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, 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.


81.70.5500.001-9

81.70.5500.017-5

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

81.70.5500.007-6

81.70.5500.003-5

81.70.5500.001-9

81.70.5500.011-8

81.70.5500.002-7

81.70.5500.010-0

81.70.5500.009-2

81.70.5500.016-7

81.70.5500.012-6

81.70.5500.017-5

17th - 22nd November 2025

 

35028 Clan Line running through Eastleigh, 15th November. Image by Roger Homan.

66531 6Y85 11:31 Romsey - Eastleigh, approaching Eastleigh, 16th November.

66547 arriving at the Redbridge end of Maritime, having arrived with 4O15 06:40 Lawley Street - Maritime, 19th November.

57303 (+701047) at Redbridge, 19th November. Image by Ian Knight.

57303 later worked light engine from Wimbledon to Fairwater Yard (Taunton), via Eastleigh for a crew change. Seen passing Romsey.

Monday 17th November: 73961 + 73962 1Q51 11:15 Derby - Eastleigh - Weymouth - Eastleigh one two

Tuesday 18th November: 68026 (+ CH11) 5Q94 07:25 Eastleigh - Long Marston one two three; 73961 + 73962 1Q52 10:46 Eastleigh - Portsmouth Harbour - Littlehampton - Barnham Chichester - Portsmouth Harbour - Totton Yard  - Havant - Guildford - Havant - Fareham - Eastleigh - Winchester - Basingstoke - Woking - Lymington Pier - Eastleigh; 37401 0Z37 08:33 Crewe - Eastleigh one two three four; 57303 (+ Britannic Explorer) 5O77 13:31 Wellingborough - Eastleigh one
Wednesday 19th November: 57303 0Z77 09:12 Eastleigh - Marchwood, 57303 (+ 701047) 5Q84 11:19 Marchwood - Wimbledon Park one two three (ran over 2 hours late after brake problems at Marchwood), 57303 0V57 1512 Wimbledon Park - Eastleigh - Redbridge - Salisbury - Westbury - Fairwater Yard; 73961 + 73962 1Q53 12:00 Eastleigh - Up Yard - Wimbledon - Up Yard, 1Q53 18:05 Up Yard - Wimbledon - Totton - Romsey - Eastleigh
Thursday 20th November: 70812 + 56051 0Z56 09:24 Eastleigh -Westbury; 73961 + 73962 1Q54 12:55 Eastleigh - Reading one
Friday 21st November:
Saturday 22nd November:

59001 is receiving a heavy exam at Merehead, expected to be out of traffic until April period. Some suggestion that it will return in the Yeoman colours of 1986. It has been moved to the DDII pool (Heavy Haul Class 59).

Active Freightliner Class 70 locomotives have been allocated to the DDHH pool (Heavy Haul Class 70).

66701 - 66722, leased from Eversholt are expected to be released by GBRf once the Class 99 fleet is into traffic. The expected destination for them is Colas, to displace the Class 56 fleet.

‘Hotshot’ thermal imaging cameras to help prevent delays on SWR (450056 Hotshot).

Ten 2019 built Mendip Rail HOA hoppers have been moved for storage at Fiddler's Ferry, on 19th ,- 20th via Alexandra Dock.

One of these stored, 81.70.6774.027-1 at Eastleigh, 28th August 2025.

Britannic Explorer set expected to be returned 6S20 07:30 Eastleigh Works Gbrf - Hamilton Gbrf (Assenta Rail) on Tuesday 25th.

The Ballad Of St Paddy & Nimbus - I saw them all.

Romsey on a Thursday afternoon, 20th November 2025

DR 98908 3S82 06:07 Totton Yard - Totton Yard.


69006 Pathfinder Railtours 6V41 14:48 Eastleigh - Westbury.

The fourth and final wagon was FEA-W 81.70.4524.157-4 .


59203 6V57 13:09 Ardingly Hanson Aggregates - Whatley Quarry F Liner Hh.

HOA hopper wagon 81.70.6774.212-9 .

Eastleigh Works, 16th November 2025

 

Recently arrived 08454 was shunting. New from Derby on 19th December 1958 as D3569, first allocated to 17B Burton.


47818 has lost a number of parts since I last half-decently photographed it in 2019. New as D1917 from Brush, Loughborough in December 1965, later 47240 and 47663.

LSL Buffet Standard 10416 has been at the Works since January 2024. Completed at BREL Derby as FO M11035 as part of Lot 30875 in 1975-76.

RFM 10211 formerly in the DB Cargo Company Train, which arrived in July to support the Britannic Explorer project. Originally HST TRUK 40510 built at BREL DErby to Lot 30884 in 1977, running in 253010, then 254010.

Ermewa JNA 81.70.5500.029-0 has arrived as part of ongoing overhaul work of these 10 year old wagons. This example more recently recorded in Hindlow Quarry flows.