25th - 30th April 2022

 

701512. 701030. 701044. 701037. 701015 and 701014, 24th April.

Monday 25th April: 47830  0xxx 19:10 Maritime - Merehead, 0xxx 21:10 Merehead - Maritime
Tuesday 26th April: 47830 0W47 10:14 Maritime - Didcot one two, 4Z47 12:22 Didcot - Maritime one two three
Wednesday 27th April: 66775 + 66734 (2nd, PB04) 0O01 10.05 Doncaster - Eastleigh East Yard one two three four five Flickr for the day;  67008 5Q66 20:17 Eastleigh - Romsey - Salisbury - Bristol East Depot (DVT 82200 leading - said to be to proceed to 120 mph testing on the GWML) one two three four
Thursday 28th April: 67008 (with DVT 82200) 5xxx 00:01 Reading - Eastleigh; 47830 0xxx 07:19 Eastleigh East Yard - Victoria (?); 0W48 10:06 Victoria - Maritime one; 66734 moved to the Works by 66763; 67008 5Q66 20:14 Eastleigh - Romsey - Salisbury - Bristol East Depot (DVT 82200 leading) 
Friday 29th April: 67008 (with DVT 82200) 5xxx 00:01 Reading - Eastleigh; 69005 0Z69 1430 Eastleigh Works - East Yard; 47727 (+ 701031: 5Q10 08:05 Derby - Eastleigh one two, 0M10 17:29 Eastleigh - Leicester

Saturday 30th April:

Work is under way to repair and reinstate the Hamworthy branch.

69005 'Eastleigh' leaves Eastleigh Works, 29th April 2022

69005 came off Eastleigh Works some 30 minutes late, 0Z69 14:30 Eastleigh Works - Eastleigh East Yard.

Approaching platform 3, the style is in the theme of the green worn by 33008, and the BRCW Type 3's, as delivered.


Nameplate.

69005 was converted from 56007.


Noted later in Eastleigh Yard, but to where is its next move?

From other photographers: one two three four five Flickr for the day

Freight at Eastleigh, 22nd April 2022

 

66951 4O49 09:23 Basford Hall - Maritime.


66729 DERBY COUNTY 4M46 14:24 Western Docks - Trafford Park.

The last wagon of 4M46 was recently delivered Wascosa / Network Rail FEA-W 81.70.4524.086-5.

66793 was moving some auto-ballaster wagons in the yard.

Eastleigh Works, 24th April 2022

 Not too much had changed since Monday 18th.

08567 positioned outside the Works.

37716 has moved to an adjacent track to where it was previously.

43468 of Rail Adventure.

142056 (nearer) + 142089 (farther); 769944 (arrival date not known, was Wolverton - Reading on 11th ..March); 442412 (no motor coach);  317729 (77026 + 71605 only); 317732

Miscellany at Eastleigh, 22nd April 2022

 

5707 was leading 5727 (May 1985, with a Class 508 TS, July 1980), seen above, as 5Y51 14:31 Bournemouth - Wimbledon. Class 455 is on borrowed time, pending introduction of Class 701 into service.

701044 appeared to be on mileage accumulation test, following delivery to dc rails on 5th April.


Harsco Rail Grinder Pair 70806 DR79274 + DR79265, built in 2003. Until 2021, this operated as a triple set with DR79264, the current location of which is unknown.


OBA 110023 (BREL Ashford, Lot 3909.1977).

OCA 112000, first of series (BREL Shildon, Lot 4014, 1981).

The COALFISH type is rather quickly going tor scrap. 394163 is a MHA, converted by RFS, Doncaster in 1997, from a HAA coal hopper.

MXA 950747 has been sitting in this area for a few weeks. Converted by ,Marcroft, Stoke in 2015-16, with body mounted on a BFA type steel carrier, rebuilt by BREL Shildon (Lot 3925, 1979) from BDO wagons (Bogie Bolster D) of 1950s vintage.

Class 50s return from Eastleigh, 24th April 2022

 

50007 Hercules [50034 Furious on one side] + 50008 Thunderer 5Z55 1350 Eastleigh - Kidderminster - Burton

Slowly moving forward from the T&RSMD.

Some attention appeared to be given to the multiple working connectors.

    

Forward to another pause in platform 2.

From other photographers: one - Flick for the day

50s at Eastleigh, 22nd April 2022

"The Honeybourne Hoover"

50008 Thunderer + 50007 Hercules [50034 Furious on one side] 1Z50 11:02 Burton - Eastleigh, 5Z51 15:38 Eastleigh - Eastleigh Trsmd

The pair of locos approaches Eastleigh. The timetable said platform 2, so platform 3 it was.

50008 leads to go under the bridge. The pair of sequentially delivered locomotives entered traffic in March 1968.

1970s style froth and adulation.

50008, in Hanson+Hall / Rail Adventure colours, leads away to the carriage sidings.

The fake identity of 50034 Furious.

The rake was of 8 Riviera coaches, led by TSO 4998 (BR Wolverton, Lot 30690, August 1962).

