1st - 6th April 2013

66020 having departed Western Docks on 3rd April, to return to Eastleigh. Image by Ian Knight.

Monday 1st April: 57305 + 57310 SITT 8Y87 14:45 Eastleigh - Twickenham - Staines - Barnes - Eastleigh one two three, 37409 + 37607 5Z37 23:45 Exeter - Westbury - Eastleigh, 31465 3Q01 23:08 Old Oak Common - Eastleigh - Fareham - Eastleigh - Southampton - Eastleigh (31465 was then failed)

Tuesday 2nd April: 57305 + 57310 SITT 8Y87 02:00 Eastleigh - Twickenham - Eastleigh, 47828 + 37409 + 37607 + 20303 + 20301 + 20302 + 20304 0X38 15:14 Eastleigh - Crewe one two three four

Wednesday 3rd April: 66020 5Z28 09:46 Eastleigh - Western Docks (7 Mk1 coaches), '0Z28' 15:01 Western Docks - Eastleigh, 31105 by low loader Laira - A303 - Derby, 37425 0Z37 13:30 Crewe - Bristol - Westbury - Eastleigh one two 3Q08 Eastleigh - Hither Green, 31465 at Eastleigh

Thursday 4th April: 47749 0Z48 13:09 Eastleigh - Washwood Heath one two, 47727 0V87 13:10 Eastleigh - Redbridge - Salisbury - Taunton (for this working on 5th), 37425 3Q44 22:43 Hither Green - Eastleigh

Friday 5th April: 56303 0Z56 09:11 Washwood Heath - Eastleigh, 6Z56 14:30 Eastleigh - Chaddesden one two three, 67005 1Y91 11:42 Victoria - Eastleigh - Hove one two, 57305 + 57310 8Y87 SITT Eastleigh - Eastleigh one two

Saturday 6th April: 37425 3Z04 10:49 Eastleigh - Fareham - St Denys - Derby one two three, (something noisy went through Romsey about 07:20 - was 37425 returning from a mission to the west?), 66098+66065+66059+66185+66060 0O12 Margam - Eastleigh

Eastleigh Works Blog update.

A retrospective for 47747

WNXX.com reports that 47747 has been sold for scrap. Following withdrawal by EWS it had languished at Millerhill then Crewe for a number of years, at one time said to be for return to use by Riviera Trains.

Update: Removed to Booth, Rotherham, 2nd May 2013.

A history of 47747.

As 47252 at Westbury on 29th January 1983.

As Res Publica at Dalwhinnie in August 1995, some coached hired from Waterman Railways. Train may be 1H15 15:40 Edinburgh - Inverness.

Named Graham Farish at Redbridge with 1M18 14:18 Bournemouth - Manchester on 23rd February 2002 - leased by EWS to Virgin Trains. 

 Southampton Airport Parkway earlier the same day, 1O09 08:15 Manchester - Bournemouth.

 Following a refurbishment by EWS, it was renamed to Florence Nightingale as seen here as 'Thunderbird' at Edinburgh Waverley on 10th July 2003. Withdrawn in 2004, sold to Riviera in 2007 from Millerhill Yard, then DRS from 2011. DRS are now unloading their unused 47's with their planned transition to Class 68.

HST Reading diverts at Salisbury, Easter Monday 1st April 2013

43126 (new May 1979)  on 1O43.

43164 (May 1981) on 1O41.

43010 (April 1976) on 1O40. Although re-engined, now almost as old as the Virgin Cross Country 47/8's were at their end of regular service.

43042 (December 1976) on 1V36.

66150 on 6V27 13:28 Eastleigh - Hinksey (diverted via Westbury).

Southern E-Group coverage of Salisbury

Eastleigh Works, 30th March 2013

47839 (new from Brush in April 1964 as D1728) has been put out to grass, partially stripped. Stored since January 2008, PEGASUS nameplates removed. DBSO 9710 beyond.

47790 Galloway Princess (new from Crewe as D1973 in November 1965) recently arrived at Eastleigh, possibly for cooler group replacement.

20305 Gresty Bridge, originally D8095 delivered in October 1961 from Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn, rebuilt by Brush in 1996 and renumbered.

57303 has not worked since its failure at Dorchester in January. New from Brush in January 1967 as D1957, and later 47705 Lothian.

