Rail Album - Diary 2008

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20th April 2008. Locomotive 66702 in GBRf livery hauls engineering works train 6G11 through Oxshott on its way from Waterloo to Eastleigh.

19th April 2008. Former SR Battle of Britain class locomotive 34067 "Tangmere" approaches Walton on Thames.

15th April 2008. Locomotive 37608 hauls Serco test train 1Q14 under Trumps Mill Lane bridge at Virginia Water.

13th April 2008. Locomotive 59101 in Hanson livery on engineering works train duties at Kempton Park, Sunbury.

You may be interested in these railway books:

Ely to Kings Lynn
Maunsell Locomotives
An Illustrated History of LMS Stations Vol 1

11th April 2008. Former LNER class A4 steam locomotive 60019 "Bittern" approaches Coxes Mill with the 1Z93 excursion train from London Euston to Guildford.

10th April 2008. Locomotive 66109 in EWS livery passes between the Staines goods loops with train 6Y41 from Eastleigh to Hoo Junction. The train is made up of "Perch" wagons for carrying long sections of rail.

8th April 2008. Locomotive 59004 in Foster Yeoman livery hauls train 7C77 stone empties from Acton to Merehead as it passes Shottesbrook Farm west of Maidenhead.

5th April 2008. Locomotives 73209 and 73205 head engineering works train 6G32 past Bushy Park, Teddington.

You may be interested in these railway DVDs:

GWR Locos
Recollections of the Somerset & Dorset
Memories of the Isle of Wight

29th March 2008. Locomotive 66605 in Freightliner livery hauls train 6Y49 past Coxes Mill. This is a once a week movement of empty sand hoppers from Neasden to Wool in Dorset, which has since been re-designated as train 6O49.

26th March 2008. Locomotive 37611 brings up the rear of Serco test train 1Q14 on the Up Slow line at Hersham station.

21st March 2008. MPVs DR98981 and DR98931 pass Staines goods loops heading eastwards.

19th March 2008. The first railway photograph in the collection taken with a newly acquired Pentax K11D digital camera. Locomotive 66727 in GBRf blue livery approaches Coxes Mill with train 4Y19 empty gypsum containers from Mountfield in Kent to Southampton. This was something of an international train because the locomotive was made in Canada and the wagons were made in France and were owned by the Swiss wagon hiring subsidiary of a German railway operator.

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