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NEWS & EVENTS
Extended News from around the Network

COLAS Class 86 on West Coast Main Line  – Pendolino stock moves – loco convoys to Bescot – 86 217 on move from Long Preston to Willesden – COLAS 47 on Motorail Vans – 50 026 on main line move – Class 20s on Barrier Van moves – Unit movements to Doncaster and Liverpool – Tesco Express with DRS Class 66’s – ’One Wales Express’ with DVT – Class 67 on freight – Class 60s on Scunthorpe Iron Ore – timber to Chirk – Great Central North Diesel Gala with D7629, 5580, 56 097 and 47 292 – D1015 on main line move – 67 on ‘Boat Train’ to Southampton – Specials with West Coast 47s – Class 92 on ‘Pennine Panorama’ – Re-opening of Gloucs-Warks at ‘Chicken Curve’ – 55 022 ‘Royal Scots Grey’ to Lincoln Christmas Market –  PLUS MUCH MORE…

GRID REVIVAL  DCR Grids on scrap to South Wales – 56 312 on Didcot Power Station to Calvert flyash trains – 56 312 on stock move – COLAS 56s on logs over Shap.

LINESIDE LOCATIONS  A range of traffic observed at Eaglescliffe in the North East and at Acton Bridge on the West Coast Main Line.

RAILS ACROSS ANGLESEY   A range of passenger workings on the line into Holyhead, featuring 57 haulage on the Saturday’s Pendolino ‘Drag’ and the ‘One Wales Express’ plus the autumns RHTT workings with Network Rail 97 power. Also features the stations and signalboxes on the line across Anglesey.

LEAF BUSTERS   The Rail Head Treatment Trains on the Autumn of 2012 comprising – DRS Class 37 on the Tyne Valley line – York based DRS Class 20s in Yorkshire and Humberside – DB Schenker 66s on Didcot and Chiltern circuits – Chiltern DMU on Chiltern line – DB Schenker 66s on Midland Main Line – GBRF Class 66s on Peterborough based diagrams – DRS and Network Rail 57s on Stowmarket based duties on East Suffolk, Thetford line, Cromer Branch and to Clacton on Sea. Network Rail 97s on North Wales Coast.

FAR NORTH FREIGHT   Traffic around Inverness.

DIESEL GALAS   Nene Valley Autumn Gala featuring 50 026, 55 022, 47 765,    D7629, 56 091, 31 108, D6700 56 311 and 66723.  The Severn Valley’s Autumn Gala featuring 45 133, 50 026, 31 601, 50 135, D821, D1062, 33 108, 37 906 and D8188. Includes a range of vantage points along both lines, and also double heading.

NORTH WEST FREIGHT   Action around Carlisle featuring a range of DRS Class 47 and 37 traction, Class 92s, Class 86s and Class 66s from DRS, COLAS  and DB Schenker. An update from a major traffic hotspot from the early morning through to the late evening.

1 hour 42 mins approx