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66549 (on continuing hire to Colas) running into Newport 25/02/26 on 6Z73 from Carlisle Yard to Cardiff Dock "with a rake of KFA timber wagons" for disposal
J Cazenave

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SITE UPDATED
Friday February 27, 2026 19:51
SECTIONS/PAGES UPDATED
Friday 27/02/26

PUBLICATION TIME/S
19:50 Initial Publication

NEWS & INFORMATION
DBC fleet changes/movements
56051 escapes Eastleigh Yard but not for long
08822 on the move
56098 returns to Old Dalby

PHOTO NEWS
Recently XC liveried 220033 in service

INTERNAL OPERATIONS
37218 utilising the new platform 4 in Cleethorpes after working in from York Parcels Sidings
37501 with 37884 attached operating 0R55 from Derby RTC to Colwick TMD/Rectory Junction

STOCK CONTROL
37800 bringing 455721 & 455716 north as 5Q58 from Wimbledon Park Depot Sidings to Derby Litchurch Lane
50050 & 40013 on a pre-tour positioning move from Crewe HS to St Philips Marsh

TOURING
Vintage Trains utilised 60103 & 47773 to operate a numbers of Shakespeare Express workings variously between Birmingham Moor Street and Dorridge then to Stratford upon Avon
47805 & 47810 traversing the S&C route with a Statesman S&C Circular tour
67007 & 67021 with a private charter operating from London Kings Cross to Castle Cary
67007 & 67006 with the Belmond Pullman on an outing between London Victoria and Oxford Parkway
66704 working a short pre-season Royal Scotsman afternoon trip to Dundee and back

PORTFOLIO
Images from between February 9th and February 25th 2026

RETRO
55007 in Leeds with the Up Yorkshire Pullman during 1978

VIEW
66689 on 6S68 from the oil terminal at Grain to Doncaster Down Decoy, passing Lidlington and Woburn Sands

DATA & REFERENCE
Fleet Status database updated - 19:29
Storage lists/locations, stock changes and stats sections updated

Tuesday/Wednesday 24/02/26-25/02/26

PUBLICATION TIME/S
14:10 Initial Publication
14:40 Republished - news items for Wednesday 25th added
00:35 (Thu) Republished - Class 99 fleet survey, additional images 0Q33 convoy, 37423 & 37611 moves updated

NEWS & INFORMATION
New Class 99s collected from Portbury
Class 99 fleet survey
GBRf launches surplus locomotives sale

PHOTO NEWS
Two days with 60099 working trains to Machen Quarry
31128 deployed from Burton for the collection of a failed MMT from Basingstoke North Yard
20901 & 20905 bringing the drain train north as 6J09 from Woking Up Yard to Stapleford and Sandiacre
158870 - one of several trains running wrong line between Garsdale and Kirkby Stephen due to a collapsed retaining wall just to the south of Birkett Tunnel

STOCK CONTROL
67021 with Pullman coach 99537 on transfer as 5Z25 from Eastleigh East Yard to Stewart's Lane TRSMD
43025 & 43060 operating 5D25 from Derby Chaddesden Sidings to Brush Works, Loughborough
37800 then 37501 with 730001 at Nemesis Rail, Burton - with a change of traction on 5Q16 from Soho LMD to Gascoigne Wood
12812 leading 68022 on 5Q86 from Tyseley to Banbury Depot
37501 hauling 730220 from Gascoigne Wood to Bletchley TMD
20007 & 20205 with the RailAdventure barrier array working 6O30 from York Yard North to Dollands Moor
37611 & 37423 sandwiching 94515 from Eastleigh Works to Leicester then on to Colwick TMD

INTERNAL OPERATIONS
99001 & 99002 operating light engines from Peterborough GB to Leicester LIP
222005 on continuing Lumo training operations
37421 & 37405 light engines as 0M61 from Barrow Hill to Derby RTC
20007 & 20205 working north light engines as 0G87 from Wembley HS to Kings Norton
92018 running from Wembley ICD to Crewe EMD

PORTFOLIO
Images from between February 12th and February 22nd 2026

RETRO
D6996 (now 37423) on a loaded coal working at Taffs Well during October 1969/Eastleigh bound in February 2026

VIEW
66783 passing Appleby with the 4N00 cement empties from Carlisle Yard to Castle Cement in Clitheroe

DATA & REFERENCE
Fleet Status database updated - 14:37

 

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