April - Intercity Railway Society

General: On the 5 th March a lorry
demolished about 20ft of the wall on the
bridge over the line at Campbell Road.
The debris fell beside the up line and all
traffic was halted for a while to allow
Network Rail to inspect. Once checked, a
speed restriction was placed on both up
and down lines to ensure that vibrations
didn’t bring down any more of the wall.
Locos:
73204 departed the Works on the 5 th for
Southampton Docks and then via lorry to
Brush Traction at Loughborough for
conversion to 73902. It is seen passing
the damaged wall (right).
Eastleigh Works Report
by Carl Watson
66739 arrived for repainting on the 6 th and departed on the 27 th in the revised GBRf livery with
‘Bluebell Railway’ nameplates covered over in the company of 73207 and 73119 (see above).
The last operational DRS Class 20 in the old DRS livery, 20303, has been repainted in the DRS
Compass livery. It is seen above in the Paintshop on the 25 th and complete on the 2 nd April.
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