TRACTION 2019 Part 2
FREIGHT
TRAFFIC & TRACTION:
Freightliner acquires the small fleet of Class 59/2s as it takes over
the Mendip stone traffic; five DB Cargo Class 66s go on long-term hire
to DRS; 57304 rescuing a failed Freightliner at Atherstone; the rare
sight of 20118 & 20132 on a departmental working on the Great Western
Main Line; Freightliner’s 70015 on hire to Colas working the Dalston
tanks; GBRf’s 60096 on hire to DCR to work ballast trains; overhauled
DCR Class 60s on their test runs; 73109 & 73136 hauling a rake of coal
hoppers around Kent; BR blue 20096 & 20107 working DCR’s Basford
Hall-Longport spoil; Colas Rail’s 37057 hauling a rail train from Kenton
to Crewe; Pullman-liveried 67021 & 67024 delivering a rake of new GBRf
wagons to Wembley; 66711 on an engineers train on the Exmouth
branch...and the final autumn of DRS Class 20s on RHTT duties.
PASSENGER
TRACTION, RAILTOURS & SPECIALS:
The final day of Class 37/4 haulage in East Anglia; LNER locos 91117 &
91120 in Europhoenix livery heading to Leicester; Locomotive Services
returns 37667 to the main line and then purchases 86101 & 87002; two
back-to-back HST power cars towing the stock of the Night Riviera
sleepers; DB Cargo’s 67025 receives the new Transport for Wales livery;
66199 hauling the very last train out of the closed Cottam Power
Station; 50008 Thunderer working its first railtour in nearly 30 years;
the final Class 90-hauled Caledonian Sleeper service with Mark 3
stock…and extensive coverage of LNER’s spectacular four-day farewell to
the Inter-City 125 High Speed Train featuring a complete retro-liveried
set.
THERE’S ALSO:
50008 Thunderer working a series of coaching stock moves for Chiltern
Railways; ROG locos hauling redundant Class 313 and 315 units to the
scrapyard; 57305 towing a defective CrossCountry Voyager DMU; GBRf’s
47739 route learning on the Barnstaple branch; Freightliner’s 47830
hauling a brand-new Trans Pennine Express Nova 3 unit to Carlisle; 66725
& 66701 on the Bluebell Railway with two Caledonian sleeper coaches; BR
blue 31128 heading to Eastleigh on a stock move from Burton;
Maritime-liveried 66090 hauling redundant ex-LNER stock to Eastleigh;
LSL’s 47593 rescuing GBRf’s 47739; a large logo repaint for 50033
Glorious; D1015 Western Champion back in BR blue...and 50017 Royal Oak
hauling a rake of unfitted mineral wagons on the GCR!
