21-03-15 F.A.W.

Bristol Airport 24-01-15

Departing at 11.11

was Austrian A320 OE-LBS

 KLM EMB 190

PH-EZW departing at 10.30

 Bulgarian Holidays A320

LZ-BHG arriving at 11.47.

 Citation 510 N397CM

landed at 12.16.

 At 14.22 Austrian

Fokker 100 OE-LVD arrived.

 This EazyJet A320 G-EZUA

was in the first of the possible

new colour schemes.

This one was chosen as the winner.

 Jet used G-CELO

and is seen departing at 14.11.

Filton Abbey Wood 18-03-15

Fairwater Yard to Washwood Heath

was in the hands of

66596

passing at 12.12

hauling sleepers.

A much better photo of gray 66749

at 11.25.

 Also seen was 70003 on its usual routing 

at 11.45.

At 12.39 the 6M63

was in the hands of

57012 and 57002

to Crewe.

What! Not Filton Abbey Wood again. 17-03-15

Light engine from

Fairwater Yard to Stoke Gifford

was 66536 at 11.07.

 Gray 66749 on the 

West Burton Power Station to Portbury

loaded Gypsum train at 11.46. 

 70003 was once again on the Fiffoots

loaded coal.

16-03-15 at Filton Abbey Wood.

From Severn Tunnel Junction to Castle Cary

Tamper DR73931 was spot on time.

 2 minutes late

66536

was hauling new and used sleepers

from Fairwater Yard to Washford Heath  RMC

 66122 was on the

empty coal hoppers from

Avonmouth to Portbury

at 11.52

70003 hauling loaded HIA hoppers

to Fiffoots Power Station

Newport Docks at 12.42.

An other Tamper

DR73905 passing at 13.03.

Didcot refueling point to Bristol Kingsland Road.

 A couple of photos of 

graffiti coated  HIA hoppers

Filton Abbey Wood. 09-03-15

In a half hour

from 11.49 to 12.18

I caught the following freight  movements.

66185 

on the East Usk to Portbury

empty coal hoppers. At 11.49.

At 11.54 66956 was on a 

engineers train

Top and tailed by an unidentified 66.

 Light engine movement to Margam was

66199 at 12.18.

Constable Road bridge 07-03-15

Popped down to this venue

for the 6B33

Theale to Margam tanks.

60001

passed at 14.19.

Filton Abbey Wood 07-03-15

The 0Y68 

Canton to Eastleigh

passed at 12.38

was a pair of 56's

56078

 and 56105.

 Margam to Eastleigh

the 0O12 at 13.17

produced

66072

 and 66113.

 The Portbury to Ratcliffe

loaded coal

was in the hands of

66014 at 13.22.

Filton Abbey Wood 03-03-15

Got Abbey Wood just as a heavy hail shower arrived.

So in to the shelter on platform 1.

With an ETA of 11.47

66762 on the West Burton to Portbury

Gypsum train passed at 10.50.

 ETA OF 13. 22

31601 with ex Virgin trains coach 5989

was well early at 10.59 

heading to Derby from Taunton.

 Out of the gray came a rainbow

in the shape of

66720 on track work box wagons.

This was the Westbury to

Cliffe Hill Farm.

Running late at 11.18

it had an ETA of 10.20.

 5 minuets latter at 11.23

on an empty stone train was 59205

heading to Avonmouth from Westbury.

ETA was 11.19

Filton Abbey Wood. 20-02-15

Aberthaw power station to Portbury

empty coal passed at 09.52

in the hands of 66155.

 Margam to Eastleigh convoy

running an hour early at 12.48.

 Had 66034

hauling

 66027

 and 66012 in tow.

 First class 60

I've seen at Abbey Wood

since the 1990's on Enterprise

and China clay trains.

60039 passed at 14.15,

enroute to Margam from Theale.

Patchway. 23-01-15

Plenty of CLAGG

after the long climb from the bottom

of the Severn Tunnel catches

70016 just at the top of the climb,

at 10.50.

Filton Abbey Wood. 29-01-15

Another soggy day down the Wood

caught 66529 with a short 

load of old and new sleepers

at 13.12,

on the Bristol East Yard to Crewe Basford Hall.

 At 13.37

31601 headed to Barton Hill.

A hazy day down Filton Abbey Wood. 23-01-15

It was too hazy to get a decent photo

to the south so had to use the photo of 57008 and 57002

on the Bridgewater to Crewe

at 12.24.

 59001 was in charge of the

Avonmouth to West Drayton stone train

at 13.55.

 As the first of the class manufactured

59001 has a bell placed on the front

by Manufactures

General Motors.