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Nice photo,56051 is looking well,I saw it passing loaded this morning sounded great but couldn’t grab a photo,nice to see 56’s again after months of 70’s,especially to finally see 56051.

Ah ok that makes sense,thanks for the info,I will keep a look out on Sunday for a possible return.

Same move a little earlier at Rosegrove cheers David

I was expecting a 66 so a bit of a surprise. A little earlier at Rosegrove station cheers David

Some from Friday at Todmorden 66754 ‘Northampton Saints’ Drax to Liverpool Biomass 66756 ‘Royal Corps of Signals’ Liverpool Biomass to Drax 66137 Wilton EFW to Knowsley 66007 Knowsley to Wilton EFW 66711 ‘SENCE’ Arcow Quarry to Pendleton Saturday- Gloucester to Castle Cement 66710 ‘Phil Packer’ and today at Todmorden 66756 and 66774 Doncaster Down Decoy-Liverpool Biomass and 66783 ‘The Flying Dustman’ Doncaster Down Decoy to Collyhurst Street cheers David

Couple more from Settle yesterday 66175 1316 New Biggin British gypsum to Tees Dock at 1413 and 66423 1246 Carlisle to Crewe Basford Hall at 1427 cheers David

Some 70’s from the week 70809 Colas Ribble Rail to Lindsey oil Refinery empties passing Hapton 23/6/21 70808 which I needed to complete the Colas class 70 set at Chatburn yesterday Mountsorrel to Carlisle then 808 today on the same train at Settle and 70803 on the logs,again at Settle today cheers David

66711 was at Settle today,on the 1125 Arcow Quarry to Bradbury Tilcon at 1250 cheers David

Just a couple,one from Wednesday at Rosegrove another Freightliner route learner to Manchester Victoria at Rosegrove with 66596 and today at Todmorden 66137 on Knowsley Freight Terminal to Wilton EFW bin liner cheers David

Today’s route learner with Freightliner was 66418 ‘PATRIOT’ passing Rosegrove which this time ran from Crewe Basford Hall to Manchester Victoria then Man Vic to Farington Junction-Farington Junction to Man Vic and then back to Crewe Basford Hall,must have felt like a bit of extra driving in the nice weather! cheers David

66185 ‘DP World London Gateway’ with Knowsley Freight Terminal to Wilton EFW passing Todmorden station cheers David

Yet another Freightliner outing today at Rosegrove station this time 66538 Crewe Basford Hall to Manchester Victoria at 1000 cheers David

Fridays Freightliner foray produced 66592 ‘Johnson Stevens Agencies’ at Rosegrove,Crewe Basford Hall to Manchester Victoria at 1000 and Bank holiday Monday was 66539 cheers David

And a change from the usual 70810 this week has seen 70803 working from Wednesday through till today,this morning in the early morning sun passing through Hapton station from Lindsey oil Refinery to Colas Ribble Rail Preston cheers David

Yes you could be right it was on time before it arrived at Wigan unless it got worse as it got there and was going max 30 mph through Rosegrove,like you say the driver wouldn’t have been best pleased.

90013 again heading for Leeds Balm Road from Crewe with a noticeable wheel flat behind 66563,seen at Rosegrove running 154 minutes late at this point.This loco has only had a trip there on 23rd of May in fact it’s only a few posts up on this thread. cheers David

66563 with 90013 in tow again Crewe to Leeds Balm Road with a noticeable wheel flat,I believe 90013 only had a trip there on the 23rd May,running 154 minutes late at Rosegrove. cheers David

66757 ‘Royal Corps of Signals’ passes Todmorden station with empties from Drax to Liverpool at 1200 66165 Knowsley to Wilton EFW at 1225 and heading the opposite direction 66124 Tees N.Y. To Knowsley cheers David

66760 ‘David Gordon Harris’ passing firstly with the empties heading for Clitheroe Castle Cement at 1110 then returning loaded at 1707 both pics at Hellifield cheers David

90003 returned to Crewe Basford Hall today from Leeds Balm Road behind 66554 and 66531,seen rolling through Hapton station at 1510 cheers David

Another Freightliner loco move today with 66554,66531 and 90003 1339 Leeds Balm Road to Crewe Basford Hall trundling through Hapton at 1510 cheers David

And in much brighter weather 70810 (again)on the empty bitumen tanks from Preston to Lindsey oil Refinery passing Hapton station cheers David

D1935 (47805) on the rear of an LSL express today passing Hellifield,1544 Carlisle to Crewe with 34046 ‘BRAUNTON’ cheers David

70817 at Hellifield with the Carlisle to Chirk logs today at 1530 cheers David

I pretty much recorded the same workings as @4630 today at Todmorden so I will just post a couple 66156 Knowsley Freight Terminal to Wilton at 1500 And another of 66109 cheers David