June Friday Evening Freight at Eastleigh, 30th June 2017 - 5: DB Cargo

 66034 with 4V39 1736 Eastern Docks - Cowley. Earlier in the day Didcot driver Brian Daniels retired on the working from Cowley.

66177 was the yard shunter.

70s at Maritime, 29th July 2017

70008 has been in traffic in July, but is waylaid at Southampton ...

... as seen through the windscreen.

& positioned in a storage like location - where the 47s used to sit just over a decade ago.

70010 appears to be on yard shunter duties.

The Buffer Puffer 14.0, Eastleigh, 28th July 2017

37059 + 4927 + 4959 + 5366 + 1813 + 21269 + 3123 +3120 + 37069
1Z50 15:01 Eastleigh - Walton-on-the-Naze

The train is prepared within Eastleigh Works.

Proceeding with the 5Z50 ECS from the works to the station. 37059 was new from English Electric Vulcan Foundry as D6759 on 12th October 1962. Renumbered to 37059 on 16th November 1973. Stored by EWS in January 1999, and moved ownership to DRS on 19th July 2003. Overhauled and returned to service in 2003, stored in April 2012, to Barrow Hill, returned to usage in October 2014.

37069 on the rear of the train. Locomotive history covered here when seen at Crewe in 2016.

Departure of the special train from platform 3.

37069 on the rear departing to the north.

24th - 29th July 2017

66723 Chinook in the paint shop area at Eastleigh Works, 28th July.

70815 with 6O31 17:30 Westbury - Eastleigh, at Dunbridge, 26th July.

47237 on the rear of 1Z69 at Dunbridge, 26th July.

Sunday 23rd July: 68025 + 68028 T+T 1Z68 09:58 Victoria - Eastleigh one two, 1Z69 16:00 Eastleigh - Southampton - Redbridge - Laverstock - Victoria one two (Flickr for the day); 60009 + 47237 T+T 1Z56 17:20 Weymouth - Paddington one (Flickr for the day)
Monday 24th July:
Tuesday 25th July:
Wednesday 26th July: 60009 + 47237 T+T 1Z67 08:43 Victoria - Weymouth one, 1Z69 16:35 Weymouth - Southampton - Laverstock - Waterloo one two (Flickr for the day)
Thursday 27th July: 37059 + 37069 0Z70 09:25 Crewe - Eastleigh one two; 43013 & 43062 1X23 15:07 Salisbury - Redbridge - Southampton UGL - Redbridge - Salisbury (one two elsewhere on the day)
Friday 28th July: 67012 + 67021 T+T 1Y91 11:42 Victoria - Eastleigh - Hove one; 37059 + 37069 1Z50 15:01 Eastleigh - Walton-on-the-Naze one two three four
Saturday 29th July:

Freightliner Class 66: 66596 is back in service, while still in the storage pool DHLT. 66954 was recently reinstated to pool DFIN. This leaves 66955, 66956 and 66957 in storage, at Leeds.

Colas Class 47: 47739 Robin of Templecombe has been stored - this was expected, and it is not expected to return, as it is planned to provide parts to support the continued use of 47727 and 47749.

47771 is now receiving attention inside Eastleigh Works.

Eastleigh Works: 30Jun

The two Class 150 prototypes

The two Class 150 prototype units have now appeared on the Portsmouth - Cardiff circuit, appearing to have drifted from Basingstoke - Reading. Completed at York in 1984 to Lots 30984 to 30986 in steel construction, with some bodyshell commonality with earlier emu Class 455, itself tooled using the Mark III principles.

150001 is seen departing Romsey on 23rd July.

150002 was delivered with Perkins engines, later ran as a Class 154 while part of development for Class 158. Now understood to be Cummins powered, seen passing Dunbridge, 26th July.

Farewell to the KLM Fokker 70, Eastleigh, 28th July 2017

Looking into the sky from the platform at Eastleigh, here is a "Classic Power" species rather more endangered than the trains we watch. The Fokker 70 is shortly going out of service at KLM Cityhopper, the remaining 7 examples will be phased out by 28th October, the end of the current timetable.

PH-KZU (11543) first flew on 22nd June 1995, and was delivered to Air Littoral (flying in Air France colours).To KLM in April 2009.

KLM have created a special Thank You livery, with Anthony Fokker on the tail, as part of this farewell.

The Fokker 70 has no leading edge slats, and can make flap-less takeoffs, including from Southampton.

60009 The Dorset Coast Express, 26th July 2017

LNER A4 60009 Union of South Africa
1Z67 08:43 Victoria - Weymouth
1Z69 16:35 Weymouth - Southampton - Laverstock - Waterloo

Th first two pictures are at Redbridge.

The second pair are at Dunbridge.

The full set of pictures is appended to the collection on OneDrive.