08.08.09..BONUS FOR THE DAY,WAS FREIGHTLINER'S 66604 PASSING SWINDON ON 6Z60,THE BOW EAST TO HACKNEY YARD EMPTY BOX WAGONS.

08.08.09..UP HATHERLEY..66544.6Z88 CREWE BASFORD HALL TO TAUNTON,CONSISTING OF YXA DR92644/43,YOA DR92285 AND YSA DR92701.

25.07.09..GRANGE COURT..66131..6V36 LACKENBY TO MARGAM LOADED SLAB.

25.07.09.ADVENZA'S OLD AND NEW,66842 AND 47237 SIT AT GLOUCESTER

25.07.09..HARESFIELD..66119...4Z01 WORKSOP YARD TO AVONMOUTH COAL EMPTIES

15.07.09..KINGS SUTTON..66130..6M58 SOUTHAMPTON EAST DOCKS TO BESCOT EMPTY CAR CARRRIERS.

01.07.09..WORTING JNCT...66103+58032/046/010 PLUS CRANE ON 6Z58..20.05 EASTLEIGH TO WEMBLEY.ONE HOUR LATER IT WAS PITCH BLACK.

30.05.09..66149 ON A UID SOUTHBOUND INTERMODEL SERVICE,PASSING BANBURY.I PRESUME TO SOUTHAMPTON.

29.05.09..COALEY..ADVENZA 66841..OZ66..10.10 BRISTOL TEMPLE MEADS TO DONCASTER WEST YARD

21.05.09..DID NOT EXPECT 66068 ON A DIDCOT TO LUDGERSHALL CABLE TRAIN AT ANDOVER,HOWEVER AFTER PULLING FORWARD THERE SEEMED TO BE A PROBLEM IN ALLOWING A REVERSAL ONTO THE UP LINE, THEN CONTINUE ALONG THE LUDGERSHALL BRANCH ON THE FAR LEFT.AFTER WAITING SOME TIME THERE SEEMED TO BE NO SIGN OF ANY MOVEMENT AT ALL AND THE POINTS STILL SET FOR THE MAIN.THE KNOCK ON EFFECT WAS A LATE UNIT TO SALISBURY AND NO SIGN OF THE WOKING TO WESTBURY EMPTIES,WHICH IS WHAT I CAME FOR, SO DUE TO A EARLY 5Z37 A DASH BACK NEAR HOME WAS THE ORDER OF THE DAY.

09.05.09..UNDY..66005..WESTBURY TO MACHEN HANSON EMPTIES.

02.05.09..WITH ADJ YARD CLOSED,ENGINEERING TRAFFIC HAS TO GO ELSWHERE,AS HERE WITH 66150 PASSING PONTHIR WITH A ABERTHAW TO BASFORD HALL SERVICE,CONVEYING OLD TRACK SECTIONS ETC FROM THE JOBSITE.NOTICE THE MAST ERECTED ON THE FAR RIGHT,ONE OF MANY SPOILING THE VEIWS ALL AROUND THE UK AND IN SOME CASES RUINING ONCE PHOTABLE LOCATIONS.

02.05.09..BRIDGEND..66083 TAKES THE ABERTHAWLINE WITH COAL HOPPERS.

02.05.09..GATCOMBE..66085..6M60 TAVISTOCK JNCT.TO BESCOT LOADED CLAY.

