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A service that runs very very rarely - 66089 approaches Gloucester with 6M96,Margam to Corby - 4.11.22.
Old skool EWS shed is seen at Moredon in the early morning sun with the 6V72 01:25 Arpley Sidings - Swindon Cocklebury.
Having waited over 3 years to get a shot featuring the bridge , and missing the previous day's working by a minute, We made sure there was plenty of time to get Friday's working from Hope Cement works to Cwm Bargoed
with 66089 working the 4V01 up the Valley.
Db cargo`s ews liveried 66089 with dit 60100 " Midland railway Butterley " cross Colton`s south junction with 6N31 the 07.43 Scunthorpe to Lackenby steels 18/07/2019.
A shot that I never got around to uploading at the time, but back on the 27th of March 66089 still in full EWS livery swings off the Bury line at Haughley Junction making a dash for journey's end at Barham with the 6L42 08:51 from Monutsorrel. This was either the 2nd-to-last or final stone before the flow halted for ages due to the lockdown.
FIRST STEEL OF 2022
DBSchenker class 66089 still with the EWS decals approaches Burgs Lane Bayston Hill with a lightly loaded return steel train from the Dee Marsh Reception Sidings, Shotton Steel Works on route to Llanwern/Margam TC empties.
Once again a decent load for DB-Cargo. Shame about retaining the long outdated EWS livery but I guess that will be historic soon.
66089 emerges from a bridge as it approaches Hambleton Junction. A surprisingly urban scene considering its in the middle off nowhere!
GBRf 66737, DB Cargo 66089, GBRf 66786 & Freightliner 66512 with today's 6Y42 Hoo to Eastleigh passes through Potbridge....
Lot of empty spaces on the Trafford Park-Southampton Western Docks DB service. Most trains to the Docks or MCT are lightly loaded at present.
EWS liveried Class 66 diesel locomotive 66089 is seen at North Stafford Junction working from Walsall freight terminal to Dowlow Briggs Sidings.
66089 working the '0746 Scunthorpe B.S.C.(Ent.C.) to Lackenby B.S.C.' loaded steel, seen at Colton south junction on 28th May 2020.
Under menacing skies 66089 approaches Crowle Road bridge east of Worcester with the 6V51 Burton on Trent Maurice Hill to Cardiff Tidal empty steel on February 2nd 2024
Terry lines up his composition, the subject being the 6E26 Knowsley - Wilton binliner accelerating away from dropping off the single line token at Rainford Junction 'box.
A fairly conventional three quarter shot of a Margam - Llanwern steel at Miskin in the pouring rain, nice it was double headed, nicer that the front loco is one of the few that escaped DB vinyl, the three beasties still on show.
SOMEWHERE UNDER THE RAINBOW
Passing under a part rainbow are DB Cargo class 66089, 127 (in old EWS livery) and 069 seen approaching the footbridge at Kempseye Shrewsbury with the Warrington Arpley Sidings to Margam Traction Complex cpnveying just a single refurbished BAA steel slab carrier wagon
Note : 127 and 069 were "dead in train"
With a decent rake of loaded SSA scrap metal wagons behind it, 66089 squeals into the yard at Margam. These wagons carried offcuts from Trostre Works for reprocessing at Port Talbot. The flow finished in June 2024 and the wagons were dispatched to EMR Kingsbury for scrap. This was the last flow to use SSA wagons.
6B03 09:10 Trostre Works to Margam T.C.
DB-Cargo Trafford Park to Southampton Western Docks with a good load. Drivers often run with cab doors open in hot weather when working class 66 traction
66 089 is seen at Ballencrieff on Wednesday 21 October 2020 with 4E96 0824 Mossend - Tees intermodal
66089 arrives at Hereford station at 14.55 on the 7th September 2017 working the loaded steel from Margam (10.29) to Dee Marsh, with usually a stop at Llanwern on route.
6G33 Mountsorrel to Small Heath headed by 66089 rumbles beneath the M6 Motorway near Washwood Heath East Junction on a damp and dreary March afternoon.
66089 passes Souldrop on 6H10 12.29 Bletchley - Peak Forest, the train formed of HTA coal hoppers.
28/05/16
EWS 66089 working the 451H 1112 Daventry Int Rft Recep Rfd to Grangemouth Tdg (Ews) passing Red Bank, Merseyside, 6.4.19
The 6V92 10.34 Corby - Margam steel empties head south, running very late and diverted via Stourbridge as the Lickey route was closed for two weeks to allow the re-modelling of Bromsgrove station.
Liberal use of photoshop AI on this image to remove some modern clutter.