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Electro-Motive Diesel Inc. Type JT42CWRM Class 66 Co-Co diesel locomotive 66306 'SCS Logistics' as operated by GBRf at Ipswich Station on the Great Eastern Main Line in Suffolk (UK).

66306 is working the 4L66 05:34 (11:36 RT) Daventry- Felixstowe South GBRf intermodal service.

66306 aka Euro Akiem CB1001 was built at the EMD facility in Ontario Canada in 2008.

CB1001 was repurposed to 66306 by GBRf for use in the United Kingdom from The Netherlands in late 2022.

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Photograph taken by and copyright of my regular photostream contributor David and is posted here with very kind permission.

Electro-Motive Diesel Inc. Type JT42CWR Class 66 Co-Co diesel locomotive 66712 'Peterborough Power Signalbox' as operated by GBRf at Ipswich Station on the Great Eastern Main Line in Suffolk (UK).

66712 is working the 4M22 10:26 (11:21 4E) Felixstowe North- Manchester Trafford Park intermodal service.

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Photograph taken by and copyright of my regular photostream contributor David and is posted here with very kind permission.

And, after taking just under a minute clearing the station, there was a 20 minute wait for the next two trains, this time regular freight moves from the north, first up, at left, the now once again regular move, 4099 from the Leeds Freightliner Terminal with, today, class 66, 66420, Leeds F.L.T. to Southampton Marine Container Terminal and hauling yet another long and full container train all adding some colourful contrast to the old station, graffiti'd once again, station brickwork. I think those 4 metal posts and their small counterparts may well be the posts of the signal that used to stand at this end of the station where a line of 4 magnificent semaphores with bracket signals, used to stand, directing trains either along the main line left to Sheffield or a crossing move over to the 'Old Road' and this worked on both sets of lines; must have a look to see if this is correct... In the right shot 10mins later, another lunchtime regular, a long 'rails carrier' train, this one with Freightliner class 66, 66565 on the 6M73, Doncaster Up Decoy to Toton North Yard. An out-of-gauge train also runs with this type of consist but heads much further south to Eastleigh, near Southampton on the south coast, this is 6X01, which runs through here about an hour earlier, but on this day was cancelled. The metal posts mentioned above are also visible in this shot though the far left one is out-of-shot...

Just 3 minutes behind the liner train, once it had cleared the station site. the sky-blue 'Midland Pullman' set came slowly up from the signal heading to what was, by then. a yellow on the north end signal, S0425, which meant the train was set to pass straight through the old station site without stopping. It ran to time throughout the day, setting out in Paignton on the south-west coast in in Devon, very close to Torquay (of Basil & 'Fawlty Towers' fame) and on the line to Plymouth, Devon and Penzance in Cornwall. This is the L.S.L.'s, 'Locomotive Services Ltd' 'Midland Pullman' with class 43 H.S.T., 'High Speed Train', 43049, 'Neville Hill', leading a set of B.R. Mark III coaches. The coaches are now in 'Midland Pullman' blue-livery, and 43058, 'Loch Eil' is at the back on the long(ish) day's charter, 1Z32, the 'Yorkshire Coast Pullman' from Paignton to Scarborough. Matching sky-blue livery can also be seen on the old red-brick wall, a long-time relic of the past when to goods depot was just here, the blue-design/tag on the wall being c/o a graffiti artist and in this instance a sort of 'nod' of appreciation to the traction passing!

The leading class 43, 43049 has now tripped the AWS ramp at the north-end of the station and the single yellow, no double yellow aspect here, has now been set to red, as the train picks up speed and heads towards the main line at Masbrough North Junction, once the location of yet another signalbox over on the left side at the foot of the steep bank in the cutting.
Although the coach numbers were published on 'RailCam' I found a couple of errors in the numbers/order, this is what was photographed as it passed through with the published information in parentheses-
leading 43049('Neville Hill')
followed by-
41169 + 40801 + 41183 + 41162 + 41176 + 41182(not 40802) + 41149(not 41182) + 44078
and bringing up the rear, seen here at the south end of the station
43058('Loch Eil').
This is the L.S.L.s, 'Locomotive Services Ltd' day charter, 1Z32, 'Yorkshire Coast Pullman', from Paignton, Devon, departing at 06:05 to Scarborough, East Yorkshire, arriving at 13:47 almost eight hours. It then set off back at 16:30, having spent just 2h 40mins at the East coast resort, finally arriving back in Paignton, 16mins early at 00:05, very early Friday morning... quite a long jaunt for just 3 hours on the East Coast!