The RMB was 1813 (BR Wolverton. Lot 30520, March 1961)

FO 3110 (BR Swindon, Lot 30697, ~January 1963)

 

Mk2f BSO 9526 (BREL Derby, Lot 30861, June 1974)

18th - 23rd April 2022

 

69004 at Eastleigh with 4Y19 12:30 Mountfield - Western Docks, 22nd April, believed to be its first solo working with this train.

Monday 18th April: 68007 1Z18 (09:42 Dumbarton -) York - Salisbury - Redbridge - Eastleigh, 5Z20 23:07 Eastleigh - Burton Flickr for the day
Tuesday 19th April: 66013 5Z45 09:44 Eastleigh - Burton one two (reported as Riviera Mk 1 coaches 1832, 3149, 4959 and 21269) 73961 + 73964 1Q51  11:15 Derby - Eastleigh - Weymouth - Eastleigh one two
Wednesday 20th April: 769928 + 769923 5Q10 Qxx 10:51 Eastleigh - Long Marston
Thursday 21st April: 73961 + 73964 1Q52 10:43 Eastleigh - Portsmouth Harbour - Littlehampton Barnham- Portsmouth Harbour - Totton Yard - Havant - Guildford - Havant - Fareham - Eastleigh - Winchester - Woking - Derby one two three four
Friday 22nd April: 50008 + 50007 1Z50 11:02 Burton - Eastleigh one Flickr for the day
Saturday 23rd April: 50007 + 50008 T+T 1Z38 05:08 Eastleigh - Reading - Eastleigh -Portsmouth & Southsea ..... 1Z54 17:52 Cannon Street - Eastleigh 50007 for the day  -50008 for the day
Sunday 24th April: 50007 + 50008 5Z55 13:50 Eastleigh - Burton

Eastleigh Works: 15Mar - 16Mar - 24Mar 

One of the new weedkiller trains has operated nocturnally from Eastleigh Yard: 66707 + TIPH 93382  KFA + VTG  95379  KFA + TIPH 93394  KFA + 66778

Former Riviera Mk1 FO 3112 has been sold to the SRPS, and has been moved from Eastleigh Works to Bo'ness by road.

Miscellany at Eastleigh on Easter Monday, 18th April 2022

 

66504 + 66512 + 66545 depart with an early running 16:11 Eastleigh East Yard - Maritime.


66729, 66721, 66793, 66763, 08511 and 66701 in the East Yard. New Wascosa FEA-W wagons, with 'Salmon' platform modules, seen to the left of 66793.

66848.


391143 is a rarer MFA wagon, originally converted from HEA as a full height box wagon, and later cut down. Only 52 of these are listed as in stock this year.

701037 5Q45 16:29 Eastleigh - Eastleigh.

Eastleigh Works, 18th April 2022

 
37716 awaiting attention, is seen next to Riviera RMB coach 1832.

Riviera TSO coach 4959. This coach, and 1832, were moved to Burton the following morning.

142056 (nearer) and 142089 (farther).

43480, 701043 and 769923.

769936 (which is 'tagged').


68504.

11th - 16th April 2022

 
66762 passing Romsey on 15th, 0Z21 10:39 Eastleigh East Yard to Eastleigh East Yard (via Redbridge and Laverstock to Basingstoke, and return).

On the right was 940917 L&W RRV157, a  Komatsu PW160-11 RAIL RAIDER mk2

Monday 11th April: 47739 0Z27 09:42 Eastleigh - Wembley one two; 769937 5Qxx 10:43 Oxford  Eastleigh one (read the caption - these upper 'lights' are bluetooth valises), 7699xx Qxx 12:53 Eastleigh  Oxford
Tuesday 12th April: 37612 3Q01 23:38 Woking - Eastleigh East Yard
Wednesday 13th April: 37612 3Q02 21:44½ Eastleigh East Yard - Poole - Weymouth - Fareham - Fratton - St Denys - Eastleigh East Yard
Thursday 14th April: 33012 + 50026 0Z50 12:12 Eastleigh - Swanage (50021 reported failed FTR, ultrasonic axle test inconclusive, more positively there are reported to be spare axles at Eastleigh); 57306 (+ 360113) 5Q80 10:54 Cricklewood -Eastleigh one two, 57306 )+ 360102) 5Q81 15:59 Eastleigh  - Cricklewood Flickr for the day (57306 was on hire to GWR, and ROG have returned their Class 57s to DRS, this seems to have been operated by GBRf); 47739 (+ 701045) 5Q10 07:50 Derby - Eastleigh one two Flickr for the day, 0M10 1724½ Eastleigh - Leicester; 37612 3Q04 21:14 Eastleigh East Yard - Totton - Reading Triangle; 68007 5Z11 23:45 Burton - Southampton UGL - Eastleigh
Friday 15th April: 68007 1Z11 05:00 Eastleigh -Skipton Flickr for the day; 37612 3Q40 23:53 Reading Triangle - Paddington - Reading - Southampton - Woking
Saturday 16th April:

69003 has made appearances through the week on the Mountfield.

Mendip Rail are reported to plan to replace their older Orenstein & Koppel JYA wagons OK 3268-3328,and JHAs OK 19300-99, which are the 45 mph restricted examples. Information received also pointed to some newer wagons, and may have been confused.

OK 3274 JYA built 1988.

OK 19323 JHA built 1989.