20.04.09..WITH ITS HIGHLAND STAG DECAL,66111 PASSES WOOTON RIVERS WITH 6M20,THE WHATLEY TO ST.PANCRAS,LOADED EX.RMC HOPPERS

24.03.09..MOVING TO MOULSFORD TO GET 6V27 WITH 37425 DIT,WAS MET ON ARRIVAL WITH NEWS THAT THE TRACTOR WOULD NOT BE IN THE CONSIST OF THE EASTLEIGH TO HINKSY AFTER ALL,AND OF COURSE TO RUB SALT IN THE WOUND,66172 Paul Melleney,AND ITS RAKE OF SEACOWS PASSED IN SUN...TYPICAL

24.03.09.NEVER MANAGING TO GET A TUG ON 6M20,I CANT SEE ME DOING SO IN THE FUTURE UNLESS THERES A TURNROUD ON CLASS 60 POLICY,SO IT WAS A CASE OF STAPLE DIET AS 66089 PASSED WOLF HALL,ON THE WHATLEY TO ST.PANCRAS SERVICE WITH LOADED EX.RMC HOPPERS

21.03.09..EXTRA FOR THE DAY WAS 66008,PASSING BADMINTON,WORKING 6Z35,MORTON ON LUGG TO ACTON MEA'S

21.03.09..HAVING JUST PASSED THE SITE OF THE ONCE BADMINTON STATION,66304 CONTINUE'S ON TO RATCLIFFE P.S. WITH A LATE RUNNING COAL SERVICE FROM AVONMOUTH

21.03.09..APPROACHING THE SITE OF WHAT WAS BADMINTON STATION,66137 HEADS FOR AVONMOUTH WITH COAL EMPTIES FROM DIDCOT P.S.

19.03.09..CROFTON..66102...6M20 WHATLEY TO ST.PANCRAS LOADED EX.RMC HOPPERS

19.03.09..CROFTON..66040..7A74 WHATLEY TO THEALE LOADED HANSON HOPPERS

07.03.09..SWINDON..66142 DIDCOT P.S. TO AVONMOUTH COAL EMPTIES

22.02.09..TYPICAL,IF THERE WAS NO OVERNIGHT CHANGE IN LOCO DIAGRAMS,THEN 6W41 WOULD HAVE BEEN THE BLUE TUG,60011,BUT AS IT WAS,66054 ACTUALLY WORKED THE EXETER ST.THOMAS TO WESTBURY,PASSING BERKLEY MARSH CONVEYING OLD RAIL SECTIONS--IN THE SUN OF COURSE

21.02.09..IT WAS ONE OF THOSE DAYS WHERE NOWT WENT RIGHT,AS HERE AT WARMINSTER STATION WITH MY FIRST...SORRY ,MY ONLY SHOT OF THE DAY,WHERE I NEARLY CHOPPED THE FRONT OFF 66169...6XO7,THE 06.53 DIDCOT YARD TO WARMINSTER MOD,CONVEYING ARMOURED VEHICLES,ORIGINATING FROM HAVERFORDWEST,MIND YOU BROWNIE POINTS WERE OBTAINED BY TAKING THE MISSUS TO LUNCH ,TO BE USED AT A LATER DATE.

14.02.09..WITH THE LATEST CLASS 60 CULL,THIS COULD BE THE NORM ON THE THEALE TANKS,IE 66012 PASSING NR.ALDERMASTON WITH 6B33,THE RETURNING MURCO EMPTIES TO ROBESTON,DIVERTED VIA NEWBURY

07.02.09..NR.ALDERMASTON..66588 ON 6Z21,THE THEALE TO NEATH GRITSTONE EMPTIES

07.02.09. WITH 66558 BEING HELD IN WOODBOROUGH LOOP FOR SOME TIME,ALLOWED THE CLOUD TO CLEAR AS IT PASSED NR.ALDERMASTON WITH 6A21,THE PENGAM TO THEALE LOADED GRITSTONE.ALTHOUGH BACKLIT,THE SNOWY CONDITIONS HELP CONSIDERABLY.

