69008 Richard Howe working 6O41 from Westbury, seen at Lee, 14th July. Image by Roger Homan.
D1645 47830 on the rear of the train. There are suggestions that Locomotive Services is "struggling with availability of its Type 4 fleet in early July"
Monday 13th July:
Tuesday 14th July: 68019 (+ 6371 / 96371) + 68030 5M71 0850 Eastleigh - Stourbridge Junction one two three four five six seven eight nine
Wednesday 15th July:
Thursday 16th July: 800032 5X81 13:16 Reading - Eastleigh
Friday 17th July: 69006 moved to Eastleigh one two
Saturday 18th July: 47810 + 47830 T+T 1Z07 06:25 Woking - Havant - Eastleigh - Salisbury - Kingswear one, 1Z08 16:35 Kingswear - Salisbury - Eastleigh - Havant - Woking, 5Z08 23:54 Woking - Eastleigh; 37240 + 47773 1Z34 07:45 Birmingham Snow Hill - Eastleigh - Portsmouth Harbour one two rhree four five six seven eight nine, 1Z41 16:40 Portsmouth Harbour - Eastleigh - Birmingham Snow Hill
31128, in these parts a week ago, worked 0Z31 18:02 Burton Ot Wetmore Sidings - Grosmont on 17th, to support a motive power shortage at the NYMR, this loco being capable of working to Whitby.
Post from Freightliner on LinkedIn: "In May 2026 Network Rail completed new gauge clearance on the Midland Main Line and associated routes, unlocking for the first time the ability to run high cube (9ft 6in) containers on standard height wagons.
Starting this week, #Freightliner will take advantage of this new clearance by diverting our Southampton to Doncaster service via Nottingham and Newark, allowing it to directly access our Doncaster terminal from the South, without having to divert via Sheffield and take a longer route before running round North of the terminal.
This will allow us to offer an earlier arrival for our service on this key South Coast to North East Corridor. This service will operate via this route 5 days per week."
These trains now run as 4E92 and 4O92.
Hamworthy: Proposal to restore Dorset branch line as a freight route - believed last used 8 years ago.
Loram to relinquish train operating licence and 950001 also likely to be withdrawn at that time.
HXA Coal Hopper 370529, seen at Barnetby, 22nd May 2015. New from Greenbrier in 2006; now tripped 6Z89 09:45 Hunslet Yard - EMR Attercliffe for disposal, on 14th July. This batch of 109 wagons had been intact until this disposal of nine of them.
