Saturday 15 January 2022

10th - 15th January 2022

66795 Bescot LDC + 66055 Alain Thauvette with 6O41 passing Redbridge, 14th January. Image by Ian Knight.


The same locomotive, 66795, as MRCE561-5, Tilburg, 25th February 2009.

Monday 10th January: 769938 5Q10(?) 11:46 Eastleigh - Reading (shows on RTT with incomplete record, may be invalid ?) - still at Eastleigh Works; 67013 turned a Mk IV set at Eastleigh one
Tuesday 11th January:
Wednesday 12th January:
Thursday 13th January: 43290 + 43299 1X23 15:13 Salisbury - Southampton UGL - Salisbury one (& earlier two three)
Friday 14th January:
Saturday 15th January: 37611 (+ 12224 + 12477 + 12326 + 10321 + 11320 + 82200) 5Q86 09:22 Doncaster - Eastleigh one two three four five six, 37611 0M57 17:46 Eastleigh - Doncaster

SWR retains 12 Class 707 trains in boost to fleet availability - covering part of the 701 non-delivery

59003 remains at Eastleigh Works

Hearing rumours that the DfT is unhappy with the costs of ongoing operations of HST trains - GWR Castles, Cross-Country, and unsure if this extends concern to ScotRail.

142003 may be intended for a feeder operation to the Staycation Express.