60021, 60026, 60056 and 60096 have moved over to Doncaster from Toton today.
At Eastleigh 66780 (66008) is believed to be being repainted into Cemex colours for operations out of Peak Forest.
60095 to work 0Z95 Whitemoor to Eastleigh in the morning for it’s repaint Into GBRf Livery.
Gbrf have had a bid to buy Colas turned down this week
The transformation of 66780 into Cemex house colours has been completed and the loco is expected to be released from Eastleigh Works today.
At Eastleigh the transformation into GB livery of 60095 has been completed.
According to RTT the service runs MSSuX which means that the first train is tomorrow. That is in RTT showing 0425 from Harrisons Sidings (Shap) to Tuebrook via St Helens Junction arr 0726. Tuebrook dep 0910 via St Helens Central and Bamfurlong arr 0958 at Ashton-in-Makerfield.
I do not know why the train does not run direct but I suspect that the branch may be closed at night and that Tuebrook is an obvious layover point.
Ten out of ten for the enterprise behind the project and lets hope that it succeeds.
I was since told 60095 is allocated to this but was not ready for today, Was definitely meant to run today as said in countless places yesterday
RTT states cancelled today due to delay.