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Volume 1 : Issue 3 The complimentary railway journal Friday 4th March 2005 Loco gala day on Marches for Cardiff Sport specials!

ABOVE: West Coast Railway Company provided Class 47/8 No. 47854 and Class 57/6 No. 57601 plus a rake of stock for one of the several excursions to the football at Cardiff on Sunday 27th February. Here 47854 (with 57601 on the rear) passes Bushbury Junction, near Worlverhampton with 1Z77 0834 Lime Street - Cardiff. GWOT The day may certainly supporters into Cardiff, above) on a Liverpool - not have been the best for the FA Cup Final Cardiff, EWS Royal East Coast Disruption for fans of Liverpool between Chelsea and Class 67 Nos. 67005 and Major delays were encounters on the East Coast Football Club, but for Liverpool. A number of 67006 on a Northern Main Line on 2nd March when signalling problems the rail enthusiast, the services operated with Belle excursion and near Grantshouse brough early morning services to 27th February saw a loco hauled motive 67028, complete with a a standstill. procession of loco- power, featuring West set of ex- The problem came to light around 6am and lasted hauled services on the Coast Railway’s 47854 Mark 2s, on the 0906 most of the day. The first southbound train of the marches, moving and 57601 (see picture Crewe to Cardiff. day did not depart Edinburgh Waverley until 08.30, with northbound passenger changing to buses for all BELOW: Freightliner Heavy Haul Class 66/5 No. 66524 arrives at Peak Forest on 1 March journey’s between Berwick Upon Tweed and with a rake of PGA wagons in tow. This is 6Z55 Barrow Hill - Tunstead Quarry service which will then form a late afternoon departure to West Burton Power Station. On the Edinburgh Waverley. right is Class 60 No. 60100 Pride of Acton, minus its bodyside number! RICHARD TUPLIN Further signalling problems were encountered at Thornton South Junction which lasted for four hours and forced commuters onto a replacement bus service between Glenrothes and Kirkcaldy. Elsewhere in this issue Virgin to increase Dunbar service Page 2 Virgin Trains and GNER are to introduce a new timetable for Dunbar from June.

A Deltic Returns Page 3 The Deltic Preservation Society’s No. 55019 was started for the first time in several months on 26th February.

Notable Workings Page 4 A brief look at some of the more notable and bizzare workings from around the over the past seven days 1 Virgin CrossCountry increases Dunbar rail service EDITORIAL Welcome to the third The Scottish region East Lothian town and Most of the calls by Saturdays into Edinburgh edition of the Railway station of Dunbar is to Scotland's Capital. Virgin CrossCounty will in the morning, and from Herald. see a 45% increase in Dunbar’s morning be additional trains for Edinburgh in the early The aim is to produce passenger services from direct GNER service to Dunbar, plugging gaps in evening on Saturdays Railway Herald on a early June. London and late the existing timetable. and Sundays. weekly basis where A new timetable, being afternoon service from Some others will Additionally there will possible. The idea is that introduced on 12 June London will be retained substitute for stops be an earlier departure to the journal is available to will introduce a regular and there will be more currently made by GNER London on Saturdays all enthusiasts across the two-hourly off-peak London journey at about the same times. (06.35 instead of 07.20). world, so please do pass service between opportunities (with Trains to and from There will be an earlier it onto your friends and Edinburgh and Dundee, changes at Newcastle or Edinburgh will call at start and later finish than fellow enthusiasts. with additional services York) including later Dunbar every two hours in the current Sunday To receive your own in the morning and weekend departures in each direction seven timetable. copy as soon as its evening peak hours. from London. days a week. In addition, At present, GNER published, simply send As 92% of customers There will be a wider on Mondays to Fridays, trains are the only ones to us an e-mail to using Dunbar station are range of new destinations there will be