17.01.09..PASSING TOTTON WITH A MARITIME TO MARCHWOOD TRIP IS 66590.WITH ONLY SOUTHBOUND LINERS ON THE SATURDAY THIS SEEMS TO BE A WAY TO STORE EMPTIES OVER THE WEEKEND

15.11.08..AWAITING A DRIVER,A GRIMY LOOKING DRS 66422 HEADS THE RAIL HEAD TREATMENT TRAIN AT READING ON A SATURDAY EXTRA WORKING .A FURTHER GRIMY 66423 BRINGS UP THE REAR

8.10.08 AS SOON AS THE CLOCKS GO BACK IT WILL BE EVEN HARDER TO GET 6M90 AVONMOUTH TO RATTCLIFFE P.S. SO THE BEST ANGLE IS PROBABLY HERE AT BRINKWORTH,ONLY THING WAS ,THE SUN NOT TO APPEAR

8.10.08..LEFT HOME IN SUNSHINE,BUT ON ARRIVAL AT WOOTON BASSETT THE LIGHT SHOWERS WERE ALREADY STREAMING UP THE M4 CORRIDOR AND IT WAS ONLY A LUCKY PATCH OF SUN THAT ENABLED THIS SHOT OF 66177 ON 6W41 THINGLEY TO HINKSEY SPENT BALLAST HAVING JUST COME OF THE CHIPPENHAM LINE IN THE DISTANCE

11.10.08 FASTLINES 66304 PASSES DENCHWORTH ON 6M90 AVONMOUTH TO RATCLIFFE P.S. LOADED COAL

09.10.08...THIS IS WHERE THE DAY WENT TITS UP...EXPECTING A GRID ON 4090 DONCASTER TO GRAIN INTERMODEL,ONLY TO LEARN THAT MEDITE LIVERIED 66709 WAS DOING THE HONOURS,HOWEVER WHEN IT TURNED UP THE SUN WENT,ONLY TO COME BACK AS THE GB SHED HAD PASSED.

09.10.08 ELFORD..66531 ON A RATCLIFFE P.S. TO DAW MILL EMPTY COAL WORKING

09.10.08...CATHOLME.66163..6G77 BURTON ON TRENT TO BESCOT COVERED STEEL

09.10.08...FASTLINES 66304 PASSES CATHOLME WITH 4G95 RATCLIFFE P.S. TO DAW MILL COAL EMPTIES

27.09.08..BOURTON..66101 ON 4D10 DIDCOT P.S. TO AVONMOUTH COAL EMPTIES

26.09.08..WOLF HALL..I CANT SEEM TO GET A TUG ON THIS TURN,TRY AS I MIGHT,AND TODAY WAS NO DIFFERENT AS 66107 PASSED ON 6M20 WHATLEY TO ST.PANCRAS

20.09.08..BANG ON TIME PASSING THE LARGE GALLERY AT KINGS SUTTON IS FASTLINES 66301 ON THE COMPANYS FIRST LOADED COAL FROM AVONMOUTH TO RATCLIFFE P.S.RUNNING AS 6M90

19.09.08...AS MENTIONED BEFORE, THE EVENING SHOT AT WORTING JNCT.DOES NOT COME ON UNTIL 5PM,HOWEVER THERE AINT A LOT TO PHOT.I HAVE BEEN LUCKY THIS YEAR AND MANAGED TO BAG A LATE GYPSUM AND SAND EMPTIES,BUT NO LUCK WITH A LINER.THIS WAS RECTIFIED TONIGHT WITH 66532 ON A NEW OR RETIMED 4O05 BIRCH COPPICE TO SOUTHAMPTON INTERMODEL.THIS IS BOOKED THROUGH BASINGSTOKE AT 17.55.AS CAN BE SEEN BY THE ENCROACHING SHADOWS AT 17.35 THIS MAY WELL HAVE BEEN A CASE OF LAST CHANCE SALOON.BY THE TIME LATE APRIL ARRIVES, WHEN THE SHOT COMES GOOD AGAIN,IT WONT BE RUNNING.

