Saturday 5 October 2024

30th September - 5th October 2024

 


DR 98972 on leaf fall duty 3S80 08:00 Totton Yard - Effingham Jn, passing Romsey, 30th September.


66548 0O69 11:10 Westbury - Maritime - Eastleigh, passing Romsey 30th September 2024.


802107 running through platform 3 at Eastleigh, 4th October.

Monday 30th September: 69008 (+ 701504 + 701503) 5Q39 09:08 Derby Litchurch Lane - Eastleigh one two three four five, 69008 0M30 17:09 Eastleigh - Leicester Flickr for the day; 800108 5X02 13:46 Acton - Eastleigh one two
Tuesday 1st October: 57310 +458406) 5X64 12:18 Wembley - Southampton one two, 5Q64 16:03 Southampton - Bournemouth, 57310 (+ 458503) 5Z66 20:08 Bournemouth - Eastleigh Flickr for the day
Wednesday 2nd October: 57310 (+ 458503) 5Q95 17:48 Eastleigh - Woking - Widnes one two three four (failed at Woking with brake issues, 57310 onward to Wembley, 57305 attended on 3rd at Woking, but still there on 5th)
Thursday 3rd October: 802008 5X81 10:19 Eastleigh - Reading one; 20007 + 20205 0O20 17:07 Bristol Barton Hill - Eastleigh T&RSMD (for exams, are inside the shed)
Friday 4th October: 802107 5X83 12:12 Reading - Eastleigh; 56078 0Z43 12:42 Westbury - Eastleigh
Saturday 5th October: 56078 0Z98 12:30 Eastleigh - Westbury - was back at Westbury on Saturday

70020 is in Freightliner orange and black, outshopped at Loughborough: one two three four five six "Keep your eyes peeled for further updates as this is not quite the finished product..."

Yeoman JHA hopper wagons for scrap: 32 of the JHA wagons, about one third of the fleet. were sent away from Merehead on Monday 30th, initially to Basford Hall. Some in the list were still in service in the preceding fortnight. There were 4 outer wagons, a fifth of the fleet. The 30 recently stored new HOA wagons are now in traffic. Flickr for the day.


In the scrap working: OK 19316 (outer wagon) Westbury, 16th February 2018.


In the scrap working: OK 19356 Romsey, 4th May 2018.


In the scrap working: OK 19375,  seen here in traffic at Westbury as recently as 19th September. 19355 and 19381 were both also in this train, and the scrap working.

Engineering Work at Southampton this weekend, but a shortage of replacement buses.

DP World doubles rail links with new London Gateway-Southampton service 
Tue: 4L30 16:31 Southampton M.C.T. - London Gateway Frghtliner
Wed: 4O25 03:05 London Gateway Frghtliner - Southampton M.C.T.

Eastleigh Railway Institute has been sold to Junction Church, and will remain available for community use. A centenary history