5th - 10th June 2023

 

69008 upon arrival at Eastleigh, 6th June. Image by Roger Homan.

08683 made a rare run through the platforms at Eastleigh, with flats bound for the Works, 6th June. Image by Roger Homan.

66791 + 66566 + 66590 passing Redbridge with 6O41 10:14 Westbury-Eastleigh, 8th June. Image by Ian Knight.

Monday 5th June: 47727 (+ 701053) 5Q10 11:04 Derby - Eastleigh one two three
Tuesday 6th June: 47727 0Z86 06:55 Eastleigh - Farnham, 47727 (+ 701029) 5Q86 11:40 Farnham - Eastleigh one two; 313220 - 313204 5Z03 09:46 Hove - Eastleigh one two; 69008 0O60 0815 Longport - Eastleigh one two Flickr for the day
Wednesday 7th June: 47727 0Z84 07:21 Eastleigh - Marchwood, 47727 (+ 701043) 5Q84 09:26 Marchwood -Eastleigh one, 47727 0M84 12:22 Eastleigh - Leicester one
Thursday 8th June:
Friday 9th June:
Saturday 10th June: 40145 + 47815 1Z40 07:01 Burton-on-Trent - Weymouth Flickr for the day; 69003 + 69004 3Q00 07:05 Exeter Riverside - Eastleigh Flickr for the day; 61306 + 47805 1Z46 15:24 Littlehampton - Eastleigh, 1Z47 1640 Eastleigh - Portsmouth & Southsea; 1Z56 19:32 Portsmouth Harbour -  London Paddington Flickr for the day

Eastleigh Works: 24Apr - 25Apr

Nuneham Viaduct: 30May - 05Jun - first ECS in both directions evening of 8th - work completed 9th - press release

Hamworthy: reports that issues at the far port end will delay resumption of freight until 2024.

Peak Rail Diesel Gala, 16th April 2023 Part 4: 47402

The mighty 'Generator' Class 47.of the ECML. The second Brush Type 4, D1501 was delivered to Finsbury Park in November 1962. Renumbered to 47402 in February 1974. Withdrawn in June 1992, and entered preservation in 1993 at the East Lancashire Railway, under the ownership of Pete Waterman. In 2013, it visited the Mid-Hants Railway Diesel Gala. Moved in 2022 to Peak Rail, to join more items in the Waterman Railway Heritage Trust.

Standing between trains at Rowsley South.


Coupling up for a train to Matlock.

At the platform end at Matlock.

Pushing a departure away from Matlock, to run around at Matlock Riverside.

Running into Darley Dale, alongside D7659 (25309).

Peak Rail.

GBRf convoy at Doncaster, 22nd May 2023

60047 + 60021 PENYGHENT + 69005 Eastleigh + 69002 Bob Tiller CM&EE 0D63 09:00 Tyne Coal Terminal Gbrf - Doncaster Down Decoy Gbrf

The pair of 69s had worked weedkiller circuits in the North East, then took the stock to Scotland, where there were some nocturnal runs, before handing over to Class 66s. They then returned to Tyne, before the move seen here. After this return to Doncaster they started the next day on another weedkiller circuit in the Midlands, working from Kings Norton..

60047 was working Tyne Dock to Drax and Lynemouth biomass trains, and returned to these workings.

60021 was forwarded to Toton, and returned to Doncaster at the end of the following week.

60047 unofficially named Faithful.


60021 was next in the convoy.


Followed by 69005.


And 69002.


After a pause the convoy moved forward to Down Decoy.

60047, still in the Colas scheme, later returned as 0N01 13:05 Hexthorpe R.S. - Tyne Coal Terminal Gbrf.

Passing through the station.

Further coverage of this working.

Swanage Railway Diesel Gala, 12th May 2023 Part 4: 45108

45108 (D120) was new to traffic from BR Crewe in September 1961. Air brakes and ETH fitted in April 1973, when renumbered as 45108. Withdrawn in August 1987, and preserved for some time at Crewe Heritage Centre, passing to the Peak Locomotive Company in 2008, who repaired it, and currently have it outbased at the East Lancashire Railway.

45108 comes into the station at Swanage, about to pass under Northbrook Road.

