Wednesday 21 October 2020

1 hour 15 minutes of freight at Romsey, 20th October 2020 part 1: 59003 with 6V41

 
59003 YEOMAN HIGHLANDER, passing with 6V41 14:48 Eastleigh - Westbury.


The formation was notable for including five OCA wagons, built at BREL Shldon in 1981-82, now getting rarer. Starting with 112117.

Then 112043 ...

... 112048 ...

... 112229 ...

... and 112269. All had seen use on Eastleigh based ballast trains over the preceding weekend. All are in pool 6822 'DB Network infrastructure/storage pools' as 'STEEL-DOOR-BASS', in which there are approximately 113 wagons.