“Providing a weekly round up of the Railway Herald UK rail scene” 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-Virgin Trains 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 network 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 Birmingham, 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 Network Rail 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 Stafford, 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.