20th - 25th December 2021

20007 (for repaint) + 20142 arrive at Eastleigh, 23rd December. Images by Roger Homan.

Monday 20th December: 57309 0Z09 03:00 Crewe - Eastleigh; 142003 noted with fresh paint; 73963 + 73965 1Q51 11:15 Derby - Eastleigh - Weymouth - Eastleigh; 66776 + 73969 6E15 21:17 Eastleigh - Doncaster (- Scunthorpe)
Tuesday 21st December: 73963 + 73965 1Q52 10:37 Eastleigh - Portsmouth Harbour - Littlehampton - Portsmouth Harbour - Totton Yard - Havant - Guildford - Havant - Fareham - Eastleigh - Winchester - Woking - Lymington Pier -Eastleigh; 37175 3Q01 23:38 Woking -Eastleigh
Wednesday 22nd December: 47727 0D10 06:53 Derby - Eastleigh one two, 47727 + 701034 5Q15 Eastleigh - Derby; 37175 3Q02 21:34 Eastleigh - Poole - Weymouth - Fareham - Fratton - St Denys - Eastleigh
Thursday 23rd December: 20007 + 20142 0Z20 09:51 Leicester - Eastleigh one two three four five six seven eight nine, 50008 (but TOPS recorded as 50007) 0Z50 16:21 Eastleigh - Leicester; 73963 + 73965 1Z54 21:00 Eastleigh - Tonbridge;
Friday 24th December:
Saturday 25th December:

73966 already made its return to Scotland, via the same 6E15 as above, on 30th November.

GBRf have a teaser for Freight Fans, more to come in January 2022. Class 99?

An update on 4-VEP 3417.

Iain Stewart MP Launches Bid To Make Milton Keynes The Home Of Great British Railways - another MP making his case, the train illustrated says "national express" but appears to be in Germany, in the EU. Competency of his effort? GBR may now only be established beyond the term of the current government.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

13th - 18th December 2021

 
68005 departing from Eastleigh Works, Tuesday 14th. Two images by Roger Homan.

The 4 wheel PFA wagons are used for traffic between Sellafield and the Drigg low level nuclear waste facility. The wagons were DRSL 92733,  92721, 92730 & 92768.

Sunday 12th December: 66148 on Eastleigh - Romsey test run one. Later in the day it was back in the yard sidings adjacent to platform 3, but then worked to Westbury one
Monday 13th December:
Tuesday 14th December: 68005 6Z14 01:03 Crewe - Eastleigh one two three four, 6Z15 09:12 Eastleigh - Crewe one two three four
Wednesday 15th December:
Thursday 16th December: 43257 + 43290 1X23 15:13 Salisbury - Southampton UGL - Salisbury (earlier 1Q23 one two three;  69001 + 69003 4Y19 13:07 Tonbridge - Western Docks one, 6Y83 18:22 Western Docks - Tonbridge one; 769949 Reading - Eastleigh, 769925 Eastleigh - Reading
Friday 17th December:
Saturday 18th December:

20007 expected to arrive in Eastleigh in January for a repaint, remaining green.

Video on Southampton Train Lengthening Scheme.

DRS Sale list has been updated to show known dispositions for locomotives.

Eastleigh Works and T&RSMD, 12th December 2021

 
43423, 43296 and 43308. The first is to be converted for Rail Adventure, the other pair are believed to be sources for spares. 43423 was originally 43123, delivered in April 1979.

317892 (formerly Ilford Depot) has been divided, with MS 62696 in the yard as shown, and the other three coaches being first in line in the scrap road. 317892 was delivered as 317336 in May 1982, and renumbered to 317892 in August 2006, for Stansted Express service. (142032 and 142089 have been moved - they are in right background of top image).

Two images of DTS 77059 of 317509. The unit was delivered as 317312 in February 1982 and renumbered in December 2005, for West Anglia Metro services.

50008 Thunderer.

43468.

701004, 701023, 701019, 701029, 701015 and 701022.

6th - 11th December 2021

 

166208 passing Dunbridge,8th December. These 1992 units will be with us for a while, although the similarly platformed Class 365s are being sent for scrap.

Sunday 5th December: 66751 5Z52 1425 Pengam Reception Sidings - Eastleigh one two
Monday 6th December:
Tuesday 7th December: 43046 + (2 trailers) + 43055 5Z36 07:55 Crewe - Eastleigh one two three four; 66148 failed north of Basingstoke with 4O43 from Wakefield, and was rescued by 67013, after a driver for it came from Bristol one two
Wednesday 8th December: 66148 dumped at Eastleigh one two
Thursday 9th December:
Friday 10th December: 47727 + 360114 07:30 5Q15 Kettering - Eastleigh one two three four 47727 + 360104 5Q17 13:30 Eastleigh - Cricklewood one two
Saturday 11th December:

Some of the new Wascosa yellow JNA wagons have been dispatched north to Mountsorrel via the Hinksey working.

59003 remains in Eastleigh Works.

Dunbridge, 8th December 2021

 
66563 working empties as 6V62 13:21 Up Yard - Whatley.


66539 passing 158883 with 4M65 13:45 Maritime - Lawley Street.

66792 0V40 13:45 Westbury - Eastleigh. Until 2020 this was T66405 of Rush Rail.

66792 returned with 6V40 6V40 14:05 Eastleigh - Westbury, with two cranes in formation.

The first was DRK 81613, a Kirow 1200UK, and the second (not illustrated) was DRK 81601, a Kirow 800UK.

66514 followed with 7V07 13:41 Chichester - Merehead.

Freight at Easteigh, 3rd December 2021

 

66160 arriving with 6M48 10:34 Eastern Docks - Halewood.