57305 was new in May 1964 from Brush as D1758, and later was Union Jack D1964 in 1977. Now on the SITT with 57310.

58s at Eastleigh, 30th March 2013

As mentioned in the weekly update, and also at wnxx.com, the Class 58s which were grounded at Eastleigh are now back in the sidings, awaiting their removal for disposal.

58017 and 58008, the latter as transferred from Toton via Eastern Docks.

58017 with 12RK3ACT engine open to the elements.

Closer cab detail of 58017

Cabs of 58002, 58008 and 58037.

Previous coverage: 4th April 2011 - 9th April 2012

25th - 30th March 2013

Monday 25th March: 57306 + 57310 SITT 8Y87 01:30 Eastleigh - Eastleigh, 31465 3Z04 09:32 Eastleigh - Hither Green
Tuesday 26th March: 57306 + 57310 SITT 8Y87 ??, 159015 5Z31 08:35 Salisbury - Bournemouth, 1Z31 10:12 Bournemouth - Swanage, 1Z32 12:00 Swanage - Wareham, 1Z33 13:20 Wareham - Swanage, 1Z34 14:40 Swanage - Bournemouth, 5Z34 16:13 Bournemouth - Salisbury, 60049 10:19 6O26 Hinksey - Eastleigh one two, 6V41 14:45 Eastleigh - Westbury
Wednesday 27th March: 57306 + 57310 SITT 8Y87 00:32 Eastleigh - Eastleigh & another in afternoon, 60049 0W57 05:29 Westbury - Eastleigh, 6B43 09:38 Eastleigh - Western Docks, 6X44 12:07 Western Docks - Eastleigh, 6V41 14:45 Eastleigh - Westbury, 47727 + 47749 6Z56 13:00 Toton - Eastleigh one two three four five six seven
Thursday 28th March: 37607 + 37409 + 20305 + 47790 5Z29 05:39 Crewe - Eastleigh one two three four five six seven, 73119 + 73207 + 66739 5Z85 06:15 Eastleigh - Victoria one two three four, for 1Z85 with 66739 to East Grinstead and Sheffield Park, Bluebell Railway where 66739 was named Bluebell Railway, 5Z86 20:31 Victoria - Eastleigh, 60049 6O41 10:14 Westbury - Eastleigh, 60049  + 661xx 6V41 14:45 Eastleigh - Westbury
Friday 29th March: 37607 + 37407 5Z30 01:22 Eastleigh - Exeter (for 1Z30 05:15 Exeter - Hexham, returns to Exeter late on Monday 1st)
Saturday 30th March:

58002 / 17 / 37 have been moved at Eastleigh and are now close to 58008

18th - 23rd March 2013

Monday 18th March: 67026 5Z94 09:53 Wembley - Eastleigh
Tuesday 19th March: 57306 + 57310 8Y87 00:29 Eastleigh - Brockenhurst - Basingstoke (57306 TPWS fault) - Eastleigh, 47805 + 47828 5Z30 07:20 Crewe - Eastleigh, 57306 + 57310 8Y87 14:30 Eastleigh - Twickenham - Clapham Jct - Hounslow - Windsor & Eton - Hounslow - Barnes - Twickenham - Reading - Virginia Water - Woking - Eastleigh
Wednesday 20th March: 73138 + 73201 1Q85 06:08 Woking - Southampton DGL - Shalford one two, 47805 5Z31 11:23 Eastleigh - Kingmoor, 57306 + 57310 8Y87 14:30 Eastleigh - Windsor & Eton etc. - Eastleigh one two
Thursday 21st March: 33207 0Z69 07:12 Southall - Eastleigh, 5Z70 11:45 Eastleigh - Derby one two, 60049 6O26 10:19 Hinksey - Eastleigh, 6V27 13:29 Eastleigh - Hinksey
Friday 22nd March: 31465 3Z04 09:51 Hither Green - Eastleigh , 3Q04 22:34 Eastleigh - Redbridge - Romsey - Bathampton - Romsey - Redbridge - Portsmouth & Southsea - Southampton - Eastleigh
Saturday 23rd March: 66089 1Z70 04:50 Eastleigh - Carlisle (routed WCML as S&C blocked by snow), 1Z71 15:56 Carlisle - Eastleigh