26.07.08..PASSING ONE OF THE MANY CLUMPS OF ROSEBAY WILLOWHERB AT LIMPLEY STOKE IS 66506"CREWE REGENERATION" WITH 6Z29 THEALE TO PENGAM GRITSTONE EMPTIES

26.07.08..WITH THE CITY OF BATH IN THE BACKGROUND ,66506"CREWE REGENERATION" PASSES BATHAMPTON ON 6Z28,PENGAM TO THEALE GRITSTONE

21.07.08 WORTING JNCT. 66125..6Y42 HOO JNCT. TO EASTLEIGH CWR TRAIN

05.07.08...WITH THE SATURDAYS 6Z28 PENGAM TO THEALE STONE RUNNING AGAIN,IT ALLOWS A SATURDAY FREIGHT SHOT ON THE H&B, AS DEPICTED BY 66531 PASSING THROUGH NEWBURY STATION ON 6Z29 ,THE RETURN EMPTIES FROM THEALE

01.07.08.. BEING LATE ALLOWED A SHOT AT WORTING JNCT. OFF 6Y19,THE MOUNTFIELD TO SOUTHAMPTON DOCKS GYPSUM EMPTIES, WITH 66713"FOREST CITY" IN CHARGE

28.06.08...MIDGHAM.66522..6Z28 PENGAM TO THEALE LOADED STONE IN THE CLOUD,THEN A DRIVE BACK HOME IN SUNSHINE

25.06.08..BY THE TIME 66589 PASSED CLOUDLESS KINGS SUTTON ON THE 4M99 SOUTHAMPTON TO TRAFFORD PARK LINER,THE CHURCH SPIRE IN THE BACKGROUND WAS PERFECTLY LIT

25.06.08..KINGS SUTTON 66046..6M28 HINKSEY YARD TO BESCOT

25.06.08...WITH THE CLOUD BREAKING UP AT KINGS SUTTON 66025 PASSES ON 6M58..SOUTHAMPTON WESTERN DOCKS TO BESCOT CAR EMPTIES

25.06.08 LOWER BASILDON.66589..4054 LEEDS TO SOUTHAMPTON LINER

17.06.08...6049 NEASDEN TO WOOL SAND EMPTIES,RUNNING APPROX.3 HOURS LATE,ALLOWED ANOTHER EVENING SHOT AT WORTING JNCT,WITH 66601

17.06.08.. SIGNALLING PROBLEMS IN THE DIDCOT AREA ALLOWED A SUNNY EVENING SHOT AT WORTING JNCT.OF THE LATE RUNNING 4027 DITTON TO SOUTHAMPTON INTERMODEL WITH 66102 IN CHARGE

07.06.08..BANBURY..66516..4014 DITTON TO SOUTHAMPTON

04.06.08...WORTING JNCT.66180..6Y42 HOO JNCT.TO EASTLEIGH CWR

29.05.08.DENCHWORTH 66531...6Z60 NEASDEN TO NEWTON ABBOT EMPTIES

29.05.08 DENCHWORTH.66009 ON 6Z65 DIDCOT TO WARMINSTER MOD

29.05.08.DENCHWORTH..66187WHICH I PRESUME IS ON A VERY LATE 6V10 WEMBLEY TO A.D.JNCT.

