The Railway Magazine – July 2019

An unusual trio at Lincoln on June 12, all heading in the same direction, found
No. 66789 on a Whitemoor to Doncaster loco move, passing a Class 800‘Azuma’on
an Acton Mainline to Doncaster IEP depot move, while No. 156414 waits with the
13.37 to Leicester.CHRIS USHER

DRS Class 37 No 37402Stephen Middlemore 23.12.1954 - 8.6.2013hauls inspection
saloonCarolinepast East Midlands Parkway on May 21 on the Up slow line.
PAUL ROBERTSON

DB Cargo No. 66109Teesport Expressapproaches Berwick-upon-Tweed station on

May 30 with the 05.49 Mossend-Tees Dock intermodal.CHRIS MILNER

114 •The Railway Magazine• July 2019

Operations Track Record

THE 06.08 Mossend-Daventry
Intermodal produced
Class 66 No. 66110 on May 4,
having been diverted via the
ECML.

THE 6S31/06.16 Mossend-Tees
Dock intermodal produced
Class 66 No. 66109Teesport Express
on May 4, resplendent in newly
applied PD Ports blue livery.

CLASS 66 No. 66005, looking
splendid in its new Maritime blue
livery, was parked on the engine
road at Didcot Parkway on the
morning of May 5.

RECENTLY named Class 66
No. 66047Maritime Intermodal
Twopassed through Peterborough
with theWakefield Europort-
Felixstowe SouthTerminal on
May 13. It has been re-liveried into
Maritime blue livery

CLASS 66 No. 66041 failed in
platform 1 on the Down slow line
atThornton Heath onTuesday,
May 14, while hauling the 04.48
ActonTC-Crawley FosterYeoman
loaded stone train.

THE 11.12 Daventry-Grangemouth
‘Down Malcolm’Intermodal
produced Class 66 No. 66067 on
May 18.

A SAND train hauled by Class 66
No. 66041 from GriffinWharf to
Neasden ran on May 30.

AN MoD move on June 5 involved
Class 66 No. 66131 working a
regular Kineton to Longtown
diagram.

ROYAL claret-liveried Class 67

No. 67006Royal Sovereignpassed

through Lancaster at 14.05 on

June 7 hauling‘swallow’-liveried

Class 91 No. 91019Bounds Green

en route from Doncaster to Crewe

via Carlisle for the Crewe Open

Day event.

THE 11.20 Leeds Balm

Road-Millerhill light engine

movement produced Class 66

Nos. 66546+66541+66957 on

May 4.

THE 05.25 Coatbridge-Daventry

Intermodal produced Class 66

No. 66569 on May 4. It had been

diverted via the ECML.

THE southbound‘Russell’passed

Preston at 09.15 on May 10 hauled

by green Class 90s Nos. 90049 and

90041.

THE only loco other than Harry

Needle’s Class 20 No. 3 (20906)

at Earles sidings at mid-day on

May 10 was Class 66 No. 66617

on a string of cement bogies. It

was later joined a short time later

by No. 66602, coming up from

Sheffield with empty bogies.

DURING the early hours of

Wednesday, May 15, the

4M48/00.19 Coatbridge FLT-

Daventry IRFT, hauled by Class 90

Nos. 90048 and 90041, got into

difficulty in the Shieldmuir area,

when No. 90048 developed a

fault. Assistance was provided by

Nos. 90042+90045, with the train

307 minutes late at Carlisle, where

it was terminated.

CLASS 70 No. 70020 was active on

May 17, seen passing Manchester

Piccadilly with containers for

Trafford Park at 10.17.

THE 14.37TyneYard-Carlisle light

engine movement produced

solitary Class 66 No. 66540 on

May 18.

CLASS 66 No. 66590 andVolker Rail

tamper No. DR75401IN were in an

engineering possession at Market

Harborough on May 27.

THE 05.10 Daventry (Tesco)-

Mossend Intermodal produced

Class 66 No. 66427 on May 4. It had

been diverted via the ECML.

THURSDAY, May 9 produced two

consecutive freight trains on the

WCML in daylight.

The first to passThankerton

was the 6Z66/08.41 Millerhill-

Carlisle NewYard, hauled by Class

66 No. 66428, closely followed

by the 4Z45/10.00 Motherwell

TMD-Daventry Reception Sidings,

conveying repaired/refurbished

container flats, hauled by Class 68

No. 68034.

CLASS 66 Nos. 66302/303 were

observed passingThankerton on

Wednesday, May 15, top-and-

tailing a nuclear flask wagon while

working the 6S99/05.56 Carlisle

Kingmoor-Georgemas Junction.

THE 06.48 Daventry (Tesco)-

Mossend Intermodal was

double-headed by Class 88

Nos. 88002+88009 on May 18.

A SPENO RPS 32-2 Rail Grinder

was moved from EastleighWorks

to Dollands Moor hauled by

Class 66 No. 66753EMD Roberts

RoadonTuesday, May 7, the

service being seen passing Barnes

station.

CLASS 66 No. 66765 worked the

6M78 from Grain FosterYeoman

to Neasden Charrington on

Tuesday, May 7, seen passing

Barnes station about an hour late.

GYPSUM empties 4Y19

from Mountfield Sidings to

SouthamptonWestern Docks

was seen passing St Margarets

onWednesday, May 8, headed by

Class 66 No. 66703Doncaster PSB

1981-2002.

CLASS 66 No. 66785 passed Settle

junction at 18.45 on May 10 with

its train from Arcow quarry.

GBRf Class 66 No. 66713Forest City

passed through platform 9 atYork

with the 6H70Tyne CoalTerminal

to Drax Power station on May 14.

THE 4D08/09.38Tees Dock-

Doncaster i-port produced

Class 66 No. 66749 on May 14.

AN OCCASIONAL MoD working on

May 15 found Class 66 No. 66739

on the 6M63/11.14 Glen Douglas-

Carlisle New yard working.

A further working was on June 5

when No. 66708 worked south

from Carlisle to Bicester.

CLASS 66 No. 66750Bristol

Panel Signal Boxpassed through

Ashford International with the

6Y36 Hoo Junction UpYard-

Sevington Sidings on May 16.

GBRf Class 66 No. 66775HMS

Argyllpassed Doncaster with a

northbound sand train at 15.10

on May 17. Later, No. 66783

The Flying Dustman,in Biffa livery,

was seen stabled at Skipton.

WITH the cross-country route

from Peterborough to Felixstowe

closed for the Spring Bank Holiday

weekend and with

stop-over Intermodals into

Harwich Parkeston Quay

predominantly cancelled, it

was perhaps unusual to see

two GBRf Class 66s noted in the

yard: No. 66754Northampton

Saints,with an Intermodal from

Doncaster Railport that arrived on

May 25 at 07.40, and 66722

Sir Edward Watkinthat arrived

light-engine from Felixstowe port.

The latter movement was to

handle an early morning Harwich

Refinery to NorthWalsham

empty condensate tank run

on May 29, which would not

have been able to be serviced

by Peterborough MPD with the

route through Ely unavailable.

The following weekend saw

four GBRf Class 66s in Harwich

Parkeston Quay yard. No. 66722

Sir Edward Watkinswas in the

field sidings after two stints to

and from NorthWalsham with

the condensate tanks for the

Harwich Refinery.

No. 66724Drax Power Station

had brought in the stopover

Intermodal from Masborough

late on June 1, while two others

Colas Rail Class 70 No. 70807 hauls 22 loaded PCAs over the summit at Whiteball on

June 5, running on the later path with the Moorswater cement. The working was the

6C35 05.50 Aberthaw-Moorswater.STEPHEN GINN