Sidelined
Here's one from the archives. Class 67 locomotives Nos. 67016 and 67017 top and tail the 19:00 Cardiff Central to Taunton service on Wednesday 24th June 2009. The train has been routed into the down loop here at Yatton to allow the late-running 13:06 Edinburgh to Plymouth service, formed of a Class 220 Voyager, to overtake.
Around this time there were two loco-hauled diagrams on the Cardiff-Taunton route and these ran for a couple of years, presumably due to a shortage of DMUs. Although these workings started out with "67s" in charge they were replaced by Class 57s for a while. However, the "Bodysnatchers" proved less reliable, and so the "Skips" came back for the remainder of these operations.
© Ten Years After archive series 2019
Sidelined
Here's one from the archives. Class 67 locomotives Nos. 67016 and 67017 top and tail the 19:00 Cardiff Central to Taunton service on Wednesday 24th June 2009. The train has been routed into the down loop here at Yatton to allow the late-running 13:06 Edinburgh to Plymouth service, formed of a Class 220 Voyager, to overtake.
Around this time there were two loco-hauled diagrams on the Cardiff-Taunton route and these ran for a couple of years, presumably due to a shortage of DMUs. Although these workings started out with "67s" in charge they were replaced by Class 57s for a while. However, the "Bodysnatchers" proved less reliable, and so the "Skips" came back for the remainder of these operations.
© Ten Years After archive series 2019