Diesel

  • GBRf has 91 Class 66s after Swedish purchase

    GBRf has 91 Class 66s after Swedish purchase

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    Former Cargonet Class 66 No. T66.403 – already with its GBRf number of 66790 – is hauled from Immingham to Longport EMD past North Stafford Junction on June 3 by No. 66741 Swanage Railway. At Longport the loco will get the necessary modifications and safety equipment to work on Network Rail lines. GB has bought two other…

  • Stadler 755/4 approved for use by ORR

    Stadler 755/4 approved for use by ORR

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    THE Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has approved the use by Greater Anglia (GA) of the Stadler ‘Flirt’ Class 755 four-car bi-mode multiple units.  These are the first Swiss trains to be built for the privatised railway, with testing only starting in January.  GA has ordered 24 four-car sets (and also 14 three-car, which…

  • GWR InterCity 125s bow out in style

    GWR InterCity 125s bow out in style

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    GREAT Western Railway said farewell to long-distance InterCity 125 operation on June 1 with an epic railtour visiting many parts of the GWR network. The first and last production HST power cars – Nos. 43002 Sir Kenneth Grange and 43198 – powered standard eight-car set LA72 on an itinerary embracing Bristol, Paddington, Oxford, Hereford, Carmarthen and…

  • BLS tour brings Class 31 back to the main line

    BLS tour brings Class 31 back to the main line

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    JUNE 9 saw a Class 31 return to main line action after a gap of several months.  Nemesis Rail’s No. 31128 Charybdis, currently the only Brush Type 2 authorised for use on Network Rail metals, powered the Branch Line Society’s ‘Sunday Yicker’ tour in top-and-tail formation with West Coast Railways’ No. 37668 and just four WCRC Mk1…

  • British Thomson-Houston survivor in New Zealand

    British Thomson-Houston survivor in New Zealand

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    The only remaining diesel loco supplied by British Thomson-Houston (BTH) still in service anywhere in the world is in use with Alliance Group in New Zealand, where it works as a shunter at their Pukeuri Works, north of Oamaru, on the South Island.  The loco – DSC 2067 – was delivered 60 years ago, in…

  • Dartmoor Railway’s English Electric weekend

    Dartmoor Railway’s English Electric weekend

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    THE Dartmoor Railway held an English Electric weekend on June 8-9.  In use were Class 31 No. 31452 with a five-coach set of stock, ‘Berkshire’ DEMU set No. 1132 (Nos. S60150+S60831), and Class 08 No. D4167.  The plan was to run two trains on the Saturday, one from Okehampton towards the Colford boundary with Network Rail, and the other…

  • Ruddington ‘Peak’ returns to traffic at Severn Valley

    Ruddington ‘Peak’ returns to traffic at Severn Valley

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    D05 Preservation Ltd’s Class 46 No. 46010 was completed in time for its debut at the Severn Valley Railway’s (SVR) May 16-18 diesel festival.  It has been restored to a high standard by the Pioneer Diesel Locomotive Group at Ruddington, and appeared at the SVR along with the same group’s Class 37 No. 37688 Great Rocks (RM…

  • Two ‘Cromptons’ take centre stage at North Norfolk gala

    Two ‘Cromptons’ take centre stage at North Norfolk gala

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    THE North Norfolk Railway’s June 14-16 mixed traction event had mixed fortunes regarding loco availability.  ‘Deltic’ No. 55009 Alycidon had to be replaced by Spa Valley Railway Class 33 No. 33063 R. J. Mitchell, but the line-up had an unexpected boost by the arrival of another of the type.  After delivering No. 33063 on June 11 the lorry…

  • ‘Shredded Wheat’ Fowler moves to the ‘Middy’

    ‘Shredded Wheat’ Fowler moves to the ‘Middy’

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    FOWLER 20337 of 1934, a 40hp-type 0-4-0DM, was delivered to the Mid Suffolk Light Railway (the ‘Middy’) in June following restoration, where it will be a resident.  The loco was delivered new to the Shredded Wheat Company 85 years ago and was recently rescued in a very dilapidated state by current owner Tony Goff.  Read…

  • A second engine offered to Ivatt LMS 10000 project

    A second engine offered to Ivatt LMS 10000 project

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    THE Ivatt Diesel Re-creation Society, which  is aiming to construct a replica of LMS diesel-electric No. 10000, has a chance to acquire another engine of the correct type.  A 16SVT power unit was acquired in 2012 – No. IH1861 – and now the RAF, which bought these engines from English Electric in 1947 for use as reserve…

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