6x66 on ECML

[ducatisti]

the consist of the beast? ;D

Seriously, just seen on the slow line north of New Barnet, a rake of (I think 6) EWS-liveried class 66s heading north.

Any idea what the reason for that might be?

[roboverground]

Quite common now moving locos to yards for weekend engineering trains or returning to depots from yards, the rule book instruction of no more than 5 coupled locos being run together now allows regional controls to allow more than 5 subject to various line of route checks being met on a route by route basis

[ducatisti]

Cheers roboverground.

It just seemed odd to me that there were so many unbalanced workings as to leave 6 locomotives in the wrong place. Still if you do end up with them like that, one movement with all of them is a lot easier to deal with than a a collection of them.

[xercesfobe]

6666666666666 - The number of the 6 beasts! ;D

XF

[wavygravy]

They were going up to Whitemoor for Engineering trains. As there is always a large requirement just at weekends, and varying every weekend, there are often these large light loco moves to and from Whitemoor on Friday/Saturdays and then back again late Sundays. They usually come from Doncaster though - coming up from London was unusual.

[omnicitylondon]

Jul 17, 2012 9:25:32 GMT wavygravy said:

They were going up to Whitemoor for Engineering trains. As there is always a large requirement just at weekends, and varying every weekend, there are often these large light loco moves to and from Whitemoor on Friday/Saturdays and then back again late Sundays. They usually come from Doncaster though - coming up from London was unusual.

The Doncaster to whitemoor move was cancelled as of 30th june in favour for wembley so last saturday, 7 class 66 loco's ran from wembley to whitemoor they return back to wembley on monday morning having completed the engineering tasks in lincolnshire.