TRACTION 2020 Part 2
FREIGHT
TRAFFIC & TRACTION:
Former Swedish Class 66s enter traffic for GB Railfreight; ex-Greater
Anglia Class 90s enter service for Freightliner; DRS’s overhauled 37425
receives retro Regional Railways livery; WCRC Class 37s working timber
trains from Georgemas Junction; 57002 hauling a rake of car transporters
from Eastleigh to Dagenham; 20118 & 20132 on hire to DRS with Network Rail’s
tilting point carrying wagons; 73962 & 73965 on a wagon transfer move from
Tonbridge to Eastleigh; 67028 rescuing 60015 on the Wolverhampton-Immingham
steel; 56103 hauling a rake of HHA coal hoppers to Shirebrook; 50050
Fearless on a Colas loco swop move from Barnetby to Nottingham; WCRC duo
37518 & 37706 taking a redundant breakdown crane from Wigan to Margam; the
last Class 86-hauled Anglo-Scottish Freightliner working; the return of the
Sinfin fuel tanks...and a round up of the loco-hauled autumn ‘leaf busters’.
PASSENGER
TRACTION, RAILTOURS & SPECIALS:
Inter City liveried
87002, 90001 & 90002 enter traffic for LSL; the summer ‘Staycation
Express’ services over the S&C; 37611 rescuing a failed Greater Anglia
‘Flirt’ unit; 40145 arriving at London Euston; LSL’s Midland Pullman HST
on its maiden passenger-carrying run; BR blue 47614 on its first main
line working of the year; Inter City liveried 90002 and a matching rake
of stock on a Euston to Glasgow charter; 67005 hauling the Royal Train
through Leeds, more GWR Class 57 failures on the ‘Night Riviera’
sleepers...and EMR’s last two Paxman-engined power cars on their final
passenger turn.
THERE’S ALSO:
GBRf’s 56081 pressed into service on rolling stock moves; 73128 & 73213
hauling a brand new Stadler Merseyrail unit to Tonbridge; Heathrow
Express Class 332 units heading to the scrapyard; 20007 & 20205 venture
to Plymouth while on hire to Loram; the DATS OLE test trains and their
wacky formations; 50007 & 50049 on various GBRf stock moves including
their trip to Bishop Auckland; 37688 returning to the main line with LSL;
ex-EMR HST power cars on Colas test train work; the unique 89001 being
towed to Soho for electrical testing; 40145 on hire to LSL collecting an
HST power car from Long Marston; 67021 & 67024 ‘top & tailing’ OLE
wagons from Swindon to Dollands Moor; DRS Class 66s on a summer
snowplough test...and 31285 & 31459 hauling a rake of fourteen
ex-Caledonian Mark 3 sleepers over the Weardale Railway!
