Saturday 20/08/2011 – Class 55 Deltic Diesel Locomotive 55022 Royals Scots Grey leads a GB Railfreight (GBRf) Staff Charter train from Peterborough to Weston Super Mare south through New Barnet Station.
The sound & smell of Napier Diesel engines brought back memories of the East Coast Main Line of old, along with the excellent 5 tone blast of the horn from a very enthusiastic driver.
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The first ever freight locomotive livery to be designed by a six year old girl was revealed by GB Railfreight (GBRf) at a special ceremony at the Nene Valley Railway on Sunday 3rd July.
The unveiling followed the naming of a Class 66 loco ‘Jayne’ after Jayne Taylor, GBRf roster manager at Doncaster, maintaining GBRf’s tradition of naming its engines after female employees.
Emily Goodman, the now seven year old daughter of GBRf’s Whitemoor-based Yard Shift Leader Ben Goodman, won a kids’ ‘design a livery’ competition last autumn, run on one of the company’s annual family days out.
Her two colourful designs of night and day were chosen by a panel of judges, including MD John Smith and now feature on both sides of loco, 66720.
Joining Emily at the ceremony were mum and dad, Julie and Ben, along with sister Sophie and brother Josh.
Ben, who is now training to become a train driver, said: “Emily, crayon in hand, drew a day-night theme for the loco complete with sun, moon and alien! It’s a delight to think that I could soon be driving a loco up and down the country with her design on its sides.”
John Smith paid tribute to Emily’s designs and to those who turned her original colourings into the huge vinyls that now cover the loco. He said: “I think the loco looks great. It’s colourful, eye catching and a bit of fun. My thanks to all who made this possible.”
Emily’s design ended up applied to the loco thanks to the work of a team of GBRf’s engineers, graphic design suppliers and vinyl manufacturers. Her original drawings were given to graphic designers, Woodhouse Creative, who turned them into artwork, which was then sent to vinyl manufacturers SSDM. They produced the massive vinyl sheets and then applied them at GBRf’s March depot.
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GB Railfreight Class 66 Diesel 66740 still in the livery of former owner Freightliner passes through Acton Mainline Station with an infrastructure working.
First Great Western Class 43 HST Diesel Power Cars 43063 & 43036 Storm Past Acton Mainline Station on a working to London Paddington.
These are just a taster of the 13 videos from my visit to Acton Mainline that I have uploaded to my Youtube Channel. To view the full collection, please click here.
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My latest trip took me to the West of London to a little station called Acton Main Line. The station is located on the Great Western Mainline and is the first station out of London Paddington. Train services are provided by First Great Western who operate a 30 minute service between London Paddington & Greenford, this is the only service that stops at the station and does not run on Sundays.
Passenger services passing the station are operated by First Great Western, Heathrow Connect and Heathrow Express. Freight services are operated by EWS (DB Schenker), Freightliner, GB Railfreight & Hanson.
Acton Mainline is also host to a freight yard operated by EWS (DB Schenker) which is used by a large volume of stone trains serving the nearby terminal. There is also a freight avoiding line that passes between platform 4 and the yard which is used by freight trains accessing/exiting the North London Line.
Stock Seen at Acton Main Line
Locomotives: Class 43 HST, Class 59 Diesel, Class 66 Diesel
Multiple Units: Class 165 DMU, Class 166 DMU, Class 180 DMU, Class 332 EMU, Class 360 EMU
Photographs
As usual, here is a little taster of the images I captured. The full gallery of images can be found on my Photobucket site here.
First Great Western Class 43 HST 43037 passing Acton Mainline Station
DB Schenker Liveried Class 66 Diesel Locomotive 66152 at Acton MainLine Yard
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