins the Colas hire fleet

PHOTO NEWS
20901 & 20905 taking the drain train to Crewe

Easter
Diverted DRS powered intermodal workings between Daventry and Coatbridge
Easter workings/movements with 56049 & 56090
66501 in possession at the former Barnwell Junction while drainage works are undertaken
66501 exiting the works possession at Waterbeach with 6Y92 back to Whitemoor
92018 on the ECML with the heavily delayed diverted overnight 1E39 Inverness and Fort William to London Kings Cross Caledonian Sleeper service
Good Friday at Toton
70809 66792 & 66790 amongst the traction in at Hinksey Yard
66313 66714 66793 & 66710 in an engineering possession on the line between Bromley North and Sundridge Park
66547 66570 & 66657 and cranes in engineering works in London

STOCK CONTROL
69009 hauling 720122 from Ilford EMUD to the wheel lathe at Central Rivers RSMD
57314 & 47237 with a short rake of WCRC coaching stock being hauled north from Southall to WCRC at Carnforth
156511 passing through Crewe ECS from Wolverton to Corkerhill
50008 with GWR Mk3 10217 on transfer from Eastleigh TRSMD to Reading TCD
Class 323s on ECS transfers to/from Wolverton Works, with 323202 running south from Allerton then 323209 running north from Wolverton

TOURING
37667 &  37521, then with 47810, handing over to 45118 & 57002, then 37401 & 37409 working the LS Chairman's Charter
47832 & 47813 on the Northern Belle on an outing that ran between Telford and Carlisle
66749 & 37403 operating the Grangemouth Growler tour
37516 & 37518 with the final day of the four day Easter Highlander excursion, working south from Craigendoran to Cardiff

PORTFOLIO
Images from between April 16th and April 20th 2025

RETRO
56115 working through Stenson during the 1980s and March 2004

VIEW
68002 at Stenson and New Whittington with 4E94 from Daventry to Doncaster iPort