9th - 14th January 2023

69007 Richard Trevithick is unveiled at a rainy Eastleigh, 10th January. Image by Roger Homan.

Later on, the locomotive departed for Tonbridge. Image by Roger Homan.

66304 at Eastleigh with rescued 66757 West Somerset Railway, which suffered a reported main generator related failure. 66757 has been recorded in traffic from the next day, but not on its own. Image by Roger Homan.

33012 Lt Jenny Lewis RN returned 50026 Indomitable from Swanage to Eastleigh Works on 11th January. Image by Ian Knight.

50026 in the going away view.

Monday 9th January: 47593 (+ 6393 + 43055 + 43046 + 41162 + 40802 + 41182 + 41059 + 6394 + 6336 + 6348) 5Z43 08:50 Crewe - Eastleigh (47599 failed at Leamington Spa, rescued 1Z99 by 47805) Flickr for the day
Tuesday 10th January: 47805 + 47593 DIT ((6348 + 6336 to Reading) + 6393 + 6394) 5Z44 09:46 Eastleigh - Crewe Flickr for the day;  69007 (56037 Richard Trevithick 0Z07 14:24 Eastleigh - Tonbridge one two three four five six Flickr for the day
Wednesday 11th January: 33012 + 50026 0Z50 09:42 Swanage - Eastleigh, 33012 0Z33 14:19 Eastleigh - Swanage Flickr for the day; 47727 + 701010 5Q10 09:12 Derby - Eastleigh one, 47727 0M10 Eastleigh - Wembley
Thursday 12th January: 43274 + 43290 1X23 15:13 Salisbury - Southampton UGL - Salisbury
Friday 13th January: 57304 0Z10 10:15 Crewe - Eastleigh
Saturday 14th January: 57304 (+ 4 @ PFA wagons) 6Z10 08:57 Eastleigh - Crewe Flickr for Fri and Sat

Winchester: "How to justify replacement fencing on Winchester rail bridge"

Inter7City, September 2022

43147 (+ 43012) 1B82 13:13 Aberdeen - Edinburgh, soon to pass Dalgety Bay station, 22nd September.

43026 (+ 43136) passing Aberdour with 1A77 08:30 Edinburgh - Aberdeen, 23rd September.

43142 (+ 43131) 1B80 12:07 Aberdeen - Edinburgh, passing the NBR signal box of 1890, at Aberdour, 26th September.

43149 (+ 43148) passing Kinghorn with 1A77 08:30 Edinburgh - Aberdeen, 28th September.

2nd - 7th January 2023

37116 with a test train at Eastleigh, 11th April 2018. Last noted in this area in June 2020, but remains active in the past month.

Monday 2nd January:
Tuesday 3rd January: RMT Strike Day
Wednesday 4th January: RM Strike Day
Thursday 5th January: TSSA Strike Day
Friday 6th January: RMT Strike Day
Saturday 7th January: RMT Strike Day

69007 expected to be named at Eastleigh Works, Tuesday 10th January, then 0Z07 14:24 Eastleigh Works Gbrf - Tonbridge West Yard Gbrf

73133 at Eastleigh Works has been reported as sold, and is expected to be heading to the Bluebell Railway, after a repaint. From 1990, this loco carried the The Bluebell Railway name.

The Siemens Desiro emus are going through Eastleigh Works for overhauled bogies and intermediate couplers, plus miscellaneous items.

Retro: Scotland in the Noughties

 I spun up an external HDD from a while back. All rolling stock shown is in storage or scrapped.

The Class 322 emus had two periods leased to ScotRail, including Edinburgh to North Berwick services. Latterly they saw service for Northern in Yorkshire, and briefly with Greater Anglia.. 322485 at Edinburgh Waverley, 29th August 2007.

322483 was further along the platform. Both 322483 and 322485 were both moved from Ilford to Sims, Newport, on 21st September.

91131 County of Northumberland, on the same day. Entered storage in April 2020, and currently at Doncaster Belmont, although appears planned for a move to Bo'ness.

90018 will have worked in on the Caledonian Sleeper. This locomotive entered storage in August 2019 at Crewe EMD.

60039 in a civil engineering possession at the south-west end of Edinburgh Waverley, on the same day. 60039 Dove Holes was recently in traffic until June 2022, and is currently in storage at Toton.

43295 in National Express livery at Kirkcaldy, 18th August 2009. Stored at Ely since May 2021.

26th - 31st December 2022

 

15 years ago, their Freightliner lease at an end. 57004 (47347) went to DRS, and was recently being stripped for spares for GWR, at Crewe DMD.

57003 (47317) also went to DRS, but was recently sold to Locomotive Services, and was hired to GBRf in November to bank services in Liverpool through the leaf fall season.

Monday 26th December:
Tuesday 27th December:
Wednesday 28th December:
Thursday 29th December:
Friday 30th December:
Saturday 31st December:

'Royal Scotsman' workings in October 2022

 

66746 with 1H79 1541 Edinburgh - Keith Branch Platform Gbrf, passing Aberdour, 3rd October. The later departure allowed for arrival of the Tour of Great Britain.

Four days later, 7th, the return was in pouring rain, as 1H84 08:00 Dundee - Edinburgh, passing Dalgety Bay. The set then worked to Hamilton for some TLC.


Climbing Dalgety Bank on 9th, once again 66746, working 1H79 15:04 Edinburgh - Keith Branch Platform Gbrf

A closer view.

19th - 24th December 2022

 

67016 at Lee, 18th December. Image by Roger Homan.

Sunday 18th December: 67016 1Z61 08:50 Peterborough - Winchester - Southampton - Salisbury,1Z63 16:00 Salisbury - Southampton - Winchester - East Midlands Parkway Flickr for the day
Monday 19th December: 
Tuesday 20th December:
Wednesday 21st December: 73961 + 73962 1Z53 13:00 Derby - Eastleigh one two three, 1Q53 19:04 Eastleigh - Wimbledon - Totton - Romsey - Eastleigh
Thursday 22nd December: 73961 + 73962 1Q54 12:55 Eastleigh - Tonbridge one two
Friday 23rd December:

47830 said to going to Eastleigh Works in 2023 for a G&W orange and black scheme.