29.05.08.DENCHWORTH..66541 ON 4051 WENTLOOG TO SOUTHAMPTON LINER

10.05.08 BATTLEDOWN.66414..4014 DITTON TO SOUTHAMPTON INTERMODEL

08.05.08 66118 LEAVES PEAK FOREST ON 6E87 TO PETERBOROUGH

08.05.08 PEAK FOREST 66118 REVERSING 6M81 FROM PETERBOROUGH INTO DOVE HOLES

08.05.08.HARPUR HILL.66623"BILL BOLSOVER"6F19 DOWLOW TO GARSTON LOADED BOX WAGONS

07.05.08 WASH 66079 ON 6M52 ATTERCLIFFE RD. TO PEAK FOREST MBA EMPTIES

07.05.08 WASH 66561..6M19 BARHAM TO DOWLOW EMPTIES

07.05.08 CHAPEL EN LE FRITH 66114...6H96 TUNSTEAD TO BREDBURY LOADED HOPPERS

07.05.08 CHAPEL MILTON.66621..6M44 COTTAM POWER STATION TO DOWLOW LIME EMPTIES

07.05.08 TUNSTEAD 66114..6H37 BREDBURY TO TUNSTEAD EMPTIES

06.05.08 MOULSFORD 66086..6M58 SOUTHAMPTON WEST DOCKS TO BESCOT FORD TRANSITS

06.05.08 MOULSFORD 66590 ON 4S59 SOUTHAMPTON TO COATBRIDGE LINER

06.05.08 MOULSFORD 66186 RETURNS ON 6V27 EASTLEIGH TO HINKSEY

06.05.08 LOWER BASILDON 66575 ON 4M61 SOUTHAMPTON TO TRAFFORD PARK LINER

06.05.08.LOWER BASILDON 66594 ON 4051 WENTLOOG TO MILLBROOK LINER

06.05.08. PURLEY ON THAMES.66050 ON 4004 HAMS HALL TO SOUTHAMPTON INTERMODEL

06.05.08 PURLEY ON THAMES 66186 ON 6026 HINKSEY TO EASTLEIGH CONCRETE SLEEPERS

06.05.08 NR.WOOLHAMPTON 66709"JOSEPH ARNOLD DAVIES"+66727 ON 4E31 FAIRWATER YARD TO PETERBOROUGH DEPARTMENTAL SLEEPERS

23.04.08.ST.DENYS.66588 ON 4027 DITTON TO SOUTHAMPTON LINER WITH THE WOOL SAND HEADING IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION

23.04.08...APPROACHING ST.DENYS ONTO THE MAIN IS 66531 ON 6M42 WOOL TO NEASDEN SAND HOPPERS

12.04.08 SOUTH STOKE 66720 ON 4M21 FELIXTOWE TO HAMS HALL INTERMODEL

07.04.08 WORTING JNCT.BECAUSE THE SUNS OUT ,THINGS ARE BACK TO NORMAL ON 6Y42 HOO JNCT. TO EASTLEIGH IN THE FORM OF 66109

16.02.08 THIS IS WHY I CAME TO WOLF HALL, TO GET A LATE RUNNING 66507 ON 6Z28 PENGAM TO THEALE LOADED STONE

16.02.08 HAVING ALREADY GOT A SHOT OF 66166 WITH 66164 ON THE REAR OF 6W32 WESTBURY TO DIDCOT ENGINEERS AT ANOTHER LOCATION I HAVE DECIDED TO LEAVE THAT ONE OUT INCASE ITS SUGGESTED I ACTUALLY CHASED A SHED TO THIS LOCATION AT WOLF HALL.INFACT A LONG LAYOVER IN WOODBOROUGH LOOP ALLOWED THIS OCCURANCE...HONEST

12.02.08 MILLBROOK STATION 66510 ON THE 6049 NEASDEN TO WOOL SAND EMPTIES

09.02.08 CROFTON 66604 ON THE 6Z28 PENGAM TO THEALE LOADED STONE

12.01.08 STILL BATHED IN SUNSHINE AT HURSTBOURNE VIADUCT AS 66602 PASSES ON THE DIVERTED 6Z42 ANGERSTEIN TO WOOL SAND EMPTIES

12.01.88 AFTER GETTING STUFFED ON 6B33 I NEARLY WENT HOME ,BUT TOOK A FLYER AND WENT TO HURSTBOURNE VIADUCT FOR DIVERSIONS AND WAS REWARDED WITH A 45MINUTE SLOT OF SUNSHINE AS CAN BE SEEN AS 66573 PASSES ON 4054 LEEDS TO SOUTHAMPTON LINER

