LocoPix.com

For the second day running EWS class 60 60071 ‘Ribblehead Viaduct’ was the motive power for the 6D11 17:10 Lackenby to Scunthorpe empty Steel train seen here taking the East Coast Main Line at Colton Junction near York.

In original Trainload Petroleum grey livery, 60054 ‘Charles Babbage’ passes Colton Junction South with the 6N30 13:38 Scunthorpe to Lackenby steel train.

GBRf 66729 approaches Colton Junction South with the 6H90 11:35 Tyne Dock to Drax Power Station coal service.

National Express HST led by 43316 takes the East Coast Main Line at Colton Junction with a southbound service.

Virgin Trains XC 47810 ‘Porterbrook’ leaves Didcot with the 14:18 1M14 Bournemouth to Manchester Picadilly on Saturday 27th October 2001. In the past this working would have been the return Pines Express but Virgin had ‘denamed’ the classic titled trains at the end of September 2001.
Today ’810′ lives on as ‘Captain Sensible’ in the Cotswold fleet, named after the guitarist of the 1970′s punk band The Damned, Sensible also had a number one solo hit in 1982 with a cover of ‘Happy Talk’ from South Pacific.
This image was taken in the early days of digital with a Canon D30, 3.1 megapixels and cost £1800!

The original EWS ‘Shed’ 66001, aka ‘Kevin’, passes through Sutton Park on the 12:27 6D44 Bescot to Toton departmental working.  66001 and 66002 are different to the other 248 members of the class in that they do not have buckeye couplers and therefore cannot be used on coal trains.
Photo credit – Andrew Haill