Direct Rail Services

[childwallblues]

Direct Rail Services
Three of the Class 37 acquired from D B Schencker 37416 37417 and 37427 have been sold to Booths of Rotheham for scrap.

[childwallblues]

RE: Direct Rail Services

(29/11/2012 21:05)childwallblues Wrote:  Three of the Class 37 acquired from D B Schencker 37416 37417 and 37427 have been sold to Booths of Rotheham for scrap.

Also gone to Booths of Rotherham are 37406/10/26

[childwallblues]

RE: Direct Rail Services
20301/02/03/04 are booked to move from Willesden Brent to Eastleigh today for storage.

[First Class]

RE: Direct Rail Services
Northern Belle at Chester today with DRS 57 loco one end and a DBS 67 at the other.

[507022]

RE: Direct Rail Services

(21/12/2012 15:04)First Class Wrote:  Northern Belle at Chester today with DRS 57 loco one end and a DBS 67 at the other.

DRS class 47 47832 was the rear loco on arrival at Crewe this afternoon!

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RE: Direct Rail Services

(21/12/2012 15:44)507022 Wrote:  

(21/12/2012 15:04)First Class Wrote:  Northern Belle at Chester today with DRS 57 loco one end and a DBS 67 at the other.

DRS class 47 47832 was on the train!

47/57 they all look the same

No idea what the 67 was at the Crewe end though, it was in EWS livery.

[childwallblues]

RE: Direct Rail Services
A new maintenance building is under construction at Gresty Bridge Depot for the new Class 68 locomotives which will be based there.

[childwallblues]

RE: Direct Rail Services
DRS is to hire at least 4 x Class 92 from D B Schencker for use on intermodals between Daventry and Mossend. 92015 has arrived at Carlisle for crew training between Carlisle and Carnforth.

[childwallblues]

RE: Direct Rail Services
It is reported that DRS has ordered ten Electro Diesels to be Class 88 from Vossloh in Spain.

[childwallblues]

RE: Direct Rail Services
37425 has received has had its old "Sir Robert McAlpine/Concrete Bob" nameplates re-applied.
Thunderbird 57308 has been named "County of Staffordshire".