TRACTION 2009 Part 1
FREIGHT
TRAFFIC & TRACTION: 59 206 unveiled in DB Schenker livery at the NRM, DRS 37s working
ballast trains over the Cambrian and West Highland lines, Arriva’s 57
313 working the Carlisle-Chirk timber, 47 375’s penultimate working for
Advenza Freight, FIVE Class 37s at the front of the Willesden-Crewe DRS
flasks, a staggering 10 loco convoy conveying Class 56s from Old Oak
Common to Crewe, Mendip Rail 59s on a weekend infrastructure train, BR
blue re-paints for 31 106 and 73 201 Broadlands,
long-term Ipswich scrapper 47 370 being towed to Felixstowe, new Colas
Class 56-hauled Dollands Moor-Hams Hall intermodal traffic, the first coal
train out of Guan Cae Gurwen for 10 years, 66 193 hauling the last
Quidhampton tanks.
PASSENGER
TRACTION, RAILTOURS & SPECIALS: 47 832 departing from Southampton
Western Docks with the first boat train in 15 years, 47 245 hauling the
very last train into Folkestone Harbour, 66 152 arriving at Swanage with
the first through train from London for 37 years, former Royal Train loco
47 798 Prince William
working charter trains for West Coast Railways, 47 826 departing from
Glossop with a foot-ex to London, FGW run HST’s to Fratton and Weymouth,
57 309 working the Penzance to Paddington sleepers, D1015’s 3-day
‘Western Chieftan’ foray to Inverness and Kyle of Lochalsh, 47 804
& 47 826 venture to Aberystwyth.
THERE’S
ALSO: the
first fire-up in 19 years of 50 026 Indomitable,
D1015 Western Champion arriving
at Southampton Docks hauling a track machine, 20 901 & 20 905 towing
scrap locos to Long Marston and Stockton, 73 136 hauling spoil trains and
the first diesel-hauled passenger train on the Bluebell Railway, 66 709
hauling the first train of new London Underground ‘S’ stock from Derby
to Old Dalby, 50 035 Ark Royal
performing the last rites at Old Oak Common’s famous ‘Factory’, the
first runs in preservation of 33 002 Sea
King, 37 418 Pectinidae and 56 040 Oystermouth.
There’s also coverage of the Eastleigh Works open weekend plus the pick
of the action from the Swanage, Mid Hants and Mid-Norfolk diesel galas!
