First time visitors 66763 and 66754 at Eastleigh, 6th February. Image by Ian Knight.
66506 Crewe Regeneration running late into Romsey with 6O26 10:50 Hinksey - Eastleigh
The name was applied on 4th July 2000.
Battered 46 ton OCA 112101 was bult at Shildon in 1981 to Lot 4014. It looked better in 2010. The OCA was the final development of the traditional, general-purpose open wagon although the decline in general merchandise traffic resulted in the type never being fully employed on such traffic. Most of the OCA fleet were by the 1990’s transferred to departmental use were many were later rebuilt as ZCA 'Seahorses', with low-sided steel bodies suitable for ballast and spoil loads., while other OCA’s were rebuilt as OTA timber carriers. (credit)
Monday 2nd February: 31233 3Q01 21;21 Eastleigh - Woking - Eastleigh - Fareham - Eastleigh - Bournemouth - Eastleigh; 73138 0Z73 Eastleigh - Didcot - Swindon - Kemble - Derby one two three four
Tuesday 3rd February: 31233 3Q02 20:44 Eastleigh - Weymouth - Hither Green
Wednesday 4th February: 37706 0Z37 08:30 Southall - Eastleigh one two, 37706 + 51933 + 56504 5Z37 11:30 Eastleigh - Swanage one two three four five six seven eight, 37706 + 59492 + 51356 + 51392 (DMU expected to be for scrap) 5Z39 14:20 Swanage - Eastleigh one two three four five, 37706 0Z39 16:54 Eastleigh - Southall
Thursday 5th February: 158890 1Z15 15:47 Poole - Corfe Castle one,1Z16 (Corfe Castle -)16:49 Motala - Wareham one - Claire Perry MP on board (see below)
Friday 6th February: 37402 3Z64 02:59 Swindon - Eastleigh, 3Q06 21:47 Eastleigh - Southampton - Exeter - Romsey - Eastleigh one two three
Saturday 7th February: 37402 3Z23 08;23 Eastleigh - Acton - Derby one two three four five
Harbury Tunnel landslip north of Banbury
Network Rail has now advised that the line closure will be for "several weeks", and West Coast Main Line closures in February have now been cancelled.
Freightliner paths are via Willesden and Acton meantime, similarly the car trains to and from north of Leamingston.
Location Pictures: one two
Rail Minister Claire Perry MP makes history after riding on the first train run under new £3.2 million signalling system
- http://www.blackmorevale.co.uk/Rail-Minister-Claire-Perry-MP-makes-history/story-25986989-detail/story.html
- http://www.swanagerailway.co.uk/news/detail/rail-minister-rides-first-train-after-commissioning-of-new-signalling-scheme-for-main-line-connection
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-31161637
Then and Now Around Southampton - a set by Dave Mant
47739 is still at Eastleigh
