railway news
May 2021
18 December 2021
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Operator
Number
Detail
Crewe Heritage Centre
87035
This loco has now been unveiled in it's new Virgin Trains Red & Black livery at the Crewe Heritage Centre having undergone a repaint from it's previous BR Blue livery. This change is a nod to it's hard-working past on the West Coast Mainline when it was part of the loco-hauled coaching stock fleet operated by Virgin Trains in the late 1990s/early 2000s
GB Railfreight
66734
Transferred from Immingham Docks to Doncaster Roberts Road after it's recent arrival into the UK
GB Railfreight
92040 / 92045
Both of these long-term stored loco's have now departed Brush Traction, Loughborough Works with the site currently being wound down prior to closure. Both loco's have been transported by road to Worksop. With both currently lacking bogies, and no doubt many internal parts, is a transfer to somewhere other than a scrapyard a sign of hope that we may one day see these loco's run again?
Great Northern / Great Western Railway / Gatwick Express
387202 / 387204 / 387205 / 387206
After their recent lease to Great Western Railway came to an end, these units have now returned to Great Northern on lease from Gatwick Express and are back in service
Great Western Railway
769925
This unit has now transferred from storage at Eastleigh Works to it's home at Reading Traincare where it will hopefully be prepped for some mainline test runs
Great Western Railway
769949
This newly converted bi-mode unit has now transferred from Reading Traincare Depot to Eastleigh Works for storage purposes
Great Western Railway / Gatwick Express
387203
This is the final of the on lease units to depart Reading Traincare Depot and return to Hornsey. It is anticipated that it will join the others that have left Reading in re-commencing their lease with Great Northern from Gatwick Express although we await final confirmation of this
Greater Anglia
720512
This unit has now transferred from Derby Litchurch Lane to Worksop Sidings for store pending the commencement of mainline testing / fault free running
Greater Anglia
720521
This unit has now entered revenue earning service with Greater Anglia
Greater Anglia
720523
Transferred from Worksop Sidings to Derby Litchurch Lane
London North Western Railway
730103
This unit has now left Old Dalby after a period of test work on the test track and has transferred to Oxley TMD for store pending commencement of mainline testing
Northern Trains
153307 / 153328
Both of these units are now officially off lease from Northern Trains and have transferred from Newton Heath TMD to Ely Papworth Sidings for storage pending a very uncertain future
Northern Trains / East Midland Railway
156412
This unit has today transferred north to Newton Heath TMD to begin the latest chapter of it's long running life as it transfers from East Midlands Railway to Northern Trains
Off Lease (ex Great Northern)
365508
Another one bites the dust as this unit becomes the 19th of the "happy" fleet to be dragged to it's doom, this one arriving at Sims Metal at Newport Docks earlier this week for scrapping
Southeastern Railway
465238
In possibly the first indication of what the future holds for this fleet, this unit has now transferred from Worksop Sidings to Ely Papworth Sidings - with Ely often seen as a final resting place before the final journey to a scrapyard, there is not much hope for this networker
Southeastern Railway
707013
This is the latest of this fleet to receive it's new Southeastern Blue livery with "City Beam" branding following it's recent transfer from SWR and having been in the SWT Red, Orange & Blue livery previously
Transport for Wales
197008 / 197010
These units are now complete and have been transferred to the Telford International Railfreight Terminal at Donnington for storage pending onward transfer to a depot