47s and other Classic Power

Saturday, 15 April 2023

10th - 15th April 2023

70000 Britannia passing Eastleigh, 11th April. Clip by Dave Myles, via Ian Knight.

Monday 10th April: 73963 + 73965 1Q51 11:15 Derby - Eastleigh - Weymouth - Eastleigh one
Tuesday 11th April: 70000 5Z72 07:20 Swanage - Eastleigh - Romsey - Salisbury - Westbury - Crewe Flickr for the day; 73963 + 73965 1Q52 10:47 Eastleigh - Portsmouth Harbour - Littlehampton - Barnham- Portsmouth Harbour - Totton Yard - Havant - Guildford - Havant - Fareham - Eastleigh - Winchester - Basingstoke - Woking - Lymington Pier - Eastleigh one two; 47749 0O47 14:38 Kettering - Eastleigh one
Wednesday 12th April: 47749 (+701023) 5Q64 07:10 Eastleigh -Willesden one, for 5Q66 to Long Marston two three four; 47749 0O64 18:50 Honeybourne - Eastleigh ; 73963 + 73965 1Q53 12:00 Eastleigh - Up Yard - Wimbledon - Up Yard one, 1Q53 18:05 Up Yard - Farnborough Wimbledon - Totton - Romsey - Eastleigh
Thursday 13th April: 47749 (+ 701025) 5Q64 07:09 Eastleigh -Willesden one two, for 5Q66 to Long Marston three four five; 73963 + 73965 1Q54 12:55 Eastleigh - Tonbridge
Friday 14th April:
Saturday 15th April:

Nuneham Viaduct reopening target is 12th June - Network Rail update - press release

Eastleigh Works: 15Mar - 16Mar - 28Mar - 29Mar - 30Mar

Wednesday, 12 April 2023

Edinburgh, 11th January 2023

43139 had arrived with 1B74 09:04 Aberdeen - Edinburgh to depart as 5B74 11:42 Edinburgh - Haymarket Depot.

43168 at the other end.

43138 prepares to depart with 1A81 11:30 Edinburgh - Aberdeen.

43031 on the other end.

Tram 261 on Princes Street.

TPE 802209 preparing for 9N11 11:34 Edinburgh - Berwick-upon-Tweed.

801207 was to form 1E10 10:00 Edinburgh - Kings Cross.

Saturday, 8 April 2023

3rd - 8th April 2023

5 years ago, 57003 at Eastleigh Works, 7th April 2018. Now sold to Locomotive Services, and was recently banking in Liverpool for GBRF, until displaced by a Class 69.

Nuneham Viaduct Closure: This viaduct, between Didcot and Oxford, as rebuilt by the GWR in 1906/07, has been closed, with effects upon the Southampton north - south freight flows and Cross Country services. BBC News - WNXXforum - RailUK Forum - drone video - statement from GWR - track level image

"The bridge part at Nuneham was replaced in 1906/7 with the current two-span structure. The viaduct part was kept (but perhaps shortened a little). New piers were built mid-river and on the north side; I have no information on what was done to the southern abutment. It must have had new bearings, perhaps allowing for expansion; on the north pier the girders appear to just sit on blocks of concrete."

Monday 3rd April:
Tuesday 4th April: 47749 (+ 701026) 5Q10 10:17 Derby - Eastleigh one two
Wednesday 5th April: 47749 (+ 701030) 5Q64 07:09 Eastleigh - Willesden (then 5Q66 to Long Marston); 47749 0O64 18:42 Honeybourne North Jn - Eastleigh Flickr for two days
Thursday 6th April: 47749 (+ 701048) 5Q64 07:09 Eastleigh - Willesden (then 5Q66 to Long Marston) Flickr for the day; 43257 + 43274 1X23 15:13 Salisbury - Southampton UGL - Salisbury (test train, not NMT) (earlier one two three)
Friday 7th April:
Saturday 8th April:

73961 + 73962 were returned south from Scotland on 7th, currently at Doncaster. Only 73961 worked sleeper turns, paired with 73971 to Aberdeen on 30th March and 3rd April.

73133 has been turned out at Eastleigh Works as "The Bluebell Railway"

Eastleigh Works: 07Feb - 09Feb - 14Feb - 16Feb - 23Feb - 24Feb - 01Mar - 02Mar - 07Mar - 08Mar - 09Mar - 14Mar - 14 Mar 2991 naming

Tuesday, 4 April 2023

SRPS Diesel Gala, Bo'ness, 29th December 2022

60021 was the guest visitor, courtesy of GBRf.

60021 is seen alongside 47643.

60021 is seen working away from Bo'ness, double-heading with 47643.

47643 running through Kinneil with a return from Manuel.

47643 running in the Kinneil area.

37025 + 37403.

37025 + 37403 lead away close to the Bo'ness foreshore, and the site of the original passenger station.

SRPS Diesel Group

Full set of pictures.

Saturday, 1 April 2023

27th March - 1st April 2023

Monday 27th March: 37611 0O86 07:57 Wembley - Eastleigh (for paintshop); 66799 + 66307 + 66308 0O01 10:05 Doncaster - Eastleigh (66/3's for paintshop) Flickr for the day one two
Tuesday 28th March: 56098 + 701033 + 50007 5Q10 09:15 Derby - Eastleigh one two three four Flickr for the day; 66307 + 66308 moved into Eastleigh Works by 66750 one two three four five six seven eight; 66306 outshopped in standard GBRf scheme and collected by 66750 one two
Wednesday 29th March: 56098 + 50007 5Z11 08:10 Eastleigh - Leicester one two three four Flickr for the day
Thursday 30th March:
Friday 31st March:
Saturday 1st April:

73960 and 73961 are in Scotland to bolster the ailing fleet on Caledonian Sleeper operations. They have to operate as the leading locomotive. Video at Kirkcaldy on 30th.

Thursday, 30 March 2023

Tractors on a Festive Test Train, Aberdour, 22nd December 2022

A pair of Tractors sent to Scotland for a rarer daytime test train.

37099 + 37175 T+T 1Q26 13:45 Edinburgh - Carnoustie - Perth - Aberdeen - Edinburgh.

Test train coaches were 6001 + 977997 + 72639 + 9481.

37099 MERL EVANS 1947-2016, was new from English Electric Vulcan Foundry as D6799 on 14th December 1962, so is now 60 years old.

A closer view of 37099, with the train running slowly on a yellow.

First coach 6001 had just received attention at Cardiff, and sported a fresh coat of yellow, and very clean bogies. In the later years of the last decade, this coach was in DRS ownership, and worked here on the Fife Circle in 2015 and 2019.

37175 on the rear, new from English Electric Vulcan Foundry as D6875 on 20th September 1963.

Tuesday, 28 March 2023

East Somerset Railway Gala, 19th March 2023

Images from the camera of Ian Knight.

The gala marked the return to traffic of GWR '5101' 4110 (Swindon, 1936) following its long restoration from Barry scrapyard condition), finished at Cranmore for the Dartmouth Steam Railway, for whom it will eventually work. Here seen running round at Mendip Vale.