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TRACTION 2008 Part 2

FREIGHT TRAFFIC & TRACTION: 86 101 and 87 002 working Royal Mail trains, 56 311 & 56 312 on hire to Colas Rail for Immingham-Washwood Heath steel trains, Large Logo 47 580 on a Tyseley-West Ealing departmental working, 37 608 & 37 609 working the Daventry-Grangemouth intermodal, 56 303 at Ratcliffe power station having rescued a Fastline Freight coal train, newly re-liveried 59 001 working an Eastleigh-Westbury EWS departmental service, 67 011 & 67 028 hauling a Scunthorpe-Crewe CWR train, 57 303 passing through Banbury with the diverted PRDC-Shieldmuir mail, 57 008 & 57 011 hauling a rake of new Fastline coal wagons, 59 202 is off the beaten track with the Walsall-Tunstead cement….plus the best-ever selection of ‘Dead Shed’ spots!

PASSENGER TRACTION, RAILTOURS & SPECIALS: Colas Rail’s 47 739 working FGW’s ‘Night Riviera’ sleepers, 86 259 making a debut for its Class at Hadfield on a BBC charity train, 90 003 passing through Nottingham in the consist of a Freightliner service, former Virgin Class 57s commence new duties on Arriva’s Holyhead-Cardiff service, Virgin Class 57s on diverted West Coast services over the Chiltern Line, 20 189 working London Underground Met Line specials, 55 022 making a Deltic debut over the Cambrian route to Pwllheli, SWT’s 73 109 working Brockenhurst-Lymington Pier services, 47 375 working Norwich-Lowestoft services, the end of the Stobart Pullman.

THERE’S ALSO: 20 905 hauling a Grand Central HST power car from Craigentinny to Heaton, 31 454 & 31 459 visiting St Albans Abbey Wood with a test train, Class 87s moving by road from Crewe to Hull docks en-route to Bulgaria, re-liveried Class 58s en route to Spain, 20 901 & 20 905 hauling the Blue Pullman charter set from Barrow Hill to East Ham, 73 210 being towed to Dereham by 73 136, Grand Central HST power car 43 067 working Network Rail’s NMT HST, 20 307 & 20 315 hauling a ‘stoneblower from Trent Junction to Ashford, Class 20 D8142 working its last trains at Llangollen, 57 311 visits Bo’ness….plus extensive coverage of the autumn RHTT’s.