File:66752 and 66 number 722 Eastleigh East to Tonbridge West 0Y62 (15174886897).jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file (4,836 × 3,590 pixels, file size: 8.1 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary

[edit]
Description

GB Railfreight's class 66/7s number 66752 (JT42CWRM) named "The Hoosier State" at the EMD factory in Muncie, Indiana by GBRf Train Manager Geoff Brown and an EMD welder from the Muncie factory leads number 66722 (JT42CWR) named "Sir Edward Watkin" on route from Eastleigh East Yard to Tonbridge West Yard on 26 September 2014. They were also photographed earlier on route at <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/37120633@N07/15174788540/">Clapham Junction</a> by bumblebonce. Both locomotives in GBRf blue and mustard yellow livery with orange cantrail and solebar stripes with Europorte branding. Sir Edwin Watkin was the chairman of nine British railway companies including being director of the Great Western Railway, Great Eastern Railway and South Eastern Railway, overseeing large-scale railway engineering projects to expand the Metropolitan Railway, construct the Great Central Main Line and a failed attempt to build a channel tunnel.

66752 (works number 20128816-001) was built by Progress Rail Services (a subsidiary of Caterpillar Incorporated) in Muncie, Indiana, USA in 2014, from where it was hauled dead in tow to Norfolk, Virginia by EMD's SD60M locomotive number <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ottergoose/4900219322/">SOO 6061</a> before being transported by sea via New York and unloaded from the Heavy Lift Ship HR "Resolution" at Newport Docks on 11 July 2014. 66722 (JT42CWR) was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division, London, Ontario, Canada in 2006 and unloaded from the a Heavy Lift Ship at Newport Docks.

According to Realtime Trains the route and timings were; Eastleigh East Yard.................0942..................0942...................RT Allbrook [XEW].........................0944..................0940 1/4............3E Shawford [SHW] 1....................0948..................0947...................RT Winchester [WIN] 1..................0952..................0952..................RT Worting Junction.....................1010....................1005 1/2.............4E Basingstoke [BSK] 4...............1012 1/2.............1009 3/4............2E Farnborough (Main) [FNB]......1026...................1023 1/2.............2E Woking Junction......................1035...................1032 3/4............2E Woking [WOK] 1.......................1035 1/2............1035....................RT Byfleet & New Haw [BFN] 1...1043...................1042....................RT Virginia Water [VIR] 3.............1108....................1102.....................5E Staines [SNS] 1..........................1117 1/2...............1116.......................1E Feltham [FEL] 1.........................1125 1/2..............1123.....................2E Feltham Junction.....................1127 1/2..............1126......................1E Hounslow [HOU] 1...................1135 1/2..............1134......................1E Brentford [BFD] 1......................1144 1/2..............1142 3/4...............1E Barnes [BNS] 1..........................1151 1/2...............1153......................1L Clapham Junction [CLJ] 3.....1201 1/2/1204...1202/1205..........1L Factory Junction......................1208...................1210 1/2..............2L Voltaire Road Junction .........1208 1/2............1211 1/2................3L Denmark Hill [DMK] 2.............1214....................1216.....................2L Crofton Road Junction...........1215....................1217 3/4..............2L Nunhead [NHD] 2....................1218 1/2..............1220 1/4..............1L Bellingham [BGM]....................1224...................1225.....................1L Shortlands Junction[XOR].....1226 1/2............1228 1/4..............1L Bickley Junction[XLY]............1230 1/2............1233 1/2...............3L Petts Wood Junction[XPE]....1232...................1235.....................3L Orpington [ORP] 3...................1233 1/2.............1237.....................3L Sevenoaks [SEV] 3..................1243...................1246 1/4..............3L

Tonbridge [TON] 2..................1252/1302 1/2..1256/1258 3/4..3E
Date
Source 66752 and 66 number 722 Eastleigh East to Tonbridge West 0Y62
Author Train Photos

Licensing

[edit]
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution share alike
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
This image was originally posted to Flickr by train_photos at https://flickr.com/photos/99279135@N05/15174886897 (archive). It was reviewed on 15 May 2018 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-sa-2.0.

15 May 2018

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current18:42, 15 May 2018Thumbnail for version as of 18:42, 15 May 20184,836 × 3,590 (8.1 MB)OceanAtoll (talk | contribs)Transferred from Flickr via #flickr2commons

There are no pages that use this file.

Metadata