Some of the IPA wagons in the Groupe CAT fleet were in the colours applied at Eastleigh Works since 2020. This, again, is 23.87.4384.042-9.

Also in this fleet is a double deck IPA type, 23.87.4375.019-8, built by Arbel Fauvet in 1978.

66548 was in the station at the same time with 4O15 06:44 Lawley Street - Maritime. The rake included further FFA-G wagons.

66701 arriving with 6O41 10:14 Westbury - Eastleigh. This loco was sitting in on 59003's regular turn.

66737 Lesia makes its arrival with 4M19 11::50 Westernt Docks - East Midlands.

GBRf also have new wagons, leased from VTG. These are 'Ecofret 2' FWA-C (outer) and FWA-D (centre) wagons in sets of three, manufactured by WH Davis. This is FWA-C 83.70.4520.280-6.

An example of the adjacent centre wagon, FWA-D 83.70.4521.076-7. Bogies are type TF20 from Wabtec, which also run under the Freightliner FFA-G's.

70002 does its thing while accelerating with 4O14 05:36 Garston - Maritime.

By contrast, 66148 Maritime Intermodal Seven crawled while awaiting for an amber, with 4O43 03:59 Wakefield - Western Docks, which had been recessed in the East Yard.

37611 at Eastleigh, 3rd December 2021

37611 Pegasus + 360109 5Q86 07:10 Cricklewood - Eastleigh
37611 0M57 12:00 Eastleigh - Derby

The delivery working ran early and I only stepped onto platform 3 as it ran through. As a record shot, 5Q86 is seen entering the works. 360109 was new in February 2003.


37611 seen starting on its return to Derby.


The locomotive has acquired a further control socket since I last saw it in 2017, this being fitted in 2019 period.


Pegasus nameplate.

Proceeding through platform 2.

37611 was new from English Electric Vulcan Foundry on 17th September 1963 as D6871, renumbered to 37171 in 1973. Rebuilt to 37690 in February 1987, and modified as 37611 in November 1995. Sold to DRS in June 1997, and to Europhoenix in March 2016.

29th November - 4th December 2021

 

43468 at Eastleigh Works, with newly applied lettering, 1st December.


57302 and 769938 at Eastleigh Works, 1st December, the latter, which arrived 12th November, now with upper marker light.

59003 went onto Eastleigh Works in the afternoon of 3rd December, seen alongside 50008.

Monday 29th November:
Tuesday 30th November: 50008 0Z50 09:51 Leicester - Eastleigh one two three four five six
Wednesday 1st December: 50008 0Z50 11:00 Eastleigh Works - Eastleigh East Yard, 50008 + 43484 + 43480 5Z43 15:00 Eastleigh East Yard - Eastleigh Works one
Thursday 2nd December: 50008 0Z50 09:40 Eastleigh - Willesden one, 50008 + 43467 + 43308 + 43296 + 43423 0Z43 15:15 Willesden - Eastleigh one two three four five - nameplates have been removed from the EMR blue liveried power cars while at Willesden, and the four locomotives have a reversed order since they went away on 5th March; 57312 + 317509 + 317892 5Q86 09:50 Ely Papworth - Eastleigh (for disposal at Raxstar) one two; 57312 0H72 15:57 Eastleigh - Wembley
Friday 3rd December: 37611 + 360109 5Q86 07:10 Cricklewood - Eastleigh one two; 37611 0M57 12:00 Eastleigh - Derby one two three
Saturday 4th December: 66751 5Z48 0200 Eastleigh - Reading - Cardiff; 37611 (82227 + 11321 + 10330 + 12323 + 12461 + 12222) 5Q86 10:20 Doncaster - Eastleigh one two three four five six, 37611 0H72 (?) 19:48 Eastleigh - Wembley

Unexploded wartime bomb disrupts Hampshire train services - BBC - ITV - Hampshire Live. GWR and SWR services and operated via Eastleigh.

50008 is rumoured to be taking 50026 to the Swanage Railway at some time shortly, for tests following repairs

GB Railways: MP bids to base major railway organisation's HQ in Eastleigh & on his website. A perspective: a MP puts in a letter to the Transport Secretary, and then grandstands to his constituents via the media. In turn the "competition" has been created by the government to allow multiple MPs to do just the same and gain managed media exposure. The press fall in, especially when they need content. Many of the jobs involved already exist and currently appear to be located in Milton Keynes. Perhaps GB Railways may look to embrace WFH / mobile for the future?

Miscellany at Eastleigh, 1st December 2021

 
70807 repositioning past 66850. 70807 had been at Yeovil, returning with 6C05 on Tuesday night.

Dirty 66850 had also been at Yeovil, and next worked to Hinksey and Bescot, and back again.


08683 continues to work in the yard.


IFA track Switch & Crossing Carrier wagon 37.70.9228.041-3, built for Network Rail by Kirow.

DR 98974 returns from Basingstoke with 06:11 Totton Yard - Totton Yard RHTT working.

701028 5Q44 15:28 Eastleigh Trsmd - Bournemouth T&R.S.M.D. These trains are understood to currently be operated by GBRf.

Freight at Eastleigh, 1st December 2021

 
66701, in original colours similar to when delivered in 2001, departing as an early 0V40 to Westbury.

70015 approaches with 4M61 12:56 Maritime - Trafford Park, which included 16 of the recently delivered FFA-G wagons, running in 8 pairs.


81.70.4846.195-5 paired with 81.70.4846.158-3. All of these illustrated were delivered around 3rd October.


81.70.4846.184-9.


81.70.4846.187-2 preceded by 81.70.4846.170-8.


66606 passing with 6V62 13:21 Up Yard - Whatley - one of few stone trains running this week.

66758 The Pavior departed with 4M46 14:24 Western Docks - Trafford Park.