TRACTION 2010 Part 1
FREIGHT
TRAFFIC & TRACTION: 37
601, 86 101 & 87 002 working Royal Mail trains, 20 901 & 20 905
with a rake of GBRf coal hoppers, Riviera duo 47 805 & 47 839 on hire
to Colas for the Boston steel, 67 026 ventures onto the Swanage Railway to
work a ballast train, 60 096 makes a rare foray to Onllwyn colliery, 20
142 & 20 189 with deliveries of new London Underground S stock, 56 311
& 56 312 hauling a rake of 100-tonne tankers up the Lickey, 57 301
working the Fort William-Lynemouth alumina tanks, 37 425 on ballasting
duties on the Oban Line, Fastline Freight’s 66 305 ventures to Thorney
Mill, the first Class 70 to venture to Scotland and Immingham, FIVE Class
92s on one train….and after a 10 year absence 37 409 returns to traffic
with DRS.
PASSENGER
TRACTION, RAILTOURS & SPECIALS: 20 304 working East Anglian passenger trains
between Norwich, 37 667’s Inverness-Perth East Coast HST drag, Great
Yarmouth and Lowestoft, 57 602 & 57 605 and the Night Riviera sleepers
on a Oxford-Paddington service, 91 121 on a rare ECML HST drag, 66 402
& 66 721 deputising for failed Class 57s on FGW’s Cardiff-Taunton
service, 37 425 working the empty stock of the Euston sleepers into
Glasgow Central, 70 003 becomes the first of its class to work a passenger
train, D1015 pairs up with 40145 for a trip to Cornwall, the welcome
return of 55 022 to railtour action….and the unveiling of re-painted 57
604 Pendennis Castle in GWR green at Didcot.
THERE’S
ALSO: 57
603 hauling a Hull Trains Class 180 DMU, 47 739 hauling 4-CIG unit 1881
from Eastleigh Works to Barrow Hill, the extraordinary visit of 73 107 to
London Paddington, 66 728 hauling two Class 325 Royal Mail units to Fort
William, 47 739 hauling Grand Central HST stock from Stoke Marcroft to
Heaton, Floyd-liveried 86 232 moving from Crewe to Long Marston, 86 701
& 86 702 on a DVT test run for Chiltern Trains, 57 306 works over the
Chilterns with WSMR stock from Crewe, Class 50 D444 returns to the main
line to haul 50 026 from Kidderminster to Eastleigh Works, former EPS loco
73 118 shunting at Barry…and 46 010 returns to action at the Great
Central Railway.
