1st - 6th December 2025

 

66620 6O68 09:11 Westbury Tarmac - Crawley, 3rd December.

66750 Bristol Panel Signal Box + 66710 Karen Harrison + 66130 0O41 10:14 Westbury - Eastleigh, passing Redbridge, 4th December.

Monday 1st December: 37401 (+ 3091) 5Z90 09:44 Eastleigh - Crewe (ran 4 hrs late) one two
Tuesday 2nd December:
Wednesday 3rd December: 47739 0O77 12:31 Leicester - Eastleigh
Thursday 4th December: 47739 0Z84 09:12 Eastleigh - Marchwood, 47739 (+701038) 5Q84 11:19 Marchwood - Wimbledon Park ("This service was cancelled due to a problem with the brakes", loco appears to have quickly sneaked back to Eastleigh quite soon after arrival at Marchwood.)
Friday 5th December:
Saturday 6th December:

313201 has been relocated to Llanelli, further info from the owning group.

In the forums: "DB Cargo has won a 5 year contract to move electric cars for Jaguar from Halewood to the port of Southampton."

395008 - the two coaches at Western Docks are expected to move to Eastleigh Works next week.

Eastleigh Works: 19Nov - 20Nov - 25Nov - 26Nov (departure of scrapped 57007) - 27Nov

Ten minutes at Eastleigh, 2nd December 2025

 

59104 Village of Great Elm 6V62 13:21 Up Yard - Westbury Tarmac.

66533 4O90 04:55 Doncaster Europort - Maritime.


66419 Lionesses' Roar 4E65 13:13 Maritime - Doncaster Europort.

Miscellany at Eastleigh, 28th November 2025

 

59201 Westbury PSB crossing over the main lines with 6O68 09:11 Westbury Tarmac - Crawley.

66520 4O15 06:40 Lawley Street - Maritime.

69009 WESTERN CONSORT has been introduced to the Westbury circuit, seen arrriving as 0O41 10:14 Westbury - Eastleigh.

66419 Lionesses' Roar 66419 4O14 05:08 Garston - Maritime.

59202 Pride of Ferrybridge 6O70 11:00 Westbury Tarmac - Eastleigh.

66124 4O39 09:43 Morris Cowley - Eastern Docks.

59104 Village of Great Elm 6V62 13:21 Up Yard - Westbury Tarmac.

66594 NYK Spirit of Kyoto 4O90 04:55 Doncaster Europort - Maritime.

66505 4E65 13:13 Maritime - Doncaster Europort.

24th - 29th November 2025

 

59204 at Crampmoor with 6O68 0911 Westbury Tarmac - Crawley, 26th November.

70020 at Maritime, 23rd November. Image by Roger Homan. By Thursday morning 27th, no Freightliner Class 70 was present or working in the South, with 70020 working from Earles Sidings.

68022 + CH12 5Q69 10:43 Eastleigh Trsmd - Banbury Depot, Eastleigh, 28th November.

Monday 24th November: 69006 + 56051 6O31 17:25 Westbury - Eastleigh
Tuesday 25th November: 59003 (+ Britannic Explorer) 6S20 07:30 Eastleigh - Tuebrook (Network Rail did not permit 59003 to go beyond Preston, so changed at Tuebrook to 66732 - Hamilton) one two three four five; 68021 0Z95 Eastleigh - Loughborough one two three
Wednesday 26th November: 59003 0Z59 11:00 Tuebrook - Eastleigh one two three four five
Thursday 27th November: 56051 + 70813 0Z13 08:52 Eastleigh - Westbury
Friday 28th November:
Saturday 29th November:

70009,  currently leased to Colas, is not expected to return to the Freightliner Heavy Haul fleet, which will be 18 units ahead of the company transaction.

Freightliner have ordered a further 150 FFA-G Ecofret wagons, to add to the previous 230 in the 81.70.4846.xxx-x series.

Class 455s now seem to be heading to Derby for disposal, as Unimetals' at Newport is in liquidation. 455731 was one of a pair moved on 24th, seen here at Eastleigh Works when being equipped with a Vossloh Kiepe traction package, 23rd September 2016.

Remains of 57007, seen earlier on 12th November, removed in two halves from Eastleigh Works to a local scrap yard (Bryan Hirst, Bullington Cross), 26th November.

57007 Freightliner Bond, Maritime, 27th November 2004.

Clayton Equipment Co, manufacturer of Class 18, is entering administration.

Eastleigh Works: 30Sep - 01Oct - 02Oct - 07Oct - 09Oct - 21Oct - 22Oct - 28Oct - 29Oct - 07Nov - 12Nov - 13Nov - 14Nov - 18Nov

Freightliner at Eastleigh, 21st November 2025

 

66597 Viridor 4O15 06:40 Lawley Street - Maritime.

66547 4O14 05:08 Garston - Maritime.

59205 6O70 11:00 Westbury Tarmac - Eastleigh.

The last wagon was HOA 81.70.6774.210-3, delivered in January 2025.

66519 4M61 12:56 Maritime - Trafford Park.

66587 AS ONE, WE CAN 4O90 04:55 Doncaster Europort - Maritime.

66413 4E65 13:13 Maritime - Leeds. This was Lest we Forget, the name since transferred to 66623, and now bears logos for aggregates customers Tarmac and Fox Group.

Eastleigh Works, 21st November 2025

 

Locomotive Services 37401 Mary Queen of Scots arrived from Crewe on Tuesday 18th.

800309 appears to be clsoe to the end of its cosmetic attention following earlier repair.

47818 was rather more visible than 5 days beforehand.

JNA wagon move from Mountsorrel, Eastleigh, 21st November 2025

Ten Ermewa JNA-T wagons, also labelled for Tarmac, and among the earliest of their type, seen here when new, being moved to Eastleigh Works for overhaul / repair.

66139 approaching Eastleigh.


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81.70.5500.017-5

66139 06:52 Mountsorrel Sdgs to Eastleigh Arlington (Zg)

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81.70.5500.011-8

81.70.5500.002-7

81.70.5500.010-0

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