TRACTION 2018 Part 1
FREIGHT
TRAFFIC & TRACTION:
37407, 37521 and 56090 all return to the main line; former DB Cargo
Class 66s re-enter traffic with GB Railfreight in a variety of liveries
including Large Logo and Biffa; DRS’s 37716 on Peak Forest shunting
duties; 50008 Thunderer hauling a rake of box wagons from Eastleigh to
Wembley; ROG’s 37608 rescuing a DB Cargo stone train at Clapham
Junction; Northern Belle-liveried 57305 & 57312 on the Barrow-Sellafield
flasks; 37059 & 37069 working the Mountsorrel-Basford Hall ballast;
56103 on the Barrington spoil; 70814 on biomass trials with GBRf; 47812
heading to Eastleigh with a rake of steel wagons; DRS’s 66304 rescuing a
failed Freightliner on Beattock; 66763 hauling new sand hoppers on the
Severn Valley Railway; GBRf takes over the Peak Forest Cemex traffic and
the Hanson cement; loco convoys moving between Washwood Heath and
Nottingham Eastcroft...and DRS Class 37s and Colas Class 56s do battle
with the ‘Beast from the East’.
PASSENGER
TRACTION, RAILTOURS & SPECIALS:
Loco haulage on the Windermere branch with 33029, 37669 and 57316;
former DRS locos 47501 & 47805 return to the main line for Locomotive
Services; 37405 leaving Liverpool Street with a Greater Anglia empty
stock working; Trans Pennine Express Class 68s en route to and from
Dollands Moor; BR blue Class 20s leaving London Victoria on a wedding
special; 50007 & 50049 heading round the Cumbrian coast; 70811 working
the ‘Scarborough Spa Express’; 66015 hauling the British Pullman; former
GWR HST power cars transfer to Scotrail; Swanage-based 33012 working
over London Underground’s Metropolitan Line; 55009 Alycidon blasting
through Hadley Wood...and 20007 setting off ‘bonnet first’ from Wareham.
THERE’S ALSO:
50008 passing through Edinburgh Haymarket with a rake of former GWR HST
coaches; 47580 hauling a ballast regulator from Guide Bridge to Dollands
Moor; 73118 shunting a rake of coal wagons at Barry; 37884 hauling the
first rake of new Mark 5 sleeping coaches to Polmadie; GBRf’s 47749
leaving Glasgow Queen Street with an inspection saloon; 47812 & 47813
delivering new TPE Mark 5 coaching stock to Longsight; 70807 deputising
for a failed Class 37 on a Colas test train; 66789 hauling the new
Schweerbau milling machine; 57316 moving a track machine from Dundee to
Guide Bridge; Class 68-hauled TPE driver training; DRS Class 57s on hire
to ROG...and the long-awaited return to traffic of 40012 Aureol at the
East Lancs Railway’s Class 40 gala.
