TRACTION 2007 Part 1
FREIGHT
TRAFFIC & TRACTION:
47 840 North
Star hauling the Millbrook-Coatbridge Freightliner and on various FGW
stock moves, 37 411 + 37 425 on the Westerleigh-Robeston tanks, 31 128 +
31 454 hauling a rake of box wagons to Scunthorpe, 47 703 with Cornish
china clay tanks, 37 087 on a Doncaster-Bescot departmental working, 20
310 ‘bonnet first’ on a Grangemouth-Hamilton trip, 37 410 at
Lostwithiel with a Tavistock-St Blazey freight, 47 813 with fuel tankers
on South Humberside, 56 303 working a March-Doncaster ballast, 37 405 + 37
422 on the East Lancs ‘ski jump’ with ballast for the Manchester
Metrolink, 47 843 hauling the diverted Willesden-Shieldmuir mail and
Virgin Class 57s start on the Chirk timber.
PASSENGER
WORKINGS, RAILTOURS & SPECIALS: 47
703 + 57 301 help out the Penzance-Paddington sleepers, 73 201 on the last-ever ‘Wessex’ unit drag for SWT, 37 406 on
Scotrail’s Inverness sleepers, 47 805 + 50 049 on the last ATW
loco-hauled rugby specials, 86 101 returns the main line, 40 145
ventures to Aberystwyth, Whitby and Stranraer, 37410 arriving at Falmouth
Docks, Network Rail’s 31 105 + 31 285 on the ‘Bristol Coal Stone
Haul’, DRS’ 47 802 ventures to Kyle of Lochalsh and the Far North
Line, D1010 & D1015 on a double-headed departure from Minehead, London
Underground’s Sarah Siddons returns to traffic.
THERE’S ALSO: 73
136 + 73 204 on the Royal Ascot ‘Queen of Scots’, 2 HST power cars
‘back to back’ hauling a FGW HST set, triple-headed GBRf Class 73s on
the Midland Main Line, 40 145 towing DRS acquisition 47 145 from Carnforth
to Carlisle, 31 128 hauling FGW power cars to Brush, newly re-painted 47
840 North Star working a freight on the West Somerset Railway, 33 065
& 56 098 on Nene Valley freights, the final run of 47 575 on the East
Lancs before being scrapped. There’s also the return to traffic of 37
152 and D9016 at Peak Rail, 37 906 on the Severn Valley, 47 635 at Swanage
and 47 768 at Barry.
"This follows the same
tried, tested and highly enjoyable format of all the other programmes in
the series". TRACTION MAGAZINE
