TRACTION 2018 Part 2
FREIGHT
TRAFFIC & TRACTION:
37219 on the Dagenham-Bridgend Ford vans; 50008 hauling container flats
to Dollands Moor; 66013 rescuing the Knowsley-Wilton ‘binliner’;
Freightliner’s 47830 working the Folly Lane-Basford Hall tanks; Colas
Class 60s transfer to GB Railfreight; Freightliner’s 66413 receives
Genesee & Wyoming livery; GBRf’s 66780 emerges in Cemex colours; ROG
take on DRS’s two Northern Belle Class 57s; 56105 and 56301 on Peak
Forest shunting duties; GBRf’s newly-acquired Class 60s on biomass
traffic out of Tyne Dock; Colas Rail’s 37421 & WCRC’s 37685 fronting a
rake of Scottish auto-ballasters; freight returns to
Ashton-in-Makerfield; Freightliner take over the Colnbrook fuel
tanks...and a comprehensive round-up of Network Rail’s autumn leaf fall
operation.
PASSENGER
TRACTION, RAILTOURS & SPECIALS:
Class 40 D213 Andania returns to the main line after 34 years; the first
Class 92 to work out of Waterloo International; the first Class 87 to
haul a train into Paddington; 57316 on the Windermere branch; GBRf’s
47727 & 47749 working in multiple on the ‘Tees-Wear Explorer’ charter; a
failed 47832 arriving at Weymouth with the Northern Belle; 20189
departing from Whitby ‘bonnet first’ on a passenger train; the last GWR
HST power cars to leave Landore depot; the closure of Old Oak Common HST
depot; Scotrail HST driver training; 55009 Alycidon on the ‘Deltic Retro
Scot’ and ‘Deltic Deviator’ railtours; 57601 repainted into Northern
Belle colours...and the first run of LNER’s 91119 in heritage Inter City
livery.
THERE’S ALSO:
92026 testing new Mark 5 Caledonian sleepers; 37884 hauling two Class
365 ‘Networker’ units to Glasgow Works; 37405 and 57007 on Greater
Anglia DVT moves to Cardiff; Colas 66s on test train duties over the HS1
route; ROG delivering new TPE Mark 5 stock to Longsight; 37884 hauling
two TfL Class 315 EMUs to Newport Docks for scrapping; 20142 & 20189 on
a snowplough test run from Derby; 66002 delivering the first Greater
Anglia Class 755 unit to Norwich; 66725 dragging a Class 332 Heathrow
Express unit; 66590 delivering new Mark 5 sleeper coaches to Polmadie;
GWR’s Laira-based 08483 visits the South Devon Railway; a six-loco
‘thrash-ex’ at the Spa Valley Railway...and 50033 Glorious returns to
action after an absence of fourteen years!