18.10.07 ELFORD 66606 BALLAST

18.10.07 ELFORD 66512..4GO1 LEEDS TO TYSLEY COAL HOPPERS FOR REPAIR

01.08.07..WOLF HALL..66018 ..6M20 WHATLEY TO ST.PANCRAS

4.07.07 WESTBURY 66718 PLYMOUTH TO ILFORD STOCK MOVE

24.07.07 WESTBURY 66197 WHATLEY TO ST.PANCRAS

05.06.07 ST.DENYS..66720 ON 6Y19 MOUNTFIELD TO SOUTHAMPTON DOCKS,EMPTY GYPSUM CONTAINERS

02.06.07..SHRIENHAM 66503 DIVERTED 4002 LINER TO SOUTHAMPTON

02.06.07 SHRIVENHAM..66514 6V60 CALVERT TO BATH/BRISTOL BINLINER

02.06.07..SHRIVENHAM..66181 ON 6C23 HAYES TO EAST USK EMPTIES

23.09.06..THE FLAG,66705 "GOLDEN JUBILEE"SITS IN THE POSSESION AT PETERSFIELD STATION WITH 6G12 FROM EASTLEIGH

23.09.06 AFTER A RUN ROUND AT WOKING 66707"SIR SAM FAYE" TAKES THE POMPEY LINE WITH 6G13 EASTLEIGH TO HAZELMERE CONVEYING BALLAST

16.07.06 NR.WOOLHAMPTON..66407 AND 66550 TAILING EN ROUTE TO READING YARD WITH MATISA TRAIN

09.06.06..WYCHNOR JNCT.66007 BURTON ON TRENT TO SOUTHAMPTON INTER-MODEL.

09.06.06..WYCHNOR JNCT. 66531 BARDON TO BASFORD HALL BALLAST.

25.05.06.ULCEBY..66200 Railway Heritage Association.6M99 IMMINGHAM TO WOLVERHAMPTON

25.05.06 CROXTON LIME WORKS..66140 COAL EMPTIES BOUND FOR IMMINGHAM DOCKS.

25.05.06 CROXTON LIME WORKS 66549..4D40 DRAX TO IMMINGHAM DOCKS COAL EMPTIES

23.05.06..SONNING CUTTING.66701 Whitemoor +310 UNITS ON 6Z77 KINETON TO SHOEBURYNESS

11.05.06..PEAK FOREST..66601 Hope Valley,6E04 TUNSTEAD TO WEST BURTON.

05.05.06..UNDY..66043 EAST USK TO PORTBURY MGR.

02.08.05..PEAK FOREST..66125 EMPTIES TO TUNSTEAD.

15.02.05..SEVERN TUNNEL JNCT.. 66152..6V70 CLIFFE VALE TO CARDIFF TIDAL..

14.02.05..EVESHAM..66027 WITH 66030 TAILING ON 1Z14..07.45 DERBY TO WORCESTER VIA OXFORD

13.01.05..WHITE WALTHAM..66713 Forest City,6Z91 SHOEBURYNESS TO CAERWENT CONDEMEND 312 UNITS

21.08.04 DR.DAYS JNCT.. 66192 A.D.JNCT. TO WESTBURY YARD ENGINEERS.

07.06.04..BERKLEY MARSH..66120 EXETER TO DOLLANDS MOOR ENTERPRISE.

23.09.03..WHITACRE JNCT.66709 Joseph Arnold Davies ON THE FELIXTOWE TO HAMS HALL INTERMODEL

13.09.03 PASSING WHITACRE JNCT. ON A DAW MILL TO WARRINGTON LOADED CAWOODS COAL CONTAINERS IS 66217

16.08.03..SALTLEY VIADUCT..66168 INTERMODEL

08.08.03..ST.DENYS..66711 MOUNTFIELD TO SOUTHAMPTON DOCKS GYPSUM EMPTIES

23.04.03..MELTON ROSS..66565 IMMINGHAM TO FERRYBRIDGE P.S. LOADED COAL

23.04.03.CROXTON LIME WORKS..66605 HUMBER TO KINGSBURY

04.04.03 BASINGSTOKE.66711 MOUNTFIELD TO SOUTHAMPTON GYPSUM EMPTIES