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Same location as last week, longer lens and with a Freightliner presence this week....

 

4M87 Felixstowe - Crewe being passed by 390141

 

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4M29 Felixstowe - Birch Coppice

 

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6O51 Daventry - Dollands Moor

 

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4M23 Felixstowe - Hams Hall

 

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6E84 Stewarts Lane - Tunstead

 

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4M47 London Gateway - Hams Hall

 

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66715 also crept up and passed southbound on 4L05 Birch Coppice - Felixstowe. And all in just over 90 minutes....

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Hitching a lift through Brighouse on 17th March 2024 DRS 66427, led by Chiltern Railways liveried 68014, working light locomotives as 0Z14 from Crewe Gresty Bridge to Leeds Balm Road, presumably for tyre turning at Freightliner's Midland Road facility.

 

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On 21st March 2024 GBRf 66728 ‘Institution of Railway Operators’ passes through Keighley, currently being refurbished, with loaded aggregate bogie hopper wagons working 6D25 from Rylstone Tilcon to Hull Dairycoates.

 

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Image taken from over the fence from the adjacent Keighley & Worth Valley station as I was there for the steam gala.

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To correct the date - fat finger syndrome. 🙄
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There are around 12 engineers' trains, all operated by GBRf, scheduled to run over the next six days in connection with TransPennine Route Upgrade work between Dewsbury and Huddersfield.

 

The return working of the first of these approaches Brighouse on 29th March 2024, with recent acquisition from Europe now GBRf 66308, in charge.

 

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66308 6G80 Marsden to Doncaster Belmont Down Yard.

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Sorry I wasn't in a position to hang around for 727 to emerge from the bushes!

There are a couple of additional, non-66 snaps in my album at 

 

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Infrastructure work on 31st March 2024 in connection with the Transpennine Route Upgrade produced three engineers' trains at Mirfield.

 

GBRf 66773 Pride of GB Railfreight slowly draws through the worksite on the Up Huddersfield Fast with a mixed consist of JNA and MXA wagons...

 

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...taking up a position next to 6G81 which is standing on the Up Huddersfield Slow, and is top 'n' tailed by, in the far distance (according to RealTime Trains) 66725 SUNDERLAND and 66722 Sir Edward Watkin.

 

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In the opposite direction also on the Up Huddersfield Fast line is (again according to Real Time Trains) 66784 Keighley & Worth Valley Railway 50th Anniversary 1968-2018 with 6G83, standing adjacent to signal HM566.

 

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With its work completed at Mirfield, GBRf 66773 Pride of GB Railfreight leads 6G82, Bradley Wood Junction to Doncaster Belmont Down Yard through Brighouse, taking a lengthy route via Stockport and Sheffield to reach its destination.

 

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12 minutes ago, 4630 said:

Infrastructure work on 31st March 2024 in connection with the Transpennine Route Upgrade produced three engineers' trains at Mirfield.

 

GBRf 66773 Pride of GB Railfreight slowly draws through the worksite on the Up Huddersfield Fast with a mixed consist of JNA and MXA wagons...

 

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I thought that drilling machine was a semaphore shunt signal at first glance on my iPhone screen

 

also there’s certainly no GBRf pride in the state of that loco, I noticed the decals were peeling the other week and it’s absolutely filthy! 
 

 

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also there’s certainly no GBRf pride in the state of that loco, I noticed the decals were peeling the other week and it’s absolutely filthy! 
 

 

 

Yes, I thought exactly the same, that it could do with a bit of tlc .  I'm guessing that it was on rail head treatment duty last Autumn, but that finished almost four months ago!

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A couple of pictures taken at Dollands Moor back on 20th April.

 

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66002 waits its next duties.

 

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66143 outside of the maintenance shed.

 

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A class 92 (not sure which one, but suspect it is 92011) joins an unidentified 66 (I cannot zoom in enough to see the number!).

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On 29th April 2024, GBRf 66797 with 66720 ‘wascosa’ and 66799 ‘Modern Railways Diamond Jubilee’ pass through Deighton heading west towards Huddersfield, working light locomotives from Doncaster Down Decoy Yard to Crewe Basford Hall.

 

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On 1st May 2024, Colas 66848 passes the River Calder on the approach to Brighouse with discharged bitumen tanks, working as 6E43 from Colas Ribble Rail at Preston to Haverton.  A slightly unusual occurrence as this working is normally in the hands of a Colas class 70 or less frequently one of their class 56.

 

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A couple of Engineers' trains heading to the worksite on 6th May 2024 passing through Brighouse.

 

GBRf 66761 ‘Wensleydale Railway Association 25 Years 1990-2015’ working 6G90 from Doncaster Up Decoy Yard to Ravensthorpe...

 

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...and passing in the opposite direction through Brighouse but heading to the same destination, 66707 'Sir Sam Fay GREAT CENTRAL RAILWAY' with 6G91, Doncaster Belmont Down Yard to Ravensthorpe.

 

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Several more, this time from 7th May 2024...

 

GBRf 66758 'The Pavior' approaching the foot crossing at Cromwell Bottom, near Elland, with 6G95 from Crewe Basford Hall to Ravensthorpe, bogie box wagons loaded with fresh ballast...

 

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...GBRf 66726 SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY between Brighouse and Bradley Wood Junction with 6E09, loaded biomass hoppers to Drax Power Station from Liverpool Biomass Terminal...

 

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Recently released to traffic, newly converted DB Cargo 66651* (previously 66221) heading west along the Calder Valley towards Brighouse with 6M16, from Tees New Yard to Knowsley Freight Terminal, empty binliner working.

 

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* The first of ten (66651-66660) that DB Cargo are planning to convert over the coming months.

 

 

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