hourly call at Dunbar. In the [email protected] travelling to, from or via in England including morning peak trains into current timetable, Virgin If you have subscribed Edinburgh, the main , Oxford, Edinburgh and half- Trains on the to the Herald and wish benefits of the new Southampton and hourly evening peak CrossCountry network to stop your subscription, timetable will be for Bournemouth provided from Edinburgh. pass the town without simply drop us an e-mail journeys between the by Virgin CrossCountry. Trains will be hourly on stopping. requesting that you are removed and we will RAIL £1m bridge upgrade for Hope Valley Line cease your subscription. FREIGHT Three rail bridges in the Bamford by placing a 23 tonne steel beam E-mail addresses used to UPDATE and Hathersage area of the Hope under the structure and bolting the subscribe to the journal Valley are to be upgraded thanks to a bridge deck to it. To do this, the track will NEVER be given to £1 million project. and ballast will be removed and a outside parties. NEW SERVICE The three structures concerned are section of bridge deck taken out to Each issue should be TO MANCHESTER bridge 28, which carries the railway allow a 400 tonne crane to lower the published on a Friday Freightliner commence over the River Derwent, to the west of beam into position during the long and we welcome your a new service on 28th Bamford station; bridge 25 which closure weekend. The track will then comments on this new February, departing crosses a small lane just east of the be replaced and the bridge painted. product. from Manchester’s station and bridge 21, which carries Work on all three bridges, which is Trafford Park terminal at the line over the A6187 Castleton Road taking place at weekends, is expected Photographs in Hathersage. to be completed by the middle of April 16.00 (SX) and destined Photos reproduced in The work itself involves grit blasting and the preparatory work is not being for Felixstowe, the UKs this journal remain the each bridge as well as strengthening it hampered by the recent snowfalls. largest container port, copyright property of where the train is due to the photographer at all arrive at 02.00 the Class 37s back in Liverpool Lime Street times. Any pictures not following day. creditted are the The return working copyright property of departs Felixstowe at the editor. 21.00 (SX), arriving at Manchester by 06.00. Submissions One of the customers We welcome using the service is submissions from all Maersk Sealand, readers, especially specifically because they photographs from those are able to move 9’ 6” enthusiasts with a digital containers on the camera! Pictures should service. be sent to the above e- mail address. LOGS FROM It is the policy of ABERYSTWYTH Railway Herald to only use photographs taken Thursday 3rd March during the week of saw the first of a series of publishing, where trial runs using MPVs to possible. For example, in move logs from the next issue (which Aberystwyth to the closes for press at 10pm paper mill at Chirk. on 10th March) we will The first trial train On Saturday 26th Liverpool Lime Street. power was provided by try and use photos taken comprised of 37427, plus February, Pathfinder The train brought the EWS Class 37/4 No. between 4th and 10th MPV, with 8 OTA Tours ran their “Buxton Type 3s back to the 37427 and refurbished March. wagons marshalled High Peaks Hustler” Liverpool terminus for Class 37/5 No. 37669 in Good quality scans of between the MPV charter with a pair of the first time in several a top ‘n’ tail formation. colour slides and prints driving ends. Two more Class 37 locomotives. years. ETH equipped Class are also acceptable. trial runs are to follow, The train started from From Liverpool the 37 No. 37427 is pictured Please note that as the which are expected to the Birmingham train headed to Peak at Liverpool Lime Herald is free and MPV alone, with the 37 International and Forest and Buxton Street, following its compiled on a voluntary based at Machellynth as travelled via , before returning to arrival from Crewe. basis, we are unable to rescue engine if needed. Chester, and Helsby to Birmingham. Motive RAILFOTO offer any financial return.

