This Class 33 was delivered as as D6528 in October 1960, converted to 33/1 specification in November 1967, and was withdrawn in June 1991. Now owned by the Class 33/1 Preservation Company Ltd., and resident at Swanage.
I first saw this locomotive in 1982.
Monday 9th May: 69004 + 73136 0Y98 11:35 Swanage - Eastleigh Flickr for the day; 73962 + 73964 1Q51 11:15 Derby - Eastleigh - Weymouth - Eastleigh one
Tuesday 10th May: 33012 + 31128 + 37703 + 44004 + 46045 0Z33 06:10 Swanage - Kidderminster Flickr for the day; 69004 + 73136 0Y62 0942 Eastleigh - Tonbridge one Flickr for the day; 73962 + 73964 1Q52 10:51 Eastleigh - Portsmouth Harbour - Littlehampton Barnham- Portsmouth Harbour - Totton Yard - Havant - Guildford - Havant - Fareham - Eastleigh - Winchester - Woking - Lymington Pier - Eastleigh one two
Wednesday 11th May: 73962 + 73964 1Q53 11:35 Eastleigh - Up Yard - Wimbledon - Up Yard, 1Q53 18:04 Up Yard - Wimbledon - Totton - Romsey - Eastleigh; 47739 (+ 360120) 5Q80 10:54 Cricklewood - Eastleigh one, 47739 (+ 360116 )5Q81 15:58 Eastleigh - Cricklewood one two
Thursday 12th May: 59203 0Z59 07:00 Eastleigh - Merehead (following repair for a traction motor issue, now back in traffic); 67008 0W77 09:08 Eastleigh - Didcot - Cardiff Canton; 73962 + 73964 1Q54 12:49 Eastleigh - Tonbridge Flickr for the day
Friday13th May: Last GWR service to Brighton: 158767 + 158798 10:41 Great Malvern - Brighton one two three, 17:02 Brighton - Bristol Parkway
Saturday 14th May:
"RMT REVEALS RAIL INDUSTRY’S PLAN FOR A CULL OF TICKET OFFICES"
Hydrogen and battery developments in Canada: one two
A familiar locomotive in these parts, both for its Southern Region history, but also its main line workings in more recent times. D6515 was new to traffic on 8th July 1960, allocated to Hither Green, reallocation to Eastleigh came in October 1965, where it remained until withdrawn in 1997.
Now preserved by the 71A Locomotive Group, first arriving at Swanage in October 1999. Since 2014, named Lt Jenny Lewis RN. It was in Eastleigh Works for overhaul between January 2021 and April 2022.
I first noted this locomotive in 1982, by which time it was 33012.
31128 was delivered as D5546 in August 1959, and was re-engined with an English Electric 12SVT in August 1965. Later operated by Fragonset, named CHARYBDIS, when it worked for Wessex Trains, and now in the ownership of Nemesis Rail. It recently has been working on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.
First noted in my book in the Fragonset period, it appears as late as May 2005.
D7612 was delivered from BR Derby on 23rd April 1966, and was initially allocated to Eastfield, although from 1967 it became, and remained a London Midland Region allocated locomotive. It became 25262 in March 1964, then 25901 in December 1985. The twelfth last Class 25 in service, withdrawn in March 1987, after less than 21 years of working life. It never had a train heat boiler, and it became dual braked in May 1977.
It initially entered preservation at the East Lancashire Railway in 1989, and moved to the South Devon Railway in 1999, under the auspices of South Devon Diesel Traction Ltd.
First marked in my book in 1983.
43290 + 975984 + 977994 + 977993 + 975814 + 977995 + 43299 - the rather regular power cars since July 2021.
1X23 15:13 Salisbury - Up Loop - Salisbury.
