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Oodles of Somerset aggs.. .
In sight of the Kennet & Avon Canal, Freightliner's Cl59/2 59203 sizes up the curvature approaching Crofton pump house upon 6A18 Whatley Quarry-Oxford Banbury Road FLHH limestone aggregates.
Additional interest of some 'countryside pursuits' centre frame end of train!
9th May 2025
A Spring morning illuminates Brookwood's individually ornate LSWR building on the down platform as setting for regular aggregates move 6002 05.51 Westbury Tarmac-Woking Down Yd with Freightliner's Cl59/2 59205.
17th April 2025
Freightliner's 59 205 comes off the Romsey line at Eastleigh with the 09:11 Westbury Tarmac to Crawley working.
59 201 originally ordered by National Power in 1991 and sold to EWS in 1998. Now owned by Freightliner and here passing Eastleigh with the 09:11 Westbury Tarmac to Crawley working.
59202 'Vale of White Horse' working from GASCOIGNE WOOD - DRAX PS, with coal in JHA's, passes South Milford Junction on the 2nd October 1996.
Freightliner's Class 59/2 59206 "John F. Yeoman Rail Pioneer" is seen at Swindon with 6C48 1249 Appleford Fhh to Whatley Quarry F Liner Hh. 28th June 2023.
Freightliner's Class 59/2 59206 "John F. Yeoman Rail Pioneer" is seen at Swindon with 6C48 1249 Appleford Fhh to Whatley Quarry F Liner Hh. 28th June 2023.
National Power Class 59 locomotive 59201 VALE OF YORK.
This was the first 59/2 locomotive to be delivered for National Power and was put on display at the National Railway Museum before going into service. - March 1994.
Camera: Contax RTSII + Carl Zeiss f2.8 28mm Distagon Lens
More 35mm Archive Photographs of the National Railway Museum at York can be found here: www.jhluxton.com/The-35mm-Film-Archive/Railways/National-...
Some further information on the class 59/2 locomotives:
National Power ordered a single locomotive in 1991 to operate trains of limestone to Drax Power Station in Yorkshire. It was built by EMD at London, Ontario, and arrived in the UK at Hull on 17 February 1994.
It was taken to Derby for inspection and entered service on 14 March 1994. Five more locomotives were ordered in 1994 for coal traffic. These arrived in Hull on 4 August 1995 and were based at a new National Power depot at Ferrybridge.
Livery was a bright blue body with pale grey bodies, underframe and lower bodyside. Narrow white and red stripes ran along the side between the blue and grey. The fronts had signal yellow below the front windows with blue above. A white and red National Power logo was positioned in the centre of the sides.
The number was painted below the driver’s window (left side of the cab) and nameplates were fitted below the opposite cab window. 12 names of vales were selected to allow for fleet expansion but only five were used.
National Power ceased operating their own trains in April 1998 and the fleet was sold to English, Welsh and Scottish Railway who redeployed them on stone trains alongside Mendip Rail's 59/0s and 59/1s.
A Class 592 DMU leaves Sau Bento station in sunlight before disappearing into the tunnels at the end of the platforms. Sao Bento station can be found in the centre of Porto at the base of an escarpment meaning that all lines into the platforms run through tunnels. The 592 is a RENFE Spanish design that is also used in small quantities in Portugal as well.
An enticing stupor holds early morning on the Berks & Hants over Hungerford penetrated by DB Schenker's 59205 upon 06.25 Acton-Merehead Quarry aggregates empties.
A couple of beautifully mild and sunny days ensued this period after the mornings of unusual dense fog.
14th February 2019
*Shot taken using a pole*
In some superb low winter sunlight, Freightliner orange liveried 59206 John F. Yeoman is seen rolling through Great Cheverell with a single portion 7C77 12:24 Wembley Reception Sidings to Merehead Quarry empty aggregate working. The former National Power locomotive and the 14 empty bogie box wagons had earlier run from Purfleet to Wembley after their cargo of Somerset limestone had been unloaded at the Essex terminal. Wembley Reception Sidings are now being used to stage this train in preference to paying to access the DB owned facilities at Acton Yard.
17/01/22.
Class 59/2 59205 is seen passing Slough with the 0712 Merehead Quarry (Fhh) to Acton T.C. aggresgates service. 8th November 2021.
Yes, the yellow end really was that bright! Class 59/2 59206 operated by Freightliner heads west through Maidenhead with the 1241 Acton T.C. to Merehead Quarry (Fhh) service. 8th November 2021.
Seen in the broad gauge platforms of Alicante/Alacant Terminal on 1 November 2021. On the left is Media Distancia EMU 449055 and to the right 3-car DMU 592109 on a suburban (Cercanaís) service C1, 17:05 Alicante/Alacant Terminal to Murcia del Carmen.
59205 leaves the Westbury line at Fairwood junction on the western side of Westbury with train 7V12, the 15:38 stone empties from Woking, having waited for a late Paddington to Penzance train to clear the main line. September the 22nd 2021.
59206 pulls away from a signal check at Fairwater junction on the western side of Westbury with train 7V12, the 15:38 stone emptys from Woking, having waited for a late Paddington to Penzance train to clear the main line. September the 22nd 2021.
Oodles of Somerset aggregates progress to destination and pass the nesting sanctuary that is Havant signalbox headed by 59201 upon Freightliner's 02.53 Merehead Quarry-Chichester Recp. working at 09.32 RT.
7th September 2021
Whether holding EU06-01 or D1000 the first-numbered of the class holds special reverence...
That's possibly the case in hand of 'leaderless' 59201 with the completed unloading of 7012 04.24 Merehead Quarry-Woking Down Yd aggregates while SWR's EMUs 450 105/121/096 negotiate Woking Jn forming 12.30 London Waterloo-Portsmouth Harbour service.
22nd April 2021
