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NEWS & EVENTS
Extended News from around the Network
Class 20s on Crewe to Ely ‘Deviationer’ on Midland & ECML – Inverness Sleeper in Daylight – HST Special at Barrow Hill – Stormy Shap with loco convoy and Tesco Express  – ‘Cromptons’ on Crane move from Eastleigh and stock move from Stewarts Lane with 4 CEP coaches – 60 066 re-liveried as ‘Drax Powering Tomorrow’ – Class 60 to Bicester – Deltic D9009 ‘Alycidon’ on ‘Winter Settler’ – 55 002 on a stock move – COLAS Grids departmental moves plus 56 113 and a steel working to Tilbury – Class 50 convoy from SVR to Eastleigh – Class 47s on loco haulage to Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft –  ‘Tube’ liveried  66 721 ‘Harry Beck’ – COLAS 47s on Chiltern engineers – Hired in Freightliner 66s –  D1015 ‘Western Champion’ on tour in December and February –  Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railways mixed traffic gala featuring Class 37 and Classs 47 power  – Llangollen Railways  ‘Winter Warmer’ Gala with D5310 on freight  –  ‘Buffer Puffer’ on tour in London with DRS20s and 37s over two Saturdays in Jan and Feb including scenes at London Bridge, Clapham Junction & Cannon Street – Snowplough move with DRS Class 20s – Joan Croft Junction re-modelling and ‘box’ closures – Class 47s on Special Trains – PLUS MUCH MORE.

LONDON FREIGHT A variety of workings at a number of London Hotspots – Gospel Oak – Camden Road – Willesden Junction High and Low Level – Kensington Olympia – Wandsworth Road and Clapham Junction. A wide variety of traffic is featured to provide a guide to some major freight hubs in the Capital.  Includes GBRF Class 73, Class 86s and Class 66s from various operators.

LINESIDE LOCATIONS   Appleby on the Settle and Carlisle with a wide variety of freight.

ARUN VALLEY   Stations, semaphore signalling, signalboxes and workings on the Mid Sussex route  through Billingshurst, Pulborough and Amberley plus the South Coast Termini and signalling at Bognor Regis, Littlehampton and Chichester.

NETWORK BY-WAYS    The delightful branch line from Norwich to Cromer with freight including Class 57s, Class 66s, Class 31s and Class 37s  in the 1990s and in recent months.

DISRUPTION IN THE WEST Diverted HSTs on the former Southern Main line through Yeovil to Exeter Central plus the closure of the main line at Dawlish.

SCOTTISH POWER   Freight and passenger workings over the Highland Main Line and the Far North Lines with West Coast 47s, Class 66s and a Class 56.

FIRST GENERATION TRACTION  Locomotives from the 1950s, 60s & 70s still hard at work on the main line including DRS Class 37s & 20s on specials and freight, COLAS Class 47s on departmental workings, COLAS 56s,  Rebuilds of the 47s – the Class 57s. DRS Class 47s on passenger duties, Chiltern ‘Bubble Cars’.

SPECIAL TRAINS including the “Buffer Puffer Railtours”, RARE WORKINGS, MOTIVE POWER NEWS, FREIGHT PROFILES AND LINESIDE FEATURE FROM THE WINTER OF 2013/14.

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