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Just as the light gives up...
The last Class 66 to be built specifically for the UK market, 66779 bears the name 'Evening Star' and a livery of Brunswick green, in a style similar of the last steam engine built by British Railways, 9F numbered 92220 and also named Evening Star.
Under gloomy and darkening skies, 66779 heads the way through Stansted Mountfitchet with an engineers consist and 66743 on the rear with the working of 6T63 14:37 Whitemoor Yard L.D.C Gbrf to Canonbury 11/02/23
From the human mind, the furnace and the forge, at the ending of the age of steam. Evening Star, the last steam locomotive built for British Railways. Preserved at the National Railway Museum in York.
GB Railfreight's Class 66/7 diesel locomotive No. 66779 "Evening Star", the last Class 66 to be built for the UK and European markets, passes Edale signal box with a rake of hoppers en route from Peak Forest to Selby.
“Evening Star” has been liveried in lined passenger express ‘brunswick green’ in commemoration of the last steam locomotive of the same name to have been built by Swindon Works for British Railways in 1960.
If you zoom in on this photo you will see in the distance, beneath the bridges, the eastern portal of Cowburn Tunnel which is 3,702 yards (3,385 m) long. Construction work beneath Kinder Scout, a moorland plateau and National Nature Reserve in the Dark Peak of Derbyshire, started in October 1888 and laying of the rails was completed by March 1893.
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GBRf's 66779 'Evening Star' heads for Dove Holes tunnel on 6F73, Tunstead quarry to Wellingborough Terminal Complex.
GBRFs 66779 'Evening Star' seen in possession at finedon road Wellingborough with 6G35 from Toton north yard on 31/7/16.
GB Railfreight Class 66, 66779 "Evening Star" is seen passing Retford with a rake of loaded sand wagons.
6E84 08:20 Middleton Towers GBRf - Barnby Dun Roc. Glass GBRf.
The last Class 66 built for Britain, brand new 66779 Evening Star in BR Lined Green livery on display at The National Railway Museum in York on the 17/5/16
66779 "Evening Star" pulls a loaded rake of wagons out from the loading line in Arcow Quarry. 10th May 2017.
66779 "Evening Star" is seen near Scale House with 6D72 11:30 Hull Dairycoates to Rylstone. 10/4/2017.
Worth the long wait... About 40 minutes after getting off the train those of us who decided to do so were rewarded by this shot of BR Standard Class 9F 92214 dressed up as 92220 "Evening Star" set against a grey sky as it passes Woodthorpe on the Great Central Railway. The day was partly to commemorate 50 years since the closure of the Somerset and Dorset Railway, so this was a Timeline Events recreation of the "Pines Express", the premier service over that route.
GBRf Class 66 66779 'Evening Star' seen here passing Burn, North Yorkshire working the 0933 Tees Dock to Doncaster Iport Ikea intermodel with a slightly light load! 4D08
92220 'Evening Star' (AKA 92214) at Rabbit Bridge on the Great Central Railway. 22nd April 2015. More at davebowles.smugmug.com/Railways/British-Railways-Standard...
British Railways Standard Class 9F 2-10-0 92220 "Evening Star" (in reality 92214 dressed up for the occasion) heads towards Swithland on the Great Central Railway during a Timeline Events photo charter.
The common evening-primrose is native to eastern and central North America but has been spread to Central Europe and large parts of Asia from the Middle East to East Asia, where it is usually regarded as a Neophyte (i.e. not an invasive plant). Both French and German common names include some that contain the word 'ham' (i.e. Jambon de Saint Antoine or Jambon du jardinier, and Schinkenkraut or Schinkenwurz) this appears due to the fact that the edible root, when cooked, resembles a cooked ham in colour.
Worth the photo grab...
Representing the final '66' to be constructed for the UK and European markets, GB Railfreight Class 66 diesel locomotive 66779 also carries the nameplate 'Evening Star' and a livery of BR Locomotive Green, a callback to the similarly named and coloured BR Standard Class 9F steam engine, which resides in the National Railway Museum at York.
In the midst of a brief shower of rain, 66779 brings up the rear of an engineers train led by 66749 through Elsenham on the working of 6T65 10:41 Whitemoor Yard L.D.C Gbrf to Leigh-on-Sea 16/10/21
Royal Scotsman 66779 & 66746 1z85 Edinburgh - Rannoch charter passing Hartwood first working north of the border for 66779 13/10/16 @ 14:01
66779 "Evening Star" Working 6M42 09:20 Avonmouth Hanson Sdgs Gbrf to Penyffordd Cement Gbrf passing Grovefield Way
Cheltenham 23/06/21
The heaviest rain as the train was due, naturally...
