Two hours of Freight at Doncaster, 6th July 2013

66109 with a DBS coal working working through platform 4, recorded as 07:17 Leeds Signal L928 to Scunthorpe Coal Plant, so must have worked through the repaired line at Hatfield.

66554 with coal 09:00 Kellingley Colliery to Ratcliffe Power Station

66708 Jayne seen heading northbound, from 05:44 Immingham to Ferrybridge (2 hour layover at Decoy)

66737 (formerly 66405) Lesia works around a goods loop with 08:48 Doncaster Down Decoy to Wakefield Wrenthorpe Sidings

66746 (formerly 66410, 66845) works light southbound as 09:23 Selby - Peterborough GBRf Maintenance Shed.

8th - 13th July 2013

60039 passing Totton on the way to Marchwood, 10th July. Image by Ian Knight.

67019 passing Millbrook with the tour from Cambridge to Weymouth, 13th July.

70018 has been a bad engine again, and the Fat Controller has ordered him to sit in the yard at Maritime.

Monday 8th July: 60065 7V41 14:45 Eastleigh - Westbury one two
Tuesday 9th July: 60049 5M61 21:26 Eastleigh - Wembley one two, 67005+ 67006 1Z85 09:45 Waterloo - Swanage one two three four five six seven eight nine ten, 1Z86 17:50 Swanage - Waterloo (retimed, direct via Winchester) one two
Wednesday 10th July: 60049 0O61 00:15 Wembley - Eastleigh, 60039 6O15 (17:30 (Mon) Mossend -) Didcot - Eastleigh, 6B45 09:14 Eastleigh - Marchwood, 6B38 11:00 Marchwood - Eastleigh, 7V41 14:45 Eastleigh - Westbury, 70017 + 70018 DIT 09:58 Wentloog - Maritime, 60049 6Z61 11:24 Eastleigh - Hinksey
Thursday 11th July: 60049 0O26 10:19 Hinksey - Eastleigh one two, 60039 6041 10:14 Westbury - Eastleigh, 6V41 14:45 Eastleigh - Westbury
Friday 12th July: 73109 + 73201 1Q31 06:08 Hither Green - Southampton DGL - Central - UGL - Hither Green one two
Saturday 13th July: 67019 1Z77 06:49 Cambridge - Weymouth, 1Z78 16:34 Weymouth - Cambridge

70018 appears to have received some attention (wheel turning?) at Cardiff Canton, but while now moved to Maritime, appears to remain sidelined.

158885 is understood to have moved to Bournemouth to be fitted with a ZF Ecomat gearbox. The update, at first on one car, is expected to take three months and will be tested on the Swanage Railway.
Manufacturer's press release.

Grand Central on the ECML, 4th & 6th July 2013

43467 (formerly 43067, new Crewe October 1977) on 1N90 07:49 Kings Cross - Sunderland, York, 4th July.

43468 (43068, Crewe November 1977) on 1N93 12:53 Kings Cross - Sunderland, at York, 4th July.

  50912 JAMES HERRIOTT (180112) departing York with late running 1A66 14:06 Sunderland - Kings Cross.

43467 again on 1N90 07:49 Kings Cross - Sunderland, Doncaster, 6th July.

43465 (formerly 43065, Crewe October 1977) on the rear of the same train.

43484 PETER FOX 1942-2011 PLATFORM 5 (formerly 43084, Crewe, February 1978) runs southwards at speed with 1A61 08:30 Sunderland - Kings Cross. Doncaster, 6th July.

1st - 6th July 2013

67020 deputises for failed 35028 Clan Line with the 'Cathedrals Express' to Exeter, passing Andover, 30th June.

67028 on the rear of the SRPS Railtours set, which is currently hired to West Coast Railway Co.

Monday 1st July:

Tuesday 2nd July:

Wednesday 3rd July: 57315 + 34092 T+T 5Z80 09:45 Southall - Poole one two three four

Thursday 4th July: 34092 1Z81 08:03 Poole -Exeter one two three, 1Z82 16:10 Exeter - Poole, 60074 6B93 Warrington - Eastleigh, 60074 6O15 (17:30 (Mon) Mossend -) Didcot - Eastleigh, 6B93 09:38 Eastleigh - Fawley one two three, 6B94 12:00 Fawley - Eastleigh one two three four five, 47841 Eastleigh Works - Depot, 47841 + 66303 0Z47 11:23 Eastleigh - Gresty Bridge, 60074 + 66185 0V41 14:45 Eastleigh - Westbury one two
Friday 5th July: 73205 + 73213 5Z66 07:06 Eastleigh - Acton Lane, 57315 + 34067 T+T 5Z82 10:10 Poole - Southall (34067 was failed for movement to Yeovil) one two three four five, 60074 10:14 6O41 Westbury - Eastleigh one two three, 6V27 13:28 Eastleigh - Hinksey one two three four five, 66031 + 60065 6X01 12:30 Toton - Eastleigh (60065 is for Westbury as super shunter)

Saturday 6th July: 60049 6N07 23:07 Eastleigh - Brockenhurst,
Sunday 7th July: 73213 + 73205 5Z94 13:21 Doncaster - Eastleigh, 60065 6N14 09:04 Eastleigh - Addleston, 6N13 19:00 Addleston - Eastleigh

Eastleigh Works Blog update.

A Day at Barnetby, 5th July 2013

60019 Port of Grimsby & Immingham passes with 6E46 04:37 Kingsbury - Lindsey Oil Refinery

60019 returns at 12:05 with 6M00 11:40 Humber Oil Refinery - Kingsbury 

60092 in the early evening with 6E41 1:41 Westerleigh Murco - Lindsey Oil Refinery

GBRf 66713 Forest City on a coal working from Immingham H.I.T. - Doncaster Down Decoy, running almost 3 hours late

66848 runs around on 6D86 Wolsingham - Scunthorpe BSC (CHP), this working rerouted around the Hatfield slip, for which normal routes were resumed on 8th July.

66097 heads through the station on 6E32 Dollands Moor - Scunthorpe steel bar empties. This ran around at Immingham for the period of the Hatfield diversions, and returns into the setting sun.

The North Lincolnshire Resignalling Project is under way, with a project office located at Barnetby. The signals at Barnetby and Wrawby Junc. are expected to be gone in 2015. The project is awarded to Alstom / Balfour Beatty.

Photo coverage of recent Solent area workings, 3rd - 5th July 2013

With thanks to Ian Knight.

57315 passes Millbrook with 5Z80 09:45 Southall - Poole, 3rd July.

34067 Tangmere on the rear.

60074 Teenage Spirit at Millbrook, 6B93 09:38 Eastleigh - Fawley, 4th July.

60074 returns past St Denys with 6B94 12:00 Fawley - Eastleigh.

57315 passes Redbridge with 5Z82 10:10 Poole - Southall, Friday 5th July.

The usual review of workings is delayed.

70018 is now understood to be at Cardiff Canton for maintenance.

Interesting locos and workings at York, 4th July 2013

DRS 37402 lies failed in the siding at York. Restored to usage from Barrow Hill earlier this year.

37423 Spirit of the Lakes joined from the south, it is understood to have been involved in testing of lines around the Hatfield Colliery slip, where normal services resume on 8th July.

91114 has been named Durham Cathedral and advertises the Lindisfarne Gospels exhibition.

WCRC ECS from Carnforth to Saltburn, for 'The Saltburn Riviera' the next day to Torquay, led by 57313.

Tailed by 57601.