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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.
Jake wishes everyone a new year. It's been a tough year, with lots of serious stuff going on, but Jake, ever steady, knows how to be resilient and look forward, as well as enjoy the spirit of the moment and the holiday. Jake is 13 and doing well.
We have all enjoyed the holidays together. We are staying as safe as we can. Many of our friends and others are getting sick all over Florida, but especially here in the Keys, and all over the world. Yet, maybe there is also a silver lining in that Omicron is milder at least for the vaccinated. And good people are at work all over our country and the world, fighting darker forces.
Jake is my wise old man, and is still my sweet and loving baby boy.
Taken and uploaded 12/31/21, 2021 12 31 ar72 DB Tdnai Dogs-310111- OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
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!).
Copyright: 8A Rail
For further images covering Merseyside in the last 20 years see: 'Merseyside Traction', at www.amberley-books.com/merseyside-traction.html
66779 "Evening Star" passing Low Moor, on the approach to Horton-in-Ribblesdale, with 6E77 - 16.45 - Arcow Quarry to Hunslett Tilcon loaded stone.
Taken using pole.
66779 'Evening Star' drops down to WP6909 for driver relief with 6X01 Scunthorpe - Eastleigh East Yard.
Saltley Viaduct.
27/02/2020
Croquis dans la pénombre (d'où les couleurs flashy) de l'étoile du berger dans les premiers instants bleutés de la nuit.
This brightly colored sketch was done in the dark at the beginning of the night, while the evening star is shining almost alone.
66779 was the final ever Class 66 to be built for use in UK. In honour of this, the locomotive was named Evening Star, the last steam locomotive ever built in UK by BR (9F, 92220, Swindon, 1960), painted in Brunswick green, as was the 9F.
Passing through the delightful countryside at Hetton in the Yorkshire Dales, on the Grassington Branch line, the train is bound for Rylston Tilcon quarry having originated from Hull Dairycoates (6D72).
Thanks to my pal Chris Davies aka Welsh Gold for a fine caption that I've copied from his shot of this train!
GBRf Class 66 66779 is the last Class 66 to be made and has been named "Evening Star" just like the last Steam Engine made was so named.
66779 'Evening Star' sits awaiting the token at Bridge of Orchy with the Royal Scotsman stock on a GBRf end of season staff charter. The train was running as 1Z85 Edinburgh - Rannoch and would return south overnight as 1Z87 Rannoch - London Victoria
Gbrf`s brunswick green liveried 66779 ` Evening Star ` is seen at Horbury bridge with 6E09 the 07.11 Liverpool TML to Drax loaded biomass using the drax tafoo hoppers 08/10/2018.
the first hopper has some extra northern power house decays on its side.
GB Railfreight Class 66, 66702 "Blue Lightning" is seen passing Eaton Lane foot crossing near Retford with the sand train and a failed 66779 "Evening Star" dead in tow.
6E84 08:20 Middleton Towers GBRf - Barnby Dun Roc. Glass GBRf.
66779 leads 3S01 09:22 Stowmarket D.G.L. to Stowmarket D.G.L. away from Great Yarmouth through Breydon Junction, 25/09/23. 66769 is on the rear.
The last BR steam loco - 9F 2-10-0 92200 ''Evening Star'' - at Old Oak Common loco shed, in September 1964.
It was withdrawn, after suffering front-end damage, in March 1965, and there was some debate over the costs needed to remedy this, before the loco could be 'accepted' for preservation..
It was eventually restored at Crewe works for preservation, and then stored at Brighton for a time, after which it was moved to the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, and then to the new National Railway Museum at York, when that opened in 1975. It was in operation on BR mainline tracks after that, until all 9Fs were banned from BR, due to problems with the flangeless centre driving wheels and new rail crossing designs.
The loco became a static exhibit at Swindon museum in 1990, and today (2023) is still a static exhibit, at the NRM, York.
Old Oak Common closed to steam in 1965, and then became a diesel depot, with many of the original steam-era buildings demolished. This depot closed in 2009, and the site was then utilised for Crossrail construction and 'Elizabeth Line' stock maintenance, with the HST depot closing in 2018, and the 'Heathrow Express' EMU depot closing in 2021.
Restored from an under-exposed unfocussed grainy orange/yellow-colour-shifted original..
Original slide - property of Robert Gadsdon
0Z66 17:53 DONCASTER ROBERT RDS SHED - 19:35 YORK N.R.M. running on 09/05/2016
Train InformationTrain Running & Realtime Information
Runs on 09/05/2016
STP schedule runs MO from 09/05/2016 - 09/05/2016
Operated by GBRf
Light Locomotive
Diesel Locomotive
Timed to run at 75mph
Train Activated 09/05/2016 13:16
Train ID - 230Z661V09
GBRf 66779 "Evening Star" pictured at Whitacre junction, hauling the 4M46 London Gateway-Hams Hall intermodal.
Great Central Railway - Timeline Charter in April 2015 with Class 9F 92214 as 92220 Evening Star (DSC 8151)
I am currently adding images to my Smugmug page for this day - see below
davidcable.smugmug.com/Events/2015/150422-Great-Central-T...
A 50 / 50 chance of seeing this which paid off today as both 66779 and 66762 were at Toton this morning.
BR Green 66779 "Evening Star" approaches Harrowden Junction on it's first run down through my local haunt on the 6G35 - Toton North Yard to Wellingborough Engineers working - 30-07-16
One of the reasons for my York visit on 9/7/78 was Evening Stars appearance there. The strong sunshine , for once, didn't seem to be helping in this back shot.
The summer solstice is upon us and even at 22.04 the modern day digital camera can record scenes such as this.
RfD 6X77 conveys Ford cars and vans from Dagenham to Mossend and is, for British Railways standards, a long train.
* GBRf 66779 'Evening Star' has been re-geared into 9F mode (as per the cab side above the number) modified into Heavy Haul configuration at Progress Rail’s Longport workshops becoming 66689 ‘Evening Star’ re-entering service in late May.
7.9.89 92220 Evening Star with eight chocolate and cream coaches approaching Blue Anchor with a Minehead to Bishops Lydeard working.
Copyright Neville Wellings
After a brief stopover at Tuebrook following work on the Pennyffordd cement trains, green liveried GB Railfreight loco 66779 'Evening Star', along with 60002 'Graham Farish' dead in tow, leads the 6E17 loaded train from Liverpool Biomass Terminal to Drax Power Station through Whiston
The 6Z58 Wellingborough Up tc GBRf at Llanddulas en route to Llandudno for a load of Welsh Slate. First time I have seen 66779 'Evening Star'
92220 "Evening Star" crosses the viaduct at the east end of the Gilling East layout while hauling a goods train. 29/8/2021.
A 300° panorama of the winter evening sky, January 12, 2017, with the Full “Wolf” Moon of mid-winter rising at left in the northeast, and Venus (brightest) and Mars (above) over in the southwest at right. Orion is rising in the east at centre, with Taurus above. The Big Dipper is at far left to the north. The remaining glow of twilight creates an arch of light in the southwest, while the rising Moon creates an arch of brighter sky at left. This was a very clear, transparent night but at -20° C. Note the glitter path on the snow from the Moon.
I shot this from home in southern Alberta, using the Nikon D750 and 24mm Sigma Art lens. This is a stitch of 14 segments with generous overlap, stitched in Adobe Camera Raw.