A signalling cable failure, with a need for replacement, closed the Reading - Basingstoke line at Southcote Junction. Many Freightliner trains did not operate, some trains operated via the Portsmouth Direct, and two STP workings were diverted by Swindon, Westbury and Salisbury.
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Two views of 57305, working 0Y86 06:34 Oxford Down Carriage Sdg - Eastleigh, but running both late and diverted. The locomotive later did work 319009 to Brush, Loughborough.
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66704 Colchester Power Signalbox + 69001 + 66794 0O69 11:00 Longport - Eastleigh.
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69001 (formerly 56031, the first BREL Doncaster built example) has been tested on the Severn Valley Railway, and was being delivered to Eastleigh for painting.
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Windscreen wipers have now been fitted, the loco was without these when on the SVR, and similarly 69002 at Eastleigh.
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66794 was previously '29005' Ted Gaffney, while operating for HHPI - Heavy Haul Power International and later Crossrail, but the plates have been removed.
69002 outshopped at Eastleigh in BR Large Logo, 4th May: one two