Saturday, 7 February 2026

2nd - 7th February 2026

 
59103 Village of Mells, the last in the Hanson scheme, leading 6O68 09:11 Westbury Tarmac - Crawley, at Crampmoor, 2nd February.


67027 passing Romsey, 3rd February, on its way to Swanage for ETH testing.


66759 Chippy at Redbridge with 6O41 10:14 Westbury - Eastleigh, 4th February.


67027 returning at Redbridge, 4th February.


A closer view. The intended path was expected to be into the loop at Redbridge, but following signalling issues around Brockenhurst, it changed directions at Southampton Central.

Monday 2nd February:
Tuesday 3rd February:
67027 0Z67 07:05 Westbury - Corfe Castle one two three four five six; 802114 5X80 09:23 Eastleigh - Reading
Wednesday 4th February: 67027 0Z67 10:02 Corfe Castle - Westbury one; 800012 5X81 13:15 Reading to Eastleigh
Thursday 5th February: 43013 + 43062 1X23 15:28 Salisbury - Southampton - Salisbury (earlier one two)
Friday 6th February:
Saturday 7th February:


69013 was on 69013 6Y48 09:01 Eastleigh - Hoo on 4th, but appears to have failed in the Wallers Ash area, and was later recorded as running with 66798. 69013 arrived earlier from Hoo on 6Y44. 

GBRf to auction their Class 47s, 59003, Class 60s and some shunters in March.


455719, seen at Eastleigh on 30th June 2023, was dragged to Derby on 2nd, for disposal.


The cab of 43314, seen above on 5th November 2019, has been removed from Dereham to a location unknown, likely in the York area.

43317, seen on 24th December 2018, has been moved by road from Burton, to EMR Kingsbury, for disposal.