TRACTION 2013 Part 1
FREIGHT
TRAFFIC & TRACTION: Colas
duo 47727 & 47749 hauling a 2,200 tonne ballast train to Eastleigh;
WCRC’s newly-acquired 57316 on a Frodingham-Bescot departmental; Royal
67s on the Morris Cowley-Southampton Docks cars; DRS’s 47818 on
hire to Colas for the Boston steel; 37688 & 37419 hauling a long
welded rail train from Mossend to Ardlui; Colas Rail’s 66848 hauling the
Thamesport-Lawley Street Freightliner; 37602 & 37607 on a waste trial
to Winfrith in Dorset; 47739 working the Sinfin tanks; WCRC duo 57006
& 57316 rescue the Chirk timber; Chiltern’s 67015 on the
Toton-Beeston departmental; pairs of DRS 37s and 57s on Anglo-Scottish
intermodal services; the end of coal and oil trains to Didcot power
station; DCR Class 56s on new traffic flows to Calvert, Butterwell and
Thoresby; Class 37/4s return to traffic with DRS; 66750 arrives from
Holland for GBRf...and 20189 and 20227 receive London Underground
liveries.
PASSENGER
TRACTION, RAILTOURS & SPECIALS: 47828
& 47802 ‘top & tailing’ a Norwich to Peterborough
‘Foot-Ex’; 20312 bonnet-first on the Chingford branch; LUL’s Sarah
Siddons on London Underground 150 specials; 37218 & 37609 on the
Exmouth branch; DRS 47s deputising for a DMU on Norwich-Lowestoft
services; 66739 working the first through-train from London to Sheffield
Park for 55 years; D9009 Alycidon on both the East Coast and West Coast;
66075 hauling the failed Glasgow to Euston Scotrail sleepers; Arriva’s
67001 & 67002 working over the Chiltern Line with a Wrexham-Wembley
‘Foot-Ex’...and four former Arriva Class 57/3s transfer to WCR.
THERE’S
ALSO:
20142
& 20227 on London Underground’s District Line; 33207 hauling four
Orient Express coaches to Selhurst; various Snow & Ice Treatment
Trains with haulage by 37516, 47802, 66846 & 73109; Deltic 55022 on
hire to GB Railfreight for Scottish EMU moves; 37425 hauling three
overhauled Network Rail DVTs to Derby; 31190 on the ECML towing Union of
South Africa; 37685 working a GB Railfreight EMU move to Kilmarnock; 66705
hauling the last two VOP units from Ashford to Barrow Hill; 47727 hauling
two ‘Juniper’ EMUs; 33103 working on the Bluebell Railway...and the
probable ‘clag shot of the year’ featuring 56103 at the Nene Valley
Railway!
