SETTLE & CARLISLE DIVERSIONS 03.04.11 By Steve Ford.
66 67 & 66
Virgin Voyager northbound at Armathwaite station.
16.04.11 8 30 AM Carlisle Station 46115 Scots Guardsman departs for Scotland for the Great Britain day 2 Edinburgh to Inverness.
NEWCASTLE 16.04.11
16.04.11 Newcastle King Edward Bridge with Transpennine crossing southbound.
16.04.11 from the Castle Keep a view of Newcastle Central. The crane is for the development of a new hotel, with a room with a view.
16.04.11 Now the station car park, it was the lines into the terminus platforms from Carlisle.
16.04.11 The Grand Central train passes through for servicing at Heaton.
16.04.11 DRS Class 66417 diverted from Carlisle to Edinburgh owing to work on the W.C.M.L
16.04.11 Class 156 unit stands beside A4 pacific 4492 Dominion of New Zealand. The A4 worked the Great Britain day one from London Kings Cross to Tyne Yard. It then came up to Gateshead and reversed into Newcatle Central.
GREAT BRITAIN 1V SCOTLAND By Mike Ford.
17th April Forth Bridge
46115 “SCOTS GUARDSMAN”(Royal Scot 4-6-0 North British built 1927) 1Z28 09:44 Edinburgh - Inverness via Dundee and Aberdeen Day two of the Railway Touring Co “The Great Britain IV” railtour
18th April Shin viaduct
45407 (Black 5 Armstrong Whitworth built 1937) ,44871 (Black 5 4-6-0 LMS Crewe built 1945) 1Z31 10:32 Wick - Inverness Day three of the Railway Touring Co “The Great Britain IV” railtour
18th April Culloden viaduct
66433 (DRS) 6D50 09:20 Inverness - Mossend tanks
20th April
Findhorn viaduct
45407 (Black 5 Armstrong Whitworth built 1937) ,44871 (Black 5 4-6-0 LMS Crewe built 1945) 1Z38 11:00 Inverness - Glasgow (Central) Day five of the Railway Touring Co “The Great Britain IV” railtour
20th April 66108 (EWS) 4D47 13:22 Inverness - Mossend yard
21st April 44871 & 45407 are see at Cowran Cutting on the Newcastle line heading east. By Mike Ford
22 April 37059 & 604 on the flask train at Cummersdale By Darren Armstrong.
This train seems to run in the morning at around 10.00 & evening around 16.00 while the Arnside Viaduct is been repaired.
22nd April DRS class 37607 & 218 heading north out of Carlisle at West Walls By Darren Armstrong.
AN EVENING AT CARLISLE BRIAN IRWIN
22nd April Fastline 66301 passes through on platform 4 now owned by DRS
22nd April side view of class 70010
25th April 37607 & 218 at Carlisle arrived with the Easter Highlander day 4 return from Inverness.
26.04.11 37059 & 604 at Carlisle Currock on the West Cumbria line taken at 16.20 By Darren Armstrong.
Carlisle Station
27th April Class 70010 deprts Carlisle southbound
27th April Class 67018 DB Schenkner on the Cambridgeshire Fellsman from Harlow Town.
27th April class 70002 on the Shap ballast train passes through plt 3
Out in the country
27th April From the video cam class 67079 on the Newcastle line with the Cambridgeshire Fellsman.
27th April at How & Co/s 66515 with the Freightliner
Currock & Cummersdale on the West Cumbria Line
28th April Currock on the West Cumbria line class 66 on the Dalston Tanks
28th April Currock on the West Cumbria line class 37218 & 607on the flask to Heysham.
28th April Cummersdale farm bridge 37607 & 218 light engine movement to from Crewe Sellafield.
The west Cumbria line is worth a look with the good weather for the extra traffic while Arnside viaduct on the Furness line between Lancaster to Barrow is closed for repairs.
To Sellafield 10.15 From Sellafield 16.15 passing Currock
29th April Class 20303 & 37059 at Currock on the West Cumbria Line with the flasks to Sellafield. By Darren Armstrong.
30th April. Class 57309 hauls 390 037 (VWX) along Rigg Common approaching Gretna Green on The train was 1M71 07:22 Glasgow Central - Preston, diverted via Glasgow &South Western route because of engineering work north of Carstairs. By Steve Ford
30th April Class 57309 on the 20.30 Pendolino drag from Carlisle via the Glasgow South Western to Glasgow Central at Kingmoor.
Many thanks to Darren Armstrong for all the info of the movements around Carlisle & to all those who post passings to websites in their area. Brian Irwin at Carlisle U.K.