April - Intercity Railway Society

March 18
66099 headed northbound through Rugby at
08.27 with the empty mixed box wagons from
Ripple Lane - Peak Forest.
March 19
66174 arrived into Rugby at 09.23 and departed
northbound at 10.02 with the modal from
Felixstowe - Birch Coppice.
37601 t&t 37609 were seen at 12.55 in Norwich
Thorpe Yard between runs on 3Q77 test train
(photo below by Stuart Moore).
March 22 (cont)
66066 working 6Z77 Cwmbargoed DP - Margam
with 18 loaded HTA's passed southbound
through Llanbradach near Caerphilly at 21.24.
37402 was seen on 3Q72 Structure Gauging
train in Norwich Jubilee sidings between
services at 13.00 (photo below by Stuart Moore).
March 20
66522 + 5 JNAs headed northbound through
Castlethorpe near Milton Keynes at 21.44.
31233 pushed East Ham-Peterborough test train
through Harringay Green Lanes at 21.02
March 21
66558 + 90048 dead in tow headed northbound
through Rugby at 22.59 with the modal from
Felixstowe – Coatbridge.
66736 headed northbound through Rugby at
22.24 with the modal from Felixstowe - Hams
Hall.
60040 was seen passing through Oxford at
12.23 (photo below by David Elliott).
March 22
66187 working 4C96 Aberthaw - Cwmbargoed
DP with 21 empty HTA's passed northbound
through Llanbradach near Caerphilly at 21.11.
March 23
20308 + 20312 + 37606 were seen heading into
Doncaster at 20.03.
70004 + 66089 arrived at Crewe at 18.35.
March 24
66741 headed north on an empty coal train,
about one mile south of Tollerton, passing an
unidentified unbranded green GBRF 66 heading
south on loaded coal at 16.05.
34067 ‘Tangmere’ and support coach 5Z47
Bristol - Southall passed Burnham at 14.16
March 25
37423 t&t 37604 on 1Q14 ADJ - ADJ via Taffs
Well, Dingle Rd, Rhymney passed northbound
through Llanbradach near Caerphilly at 22.31.
66176 headed north past Waterbeach at 20.54
with the 6M70 Chesterton Junction - Mountsorrel
empty Lafarge self discharge train.
March 26
31190 + 31452 were at Doncaster going to
Wabtec at 17.10.
73205 t&t 73141 departed Tonbridge at 21.23
towards Strood with the 8Y97 Tonbridge West
Yard - Tonbridge West Yard.
March 27
66060 working 6C95 Cwmbargoed DP -
Aberthaw with 21-loaded HTA's passed
southbound through Llanbradach near
Caerphilly at 21.26.
57316 was seen heading westbound through
Tamworth at 19.40 with a crane in tow from
Scunthorpe – Bescot.
March28
66601 t&t 66523 arrived into Rugby at 23.06
with the massive HOBC ballast cleaning train
from Willesden - Hillmorton Junction.
March 29
37667 + 37612 + 550009 + 550037 passed
Stafford North en route to Crewe at 00.05.
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