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99011 99012 & 99007 outside/in the 'Cadbury' maintenance building at Leicester LIP 25/09/26
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SITE UPDATED
Monday September 28, 2026 21:58
SECTIONS/PAGES UPDATED
Monday 28/09/26

PUBLICATION TIME/S
22:00 additional news items/content
20:20 additional news items
15:15 Initial publication

NEWS & INFORMATION
Road transfers
ELR Class 60s - another collection in the pipeline & pool changes come into effect
A fifth Class 99 into Scotland
Two more Romania Class 66s into blue at Toton
RHTT 2026 gathering momentum

PHOTO NEWS
66023 & 66079 on oil trains between Lindsey and Kingsbury after changes to operations at Humber/Lindsey
20189 & 20048 moving a BB drain train at Kidderminster
68003 working 6D48 to Inverness with coach 9428 on the rear of the train
66614 operating 6H45 from Banbury Reservoir Sidings to Tunstead
60028 at Penmaenmawr Quarry prior to operating 6A26 from Penmaenmawr Quarry to Willesden F

SPECIAL OPERATIONS
47701 & 37218 from Burton/Colwick TMD respectively, to Sizewell TCA to move Balfour Beatty tampers DR73956 & DR73957 from Sizewell, initially to Lowestoft then on to Colchester
56051 & 56090 taking snowplough ADB965029 out on test from Norwich Crown Point, running from Norwich to Coleham LMD

INTERNAL OPERATIONS
56103 on Midland Road/running light to Colwick TMD
67005 taking 92011 from Crewe to Wembley
99011 & 47727 bringing 56098 i to Leicester from Old Dalby
93008 & 93003 running to Bletchley DGL from Crewe South Yard
66303 & 66771 running from Doncaster to Longport
LU set 48030 on tests

STOCK CONTROL
47727 hauling Class 350s between Derby Litchurch Lane and Bletchley EMD
RA power cars escorting 221105 to Derby Litchurch Lane/taking the barriers to Chaddesden Sidings
37800 with 73021 on transfer from Gascoigne Wood to Tyseley LMD
68031 powering 5Q69 from Eastleigh to Banbury

PORTFOLIO
Images from between September 10th and September 25th 2026

RETRO
37091 at Kings Lynn during September 1977 with a Kings Lynn to London Liverpool Street service

VIEW
97302 & 97304 in Derby and Crewe while operating 0Z97 from Derby RTC to Coleham LMD

DATA & REFERENCE
Fleet Status database updated - 21:57
Storage lists, pool changes and codes sections updated

Thursday/Friday 24/09/26-25/09/26

PUBLICATION TIME/S
17:40 (Fri) Additional news items
13:45 (Fri) Additional news items
12:40 (Fri) Initial publication

NEWS & INFORMATION
Third Class 60 into EPR colours
Traction on the road round up
88010 renamed
Colas fleet changes
60096 released back to service
RailAdventure 43s - notes/fleet survey
33012 & 31210 to Bodmin

PHOTO NEWS
66799 in Salisbury with a diverted 4O46 from Trafford Park to Eastleigh Yard
Day two for 66114 on the 6H84 Hull to Drax loaded biomass
70020 passing Burton Salmon twice on 4N54 from Gascoigne Wood to South Bank Tees Dock
66421 & 66427 on the 4E49 Daventry to Doncaster iPort Tesco intermodal
66791 66759 66313 & 66555 at the head of the 6D44 Bescot to Toton engineering working
66717 66754 & 66769 at the head of 4L66 from Daventry to Felixstowe North
70802 with its hand crafted cab end number working 6S29 from Hunslet Yard to Oxwellmains

STOCK CONTROL
93002 & 93007 escorting 180109 from Derby Litchurch Lane to Eastleigh TRSMD
47727 & 99011 taking LU set 065 back to Goole from Gascoigne Wood
37800 bringing 730008 to Soho LMD from Gascoigne Wood
165028 & 165005 running ECS from Doncaster to Soho LMD

INTERNAL OPERATIONS
56090 & 56051 Norwich bound for snowplough tests as 0Z71 from Doncaster West Yard to Norwich Low Level Sidings

TOURING
Tours and associated workings operated between 22/09/26 and 24/09/26, featuring 71000 on the steam powered section of the Cornish Riviera Express, 43058 & 43059 powering the Highland Clansman Pullman, 60103 & 37240 on a Vintage Trains charter between Chesterfield and York, 67021 & 67006 on the Belmond British Pullman and 66706 & 66744 on the Britannic Explorer

AV DAWSON
08774 08410 & 08598 at AV Dawson in Middlesbrough

LNER IN CARLISLE
LNER passenger workings on diversion via Carlisle

HERITAGE TRACTION
26043 & 20228 paired up to operate the Gloucestershire-Warwickshire Railway diesel diagram
26043 working the diesel diagram at the Gloucestershire-Warwickshire Railway
D3002 at the Plym Valley Railway on its first run for a number of years
Former Liverpool Overhead Railway Motorcoach 3 and Lion at the Museum of Liverpool

STEAM ON THE MAIN
71000 with a support coach and 57302 in Plymouth while operating from Penzance to Plymouth Laira
66063 moving 60163 and its support coach from the Swanage Railway to Tyseley

PORTFOLIO
Images from between September 16th and September 24th 2026

RETRO
50050 on a London Paddington to Paignton service passing Bruton during September 1988

VIEW
66551 at Hillam Gate light engine on a run from Doncaster to York

DATA & REFERENCE
Fleet Status database updated - 12:35 (Fri)
Storage lists/locations, stock changes and stats sections updated

 

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