The Fall & Rise of the 60's ( was The End of the Tugs?)

[rob D2]

1 hour ago, SouthernBlue80s said:

I don't know much about 60s. How many are there left working on the mainline and how many have been cut up?

I’m sure somebody will have a definitive answer but....there’s about 25 I’d hazard a guess still going with DB, and GB , and a couple with DC.

 

only one cut up to date - 60006 I think - but dozens languishing for a decade and a half at Toton.

[SouthernBlue80s]

47 minutes ago, rob D2 said:

I’m sure somebody will have a definitive answer but....there’s about 25 I’d hazard a guess still going with DB, and GB , and a couple with DC.

 

only one cut up to date - 60006 I think - but dozens languishing for a decade and a half at Toton.

 

Thanks Rob

[Steadfast]

The DB active pool was 22 locos when I checked yesterday, a handful of which were stopped for exams and maintenance.

GBRf have ten locos, and DCR have 4.

 

Jo

[Jack374]

DCR's 60046 'William Wilberforce' was today tasked with taking 10 HHA hoppers from Derby Chaddesden (where they'd arrived from Gascoigne Wood from store and stayed the weekend) to Shirebrook WH Davis & Son, for conversion to 'shorty' wagons for use conveying aggregate, which is much denser than coal so more can be carried in the same length train.

 

Shame about the tags it’s picked up while in Chaddesden, a feature of the modern railway. At least it matches the wagons now...

 

(Flickr links)

 

The loco is back at Toton so maybe the tag will be very short lived!

 

Thanks,

Jack.

[4630]

On 17th December 2020 DB Cargo 60059 'Swinden Dalesman' with 66124 pass through Brighouse working 6E26,  Knowsley Freight Terminal to Wilton EFW Terminal, loaded bin liner. 

 

 

[mpb56125]

They are doing trials Up Miles Platting Bank in Manchester and that's why the 60 is on front.

 

 

Mark

https://www.mark5812.smugmug.com

Edited December 17, 2020 by mpb56125

[Phil Mc]

60017, at Dove Holes, this morning.

 

 

Cheers,

Phil.

[Jack374]

One from Derbyshire of 60011 clagging slightly as it accelerates away from slowing for a signal protecting Stenson Jn...

 

Jack.

[Steadfast]

A white Christmas? A snowy Christmas Eve 2010 (yes exactly 10 years ago!) sees Teenage Cancer Trust livery 60074 'Teenage Spirit' at the head of 6E41 Westerleigh - Lindsey. The whistle board is for the bridleway from Westerleigh village and the train is about to pass under the South Wales line. After parking the car, I went flat on my backside on the ice, slamming the camera into the path. Luckily the lens hood took the brunt of the impact! Oh how we laughed... At the time, I'd never have guessed in 2020 we'd have a fleet of overhauled red 60s, I'd be lucky enough playing with the full size trainset and also be living less than 15 minutes from Westerleigh after a life time in Wiltshire. What a difference a decade can bring, where will we be in 2030? Happy Christmas everyone!

Linked from my Flickr, please click if you want to see it big!

 

Jo

[Flittersnoop]

First railway photos of 2021 for me - a spare few minutes in Gloucester today yielded 60019 on the Robeston to Westerleigh tanks, having just left the station and crossed Horton Road crossing, and just as that train passed me, another 60 (60024 Clitheroe Castle?) passed behind on the return empties.

[Steadfast]

Here's a couple of shots from a few years back I've just stuck on Flickr.

7/11/10

60074 'Teenage Spirit' had been sat in an engineering possession on the single line between Thingley and Bradford Junctions over night. After departing site, run round at Swindon and a really long wait, here it is in the last of the day's light, passing Lacock at the head of 6W49 Thingley Junction - Westbury.

 

8/3/11

60013 'Robert Boyle' rounds the curve at Crofton at the head of 6A74 Whatley - Theale. It was a mad dash across Wiltshire for this, from memory (and a quick Flickr search) there were quite a few people here for this one!

