Aggregates Workings at Eastleigh, 28th January 2026

The final day of Freightliner Heavy Haul, the company separating into Heavy Haul Rail Ltd at 02:00 on Thursday 29th January.

 

59205 leading 6O68 09:11 Westbury Tarmac - Crawley through Eastleigh.

The last wagon was JNA 81.70.5932.580-0.

59004 PAUL A HAMMOND approaches with 6V62 13:21 Up Yard - Westbury Tarmac.


59004 has now been in the UK for 40 years.

All of the wagons were Marcroft JNAs, trailed by NACO 3919.

Eastleigh Works, 28th January 2026

 

57302 outside of the works, now on Class 57 bogies. When seen in October, it was on Class 47 accommodation bogies.


59003 YEOMAN HIGHLANDER, in stored status, is confirmed located in the Works, and was receiving some kind of attention.

08567 John Arlington Stephens 20th May 1925 - 19th July 1984.

08454.

2991 (07007) Bruce.

802114 has received its repaint, but was awaiting numbers.

Eastleigh, 26th January 2026

Images from the camera of Roger Homan.

66554 (DFIM pool) 4O15 06:40 Lawley Street - Maritime.


66100 + new Plasser & Theurer Unimat 08-4x4/4S Tamper DR 73957 + 66128 working 6Q60 09:28 Swanage - West Ealing.


Showing Trans-Pennine destination 'Liverpool Lime Street' 68029 with set CH07 on late running 5Q69 10:15 Eastleigh - Banbury.


DBSO 12807 of set CH07.

66316 + 66544 arrived with 6O41.


A closer view of 66316.

An interesting 6O41, Romsey, 26th January 2026

 

66316 (a cop for me) + 66544 (hired to Colas) 6O41 10:14 Westbury Down T.C. - Eastleigh East Yard.


66316 was formerly 29003 (EMD 20008254-13 delivered in 2002), now owned by AKIEM and brought to the UK in December 2024, as the last of this group.


66316 entered traffic for GBRf about 6th September 2025.

The wagon consist started with a group of FEA-W wagons starting with 81.70.4524.222-6.

These were followed by 10 RHTT module carrier wagons, 8 of type FRA-B, which had been moved 6Z47 09:01 Swindon Transfer - Westbury Down on 23rd. The first was 613108, formerly 613032 until a conversiion at Eastleigh Arlington in 2020.

613108 (613032) coming off Eastleigh Works on 25th September 2020.

FRA 613112 (formerly 613027) on the rear of the train, similarly converted in 2021.

Wagon consist
7045242226  FEA
7045241657  FEA
7045240626  FEA
7045240162  FEA
7045240543  FEA
7045242267  FEA
7045242457  FEA
7045242507  FEA
613108  FRA
613106  FRA
613104  FRA
613107  FRA
613102  FRA
613103  FRA
642025  FEA
642046  FEA
613109  FRA
613112  FRA

Caledonian Sleeper Class 73 movements, December 2025 - January 2026

 

On 24th December, 66301 Drax Power Station 50 + 73968 passes Aberdour as  0Z17 09:47 Aberdeen Clayhills Car.M.D - Craigentinny T.&R.S.M.D.

73968.


The same working one week later, 31st December, and the same combination, seen passing Dalgety Bay.

73968.

Returning north for duty, 73970 WS Sellar + 66759 Chippy 0Z25 11:40 Craigentinny T.&R.S.M.D to Inverness, running through Inverkeithing, 2nd January.





Similarly, 73968 + 66301  0Z26 15:19 Craigentinny T.&R.S.M.D - Aberdeen Clayhills Car.M.D, at Aberdour on the same day.

19th - 24th January 2026

66068 PRIDE IN MOTION with a late running 4M96 06:14 Maritime - Birch Coppice, at Southampton, 22nd January.

The name plates and paint scheme were unveiled in August 2025.

Monday 19th January: 800310 5X80 13:15 Reading - Eastleigh
Tuesday 20th January:
Wednesday 21st January:
Thursday 22nd January: 37254 3Q36 23:52 Westbury - Southampton - Bristol (earlier one two)
Friday 23rd January:
Saturday 24th January:

59104 has been stored after its incident last week, and 59002 is being prepared for a return to service.

25 DBC Class 66s are being sold by DBC to Grup Feroviar Roman (GFR) of Romania, for delivery 2026 - 2028. 66014 is first, and also identified are 66006/009/024/027/040/047/069/075/076/080/085-087/089/095, 66110/111/115/197 (20 locomotives). The remaining 5 may be 66018/037, 66138/145/160. [UPDATE 29Jan: All now in a WGER pool)

Freightliner Intermodal at Eastleigh, 16th January 2026

It is interesting to note that all of the Freightliner Intermodal traffic was in the hands of lower numbered Class 66's in the range 66501 to 66525. this representing the lower numbered approximate half of the DFIM pool. The Class 70s are now working for Heavy Haul. 

66515 4O15 06:40 Lawley Street - Maritime.

66514 4O14 05:08 Garston - Maritime.

66506 66506 4M61 12:56 Maritime - Trafford Park.

66518 4O90 04:03 Doncaster Europort - Maritime.