The regular Plain Line Pattern Recognition (PLPR) test train along the South West Main Line to Weymouth ran on Monday 2nd June giving a rare opportunity of catching it in the last throes of daylight through Poole. Reporting as 1Q51 1115 Derby R.T.C.(Network Rail) to Eastleigh East Yard the PLPR was in the charge of… Continue reading June 2025 Update
Month: June 2025
May 2025 Update
Colas Railfreight Class 43 power cars No.’s 43357 + 43274 work the Heart of Wessex Plain Line Pattern Recognition train through Dorchester West, reporting as 1Q22 0747 Derby R.T.C.(Network Rail) to Bristol Kingsland Road – 14/05/2025 Swanage Railway resident diesel locomotive Class 33 No. D6515 (33012) went on hire to Hanson & Hall in May… Continue reading May 2025 Update
Swanage Diesel Gala 2025
The locomotives arriving for the 2025 Swanage Diesel Gala continued to arrive with GBRf sending Class 73 No. 73128 ‘Kent & East Sussex Railway’ and Class 69 No. 69007 ‘Richard Trevithick’. These locomotives arrived on May 7th and we saw them on the Swanage Branch at Creech. Having missed its original diagrammed move to Dorset… Continue reading Swanage Diesel Gala 2025