22nd - 27th December 2025

 
Sunday 21st December: 47739 0E47 18:00 Eastleigh  - Peterborough
Monday 22nd December:
Tuesday 23rd December: 47727 0Z84 08:24 Eastleigh - Marchwood; 47727 (+ 701022 - the last from Marchwood) 5Q84 10:56 Marchwood - Wimbledon Park one two three four five six seven (then 47727 to Leicester)
Wednesday 24th December:
Thursday 25th December:
Friday 26th December:
Saturday 27th December:

Eastleigh Works: 02Dec - 03Dec - 04Dec - 09Dec - 10Dec - 16Dec - 17Dec - 18Dec

The former Mendip Rail Marcroft JNAs, stored at Gascoigne Wood for 2 years, are now being delivered to EMR Attercliffe for disposal. The first working was on 17th December one two, with a second on 23rd.

VTG 3467 (nearer) and VTG 3428, seen on 8th November 2022, were again (still?) coupled up together on the way to the scrapyard on 23rd.

Class 455 tours on 21st December: Train A one two three four five six seven : Train B one two three four five

SRPS Diesel Gala, 1st June 2025. Part 2: 66307

 

66307 IPSWICH TOWN in repose before the start of the day in Bo'ness.


66307 was delivered as 77502 (92.87.0077.502-8) to the Netherlands in September 2009, and arrived in the UK in January 2023. Repainted at Eastleigh, outshopped on 11th May 2023.


Awaiting a departure from Bo'ness.


A platform view. The majority of gala participants were at this point riding in the dmu.


Detail of nameplate.

SRPS Diesel Group

Steam at the Great Central Railway, 7th June 2025

 

6990 Witherslack Hall arriving at Quorn & Woodhouse. 


BR 5MT 73156 had been in traffic earlier in the week.


78019, first allocated to Kirkby Stephen in March 1954, at rest at Loughborough.

Also new to Kirkby Stephen in March 1954, and the loco involved in Snowdrift at Bleath Gill, 78018 approaches Quorn with a dining train.


6990 approaches Loughborough with a train from Leicester North.


6990 running around at Loughborough.

At Quorn, a newly married couple have their picture taken close to 6990.

15th - 20th December 2025

10 years ago, 70810 at Eastleigh Works, 19th December 2015.

Monday 15th December: 37501 0O86 06:50 Derby - Eastleigh one two three four, 37501 (+ 6393) 5M57 12:25 Eastleigh Arlington -Derby one two three four five (barrier coach later used for a Glasgow - Wolverton 334024 move one two three four); 47727 0O79 12:30 Leicester - Eastleigh; 73961 + 73962 1Q51 1150 Derby - Eastleigh - Weymouth - Eastleigh one two
Tuesday 16th December: 47739 0O69 08:00 Marchwood - Eastleigh; 47727 0Z84 08:25 Eastleigh - Marchwood, 47727 (+701032) 5Q84 11:01 Marchwood - Wimbledon Park, 47727 0Z85 15:17 Wimbledon Park - Eastleigh; 73961 + 73962 1Z52 1430 Eastleigh East Yard to Derby; 37421 3Q01 23:34 Woking -Eastleigh
Wednesday 17th December: 37421 3Q02 21:40 Eastleigh -  Weymouth - Fratton - St Denys - Eastleigh; 47727 & 47739 at Eastleigh one two three four five; 37421 at Eastleigh one two
Thursday 18th December: 47727 0Z84 08:25 Eastleigh - Marchwood; 47727 (+701029) 5Q84 11:01 Marchwood - Wimbledon Park one, 47727 0Z84 14:12 Wimbledon Park - Eastleigh; 73961 + 73962 1Q54 12:55 Eastleigh - Reading; 37421 3Q04 21:37 Eastleigh - Totton - Reading Triangle
Friday 19th December: 455727 + 455870 5Y51 14:32 Bournemouth - Wimbledon Park one two three (5727 for Farewell Runs this weekend); 37421 3Q40 23:58 Reading Triangle - Southampton -  Reading Triangle
Saturday 20th December: 455712 + 455717 5Y51 11:32 Bournemouth - Wimbledon Park one two three four (for tour)

Rail 200 exhibition train: one two three four

SRPS Diesel Gala, 1st June 2025. Part 1: Class 20s

 

20132 + 20118 Saltburn-by-the-Sea emerge from the sheds and sidings.


Detail of 20132, part of the second series, delivered from Vulcan Foundry as D8132 in March 1966 to Tinsley.

Detail of 20118, part of the first series, delivered from Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn, Darlington, in March 1962 to Polmadie.


The pairs of 20s move on to couple up to 66307 on the train.

Having returned from Manuel, the pair prepare to return to the sidings to await a later turn in the day.

SRPS Diesel Group

Outside at Barrow Hill, 7th June 2025

 

37419 was in a stored status, in the ownership of Swietelsky. It arrived at Barrow Hill on 28th May 2024. Now out and about in Swietelsky colours.


66798 Justine was coupled to a weedkiller train, with 66739 Bluebell Railway at the far end. 03066 lay alongside.

46010 + 45060 (D100) SHERWOOD FORESTER.

08956 in pool CDJD (Network Rail Class 08); 37402 Oor Wullie of Sheaf Engineering; and 50164 from the NYMR, who are understood to want their Class 101 twin to be serviceable again.

BR 62321 Class 423 4-VEP EMU Motor Brake Second Open Built 1969, being used as office space for Rampart.

20 or more of these new JNA-Z wagons, built by WH Davis at Mansfield in 2024, and intended for HS2 construction usage, were in storage. this is 81.70.5932.857.2.

'The Bath Christmas Market Express', Eastleigh, 12th December 2025

61306 MAYFLOWER + 47593 Galloway Princess T+T 1Z71 08:00 Three Bridges - Bath Spa.

61306 approaching platform 2.

Running through the platform.

FO 3122 (BR Swindon, Lot 30697, 1962).


47593 on the rear.

47593, built as D1973, new from BR Crewe in November 1965, allocated to 64B Haymarket, later 47272.


Shortly later, at Romsey. Video clip by Ian Knight.