TRACTION 2014 Part 2
FREIGHT
TRAFFIC & TRACTION: pairs
of Riviera Class 47s on GBRf’s Drax gypsum traffic; new DRS Class 68s on
Mountsorrel and Shap ballast and on Scottish intermodal traffic; 47812
ventures to Kilmarnock to collect new-build Ecofret wagons for GBRf; 50007
Hercules on the Boston steel; Balfour Beatty-liveried 20142 & 20189 on
RHTT duties at London Victoria; Colas Class 37s on test runs and RHTT
duties; 59003 returns to the UK from Germany; overhauled Colas Class 60s
on test and in traffic; DB Schenker’s 60040 rescuing Colas
Rail’s Sinfin tanks; Scotrail-liveried 90019 on the Millerhill-Tyne Yard
infrastructure trip; new GBRf Class 66s being unloaded at Newport Docks;
73961 undergoing testing at the Great Central Railway; the first Colas
Class 70 to work the Boston steel; the first main line runs of re-instated
56091 for Heavy Haul and 56103 for DCR; 73128 returns to the main line for
GBRf; West Coast Railways’ 37688 hauling a crane from Eastleigh to
Hornsey; 66084 de-railed at Brocklesby...and 47812, 68009 and 70807 on
RHTT moves from York Works.
PASSENGER
TRACTION, RAILTOURS & SPECIALS:
Tour
De France additional loco-hauled services featuring DRS Class 47s &
57s and 67006 hauling the Virgin ‘Pretendolino’; a short-formation FGW
HST working an Oxford-Paddington DMU service; 57305 & 57312 re-painted
into Northern Belle livery; 68014 working the first Class 68-hauled
charter train; D1015 Western
Champion ventures to Kent on the ‘Canterbury Champion’ railtour;
40145 visits Saltburn on the ‘Cleveland Potter’; 47815 on a GBRf staff
special to Great Yarmouth; DRS haulage for Virgin’s ‘Welsh Warrior’
Mark 3 farewell; multiple Class 57 failures and traction combinations on
FGW’s Night Riviera sleepers...and 91111 unveiled in WW1 remembrance
livery.
THERE’S ALSO:
50017
Royal
Oak returns to the main line after 14 years; Crompton D6515 taking DMU
vehicles from Swanage to Eastleigh Works; FGW’s 57605 at Ipswich
hauling the Virgin ‘Pretendolino’ from Wembley to Norwich; 73119 &
73136 hauling the vintage ‘Chesham’ coaches from the Bluebell Railway
to West Ruislip; 73961 working its first passenger train on the GCR; 47714
on EMU shunting duties at Asfordby; DRS Class 57s on a snowplough test run
in Kent; London Underground Schoma diesel locos hauling the 1960 Cravens
tube stock at the Epping & Ongar Railway; 68007 visits the Mid-Norfolk
Railway; nine
Class 14s hauling a passenger train at the East Lancashire Railway...and
prototype HST power car 41001 hauling its first passenger train in 38
years!