Railway Herald - Volume 1 : Issue 3 2 Return of a Deltic to the main line draws close Although its not within test run organised. the remit of Railway The Deltic and the Herald to cover the company are on target heritage railway scene, for the advertised charter the firing up of one of on 23rd April from the DPS’s (soon to be) London Kings Cross to main line operational Edinburgh Waverley, ‘Deltics’ cannot be returning a Napier missed! engine back to home The overhaul of 55019 territory once again. Royal Highland Fusilier Incidentally this tour is has taken many months nearly a sell out with to complete and even seats only being available now there is some way now on the ‘short-haul’ to go before the main section from London line test run is Kings Cross to York. completed. Also based at Barrow The engine of 55019 Hill at the moment for was restarted for the first ongoing repairs and time shortly before 10pm overhaul are D9000 on 26th February and the Royal Scots Grey, 55002 locomotive was tested on The Kings Own the DPS’s load bank on Yorkshire Light Infantry 28th February. and 55015 Tulyar. The Following a successful other DPS machine, load bank test, the D9009 Alycidon is locomotive is still to be currnetly on display at repainted and a mainline the NRM York.

LEFT: The Deltic Preservation Society’S Class 55 No. 55019 Royal Highland Fusilier is seen in the DPS depot at Barrow Hill on Saturday 26th Februrary around 10pm, shortly after it errupted back into life for the first time in several months. ALAN PYWELL SRA recommends station Booking rail tickets? Call India Maglev to The rail ticket booking ‘flexible service’ to Manchester? closures in W. Midlands company has customers. The move The Government has Five stations in the used to help with angered rail unions by follows a similar change said it is ready to West Midlands are to be overcrowding at moving its call centre made by National Rail consider a Maglev line closed in plans Birmingham. from Dingwall, near Enquiries last year when to provide a high speed announced this week by At Norton Bridge, Inverness in Scotland to the company moved north-south link that the SRA, which also typically only one India. their call centre to could travel from include the withdrawal person boarded each The company, the Bangalore in India. London to Manchester of the direct service train. Even at Stone, the majority of which is As a result of the move in just 45 minutes. between Walsall and best-used of the five owned by Virgin Trains, by Trainline 260 jobs in It is estimated that Wolverhampton. stations, each of the 18 says that the move will Dingwall are now at risk such as line would cost The SRA has daily trains picked up help to provide a at the town’s call center. £30 billion to build. published a study of an average of just four capacity in the West passengers. Midlands which found According to a report that trains were used for in The Times only 1.6 per cent of all newspaper, the study journeys across the identified another 20 region and stations in the West recommended the Midlands where the permanent closure of average train picks up Norton Bridge, fewer than five Barlaston, Wedgwood passengers. Across the and Stone stations on network, more than 400 the Stoke to Stafford of the 2,500 stations are route and Polesworth used by fewer than 25 station on the Trent passengers a day. Valley route. The SRA has also It is being argued by commissioned a review the Strategic Rail of the Northern Authority that the franchise which will capacity provided by calculate the potential ABOVE: Currently stored at Carnforth is West Coast Railway Company’s Class 37/4 No. closing these lesser used savings from switching 37423, no decision on its future has been taken yet. The loco is pictured on 28th stations can be better from trains to buses. February with stablemate Class 37/0 No. 37197. MARK BEARTON Railway Herald - Volume 1 : Issue 3 3 Notable Workings Notable WorkingsZtÄÄxÜç The week started on a 60061 caused problems very positive note with when it derailed at the the allocation of north end of Tyne Yard Freightliner’s No. 47303 on 1st March. to 4M94 0733 Felixstowe - The ‘Bernard Staite Ditton service, whilst Pullman’ operated on later during the evening 28th February, with of 25th February, DRS D1015 Western Class 37/6 Nos. 37611 Champion working from and 37612 were called London Victoria to upon to work 4V08 Taunton, where it gave Crewe Basford Hall - way to 6024 King Edward Cardiff Wentloog! I and 7802 Bradley Manor Further north and a for the final leg to derailment at Lackenby Kingswear. The ‘Western’ on the evening of the 25th brought the train back to brought for a quiet day London again from for North Eastern steel Taunton. traffic. The following day The following day, ABOVE: Enjoying a break from its ‘official’ role as the EWS Executive Train locomotive, found 73109 on the rear 37427 was used to drag Class 67 No. 67029 is pictured at Blackburn on 2nd March having arrived with 6M73 of 1W11 0608 Waterloo- 7802 Bradley Manor back from Healey Mills. Following several shunt moves, the locomotive departed back to Weymouth service as far to Kidderminster. Healey Mills with 6E73 . JAMES ROSE as Bournemouth. The 2nd March saw one In East Anglia on the of the most ‘rateable’ BELOW: As mentioned in our ‘Rail Freight Update’ column, EWS operated the first in a series of trial timber trains on 3rd March, using an MPV (Nos. DB98916 and DB98919) with 26th, Network Rail workings of 2005, when 8 OTA timber wagons. The trial train is pictured at Machynlleth on the return (with 37427 liveried Class 31 No. GBRf Class 66 No. 66709 on the rear). The train, which due to time constraints was only half loaded, was deemed to 31190 used for RETB failed between be a total success. In the event, 37427 Bont y Bermo was detached at Sutton Bridge Junction, training between Ipswich Chelmsford and near Shrewsbury to rescue a failed MGR service from Ironbridge Power Station! RAILFOTO and Lowestoft. The Shenfield on 4M21 0305 locomotive even Felixstowe - Hams Hall managed to venture to Freightliner. The train Sheringham the was rescued by DRS following day! On 28th Class 20/3 Nos. 20313 February, Freightliner and 20314 which were on Heavy Haul provided a Sizewell bound flask Class 47/8 Nos. 47811 ad train at the time! The 20s Police liveried 47829 for worked the train to the Bedford unit ‘drags’. Willesden. The day was not the best The same after saw for ScotRail’s sleeper 47197 work 5Z47 Derby - service, when Class 90 Longtown as far as No. 90036 was declared a Crewe conveying several failure at Watford Mark 3 vehicles. Junction with traction Class 56 Nos. 56048 and motor problems. The 56134 were towed from train was rescued, by Immingham to Toton what was thought to be TMD on 3rd March by 67027, which then Class 60 No. 60040. The worked the train forward. same day, EWS silver The knock on effect was liveried Class 67 No. that the Fort William 67029 continued its portion of the Caledonian travels by working the sleeper arrived over three Doncaster - Selby Potter hours late! Group, trip working.

ABOVE: On February 26 Class 87 No. 87002 was provided ABOVE: Anglia liveried Class 150 No. 150229 is pictured at Nottingham on 27th February. for the 12.00 Euston - Preston service. This is one of the The unit was working ECS from Norwich Crown Point to Nottingham Eastcroft. RYAN TRAMMER weekend workings that are diverted between Crewe and Preston via Manchester leading to the sight of Class 57/3 The Railway Herald is published every Friday and is available by e-mail 57306 Jeff Tracy curving through Leyland with 87002 and subscription from [email protected] trainset in tow as the consist neared journey's end at Preston. FRED KERR © Copyright Railway Herald.com 2005 Railway Herald - Volume 1 : Issue 3 4