With a engineers rake in tow, GB Railfreight Class 66 diesel locomotive 66749 'Christopher Hopcroft MBE' leads through Elsenham working 6T65 10:41 Whitemoor Yard L.D.C Gbrf to Leigh-on-Sea.
66779 'Evening Star' was provided on the rear of the consist 16/10/21
BR Standard 9F 92220 "Evening Star" climbs the the then double track Gresford Bank hauling "The White Rose" rail tour on June 15th 1985.
( Re-scan and process )
I went over to the Dark side on Tuesday to do a steam charter on the GCR.
Originally we were supposed to have a Bulleid Pacific but politics got in the way so a S&D recreation was attempted using 9F 92214 masquerading as the last 9f built 92220.
With Pines Express reporting numbers and headboard she looked the dogs.... rattling past Woodthorpe in a lucky break near the death.
Tueday 2 February 2016.
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66779 "Evening Star" crosses Gauxholme Viaduct with 6M37 11:25 Arcow Quarry to Pendleton. 8/5/2017. Thanks to Mick Page for once again carrying the sun in his pocket and to Graham Roose for the viewing angle.
Taken just minutes before the planet sank into Winter Corrie for the night. I'm not sure if it is still there or not.
Another gloomy evening at Wakefield Kirkgate as 56077 transfers Evening Star, Cheltenham and Hardwicke from York to Rainhill.
GBRFs 66779 'Evening Star' heads north at Kangaroo Spinney,Wellingborough working 6M54 (12.18) Colnbrook - Bardon hill on 20/4/18.
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6D73 18.13 Rylstone to Hunslet Tilcon.
The loco is “Evening Star”, the final ever Class 66 to be built for use in UK, named after the last steam locomotive ever built in UK by BR (9F, 92220, Swindon, 1960), and painted in Brunswick green, as was the 9F.
29.8.1988.
BR 9F 2-10-0 No 92220 'Evening Star' approaches Bridlington station with the 'Scarborough Spa Express back in 1988.
The semaphores didn't have long to go when this shot was taken.
Copied from one of my Fujichrome colour slides.
This is 92214 renumbered as Evening Star, the last steam loco built by BR. A rake of Brown / Cream Mk1's for that 'Western' feel. Running with various Headboards.
An unexpected bonus at Crewe this eveing, 66779 'Evening Star' sat in the Locomotive Holding Siding, 66747 the other side of it from me.
Apparently, it has been doing the Liverpool BT - Drax run, but why it is stabled at Crewe is a mystery.
66779 'Evening Star' is seen passing Whittlesea on loaded covhops working 6E84 08.20 Middleton Towers - Monk Bretton.
I believe this is the 2nd week of revenue service for the last built class 66 for the UK.
30/06/16
The last Class 66 locomotive to be built for the UK, No. 66779 Evening Star, leaves Bristol Temple Meads station with 1Z68, the 17:04 special working to Peterborough on Saturday 26th August 2017.
29.8.1988.
BR 9F 2-10-0 No 92220 'Evening Star' passes Seamer Junction with the York bound 'Scarborough Spa Express' back in 1988.
Nowadays of course, the box and semaphores have been swept away and this view is now obscured by tree growth.
Copied from one of my old Fujichrome colour slides.
GBRf Class 66/7 - 66779 "Evening Star" passing Old Denaby in the sleet with the 6X01 Scunthorpe Trent T.C. to Eastleigh East Yard.
GBRFs 66779 'Evening star' passes Elmsthorpe with 4L29 (08.30) Birch coppice - Felixstowe liner on 25/3/17.
9F 92214 re-badged as 92220 Evening Star runs through Swithland Sidings on the Great Central Railway. 23rd April 2015. More at - davebowles.smugmug.com/Railways/British-Railways-Standard...
66779 'Evening Star' - 4M37 09.54hrs Drax AES - LBioT 'e/biomass'. Olive Mount, Broadgreen. 1st October 2018.
(Well bang on que, spend 45 mins in sunshine before hand and when train due!! Ah well, it was not meant to be!).
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