Part 2 (April - June)

37175 brings up the rear of 1Q67 1633 test train from Doncaster CHS to Wigan North Western as it passes Midland Road in Hunslet. 37612 was leading the formation (07/04/2022)

66142 'Maritime Intermodal Three' passes Whitley Bridge station with the 6H65 1209 Immingham - Drax loaded biomass (09/04/2022)

Just under half an hour later 66080 passes Whitley Bridge Junction from the opposite direction with the 4A63 1450 empties from Drax Power Station to Milford Sidings (09/04/2022)

With EWS-liveried 66155 in tow, DB Cargo's 60015 passes Burn with the 6D05 1250 Lackenby - Scunthorpe steel empties (09/04/2022)

660587 'As One We Can' follows shortly behind with the 6Y30 1443 engineering haulage train from a worksite at Copley Hill West Junction back to Doncaster Up Decoy Yard (09/04/2022)

A few miles south along the A19, 66142 is seen passing Whitley Bridge Junction with the 4A65 1640 Drax - Milford biomass empties. The tracks disappearing into the undergrowth above the first wagon served the now derelict Eggborough Power Station site (09/04/2022)

Colas Rail Freight's 70812 joins the ECML from the Scunthorpe direction at Joan Croft Junction with the 6Z51 1643 Immingham - Carlisle Yard (09/04/2022)

Racing up the ECML in spectacular fashion, GWR 4-6-0 no. 7029 'Clun Castle' approaches Joan Croft Junction with Vintage Trains' 1Z72 1714 return charter from York to Tyseley Warwick Road (09/04/2022)

66735 reverses its empty train into the headshunt alongside Freightliner's Midland Road site having earlier discharged its load of stone from Peak Forest in the nearby Stourton Cemex terminal (11/04/2022)

The shot I'd actually come for was the departing train and with the sun now just that little bit higher a few minutes later, 'Peterborough United' eases 4D78 0817 Stourton - Doncaster Down Decoy out onto the main line (11/04/2022)

Running as a VSTP 4D40 0731 Doncaster Down Decoy - Hunslet Tilcon, 66714 'Cromer Lifeboat' leads a single hopper and class-mate 66718 into the cutting at Beza Street in Hunslet (11/04/2022)

The rear end view of 66718 as 4D40 passes through what was once the site of Hunslet station (11/04/2022)

57316 'Alnwick Castle' negotiates the Up & Down Slow to the east of Ilkeston station whilst en route to Peterborough with 5Z70 0110 Carnforth - Grantham empty stock move for a 'Northern Belle' charter (13/04/2022)

66503 'Railway Magazine' speeds across Trowell Junction with the 6G65 0919 cement tanks from Earles Sidings to Walsall Freight Terminal (13/04/2022)

66601 'The Hope Valley' passes Trowell from the opposite direction shortly afterwards at the head of 6H80 1028 Ratcliffe - Tunstead (13/04/2022)

GBRf's 66785 crosses from the Up fast to Up Slow at Trowell with the 6M61 0746 Immingham - Ratcliffe loaded coal (13/04/2022)

Making the equivalent manouevre in the reverse direction shortly afterwards was 66708 'Glory to Ukraine' with 4E57 1103 Ratcliffe - Immingham empties (13/04/2022)

With the tail end of a downpour just about to clear, 60066 approaches the Dunkirk Flyover on the outskirts of Nottingham with 6E02 1220 Toton - Boston Sleaford Sidings (13/04/2022)

In what could almost be a re-creation of a scene from the original Railfreight sub-sector calendar of the late-1980s, GBRf's 66793 passes East Midlands Parkway with the 6M23 1307 Doncaster Up Decoy to Mountsorrell ballast empties. The cooling towers of the adjacent Ratcliffe Power Station dominate the background (13/04/2022)

70014 races past the site of Goose Hill Junction with 4E91 0126 Southampton Maritime - Leeds Stourton intermodal (14/04/2022)

Following closely behind was DB Cargo's 66041 with 4E08 0341 London Gateway - Wakefield Eurpoort, seen here slowing for the last signal before its destination on the approach to Normanton (14/04/2022)

Still sporting original EWS colours, a work-stained 66190 powers through the cutting at Welbeck with a well-laden 4L45 1004 Wakefield Europort - Felixstowe South (14/04/2022)

Half an hour later GBRf's 66735 'Peterborough United' is pictured from the same vantage point with the 4D78 1005 Stourton Cemex - Deoncaster Down Decoy (14/04/2022)

In probably the best photographic conditions of the day so far, 66041 has just passed through Normanton on its way back to Belmont Down Yard in Doncaster as a VSTP 0G08 1058 from Wakefield Europort (14/04/2022)