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UK Miscellany

This gallery has odds and ends from all over the UK that do not fit anywhere else unless I open another gallery where some would fit.
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    Moving on to South Milford Yard now and 66130 wears the new DBS plain red colours with DB logo.  Gone are the long rakes of coal hoppers, as seen here  https://www.jules-merlin27.com/Railways/Milford-Yard-Selby-and/  and they are replaced with long rakes of biomass hoppers.  This working is unknown.
This was the final steam railtour as support crew members with 60009 for myself and son Ross.
23/9/2017
    This was a surprise.  Whilst driving between airfields in Cambridgeshire Ross spots a class 66 in what appeared to be a building site.  On turning round and parking up and grabbing the camera it appeared to be getting ready to move off.
    GBRf 66785 slowly leaves the former Barrington Quarry, a former chalk and clay quarry that served a cement works built beside it.  The quarry opened in 1927 and closed in 2008, it was rail connected and fortunately the branch was never lifted.