Saturday 18 November 2023

13th - 18th November 2023

 

59003 6V41 14:50 Eastleigh East Yard - Westbury Down T.C., Romsey 14th November.

66952 6V07 13:41 Chichester Recp. (Flhh) - Merehead Quarry (Fhh), Romsey 14th November.

At the end of the daylight, on 15th November, 66796 The Green Progressor passes Eastleigh with 4Y19 12:24 Mountfield - Western Docks. Image by Roger Homan.

Monday 13th November: 37667 (+ 40902) 5Z38 09:35 Eastleigh - Great Yarmouth one Flickr for the day; 47727 0Z47 12:45 Eastleigh - Leicester Flickr for the day
Tuesday 14th November:
Wednesday 15th November: 47727 (+701522) 5Q20 09:09 Derby - Eastleigh one two Flickr for the day
Thursday 16th November: 47739 (+ 701004) 5Q46 11:45 Long Marston Gbrf - Eastleigh Flickr for the day; 43013 + 43277 1X23 15:25 Salisbury - Southampton -  Salisbury Flickr for earlier in day
Friday 17th November: 47739 (+ 701507 + 701511) 5Q64 07:40 Eastleigh - Willesden (& onward to Bicester) one two three; 47727 0Z47 14:30 Eastleigh - Leicester
Saturday 18th November:

Eastleigh Works: 19Sep - 20Sep - 26Sep - 27Sep - 28Sep

Alstom: Train manufacturer puts 1,300 jobs at risk in Derby - one part of the workload until 1Q24 appears to be the remaining work on Class 701

08495, formerly of Eastleigh, has been moved from the NYMR, where it needed overhaul, and may be going to Tyseley arrived at Nemesis Rail, Burton, and may yet head to a West Midlands user.

The first deliveries of MXA wagons into scrapyards were made this week, among them 950965, delivered to Booth's Rotherham on 17th, having spent most of 2023 in Toton North Yard. Seen at Eastleigh on 10th September 2022. These wagons were rebodied in 2015-16, based upon steel carriers rebuilt 1975-78 from Bogie Bolster D wagons from the 1950s..