21st to 26th November 2022

08567 and 323 539-7 remove 450042 from the Works, 23rd November. The emu later worked to Northam, having completed a Siemens overhaul, started on 8th.

The parapets of Campbell Road bridge have received a coat of primer, 23rd November.

08629 at the station at Eastleigh, 23rd November.

701049 5Q51 11:15 Waterloo - Staines Up Loop, 23rd November.

Monday 21st November: 73961 + 73965 1Q51 11:15 Derby - Eastleigh - Weymouth - Eastleigh
Tuesday 22nd November: 73961 + 73965 1Q52 10:45 Eastleigh - Portsmouth Harbour - Littlehampton - Barnham- Portsmouth Harbour - Totton Yard - Havant - Guildford - Havant - Fareham - Eastleigh - Winchester - Basingstoke - Woking - Lymington Pier - Eastleigh cancelled due to a problem with the train ; 37421 3Q01 18:12 Woking - Eastleigh
Wednesday 23rd November: 73961 + 73965 1Q53 12:13 Eastleigh - Up Yard - Wimbledon - Up Yard cancelled due to a request by the train operator, 1Q53 17:11 Eastleigh - Wimbledon - Totton - Romsey - Eastleigh ; 47832 + 57313 T+T 1Z11 06:53 Nottingham - Winchester, 5Z12 1312 Winchester - Eastleigh, 5Z13 16:48 Eastleigh - Winchester, 1Z13 17:11 Winchester - Nottingham Flickr for the day; 37421 3Q02 21:43 Eastleigh - Weymouth - Fareham - Fratton - St Denys - Eastleigh one
Thursday 24th November: 73961 + 73965 1Q52 10:45 Eastleigh -Fareham - Portsmouth Harbour - Littlehampton - Portsmouth Harbour - Guildford - Portsmouth Harbour - Fareham - Eastleigh - Tonbridge; 37421 3Q04 21:14 Eastleigh - Totton - Reading Triangle one
Friday 25th November: 67021 1Z50 10:07 Victoria - Winchester one, 5Z50 12:29 Winchester - Eastleigh, 5Z51 16:36 Eastleigh - Winchester, 1Z51 1712 Winchester - Victoria
Saturday 26th November: 

Wednesday was not a good day. A Windhoff MPV operating RHTT 3S82 06:11 Totton Yard - Totton Yard struck a tree near East Grimsetad, about 06:42, while working towards Salisbury. There were no trains in the area for several hours, then limited in Salisbury - Romsey direction, including 0O41 Westbury - Eastleigh. A signal fault in the Fareham area interrupted services as well.

Mk 2A BFK 17080 appeared to be in the scrap road at Eastleigh Works, on 23rd.

The Grangemouth - Sinfin aviation fuel tanks last ran in June, being replaced with a GBRf operated flow from the Isle of Grain (said to be Sustainable Aviation Fuel imported from the Netherlands). a rake of 10 tanks was removed by 66562 as 6Z88 from Grangemouth to Basford Hall on 21st, in what appears to be the first leg of a disposal process. There were 10 wagons, 9 of which were those maintained at Eastleigh in early 2021 + 78205. The wagons appear to have moved to Hunslet on 23rd and to Gascoigne Wood on 25th.

69007 expected Longport - Eastleigh Tuesday 29th - move within 4O46 03:10 Trafford Pk Euro Tml Gbrf - Southampton W Docks (Gbrf) on morning of Wednesday 30th (could be extracted in 20 minutes at Eastleigh East Yard?)

GWR Castle HSTs to be withdrawn in 2023

Jaguar Land Rover reducing its production at UK factories until spring

Vivarail have appointed administrators.