A complete surprise next whilst waiting for the 'Yorkshire Coast Pullman' to come into the area from the south, it not being far off at this stage. in fact it was being held at the signal, S0411, next along the line and right behind the container train. Now, the fairly frequent light engines movement from the Doncaster area was just around the corner at Aldwarke and, not expecting much, didn't really think about the shot as it started to approach. 'Gliding' along the old platform 4, goods line, a veritable armada of different liveried locos appeared in blue-red-blue-red-blue formation and consisting of 1 GBRf loco at the front followed by alternately red-blue-red-blue D.B. Shenker class 66 locos in convoy heading south. This is the regular lunchtime return of traction, 0F54, from Doncaster Belmont Down Yard and heading to Toton T.M.D. with, in order, GBRf class 60, 60056, 'Great Gable. then D.B.S. class 66s, 66114 66xxx(unknown), followed by 66134, & 66162, 'Maritime Intermodal Five', what a sight and the shot not composed in the best possible way, though the liner train had something to do with that! Standing at the Masbrough north end signal, S0425, waiting for the off, is GBRf class 66, 66712, now named 'Peterborough Power Signalbox' on the daily 4L11, Masbrough Newell & Wright Terminal to Felixstowe North(GBRf) with a very long and full set of containers.

Its been a year and time to revisit the still extant site of the old North Midland's site at Masbrough and, apart from the vegetation, not much has changed in the 10 months or so since my last visit, see-
www.flickr.com/photos/vinc2020/53839266885/
In addition there wasn't actually many folk here to see the 'Pullman', 2 photographers and an 'on-looker'.. bit odd but I guess this set is well documented these days, I have only captured shots one time before and, as it happens, it was here, see-
www.flickr.com/photos/vinc2020/51396241297/
from August, 2021. In under an hour here, there were 3 freight, 1 charter working and of course the plethora of passenger traction with the usual DMU and Cross-Country services. In this first picture, passing rapidly along the MIdland Main line heading south to Sheffield is a Cross Country train class 222, 'Voyager', 220007 on the 1V54, 20 station-stop, Edinburgh to Plymouth service. The Masbrough Station South Junction 'forest' where the large North Midland signalbox used to reside, it hardly seems credible that what once used to reside at this important junction, has been replaced, repeatedly over the years, by a persistent silver birch tree wood! Crawling slowly up from the Masbrough Container Terminal, heading for a station stop at the north end at Signal S0425, is GBRf class 66, 66712, now named 'Peterborough Power Signalbox' on the daily 4L11, Masbrough Newell & Wright Terminal to Felixstowe North(GBRf) with a very long and full set of containers. The GBRf loco looking, as is usual, in well turned out form... and the old Millmoor Football ground could be said to be in the same well-looked after state over to the left..

66712 "Peterborough Power Signalbox" seen here working the 4L28 0810 Doncaster - Felixstowe, Whittlesea, 1st March 2025

66712 "Peterborough Power Signalbox" passing through Nuneaton station with the 4L13 Hams Hall Gb Railfreight to Felixstowe South Gb Railfreight on 10.12.2024.

66712 ‘Peterborough Power Signalbox’ passes through Water Orton with 4M68 0147 London Gateway-Birch Coppice intermodal on Thursday 07-11-2024.

Using a longer lens, No 66712 'Peterborough Power Signal Box' powers up the incline on 6E10 11:00 Liverpool Biomass Terminal to Drax Aes biomass as it passes Whiston Station. 14th August 2024.
Copyright: 8A Rail. www.8arail.uk

GBRf 66712 on 6N86 Tyne Coal, Jarrow to Lynemouth between Barmoor to Lynemouth PS 20/6/24

More hoppers needing an aggregate refill, this time HYA (?) bottom discharge wagons with GBRf’s 66712 ‘Peterborough Power Signalbox’ powering 6H73 0623 Washwood Heath Up Sdg Gbrf to Tunstead Sdgs Gbrf between Mobberly and Ashley on the Mid-Cheshire line Friday 22nd March 2024

GBRf Class 66 66712 'Peterborough Power Signal Box' at Sunderland Bridge, 6 September 2023.