Departing with 1R04 10:39 Swanage - River Frome Viaduct.

Returning on the rear of 1R05 11:32 River Frome Viaduct - Swanage.

Stabled in the turntable road.

Passing Harman's Cross with 1R11 14:32 River Frome Viaduct -Swanage

Working over the level crossing at Norden, with 1R16 16:39 Swanage - River Frome Viaduct.

A closer shot showing a 'Sulzer' headboard.

Strathspey Railway Mixed Traffic Gala, 7th April 2023 part 5: Miscellany

 
Pilot Scheme D5302 (26002), delivered to BR from BRCW in October 1958, was outdoors for viewing at Boat of Garten.


26002 + 26025 were both withdrawn in October 1992.


26025 (D5325)  from the production batch, was new to BR at Haymarket in May 1959. 


46512 (BR Swindon, December 1952) entering the yard at Boat of Garten.

D3605 (08490), new from BR Horwich, November 1958) shunting at Boat of Garten. 

E1719E is a LNER observation coach, delivered as a 'Beavertail' for the 'Coronation' express of 1937, and modified for Scottish Region usage in the 1950s. After a while on the Lochty Railway, it migrated to the Great Central Railway, and is on a multi-year hire to the Strathspey.

4477 (centre in picture) is a Mk 1 SO (2 + 1 seating), which was new from BRCW in June 1957, and moved to the Strathspey in 1986.

Fantastic scenery at Boat of Garten - change for Speyside Line.

29th May - 2nd June 2023

68034 and 68017 with the nuclear waste from Winfrith passing Redbridge, 1st June. Image by Ian Knight.

Monday 29th May:
Tuesday 30th May: 69003 + 69004 T+T 3Q00 11:58 Woking Up Yard - Easstleigh (reverse) - Romsey - Exeter one two Flickr for the day
Wednesday 31st May: 68017 + 68034 6Z62 01:00 Crewe - Winfrith one two three Flickr for the day; 61306 + 47614 (47853) 5Z50 1503 Fratton - Havant - Eastleigh - Portsmouth Harbour one; 47749 0Z10 11:03 Derby - Eastleigh
Thursday 1st June: 68017 + 68034 6Z95 15:51 Winfrith - Crewe one two  Flickr for the day; 47749 ( + 701033) 5Q64 07:10 Eastleigh - Willesden, for onward working to Long Marston, 47749 0O66 17:08 Long Marston - Eastleigh; 43272 + 43274 1X23 15:25 Salisbury - Southampton UGL - Salisbury (earlier at Axminster one two)
Friday 2nd June: 47749 (+ 701041) 5Q64 07:10 Eastleigh - Willesden, for onward working to Long Marston; 70002 + 47830 4M58 Southampton - Garston one; RMT strike day, no GWR service or Romsey circles
Saturday 3rd June: 47593 + 47805 1Z40 06:17 Peterborough - Weymouth Flickr for the day; ASLEF strike day, no GWR service

Monorail units noted at Maritime on 26th, for export 

A crane is being installed at the inspection road at Maritime.

West Coast Railway Co rolling stock may only have a derogation to run without central door locking until 30th June (mainstream media managed to throw Flying Scotsman into the story). Note that the LSL implementation using reuitilised Mk 3 components only appears to be suitable for air-braked coaches.

ScotRail and other HSTs may be boycotted by ASLEF from 12th August.

69008 anticipated arrival at Eastleigh Works on 8th June, now 6th. Various Q paths also in for Class 313 moves, all arriving at Eastleigh at 11:27..

Peak Rail Diesel Gala, 16th April 2023 Part 3: 25309

D7659 was built as a Class 25 with the revised ventilation, by Beyer Peacock in Manchester, entering traffic on the London Midland Region in July 1966. Renumbered to 25309 in April 1974, and then 25909 in December 1985, before withdrawal in September 1986. Now in the ownership of the Waterman Railway Heritage Trust, it spent 23 years out of traffic until a comeback in 2021.

Derby Sulzers loco history.

D7659 arriving at Matlock.

At the platform at Matlock.

An arrival at Rowsley South.

Running around at Rowsley South.

Peak Rail