Class 66 photos

[TheIntercityhst]

A grubby 66849 'Wylam Dilly' at the Ribble Steam Railway diesel gala 7/3/15

 

[beast66606]

66528 outshopped in Powerhaul livery today.

 

https://flic.kr/p/rbLgaK

[Wayward Hayward]

Here are the photos I took on Friday the 10th of March around March and Whittlesey, wide variety of consists and liveries include a couple of  GBRf celebrities. 

 

 

66763+66711 Three Horse Shoes 10/04/15 by rhayward92, on Flickr

 

 

66757 Blackbush Drove, Whittlesey 10/04/15 by rhayward92, on Flickr

 

 

66751 Middle Road, March 10/04/15 by rhayward92, on Flickr

 

 

66739 Middle Road, March 10/04/15 by rhayward92, on Flickr

 

 

66733 March West Junction 10/04/15 by rhayward92, on Flickr

 

 

66723 Blackbush Drove, Whittlesey 10/04/15 by rhayward92, on Flickr

 

 

66720 Aliwal Road, Whittlesey 10/04/15 by rhayward92, on Flickr

 

 

66714 Middle Road, March 10/04/15 by rhayward92, on Flickr

 

 

66711+66763 Three Horse Shoes 10/04/15 by rhayward92, on Flickr

 

 

66589 Aliwal Road, Whittlesey 10/04/15 by rhayward92, on Flickr

 

 

66548+66545 Three Horse Shoes 10/04/15 by rhayward92, on Flickr

 

 

66545+66548 Three Horse Shoes 10/04/15 by rhayward92, on Flickr

 

 

66532+70006 March West Junction 10/04/15 by rhayward92, on Flickr

 

 

66418 Blackbush Drove, Whittlesey 10/04/15 by rhayward92, on Flickr

 

 

66143 Three Horse Shoes 10/04/15 by rhayward92, on Flickr

 

66116 March West Junction 10/04/15 by rhayward92, on Flickr

 

 

66107 Three Horse Shoes 10/04/15 by rhayward92, on Flickr

 

 

66105 Three Horse Shoes 10/04/15 by rhayward92, on Flickr

 

 

66044 Middle Road, March 10/04/15 by rhayward92, on Flickr

[roundhouse]

This evening just North of New Cross on the South Eastern lines the locos on each end of the track and ballast recovery train

 

Taken on the iPad so not as good if I had used a proper camera.

[Wayward Hayward]

66714 and 66731 at Wymondham Station at 07:07 on the 14/04/15 working the 6T74 0400 Saxmundham to Whitemoor Yard L.D.C Gbrf.

 

 

66714+731 Wymondham 14/04/15 by rhayward92, on Flickr

[geoff]

Corby freight traffic.

66085 eases off the branch to Corby Steelworks and into Corby station with the 10:22 Corby B.S.C. to Margam T.C. steel coil empties at 10:20 on Tuesday 14 April 2015, 19 minutes early.

66607 powers through Corby station at the head of the 07:35 Hope (Earles Sidings) Fhh to Theale Lafarge Fhh cement tanks, 1 minute early at 10:28 on Tuesday 14 April 2015.

 

Geoff

[Peter Kazmierczak]

66528 outshopped in Powerhaul livery today.

 

https://flic.kr/p/rbLgaK

 

Oh dear.........

[Powerhaul 70 Pey]

Oh dear.........

It was in need of a bit of a freshen up.  It was looking a bit scruffy on the 20th August 2014 last year when it was on a coal working to Fiddlers Ferry Power Station.  Not sure if this Powerhaul livery suits a 66 though!

[DRS Crewe On A Mission]

Yes it did need a freshen up. I remember seeing 66528 at Midland Road a few years ago now and even then both cab ends had a severe amount of rust resulting in them missing quite a lot of paint. When I first saw 66504 in Powerhaul livery I thought that it didn't suit a 66 but now that the livery has been revised it looks a lot better. Originally 504 had been painted grey below the cab ends and now 528 is painted black below the cab ends. The grey at either side of the cab end came right down to below the front of the cabs  In my opinion this small difference makes a big difference to the overall look of the livery on the 66. I think the black looks a lot better and smarter and the grey just looked out of place.

[beast66606]

14 April 2015

 

Eccles Road

 

66731, interhubGB, and 66714, Cromer Lifeboat, on 6T74, 04:00, Saxmundham - Whitemoor Yard L.D.C GBRF (08:49)

(same train was photographed above)

The sun was very bright and on the wrong side, so I couldn't get the passing the box photo.

 

 

 

Harling Road

66044 on 6L39, 06:37, Mountsorrel Sdgs - Trowse Yard Redland Siding (11:51) - loaded stone

(almost had the shot potted by the 158!)

 

Fowlers Lane Attleborough

66044 on 6M43, 18:13, Trowse Yard Redland Siding - Mountsorrel Sdgs (21:38) - empty stone

 

 

 

 

[Peter Kazmierczak]

Yes it did need a freshen up. I remember seeing 66528 at Midland Road a few years ago now and even then both cab ends had a severe amount of rust resulting in them missing quite a lot of paint. When I first saw 66504 in Powerhaul livery I thought that it didn't suit a 66 but now that the livery has been revised it looks a lot better. Originally 504 had been painted grey below the cab ends and now 528 is painted black below the cab ends. The grey at either side of the cab end came right down to below the front of the cabs  In my opinion this small difference makes a big difference to the overall look of the livery on the 66. I think the black looks a lot better and smarter and the grey just looked out of place.

