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20107 & 20096 with 390126 in Manchester Piccadilly 16/04/26, after being used to bring the 390 into the station following a de-wirement on the station approach
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SITE UPDATED
Monday April 20, 2026 12:42
SECTIONS/PAGES UPDATED
Monday 20/04/26

PUBLICATION TIME/S
12:40 Initial Publication

NEWS & INFORMATION
Ex Chiltern Class 68s notes
Two on the move by road
Names for 08787 & 47292, vinyls for 68029

PHOTO NEWS
66424 & 88009 working 4Z42 from Mossend to Daventry via the G&SW and S&C routes
66705 assisting 66796 on 6O75 from Prestwick Airport to Grain Oil Terminal

INTERNAL OPERATIONS
73119 on a training run operating 0Z15 from Acton Canal to Tonbridge West Yard
142003 working 5Z57 from Carlisle Upperby to Crewe HS - completing a week on LS training between Crewe and Carlisle

STOCK CONTROL
66748 & 66742 with the Britannic Explorer ECS from Bruton to Cranmore
68029 powering 5Q86 from Wembley LMD to Eastleigh TRSMD
150001 ECS as 5H71 from Neville Hill to Wolverton Works

TOURING
66790 & 57305 working The Plant tour visiting various installations in the Doncaster/Leeds area
34028 & 47826 on the Great Briton XVIII from London Paddington to Exeter St Davids then on to Penzance
66742 & 66748 with the Britannic Explorer running from Bishops Lydeard to Penzance

PORTFOLIO
Images from between March 23rd and April 17th 2026

RETRO
37428 37504 37698 & 37699 along with 47641 & 86406 on Crewe Works during February 1986

VIEW
66705 on the Clitheroe cement diagram

DATA & REFERENCE
Fleet Status database updated - 12:22
Storage lists/locations and stats sections updated

Friday/Saturday 17/04/26-18/04/26

PUBLICATION TIME/S
16:30 (Sat) Initial Publication

NEWS & INFORMATION
60026 on the move/prep to return
DBC fleet changes

PHOTO NEWS
37418 bringing the Loram Rail Grinder back to Derby from High Marnham
37421 & 37424 operating 3Z45 from Derby RTC to Cambridge Receptions
66174 working 6M51 from Millerhill Sorting Sidings to Kingmoor Yard

STOCK CONTROL
93004 & 93010 escorting 458535  from Wimbledon Park Depot Sidings to Long Marston
158785 ECS from Bristol Barton Hill to Nottingham Eastcroft
165122 ECS from Doncaster to Reading TCD
37501 with Class 730 moves between Bletchley and Gascoigne Wood
47810 & 47805 with an after-tour stock transfer from Goodrington CHS to Crewe HS

TOURING
57306 & 57303 on the Manxman tour from Morecambe to London Kings Cross
34046 & 47593 with a Steam Dreams outing between Ipswich and Bath Spa
47805 & 47810 on the Royal Windsor Statesman tour between Paignton and Windsor & Eton Riverside
37240 & 97302 on the Cambrian Coast Express, between Dorridge and Pwllheli

DIVERSIONS
Intermodal workings and AWC Class 805s on diverted workings away from the WCML

FAIRWOOD JUNCTION AND BURTON
Six freight/engineers workings passing Fairwood Junction
Locomotives on shed and three freights passing nemesis Rail at Burton

DPS DELTICS
About the movements involving the DPS Class 55s

PORTFOLIO
Images from between April 2nd and April 16th 2026

RETRO
50012 & 50039 on shed at Doncaster Carr during May 1985

VIEW
43013 & 43014 passing North Staffs Junction and Hatton with the fourteen hour 1Q30 Leicester LIP to Longsight CMD, via reversals at Holyhead, Crewe, and Liverpool Lime Street, infrastructure monitoring working

DATA & REFERENCE
Fleet Status database updated - 16:10 (Sat)
Storage lists/locations, stock changes and stats sections updated

 

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