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TRACTION 2022 Part 2

FREIGHT TRAFFIC & TRACTION: 20007 & 20205 on hire to Victa Railfreight for shunting duties at Peak Forest; 37218 receives a repaint into original DRS livery; 37800 repainted into ROG blue; retro repaints for GB Railfreight’s 56081 & 56098; Freightliner’s 47830 on a route learning run to Exeter; Colas take over the Lindsey to Kingsbury tanks from DB Cargo; the Class 56 Group’s 56301 on a test run from Leicester to Wembley; all five DRS Class 66/3s transfer to GB Railfreight; 73128 & 73136 hauling a rake of new Wascosa wagons from Dollands Moor to Eastleigh; Freightliner’s 90003 hauling a rake of redundant box wagons from Wembley to Crewe; 57305 & 57312 return to action for DRS; GBRf’s new Class 69s spread their wings; 57307 on the Bescot-Toton departmental; 56081 on a route learning run to Newhaven and on a RHTT visit to London Victoria; a new ‘steel on steel’ look for DB Cargo’s 60062...and traction highlights from the autumn ‘leaf busting’ season.

PASSENGER TRACTION, RAILTOURS & SPECIALS: D9000 Royal Scots Grey makes its long-awaited main line return; WCRC and LSL Class 86s, 87s and 90s are drafted in to bolster Avanti services to and from Euston; a retro-repaint for CrossCountry power car 43384; former DRS locos 57010 & 57012 enter traffic for WCRC; 67016 rescuing LNER’s failed 91130; the CFPS’s 40145 on tours to Carlisle and Newcastle; 20096 & 20107 setting off from Stranraer; 50008 at Redcar heading to Saltburn; 50050 hauling the ‘Cumbrian Mountaineer’ over the S&C to Carlisle; 50007 & 50049 returning from Beverley, 40013 working the ‘Bristol Forty’ charter; 69004 hauling the ‘Solent Searcher’ railtour, 33025 & 33029 double-heading to Weymouth; 20189 deputising for steam on the ‘Shakespeare Express’...and quadruple-headed Class 20s on the ‘Chopper Topper’ charter!