 

I'm afraid I don't "get" the two grey patches on the front which just are a jar to my eye. The livery doesn't seem to have any relation to the actual form of the loco.

 

Though nowadays that could be said of many liveries.........

[DRS Crewe On A Mission]

I am talking about the old Powerhaul livery which was applied to 66504. This is a different variant to the Powerhaul livery displayed by 66528.

 

If you look at the cab their is a small rectangular patch of grey. One rectangle is where the loco number is and the other side is just plain grey. On 66504 the grey went all the way down to below where the lights are. It went to where the buffers and coupling is. This is now painted black on 66528 which I think looks a lot better as the grey on 504 just looked out of place.

 

I know what you mean about the liveries. I think the Powerhaul livery suits the 70s more but the livery doesn't look too bad in my opinion now on the 66 that the grey area (mentioned above) has been painted black.

[Peter Kazmierczak]

Ah, this one.....

[DRS Crewe On A Mission]

That's the one!

 

I didn't like all of the grey on the cab ends. I just think that the grey was over-used on the cab ends and looked too much. At least the black looks smarter especially with a lot less grey on the cab ends. It looked shocking with 3/4 grey below the lights and then a small 1/4 black.

[4630]

In early evening light 66148 rumbles through Brighouse with the Friday only 6E14, 16:05 Seaforth CT MDHC to Tinsley SS.

 

 

Or alternatively, in black and white.

 

 

Edited to add B&W image.

Edited April 17, 2015 by 4630

[Wayward Hayward]

66040 passes through Hethersett heading the 6M43 6M43 1813 Trowse Yard Redland Siding to Mountsorrel Sdgs tonight. 

 

 

 

66040 Hethersett 17/04/15 by rhayward92, on Flickr

Edited April 17, 2015 by Wayward Hayward

[Phil Mc]

66754 at todays Barrow Hill event.

 

Cheers,

Phil.

[Powerhaul 70 Pey]

SUNDAY 66'S AT ACTON BRIDGE ON WCML

 

I decided to have a ride to Acton Bridge on the WCML early this morning with the Mrs and kids with a promise to call at the garden center on the way home.  There were 6 freights due in a 1 hour period if they all ran and on time.  I missed the Wigan Springs Branch to Crewe as it passed just as we were getting out of the car which was a Freightliner 66.  Here's what we did see which was dominated by DB Schenker 66's in EWS livery.

1st was 66171 on the Halewood Jaguar Cars in Liverpool to Southampton Docks

Next was 66074 from Preston Docks to Crewe

Then top and tailed was the Preston Fylde Jcn to Crewe with 66015 at the front and 66078 on the rear.

Also saw some sort of passenger working with two DRS 57's top and tailed.  Would have liked to have seen a 70 really but not bad for a hours stint.

 

 

[beast66606]

Also saw some sort of passenger working with two DRS 57's top and tailed.  Would have liked to have seen a 70 really but not bad for a hours stint.

Footex for FA cup semi final

[ews60002]

Here's 66606 Freightliner operating 6V82 Tunstead Sidings to Westbury Cement which I usually see passing by me at Sandbach but today I went to Peak Forest to see it just after it left .

[4630]

Running parallel to the Huddersfield Narrow Canal, 66069 heads for Standedge tunnel at Diggle Junction with 6E32, 07:51 Arpley Sidings to Doncaster Europort on 20th April 2015.

 

[Peter Kazmierczak]

66738 Huddersfied Town at Poole, end of February, on engineering work.

[beast66606]

21 April 2015

 

Eccles Road

66721, Harry Beck, and 66756 on 6T71, 21:04, Whitemoor Yard L.D.C GBRF - Oulton Broad South (00:05) - infrastructure

passing at 22:23 at about 50mph

 

 

When I arrived at the station I was pleased, the lights had been replaced by brighter ones, I had my low light lens (a 50mm, f1.2) all I needed was the train to be checked at the "random red" (I call it that because some trains are checked even though there is nothing in front), meaning the train would trundle along at about 20mph but no - Cambridge PSB decided to give it a green so it went flying through, so I'm quite please with the photo under the circumstances.

 

[4630]

Slowed by the preceding late running Northern Rail service, 2Y57 13:17 Heysham Harbour to Leeds, DRS 66431 gingerly approaches Long Preston with 6K05, 12:46 Carlisle New Yard to Crewe Basford Hall on 21st April 2015.

 

[beast66606]

Fresh out of the box

 

22 April 2015

 

Eccles Road

 

66017 on 6L39, 06:37, Mountsorrel Sdgs - Trowse Yard Redland Siding (11:51) - loaded stone (with 5 HKAs)

 

 

Gissing

 

66733, Cambridge PSB, on 6P41, 09:57, Harwich Refinery CRLS SLVS - North Walsham GBRF (12:48) - condensate tanks