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66653 at Craven Arms 25/03/26 with the 6V75 Dee Marsh to Margam steel empties working
P Fogarty

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SITE UPDATED
Friday April 03, 2026 22:57
SECTIONS/PAGES UPDATED
Thursday/Friday 02/04/26-03/04/26

PUBLICATION TIME/S
23:55 (Fri) Republished - news item for Friday 3rd added
20:15 (Fri) Initial Publication

NEWS & INFORMATION
Freightliner fleet change
68016 despatched south
Heritage traction moves/notes - 37714 31203 & 37216
RA power cars run to Leicester

PHOTO NEWS
66751 with 6V73 from Cliffe Vale (Stoke) to Lostwithiel Down Goods Loop
66787 on the now GBRf powered 6M53 from Parkandillack to Cliffe Vale
66756 on a rescue mission to assist 66750 which had failed at Mytholmroyd on 6M37
66415 in the somewhat modernised station at Huddersfield running through light engine to Leeds Midland Road
66795 & 66693 heading for Whitemoor Yard with 6L37 from Hoo Junction

STOCK CONTROL
66790 & 66723 with a new LU set on transfer from Goole to Gascoigne Wood
37800 with 756105 & 231009 on transfer from Cardiff Canton to Holyhead
66790 with two concrete weighted barrier wagons working from March Up Yard to Doncaster Down Decoy Yard
37510 towing 730016 from Gascoigne Wood to Soho LMD
810004 & 810003 ECS from Old Dalby to London St Pancras

INTERNAL OPERATIONS
60095 on Midland Road for tyre turning
67016 on a test run to Warrington following attention at Crewe LNWR
GBRf have been undertaking training runs off Tonbridge Yard utilising Class 73s with 73128 on a run to East Grinstead and 73212 on a run to Grain

STEAM ON THE MAIN
60163 with its support coach working 5Z78 from Tyseley to Castleton/East Lancashire Railway
43467 & 43423 with 60103 and support coach on transfer from the Mid Hants Railway to Kings Norton
60163 and support coach making their way south from North Road to Tyseley
34046 & 5029 support coach BSK M35461 and 37409 in Hellifield while returning to Crewe after the KWVR gala

PORTFOLIO
Images from between March 16th and March 23rd 2026

RETRO
37238 bringing 6S93 into March at Whitemoor Junction during July 1985

VIEW
70004 working through Sleaford West with the 6M60 Boston Docks to Dowlow empties

DATA & REFERENCE
Fleet Status database updated - 23:45 (Fri)
Storage lists/locations, stock changes and stats sections updated

Wednesday 01/04/26

PUBLICATION TIME/S
00:25 (Thu) Republished - additional Stock Control items (20205/20007 & 810016)
12:45  Initial Publication

NEWS & INFORMATION
56087 note
66303 named

PHOTO NEWS
66168 at Lostwithiel on the final day of DBC china clay operation in Cornwall
HHR Class 70s on the Boulby diagrams with 70005 & 70016 on workings between Middlesbrough and Boulby Mine
68002 in Carlisle working 4Z17 from Kingmoor TMD to Shap Summit Quarry
66731 & 66791 working the 3Q98 Canton Taffs Vale Sidings to Canton Taffs Vale Sidings via Lydney, Portbury and Avonmouth weed management train
197025 on its first day in service and 197041 on its first day on test in Crewe
70811 leading 66544 & 66850 on 6V27 from Eastleigh East Yard to Hinksey Sidings

STOCK CONTROL
20205 & 20007 with three Mk3 coaches on transfer from Nemesis Rail at Burton to the Mid Norfolk Railway
810016 on delivery to EMR working in ECS as 5Q57 from Merchant Park Sidings to Derby Etches Park
66790 & 66774 with weighted barrier wagons and new Underground 24 stock numbered on transfer from Siemens at Goole to the test facility at Asfordby/Melton RIDC
37510 with 730230 on transfer from Bletchley TMD to Gascoigne Wood
378233 heading south ECS from Transport Tech at Widnes to Wembley
Cars from 150242/150279 with 150285 Cardiff bound in Crewe

TOTON TUGS
Stored Class 60s on Toton TMD and in Toton Yard

HERITAGE TRACTION
Views from the second day of the annual Swanage Railway Steam Gala featuring WD152 563 6880 31806 34070 34072 & 68067
D2279 & WD72229 along with DMU 51213 & 54358 at the East Anglian Railway Museum
34072 while awaiting road transport at Quorn
09014 33021 & 47292 in the sidings at Cheddleton/Churnet Valley Railway
09018 33052 & 73133 at the Bluebell Railway
20098 37350 73156 & 78019 in the shed/holding sidings at Loughborough/Great Central Railway
828 09004 09026 25185 31530 & 33063 at the Spa Valley Railway

PORTFOLIO
Images from between March 17th and March 26th 2026

RETRO
37710 bringing 6S93 from Wisbech to Paisley off the branch at Whitemoor Junction during May 2000

VIEW
66755 running into Appleby with 4N03 from Carlisle Yard to Clitheroe

DATA & REFERENCE
Fleet Status database updated - 12:34

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