TRACTION 2015 Part 2
FREIGHT
TRAFFIC & TRACTION: 37401
Mary Queen of Scots returns to main line action with DRS; Colas’s 60096
working the Immingham-Santon iron ore; 70801 becomes the first of its
Class to reach Colnbrook; Colas classmate 70802 being trialled on the
Preston Docks bitumen; overhauled 60056 working the St Pancras-Ketton
cement empties with its bodysides still in primer; recently-reinstated
56104 on the Calvert-Willesden spoil; 50007 Hercules & 50017 Royal Oak
handle the Washwood Heath to Boston steel empties; the rare sight of a
Class 56-hauled engineers train in East Sussex; GBRf’s 59003 Yeoman
Highlander finally leaves Eastleigh Works; Colas take over the haulage of
the Dalston tanks; a five loco convoy of Class 67s heading from Wembley to
Dollands Moor for servicing; 70805 being trialled on the Carlisle to Chirk
timber; pairs of GBRf Class 47s on the Drax to Hotchley Hill gypsum;
Network Rail re-instates 31233 for test train duties; 37057, 37116 and
37421 all return to main line use with Colas; 92030 leaving Britain for
Bulgaria...and Schenker’s 90040 is reinstated to traffic after a ten
year absence!
PASSENGER
TRACTION, RAILTOURS & SPECIALS: Traction
variety on Serco’s Anglo-Scottish sleepers is provided by 47812, 66710,
86101 & Freightliner’s 90045; GWR-liveried 57605 working its first
sleeper train in eight months; 73966 working empty sleeper stock from
Polmadie to Edinburgh; Deltic 55022 in its latest guise as 55007 Pinza;
GBRf’s ‘Noah’s Arc’ charity train from Edinburgh to Crewe
featuring pairs of Class 20s, 47s and 66s; 67026 working an empty stock
move on the re-opened Borders Railway to Tweedbank; 86259 celebrates its
50th birthday by returning to the main line; 20305 & 20308 venture
into Devon...and the first HSTs to work into London Marylebone!
THERE’S ALSO:
Electrostar moves between Ramsgate and Derby using DCR’s 31452,
Freightliner’s 47830, UKRL’s 56104 and Europhoenix’s reinstated
37884; preserved 58016 being moved from Barrow Hill to Leicester; 56098
& 56104 hauling FGW Mark 3 stock from Laira to Kilmarnock; GBRf Class
20s on RHTT duties on the Tattenham Corner branch; 56301 hauling a London
Midland Class 323 EMU from Tyseley to Soho; 66769 delivering the first
Siemens-built Class 700 EMU to Three Bridges; three Eurotunnel Krupp
diesel locomotives hauling a new Eurostar E320 over the HS1 route in Kent;
47712 returns to action at the Weardale Railway in original Scotrail
livery...and the extraordinary sight of a pair of Hastings DEMU power cars
dragging a Southeastern Electrostar from Canterbury West to Ramsgate!
