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Direct Rail Services - childwallblues - 29/11/2012 21:05

Three of the Class 37 acquired from D B Schencker 37416 37417 and 37427 have been sold to Booths of Rotheham for scrap.


RE: Direct Rail Services - childwallblues - 21/12/2012 06:42

(29/11/2012 21:05)childwallblues Wrote:  Three of the Class 37 acquired from D B Schencker 37416 37417 and 37427 have been sold to Booths of Rotheham for scrap.
Also gone to Booths of Rotherham are 37406/10/26


RE: Direct Rail Services - childwallblues - 21/12/2012 06:45

20301/02/03/04 are booked to move from Willesden Brent to Eastleigh today for storage.


RE: Direct Rail Services - First Class - 21/12/2012 15:04

Northern Belle at Chester today with DRS 57 loco one end and a DBS 67 at the other.


RE: Direct Rail Services - 507022 - 21/12/2012 15:44

(21/12/2012 15:04)First Class Wrote:  Northern Belle at Chester today with DRS 57 loco one end and a DBS 67 at the other.

DRS class 47 47832 was the rear loco on arrival at Crewe this afternoon!


RE: Direct Rail Services - First Class - 21/12/2012 15:53

(21/12/2012 15:44)507022 Wrote:  
(21/12/2012 15:04)First Class Wrote:  Northern Belle at Chester today with DRS 57 loco one end and a DBS 67 at the other.

DRS class 47 47832 was on the train!

47/57 they all look the same Big Grin

No idea what the 67 was at the Crewe end though, it was in EWS livery.


RE: Direct Rail Services - childwallblues - 21/07/2013 05:12

A new maintenance building is under construction at Gresty Bridge Depot for the new Class 68 locomotives which will be based there.


RE: Direct Rail Services - childwallblues - 21/08/2013 05:52

DRS is to hire at least 4 x Class 92 from D B Schencker for use on intermodals between Daventry and Mossend. 92015 has arrived at Carlisle for crew training between Carlisle and Carnforth.


RE: Direct Rail Services - childwallblues - 12/09/2013 06:08

It is reported that DRS has ordered ten Electro Diesels to be Class 88 from Vossloh in Spain.


RE: Direct Rail Services - childwallblues - 03/10/2013 06:19

37425 has received has had its old "Sir Robert McAlpine/Concrete Bob" nameplates re-applied.
Thunderbird 57308 has been named "County of Staffordshire".