April - Intercity Railway Society

Traffic & Traction News
by John Barton
March 1
66001 passed through Banbury at 20.51 on
6X65 Didcot - Mossend.
66204 t&t 66039 on 6Z31 Applehurst - Tunstead
Sidings passed through Denton Jnct. at 17.43.
March 2
66131 passed Long Eaton HL Goods at 20.09
with 6X08 Toton - West Hampstead South Jnct.
70000 passed Chorley at 20.03 working a
Carnforth - Bury steam move.
66186 + 66158 + 66050 + 66044 + 66037 were
seen in convoy at Westbury at 13.42 (photo
below by David Elliott).
59004 + 59103 were seen at 12.21 at Westbury
(photo below by David Elliott).
59204 was seen alongside 66069 at 13.26 at
Westbury making for an interesting comparison
(photo below by David Elliott).
March 4
47804 + 57006 + 47760 passed Walsall on
Tyseley - Carnforth ecs working at 14.06.
66088 passed Walsall on Stud Farm - Bescot
loaded ‘yellow boxes’ at 13.59.
70016 was seen sitting under M6 with
autoballasters at Earlstown / Golbourne Jnct.
triangle at 13.45.
60019 passed through Doncaster at 13.31 on
Preston Docks - Lindsey working.
66185 arrived at Peterborough at 13.13 with
4L45 Wakefield - Felixstowe but was held south
of the station to follow the 13.18 Stansted
service (170104) to Ely which departed at 13.23.
47804 + 57006 + 47760 + one Pullman coach
5912 passed Small Heath at 13.11 on Tyseley -
Carnforth ECS working.
March 5
66513 t&t 66557 headed south through Bedford
at 21.41 on an engineering train.
57004 + 66426 headed south through Wigan
North Western at 19.57.
60063 worked south through Cossington at
18.17 with a Toton - Whitemoor departmental.
March 6
37609 + 37601 arrived at Bridgwater crossover
at 07.13 with 6V74 Crewe - Bridgwater nuclear
flasks.
37605 + 37261 + 57011 worked a Crewe Gresty
Bridge - Derby & Barrow Hill move today.
57604 expired at Paddington before working the
1C99 23.45 London Paddington - Penzance.
March 7
66023 passed through Cardiff Central at 21.57
on an empty coal working to Aberthaw.
March 8
60099 passed Huyton at 22.02 with loaded coal
bound for Fiddlers Ferry PS.
37608 + 37611 stormed through Huyton at 21.48
heading westbound.
66023 working 4C96 Aberthaw - Cwmbargoed
DP with 21 empty HTA’s headed northbound
through Llanbradach near Caerphilly at 21.15.
66305 + 66425 passed northbound through
Preston at 19.10 on Daventry IRFT - Mossend
Yard Tesco intermodal.
March 9
66041 + 66017 + 66067 passed Walsall at 11.38
light engine heading towards Ryecroft Jnct.
150102 worked the St Ives bay branch today.
66954 passed Marshfield with a rather long
container train from Wentloog at 11.21 heading
for Southampton.
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