by DB Colin | Mar 24, 2020 | Dawlish Beach, Diesel Specials, General, Railway, Recordings, Teignmouth
Nice to see two excellent locomotives in pristine colourful livery doing another stock movement of Class 43 power car 43091 from storage at Long Marston near Stratford on Avon and returning with Power car 43086 using Mk3 HST coach 12161 as a barrier car. Locomotives...
by DB Colin | Feb 19, 2020 | Dawlish Beach, Diesel Specials, Railway, Teignmouth, Uncategorized
The last few days has seen a glut of engineering movements from Westbury to the far west of Cornwall between Truro and Penzance. The first train was on Thursday 13th with Colas 70805 heading a consist of box wagons with a Rail Vac machine in the centre. The train...
by DB Colin | Feb 2, 2020 | Dawlish Beach, Diesel Specials, General, Railway
Colas 70812 powered the Kirow 125T Rail Crane train on Saturday afternoon from Westbury to Hackney yard at Newton Abbot and the return to Westbury on Sunday afternoon. The crane had been in use in Hackney yard attending to the sidings trackwork whist there. Share...
by DB Colin | Jan 23, 2020 | Dawlish Beach, Diesel Specials, General, Railway, Teignmouth
On 22nd January GBRF Class 50 50049 Defiance and 50007 Hercules set off from their Severn Valley Railway base at Kidderminster. They headed for Wembley Inter City Depot where they collected three Mk3 Caledonian Sleeper coaches and ran in top & tail formation to...
by DB Colin | Dec 24, 2019 | Dawlish Beach, Diesel Specials, General, Railway, Teignmouth
On Sunday 22nd December 2019 Colas sent a locomotive from Doncaster to Par in order to collect a Railvac machine from Fowey Docks the next morning and deliver it to Bescot Yard near Birmingham. The locomotive gained the nameplate “Robin of Templecombe 1938...
by DB Colin | Jul 30, 2019 | Dawlish Beach, Diesel Specials, General, Railway
The English Riviera Statesman was the title for the Pullman car excursion from Crewe to Paignton and was hauled double headed by 47501/D1944 “Craftesman” & 47810/D1924 Crewe Diesel Depot”. The locos are numbered to reflect the time when they...
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