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Freightliner Class 70 No: 70002 is seen whilst passing through Reddish South with 0Z53 Crewe Basford Hall - Leeds Midland Road Light Loco Exam Move - 24th January 2025
DRS Class 68 No: 68007 'Valiant' is seen approaching Reddish South with 0Z07 Leeds Midland Road - Crewe Gresty Bridge Light Loco Move after having just left off Tyre Turning at Leeds Midland Road Depot - 24th January 2025
HNRC Blue & Yellow Class 37/6 No: 37610 TnT Regional Railways Liveried 37425 'Concrete Bob' are seen whilst sat in Stockport Down Goods Loop with 1Q45 Longsight T.M.D - Derby R.T.C Overnight Network Rail Test Train - 17th January 2025
N.R Stock: 977997, 977974, 72639, 9481.
Regional Railways Liveried Class 37/4 No: 37425 'Concrete Bob' TnT Blue & Yellow 37610 are seen sat in Stockport Down Goods Loop with 1Q45 Longsight - Derby R.T.C Overnight Network Rail Test Train - 17th January 2025
N.R Stock: 9481, 72639, 977974, 977997.
66750 heads through my home town with 6E09 0735 Liverpool LBT-Drax biomass just after 1000 on 1st March 2025.
'Pocket Rocket' Standard class 4 2-6-0 76079 runs round its Mid Cheshire steam shuttle (left in the loop off picture to the right) at Skelton Junction, Timperley, Greater Manchester on 2nd May 2004.
Colas Rail "Grids" No's: 56113 TnT 56302 'Peco - The Railway Modeller' are seen spraying quite intensely through Wrenbury (Shropshire) with 3S71 Coleham - Coleham via North Wales & Holyhead RHTT Cannons - 12th October 2024
Colas Rail "Grids" No's: 56302 'Peco - The Railway Modeller' TnT 56113 are seen approaching Wrenbury (Shropshire) with 3S71 Coleham - Coleham via Holyhead & North Wales RHTT Cannons - 12th October 2024
37254 'Cardiff Canton' TnT 37175 tailing are seen whilst leaving Stockport after having had their booked signal stop on Platform 0 with 1Q44 Longsight - Longsight Car M.D Network Rail Test Train - 29th August 2024.
Stock: 6262, 72631, 975091 'Mentor' + 72612
GBRf "Tug" No: 60096 is seen passing through Reddish South with 6E10 Liverpool - Drax Aes Loaded Biomass - 12th March 2024
GB Railfreight Class 60, 60021 "Penyghent" heads through Northwich with 6Z26 1525 Liverpool Biomass Terminal to Drax Power Station.
The 60s are once again become loco non grata on the Liverpool to Drax biomass flows and this move saw the end of 60021's latest stint on Merseyside.
No doubt they'll be back again in a few months when RHTT season stretches the 66 fleet and Drax realises there's nothing quite like a 60 for hauling big tonnages over the hills.
GB Railfreight Class 73/9s, 73962 "Dick Mabbutt" and 73965 "Des O'Brien" - on hire to Network Rail and operated by Colas Rail Freight - work 1Q18 1852 Crewe to Derby RTC through Greenbank.
73962 was on the front for this leg of the Infrastructure Monitoring circular tour of the Northwest, including the Merseyrail network earlier in the night.
It would appear the station lighting at Greenbank is only lit on the Down side at this time in the morning, making it somewhat challenging to capture an image of a working on the Up!
Taken on May 22nd 1965
Ex-LMS/BR 5MT 4-6-0 44735 at Brunswick Goods sidings on a misty day in May 1965, during the RCTS 'Cheshire Lines Centenarian' railtour..
The loco had entered service in 1949, and was withdrawn at the end of BR steam, in August 1968, and scrapped in November. Eighteen of the class have been preserved, but not all of these have been restored..
Today (2024) this has all gone, and the site is partly occupied by a gym and a car dealership..
Restored and cropped/enlarged from an under-exposed portrait-mode original..
Original slide - property of Robert Gadsdon
See - approximately - where this photo was taken
Trans Pennine Express 68025 'Superb' emerges from under Dam Head Lane bridge with 1B85 Cleethorpes - Liverpool.
Even though the 68's are diagrammed to work the former Cheshire Lines route route, for one reason or another it is rare they do and especially facing Liverpool. Doug Birmingham was good enough to let me know 68025 was working 1B85 and the weather was improving so I made the move to Glazebrook and was rewarded with a pleasing image.
*Just beyond Dam Head Lane bridge in the background was the Junction for the former Great Central route via Culcheth and Lowton St Marys to Wigan Central.
Despite only recently being out-shopped by DB Cargo in its "Celebrating The King's Coronation" special livery, the King's Shed, Class 66, 66023 was already having to lower itself to menial binliner duties.
The Royal Blue locomotive was working 6E16 1849 Knowsley Freight Terminal to Wilton EFW through Lostock Gralam, as the sun set on the longest day of the year.
Despite only recently being out-shopped by DB Cargo in its "Celebrating The King's Coronation" special livery, the King's Shed, Class 66, 66023 was already having to lower itself to menial binliner duties.
The Royal Blue locomotive was working 6E16 1849 Knowsley Freight Terminal to Wilton EFW through Lostock Gralam, as the sun set on the longest day of the year.
Freightliner Class 66, 66538 heads through Northwich early on a Saturday morning with 6H66 04:15 Leyland British Leyland to Tunstead Sidings. In the background on the right, building works are finally underway to rebuild the part of the station buildings which collapsed in May 2021.
Freightliner Class 66, 66538 heads through Northwich early on a Saturday morning with 6H66 04:15 Leyland British Leyland to Tunstead Sidings. In the background on the right, building works are finally underway to rebuild the part of the station buildings which collapsed in May 2021.
DB Cargo 60062 "Steel on Steel" seen passing Altrincham on 6H02 Arpley Sidings to Tunstead Sidings
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