29th February - 5th March 2016

Monday 29th February: 47739 7Y44 04:21 Hoo Jct - Eastleigh; 37604 3Z02 13:41 Hither Green - Eastleigh one; 3Q02 21:56 Eastleigh - Dorchester South - Eastleigh - Fareham - Eastleigh one
Tuesday 1st March: 66132 6Z11 10:00 (Mon) Dowlow Briggs Sidings - Southampton Up Yard (which seems to have ghosted from Wembley on RTT), 6Z14 14:48 Southampton Up Yard - Wembley one two three; 37604 10:49 Eastleigh - Hither Green one
Wednesday 2nd March: 66431 6Z68 Eastleigh - Willesden Brent one. 37604 3Q08 23:40 Woking - Wimbledon - Basingstoke - Reading - Basingstoke - Wimbledon - Eastleigh; 47739 at Eastleigh: one
Thursday 3rd March:
Friday 4th March: 
Saturday 5th March: 37604 3Q09 00:49 Eastleigh - Woking - Eastleigh - Derby one; 66150 6Z11  (Fri) Dowlow Briggs Sidings - Southampton Up Yard one two (66080 Fri) (which also seems to have ghosted from Wembley on RTT), 6Z14 14:48 Southampton Up Yard - Wembley;

Night moves at Romsey, 2nd and 3rd March 2016

66507 leads with 6Y19 17:50 Fairwater Yard - Winchester, with the MOBC (Medium Output Ballast Cleaner) train, based upon Plasser RM 95-RT equipment.

66951 on the rear.

The next day saw 66546 + 66951 with the MOBC, also 66167 with the return LWR empties to Scunthorpe and 70801 with the civil engineering train from Eastleigh - Westbury.

70803 reported derailed and damaged, 27th February 2016

The incident appears to have occurred in the earlier hours of Saturday morning at Ivybridge in Devon, while in an engineering possession. One or two wagons and 70803 became derailed, and there are reports of collision damage to the locomotive.

"both drivers are ok, shaken but ok"

"rerailing equipment from Wigan is being sent to assist as local resources aren't sufficient"

"It would appear that 70803+6C24+70808 has hit the rear of 7Y75. 70803 has fortunately remained upright"

"it could take 12 hours just to get the loco back on as there are no rails left under it that you could get wheels onto atleast, they are both ripped from the pandrols, crippled and on their sides.
"There is also no buffing gear left on the loco (some of it on the floor, the rest of it broken) which wall also make onward movement to any where tricky until that's sorted."

Updated Mon 29th:
"The loco worked to Tavi(stock Junction) under its own power inside the possession last night but will need some repairs before onward movement."

Links and sources: one two three

Reported location: Old crossover location to west of viaduct - one two

Updated Wed 2nd:
Pictures at Tavistock Junction showing damage at each end, with a case of 'Class 31 droop' at one end, where the panel has now been removed: one (loco end facing Plymouth) two (facing Exeter)

Further picture from 2nd: three

Updated Sat 5th:

Further picture from 3rd: four

21st November 2015

Dowlow Briggs Stone Working, Saturday 27th February 2016

I think for the first time working on a Saturday. The working had come south from Dowlow Briggs Siding to Wembley on 26th with 66130.

6Z11 04:33 Wembley European Freight Operations Centre - Southampton Up Yard
6Z14 14:48 Southampton Up Yard - Wembley European Freight Operations Centre

Passing Romsey in the morning, passing at 07:22 about 26 minutes after sunrise.

The train consist was of 14 JNA wagons, this 34xx batch being converted from 8xxxx series TEA bogie tank wagons by Marcroft in 1998 for Railtrack usage under CAIB ownership. The current owner is VTG and these appear to be in use in Tunstead and related diagrams. Leader of this batch 3400 is pictured. Some more details on the type in this accident report.

The last wagon was 3452.

The return working ran early on its first leg, and was approaching Eastleigh, on the new track, at 14: 48.

The subject here is 3411. with 3412 preceding.

On Brigg's Siding at Dowlow, in the Peak District

Dowlow Quarry

Location

Eastleigh Observations, 27th February 2016

66593 3MG MerseyMultimodal Gateway on 4O14  07:37 HamsHall - Maritime.

66199 shunting a container consist, which earlier was in the East Yard - arrived as 4O43 06:31 Birch Coppice - Eastleigh Yard.

66591 4O54 05:27 Leeds - Maritime.

66012 4O39 10:44 MorrisCowley - EasternDocks

66595 4O29 08:15 Basford Hall - Maritime

ZCA 'Sea Urchin' wagon 460224 - built upon the chassis of a SPA steel plate carrier wagon constructed at Shildon in 1979 to Lot 3939.

22nd - 27th February 2016

59003 YEOMAN HIGHLANDER is back at Eastleigh Works, having been worked south via Tonbridge,

66770, delivered in December 2014, and into traffic in March 2015.

Monday 22nd February: 
Tuesday 23rd February: 66130 6Z11 10:00 (Mon) Dowlow Briggs Sdgs - Laverstock - Southampton Up Yard, 6Z14 14:48 Southampton Up Yard - Dowlow Briggs Sdgs one
Wednesday 24th February:
Thursday 25th February:
Friday 26th February: 70810 + 47739  6Y48 09:01 Eastleigh - Hoo one two three four; 08696 moved by road from Eastleigh Works to Wembley.

Saturday 27th February:  66133 6Z11 04:33 Wembley - Laverstock - Southampton Up Yard, 6Z14 14:48 Southampton Up Yard - Wembley

Eastleigh, 20th February 2016

66067 seen over the fence next to Lidl.

DRP81525 is a Plasser & Theurer heavy duty diesel hydraulic crane (number 5523 of 1981), originally operated by the BR Civil Engineer and designed to handle switch and crossing renewals as well as general permanent way functions.

158881 diverges for Romsey as 66955 approaches with 4O14 07:37 HamsHall-Maritime, which stopped in platform 3 for a crew change.

70007 passes through at speed with 4O27 0521 Garston-Maritime.

Now a real survivor, 08904 shunts in the yard. New as D4134 in June 1962 from Horwich, allocated to 14E Bedford.

DB980087 a YGB 40 tonne 'Seacow' ballast hopper built at BR Shildon to Lot 3966 in 1981-82. The earlier 'Sealion' of 1970 was developed from the SR 'Walrus', itself developed from an LSWR desig of 1903.

70019 departs with 4O54 05:27 Leeds-Maritime.

66540 Ruby passes in light rain with 4O29 08:15 BasfordHall-Maritime. The locomotive name was applied in January 2006 to mark the 40th anniversary of Freightliner.