20th - 25th April 2026

 

Late ruuning 66748 with 6V44 12:18 Marchwood - Bicester, Redbridge, 23rd April. Image by Ian Knight.

Monday 20th April: 66551 (+ two KVA wagons 81.70.2795.301-2 & 81.70.2795.306-1, which had arrived on 29th April 2025) 6Z66 08:22 Eastleigh - Romsey - Westbury - Oxwellmains one two three
Tuesday 21st April:
Wednesday 22nd April: 67024 0Z25 09:40 Victoria - Eastleigh, 67024 (+ 99548 / 93 / 293 CELIA) 5Z25 13:23 Eastleigh - Acton one
Thursday 23rd April: 47805 + 47810 1Z32 16:12 Portsmouth - Eastleigh - Romsey - Salisbury - Westbury - Whitchurch (Shropshire) one two three four five six
Friday 24th April:
Saturday 25th April:

69010 returned to Eastleigh - Westbury duties one two, but was returned to Doncaster on the night of 22nd, and relieved by 69004, after this loco was brought from Doncaster to Eastleigh on 23rd
69011 is working on Eastleigh - Hoo one two

CELIA out on a Pullman service 24th April

South Western Railway MD Lawrence Bowman sets out his plan to improve services

Statfold 'Spectacle of Steam' 8th March 2026 4: Bewtween Oak Tree and Cogan Halt

 

Isibutu (Bagnall 2820 / 1945).

Isibutu, a few hundred yards on.

Isaac (Bagnall 3023 / 1953).

Fiji / Lautoka No.11 (Hudswell Clarke 972 / 1912)

Cegin (Barclay 1991 / 1931) and Liassic P(eckett 1632 / 1923).

Sybil Mary (Hunslet 921/ 1906) and Marchlyn (Avonside 2067 / 1933).

Trangkill No. 4 (Hunslet 3902 / 1971).

Isibutu returns with a freight train.

13th - 18th April 2026

 

69010 NORTH NORFOLK RAILWAY 1975 - 2025 THE POPPY LINE 6O41 10:14 Westbury Down - Eastleigh East Yard passing Romsey, 13th April 2026.

70811 followed as 0Z43 10:40 Westbury - Eastleigh East Yard, which ran via Chandlers Ford.


66738 HUDDERSFIELD TOWN 0O41 10:14 Westbury - Eastleigh, Romsey, 16th April. Whither 69010? 66738 was certainly on these duties on 15th, and TOPS shows 69010 at Eastleigh.

Nameplate on 66738, unveiled by Sir Patrick Stewart on 17th July 2014.

Monday 13th April:
Tuesday 14th April:
Wednesday 15th April:
Thursday 16th April:
Friday 17th April:
Saturday 18th April: 68029 5Q86 09:54 Wembley - Eastleigh one two three, 68027 5Q63 14:19 Eastleigh - Wembley one

Pullman CELIA on a shunt at Eastleigh Works, 15th April: one two three

The sale of GBRf Class 60s may have been cancelled.

Freightliner at Eastleigh, 10th April 2026

 

66503 The Railway Magazine Celebrating 125 years, 1897-2022 4O14 05:08 Garston - Maritime.

66518 4M61 12:56 Maritime - Trafford Park.


66510 4E65 13:13 Maritime - Doncaster Europort.


66519 4O90 05:33 Doncaster Europort - Maritime.

6th - 11th April 2026

 

34028 passing Redbridge, 8th April. Image by Ian Knight.

70811 shunting some auto-ballasters at Eastleigh. This worked forward as 6V27 13:49 Eastleigh - Hinksey.

69010 NORTH NORFOLK RAILWAY 1975 - 2025 THE POPPY LINE + 70806 + 66544 + 66553 0O41 10:14 Westbury - Eastleigh. 66551 had been detached from this working in platform 1 at Salisbury to assist ailing 59001, which was following as 0Z59.

66120 passing with 4O39 09:43 Morris Cowley - Eastern Docks.

Monday 6th April: 73961 + 73964 11:50 Derby - Basingstoke - Salisbury - Southampton - Weymoiuth - Salisbury -  Woking one two three four five
Tuesday 7th April: 73961 + 73964 1Q52 09:58 Woking - Eastleigh - Portsmouth Harbour - Littlehampton - Barnham - Chichester Havant - Portsmouth Harbour - Totton Yard  - Havant - Guildford - Havant - Fareham - Eastleigh - Winchester - Basingstoke - Woking - Lymington Pier - Eastleigh one; 37254 3Q01 23:34 Woking - Eastleigh one
Wednesday 8th April: 37521 + 57311 (+ 3091) 5K47 09:44 Eastleigh - Crewe one two three four five six; 73961 + 73964 1Q53 12:00 Eastleigh - Up Yard - Wimbledon - Up Yard one two three, 1Q53 18:05 Up Yard - Wimbledon - Totton - Romsey - Eastleigh; 34028  (+ 35011 + 80217) 5Z30 10:25 Swanage - Eastleigh - Redbridge - Laverstock - Southall one two three four five six
Thursday 9th April: 73961 + 73964 1Q54 12:55 Eastleigh - Reading; 37254 3Q04 21:37 Eastleigh - Totton - Reading Triangle
Friday 10th April: 59001 0Z59 11:00 Westbury Tarmac - Eastleigh one two three (dragged by 66551 from Salisbury); 37254 3Q40 23:58 Reading - Eastleigh - Woking 
Saturday 11th April:

08511 was removed from Eastleigh by road on Thursday 9th, taken to the Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway. 08683 removed on Friday 10th.

37254 in Eastleigh Yard, 9th April: one two three

37521 and 57311 outside at Eastleigh Works on 7th: one two

56051, recently in storage at Eastleigh, back in use one two

69014 and 69016 at work in East Yard: one two three

CAT UK and DB Cargo sign new 7-year contract for Jaguar Land Rover car train service

SNCF and CMA CGM CEOs meet to discuss Rail Logistics Europe sale - to add to their acquisition of Freightliner Intermodal.

Moving 59001 to Eastleigh 'for paint', 10th April 2026

Following an extended heavy maintenance at Merehead, 59001 YEOMAN ENDEAVOUR 0Z59 11:00 Westbury Tarmac - Eastleigh Arlington (Zg). The locomotive encountered engine difficulties between Warminster and Salisbury, so 66551 (hired to Colas from Heavy Haul Rail) was cut off from preceding 6O41 in platform 1 at Salisbury, to position it to then drag 59001 to Eastleigh: one two three four five

There is an expectation that 59001 will be returned to the Foster Yeoman scheme of 40 years ago, as it was delivered in.

66551 leads across the East Junction.

Running through platform 2.

A last look at the Aggregate Industries scheme on 59001, which still bore its '30 Years' stickers from a decade ago.

The mismatched window rubber has been black since the 2019 period.

The shunt signal has the 'W' indicator for entry into the Works.

Statfold 'Spectacle of Steam' 8th March 2026 3: Roundhouse Museum

A de facto 'National' railway museum for the narrow gauge.

 

A general view of the exhibition area.

Tamar (Hunslet 3756 / 1952) under overhaul.

Roger ISC No.2 (Kerr Stuart 3128 / 1918 ) of the Wren type.

Saccharine (John Fowler (Leeds) 13355 / 1912).

Alpha (Hudswell Clarke 1172 / 1922) and Statfold (Hunslet 3903 / 2005).

Cloister (Hunslet 542 / 1891).

Michael (Hunslet 1709 / 1932) and King of the Scarlets (Hunslet 492 / 1889), both 1foot 10¾in gauge.