 

Jo

Edited January 22, 2021 by Steadfast

[manna]

G'Day Folks

 

A very old (1991) and rather poor pic of Joseph Lister, at Church Fenton, 

 

manna

[PhilJ W]

Thats a model surely?

[Foden]

21 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

Thats a model surely?

Don’t be silly, it’s a train driver!

[manna]

10 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

Thats a model surely?

G'Day Folks

 

Yes is does, doesn't it, never noticed that before.

 

manna

[46011]

60045 "The Permanent Way Institution" stands at Maryport station in Cumbria at 12:30 on 16th September 2004.

Switched off, no crew, no train to be seen. Can anyone shed any light on why it would be there?

[Jack374]

The class 60s can still be found working hard in Derbyshire on oil and steel traffic. Today I headed to a snow-covered Barrow on Trent during my once-daily exercise to see a couple, the first being 60062 'Stainless Pioneer' aptly piloting some covered steel wagons working the hour-late 6E01 Wolves to Boston...

 

Then 60092 powered through with the 6E54 Kingsbury to Humber empty tanks:

 

Thanks,

Jack.

[rodent279]

Good to see tugs still appearing on the Westerleigh tanks. I've had cause to drive along the M4 a few times recently, and I've seen a red DB 60 stabled at Westerleigh each time I've gone over the M4 bridge. Must drag myself down to Westerleigh again sometime with the video camera.

[Jack374]

One more from me, from the next-but-one bridge from my last shots, this time in the small settlement of Arleston in South Derbyshire. DB's unique 60074 was on the 6E08 Wolves to Toton steel on Monday:
 

Thanks,

Jack.

[4630]

Working to a variation to its usual schedule - it's normally routed along the Calder Valley - the Sundays Only 6M51, 12.03 Doncaster Down Decoy Yard to Liverpool Biomass Terminal empty biomass hoppers, headed by GBRf 60085 passes through Deighton on the Huddersfield Line.

[4630]

GBRf 60076 hurries through Brighouse, running 34 minutes early at this point, with 6M36, 09.54 Drax to Liverpool Biomass Terminal, empty biomass hoppers.  Northern Trains 150211 stands at platform 1 with local service 2W11, 10.36 Bradford Interchange to Huddersfield via Halifax.

[big jim]

Surprised it’s not been noted here but 60002 has been named ‘Graham Farish 50th anniversary’ (or something like that) with Bachmann/farish logos on the cab sides 

 

 

[Phil Himsworth]

14 minutes ago, big jim said:

Surprised it’s not been noted here but 60002 has been named ‘Graham Farish 50th anniversary’ (or something like that) with Bachmann/farish logos on the cab sides 

Thanks for that; coincidentally I was just looking at whether 60002 was still around, having just had a lunchtime play with a Lima "Capability Brown" that still seems to work perfectly well despite spending nearly 30 years in a box...

[4630]

29 minutes ago, big jim said:

Surprised it’s not been noted here but 60002 has been named ‘Graham Farish 50th anniversary’ (or something like that) with Bachmann/farish logos on the cab sides 

 

 

Apparently 60002 in its fresh new GBRf livery moved from Toton to Tuebrook Sidings today, so hopefully it'll turn up on a daytime Liverpool Biomass Terminal - Drax Power Station working before long. 

[Jack374]

4 hours ago, big jim said:

Surprised it’s not been noted here but 60002 has been named ‘Graham Farish 50th anniversary’ (or something like that) with Bachmann/farish logos on the cab sides 

Photo from Flickr:

 

 

4 hours ago, 4630 said:

Apparently 60002 in its fresh new GBRf livery moved from Toton to Tuebrook Sidings today, so hopefully it'll turn up on a daytime Liverpool Biomass Terminal - Drax Power Station working before long. 

Via Loughborough and Crewe to take 92044 west following attention at Brush...unfortunately not in matching livery to 60002, but fortunately (for some) still wearing triple grey, albeit devoid of Chunnel roundels now.

 

Thanks,

Jack.