Mist and rain so typical of November. When the sun does shine and I have a day off co-inciding with celeb 60040 working 6V92 Corby - Margam it is 110 mins late and I catch the cloud after long periods of sun. Great! Obviously the best working of the month is Grids 56312/311 with new steel traffic run between Washwood Heath Met Cam and Immingham. Wonder if it will run long enough to get an image in the sun?

Back to work unfortunately so not a lot of time for fotting except on wednesday which is my day off. Nice to see Pink 31601 out with a DBSO at Cossington. Also 20905 and 20901 with a working from Old Dalby rather capped the month

Another mixed month of weather and workings in my neck of the woods. Another but last triple header of new Fastline hoppers being moved to Derby being the highlight, i guess.

A decent month for workings but oh that weather. It was a difficult month for getting sunny pics but there were occassions especially of 60074 which had a spell on the Ely - Peak Forest and 37's on Serco trains. The NR 97/3's made a nice picture and there were some interesting Power Car moves

With the grateful thanks to CrossCountry Trains and Brush Traction, I publish a collection of images of Power Car formerly 43101 now re-numbered 43301 and in XC livery having been re-engineered by Brush over a period of 12 months.
The PC is seen on release date from Brush Traction and worked to Craigentinny with 43007 on a shakedown test before going straight into service on friday 18 July 2008.
Well done to all who worked on this project and of course there are still 4 more PC's to be completed for XC over the next number of weeks.

Holiday month for myself and some old faithful freights such as Corby steel and East Leake Gypsum trains. However still not bad with plenty of activity in and out of Brush Traction. Fastline 66's on coal, a quick trip to Yarmouth, and both blue tugs visited the Loughborough area. 2 CrossCountry Trains Power Cars in new livery after re-engineering were released from Brush Traction

Here's hoping for some sun!! Well it wasn't too bad at times. Plenty of interesting workings during the month with the highlight being the testing of yellow NR Class 37's and the introduction of Fastline Class 66's on coal in place of the hired in DRS and GBRf loco's. A good sprinkling of Tugs on an assortment of duties

Now that finally EMT have started to re-livery their trains from MML colours here's a collection of images of the new look of Meridians, HST's and Units

Highlighted of the month being 47818 arriving at Brush with 2 Grand Central Power Cars for rectification. Tugs in short supply this month with the old favourite Colnbrook - Lindsey producing a shed more often than not. Where's the sun gone?

A change of jobs has given me less time to get out and about during the week. However, 2 good charter trains passed Cossington during the month with 40145 and a pair of EWS Class 37 loco's working respectively. Froth Tug 60074 also put in an appearance at the end of the month on the 6E38 Colnbrook - Lindsey empty bogie tanks

The highlight of the month was a new Tug to try and phot. 60074 'Teenage Spirit' in Teenage Cancer Trust's blue livery was launched at NRM earlier in the month then worked off Lindsey for a period on Oils and Ores. A few Advenza moves took place including scrap trains from Thomsons at Stockton to Cardiff Tidal Sdgs.

The train driver of the 0619 Nottingham - Norwich service via Loughborough had to be cut free from his cab on Friday, 1 February 2008 after the service crashed into a footbridge, which had collapsed at Barrow Upon Soar when it was hit by a tipper truck. The 31-year-old train driver, who was trapped for two and half hours, suffered serious leg injuries but six passengers on the train were unhurt. The unit involved 158856 was later moved to Brush for temporary storage
On the following day, saturday, services were running normally on the slowline between Loughborough and Leicester whilst track repair work was carried out to the accident area

What will this month bring? Well amazingly enough plenty of sunshine during the first half of the month and some nice Class 60 workings. Test trains, Stobart train, Class 37 on Sinfin Tanks and more - not a bad month

With the grateful thanks to CrossCountry Trains and EWS spent a couple of hours photographing vehicle number 50116 of Class 170 unit 170116 outside the paint facillity shop at Toton TMD. Also allowed to picture Class 58 scrappers and Class 08 Euro Cargo Rail Livery Shunters

Images of today's various Units, High Speed Trains, Meridians and Voyagers to be found all over the country

Another year.....wet wet wet. Well it was for a lot of the drab month. Still, managed a few good pics in the sun of Tugs and a good selection of workings to Brush.

Off to a decent start with some interesting workings and in fact throughout the month there were some good workings to be seen and had. The weather though became progressively worse and worse but as someone said to me ' well what do you expect it is December'!

At last 47375 made it's first journey to Brush with a barrier today from Horton Road, Gloucester to collect FGW Power Car 43032 after re-engineering. The Duff returned at 1345 with 5Z46 to Landore, some 35 mins late to it's booked time

Pictures of some of the new liveries and vinyls now being applied to Meridians, Voyagers Diesel Units such as East Midlands Trains and CrossCountry since launch date on 12 November 2007

More grey days than sunny one's but then again it is that time of year. Some interesting workings this month and not just to the Brush! Roll on those light nights again!

With the MML livery soon to disappear, it was time to take a few pics to remember them working on the Midland Mainline at Cossington in their final few weeks before East Midlands Trains take over

Not been a bad month. A couple of interesting workings to Brush with 31601 and 33103 both working Power Car drags. Also the begining of the RHTT workings on the MML saw 67/66 combination for a good part of the month.

I was lucky enough to attend a family day by invitation only to celebrate 40 years of generating power at Ratcliffe on Soar Power Station on Saturday 22 September 2007. On display were EWS 66137 with hoppers, 56006 with HAA's and 47150 with Freightliner hoppers

Not a bad month on the whole. Some interesting workings into Brush and 47813 took 58 PGA's off Coalville. Finally nailed a good sunny pic of Grid 56302 at Stenson Junction, while a few sunny shots of 60's on stone and oil trains were grabbed

Managed to get some images whilst on holiday in Edinburgh with the family. Stayed near Prestonpans so one sunny morning a couple of hours yeilded some good pics. Although actually visiting the Edinburgh Fringe it was too good an opportunity not to fot Waverley Station

In a way it was with a number of very interesting workings to Brush Traction including the arrival of DRS 47501 and Cotswold 47714. Managed to photograph a few tugs and the odd stock movement. Silver 67029 on Northern Belle made a couple of appearances in the East Midlands. A better month for sun on the whole but never at the right time!

Called in at Derby Station as the sun had finally come out to play. Power Car 43062 recently named John Armitt and NMT yellow NMT train departed soon after my arrival! Also 57002 stabled on Thunderbird duties at5 north end of station.

Well it was an extremely poor month for sun, in fact the worst July on record for heavy rainfall. Managed some sunny shots but it was extremely hard work. The Colnbrook - Lindsey evening tanks made a nice sight in the late evening sunshinel

Wow that's different. 47832 arrived at Derby Slum from Barrow Hill last night having been released after a re-paint into Victa Westlink Rail's colours. 31128 also accompanied the duff to Derby and they joined pink 31601 in the Slum

The whole of the month brought plenty of rain showers with some sun. The Erewash Valley Blockade started on 10 June 2007 bringing freight to the Derby - Long Eaton line not normally associated with such workings! Nice to see 37688 finally released from Brush Works and at last a pic in the sun of Mainline blue 60044.