Peter Kazmierczak Posted May 14, 2018 Share Posted May 14, 2018 Great pics as ever Russ. I managed to get a couple of shots at Holes Bay yesterday, though my wife was wondering why it took me so long to go to B&Q and Tesco's...... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted May 14, 2018 Share Posted May 14, 2018 I must say; I think this livery rather suits them. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted May 14, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 14, 2018 So they fixed 66017 then?, didn’t want to play ball last week and I had to rescue it after it shut down 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold rodent279 Posted May 16, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 16, 2018 (edited) 66951 rolls light engine from Westerleigh Murco Oil depot to Yate, along the stub of the Midland Railway Westerleigh-Bristol/Bath line,12/04/2018. In the background is the GWML Badminton line, built in 1908. The loco made a couple of LE trips to & fro, and was seen about an hour later heading over the M4 bridge, towards Bristol Parkway. Hopefully this is associated with a new traffic flow. Back in the early days of class 66 operation, 66002 rolls through Leighton Buzzard with a down freight, in September 1999. Edited May 16, 2018 by rodent279 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold rodent279 Posted May 16, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 16, 2018 (edited) I've got to admire the paint job on these 66's. Some of the EWS examples must be getting on for 20 yrs old. Edited May 16, 2018 by rodent279 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob D2 Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 Exactly 20 years old the first ones. Just don’t look at the peeling roofs Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted May 16, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 16, 2018 Exactly 20 years old the first ones. Just don’t look at the peeling roofs This is from 2008........ Cheers, Mick 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium GWRPhil Posted May 17, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 17, 2018 Here’s a few pics of 66568 on the 621v service to Plymouth a few days ago 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted May 17, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 17, 2018 Here’s a few pics of 66568 on the 621v service to Plymouth a few days ago 6X04. 621v is the masked id used by some companies to hide the trains true id (which makes no sense as the information is out there anyway) and not the reporting code. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cal.n Posted May 18, 2018 Share Posted May 18, 2018 66714 arriving with the first GBRf operated working from Avonmouth to Clitheroe Castle Cement (empties), arriving several minutes after the DBC powered Mossend working departed behind 66002. The contract has passed to GBRf and will be all GBRf traction by the end of the month. Someone seems to have left their mark on the JPA at the back of the DB hauled Mossend train. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted May 18, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 18, 2018 makes a change from "colas cowboys" i suppose Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcanman Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 10.00am this morning. GBRf 66733 arrives in the loop at Newsham with 6S45 / 0925 North Blyth Alcan - Fort William. The loco will run around and proceed north to Bedlington Junction taking the Blyth & Tyne line to Morpeth where the train will access the ECML 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great Western Posted May 25, 2018 Share Posted May 25, 2018 66524 waits the road at Didcot North Junction with a northbound freightliner service - 25/05/18 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jbqfc Posted May 25, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 25, 2018 a few from Stratford 09-05-18 66756 by john brace, on Flickr 66416 by john brace, on Flickr 66503 by john brace, on Flickr 66004 by john brace, on Flickr 66770 by john brace, on Flickr 66505 by john brace, on Flickr 66413 by john brace, on Flickr Tottenham hale 66596 by john brace, on Flickr Denmark hill 66129 by john brace, on Flickr 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 4630 Posted June 4, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 4, 2018 With GBRf taking over some of the Cemex aggregate workings from DBS out of Peak Forest, today was the first time that GBRf worked the service to Hope Street, Peakstone P.Sdgs. Former DBS 66081, recently acquired by GBRf and now repainted and renumbered to 66781 approaches Ashton Moss North Junction on 4th June with 6J46, 08.39 Peak Forest Cemex Sidings to Hope Street. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 4630 Posted June 5, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 5, 2018 The timetabled Tuesday only 6E11 loaded Freightliner bogie coal hoppers from Onllwyn Washery to Scunthorpe Coal Plant usually runs overnight along the Calder Valley. The working on 5th June however, which appears to have had a lengthy scheduled stop at Crewe Basford Hall, ran to a later STP schedule resulting in a daylight run along the Calder Valley. 66504 heads 6E11 at Mirfield East Junction. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 4630 Posted June 12, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 12, 2018 GBRf 66712 'Peterborough Power Signalbox' eases up the gradient from Calder Bridge Junction to Oakenshaw Junction with 4V78, Leeds Stourton Rmc to Cardiff Tidal on 12th June 2018... ...followed shortly later by Freightliner 66516 with 4L87, 08.50 Leeds FLT to Felixstowe... which passes DBC 66130 almost at the end of its journey with 4E08, 03.18 London Gateway to Wakefield Europort. 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcanman Posted June 13, 2018 Share Posted June 13, 2018 Freightliner 66512 with 671N / 1435 North Blyth - York Yard South at Newsham, Northumberland. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Phil Mc Posted June 14, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 14, 2018 66136, running light engine onto Toton yesterday. Cheers, Phil. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray M Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 Another new light cluster on 542 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcanman Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 The recently introduced biomass trains from Port of Tyne to the newly converted power station at Lynemouth, Northumberland have provided a welcome upturn in traffic on the Blyth & Tyne , which has seen a considerable decline in traffic due to the reduction in coal traffic. 11.15am this morning. GBRF 66752 with 6N86 / 0919 Port of Tyne - Lynemouth PS running 30 mins late at Newsham, Northumberland. Also running 30 mins late at Newsham is 4N18 / 1014 Lynemouth PS - Port of Tyne , with GBRf 66783 'The Flying Dustman' leading The newly built GBRf hoppers are leased from Nacco . 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcanman Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 Biffa liveried GBRf 66783 continues it's spell in the north east providing power for biomass trains. 4N86 / 1332 Lynemouth PS - Port of Tyne at Newsham today. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Turpin Posted June 24, 2018 Share Posted June 24, 2018 Not the best for picture sharpness, but this is one from from 2012, and one of my sons looking awestruck at the mass of moving metal he has just seen! I think it has a certain, shall we say, juxtapositional quality. Northallerton 2012, 66706, and train heading North. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
djparkins Posted June 25, 2018 Share Posted June 25, 2018 Not the best for picture sharpness, but this is one from from 2012, and one of my sons looking awestruck at the mass of moving metal he has just seen! Pod.jpg I think it has a certain, shall we say, juxtapositional quality. Northallerton 2012, 66706, and train heading North. Lovely photo. I'll bet that he had the same feelings as when I first saw a Merchant Navy Class on 'The Bournemouth Belle' at around that age. It just goes to prove that there was always a 'Golden Age' and it is usually about fifty years before the present! DJP 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Turpin Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 Class 66s on heavy freight still have a lot of presence. When I was six years old, I was lucky enough to have a father that took me to watch trains because he knew I liked them, and that meant Shilton, on the Trent Valley line, near Brinklow (home of the world's best chip shop for many, many years) @1968 - 1969 - ish, which meant class 86s in those days. What I remembered most was the fact that before I saw a train the rails first began to hiss, then whistle, then really scream before the train burst into sight in all its sound and spectacle!. Something that has stayed with me forever. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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