Saturday 28 September 2019

23rd - 28th September 2019


68017 Hornet powers past Dunbridge on Thursday 26th.

66558 passes St Denys with 4O05 0719 Birch Coppice - Maritime, 26th September.

66558 again on the 26th, starting away from Maritime with 4M98 17:24 to Garston.

66724 Drax Power Station gave relief to 66711 on the Eastleigh - Westbury cycle on 27th, here seen on 6O41 14:30 from Westbury, approaching Romsey.

Monday 23rd September: 800202 + 800207 5X82 09:16 Eastleigh - Acton one two
Tuesday 24th September: 802206 + 802211 5X82 09:16 Eastleigh - Acton one two three four five; 66001 5Z49 11:01 Eastleigh - Burton one two three
Wednesday 25th September: 60044 7O35 05:00 Westbury - Fareham, 6V16 11:55 Fareham - Whatley one two three four five six; 68017 0Z56 10:05Crewe - Eastleigh one two; 08507 at Eastleigh works one 
Thursday 26th September: 68017 1Z56 10:21 Eastleigh - Paignton one two three four five; 61306 + 47802 1Z61 08:45 Victoria - Swanage; 47802 + 61306 1Z62 16:40 Swanage - Southampton - Laverstock - Victoria - 61306 for the day; 43014 + 43062 1X23 15:13 Salisbury - Southampton - Salisbury one two; 47813 + 47815 0O86 10:29 Leicester - Eastleigh one two
Friday 27th September:  47813 + 47815 0Y86 06:09½ Eastleigh - Bournemouth, 47813 +442415  47815 5Q87 08:30 Bournemouth - Eastleigh one two three four five47813 + 47815 0M59 12:49 Eastleigh - Leicester; 66777 + 801209 5X41 Acton - Eastleigh one two three
Saturday 28th September:

60024 and 60039 have moved away from Westbury. 60044 saw use on the Fareham working on Wednesday.

GBRf sold to Infracapital - the unlisted infrastructure equity arm of M&GPrudential

Woking Electrical Control Room - 21st September & and earlier 2012 visit. There is also a similar structure in Havant.

Full set of the Doncaster pictures.                   Full set of Darlington and Shildon pictures.

Further to recent LNER ECML coverage, 43290 and 43300 have both now been denamed. The HST fleets seems to be planned to be out of use my mid-December, about 10 weeks from now.

Iowa Pacific who hold the Weardale Railway, Dartmoor Railway and RMS Locotech in their UK portfolio, are in significant financial difficulty in the United States - DCR is now part of Cappagh, so is separated. Two entities were placed into receivership and the receiver has filed to place five more into this status.