TRACTION 2022 Part 1
FREIGHT
TRAFFIC & TRACTION: the start of DB Cargo’s Toton-Dollands Moor
Toyota cars; DCR’s new aggregate services to Chessington South and Newton
Abbot; DRS begins running trains to Winfrith in Dorset; 56302 works the
first imported aggregates train out of Lowestoft; the first Colas timber
train from Aberystwyth; Freightliner’s 66620 assisting a failed 60007 on the
Robeston-Theale tanks; 37218 rescuing DRS’s Tilbury-Daventry Tesco boxes;
73109 & 73136 working the Mountfield gypsum; DB Cargo’s 60019 on hire to DCR,
long-stored 90021 returns to traffic in a revised WH Malcolm livery; ex-DRS
locos are snapped up by HNRC & LSL; 37901 Mirrlees Pioneer returns to the
main line; GBRf’s replacement for 66734 becomes its 100th Class 66...and
Class 69s take over the Southampton-Mountfield gypsum.
PASSENGER
TRACTION, RAILTOURS & SPECIALS:
WCRC’s 47270 retains
its BR blue livery following a repaint at Carnforth; Bo’ness-based 37403
working the NYMR’s Whitby services; 87002 visits Norwich with ‘The East
Anglian’ excursion from Crewe; 50007 has a solo outing to Exeter on the
Belmond British Pullman; 50008 leaving Canon Street with the ‘Ore No
More’ railtour; 37422 & 37425 working the four-day ‘Easter Highlander’;
60040 on the ‘Cwmbargoed Collier’ tour; DB Cargo’s 67007 in new Platinum
Jubilee livery hauling the Royal Train; 37601 dragging a failed Greater
Anglia ‘Flirt’; LSL’s 90002 working a Liverpool-Wembley ‘Foot-ex’; 37403
leaving the Hitachi factory at Newton Aycliffe with the ‘The Merchant of
Teeside’ railtour...and Class 40 D213 Andania reaches Great Yarmouth.
THERE's ALSO:
20007 & 20142
dragging a TfW Mark 4 set from Eastleigh to Crewe; 50008 hauling a new
Class 196 unit to Long Marston; Colas Rail’s 56096 on a SWR Class 701
delivery to Eastleigh; GBRf hire DCR’s 56091 for a Greater Anglia Class
720 delivery; 92042 hauling two new Swiss-built TfW Class 231 units from
Dollands Moor to Ripple Lane; 47727 on the first move of Southern Class
455 units to Newport Docks for disposal; ROG 37s hauling SWR Class 455,
456 and 458 units to Long Marston; GBRf’s 56081 dragging three ex-GWR
HST?power cars from Laira to Newport Docks for breaking; 70020 & 68004
in action at the KWVR diesel gala; the NRM’s D6700 moves to the Great
Central Railway...and Deltic 55019 on a demonstration freight on the GCR.
