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CLASS 20
EE Type 1s Nos. 20007+20142 kept the flag flying for the class on September 3 when forming a Loram training run to Devon, heading south as the 0Z16/09.45 Derby RTC-Plymouth the pair returned to base the following day.
September 4 also found No. 20096 out on the main line, the green-liveried ‘chopper’ accompanying Type 3s Nos. 37667+37688 on the 11.00 Barrow Hill-Crewe light engine run and passing Lichfield Trent Valley in the early afternoon.
CLASS 37
THE last week of Rail Charter Services trips between Skipton and Appleby saw Nos. 37667 and 47712 in use each day up to and including September 11, although the Type 4 also worked the following day (see Class 40 notes and page 77).
With saloon No. 975025 in tow, No. 37421 travelled from Inverness to Kyle and back on September 15.
Another working to cease during September was the contract to move timber from Georgemas Junction to Inverness Yard, for which West Coast Railways had provided English Electric Type 3s since the first loaded run on August 4. Nos. 37668+37685 powered the final loaded train on September 11 running as the 6Z69/17.35 from Georgemas Junction. Six days later the same locomotives moved the 14 empty BTA wagons to Tees Yard.
Immaculate in retro Regional Railways livery, No. 37425 visited Long Marston on September 21 and departed hauling a single IKA ‘Megafret’ wagon forming the 4Z67/12.38 to Daventry (see also page 26). LSL example No. 37688 (bearing the former Railfreight Construction colours) was another to venture along the same branch line from Honeybourne back on September 7 when arriving with two translator coaches and collecting former Great Western HST trailers Nos. 41160/6/7, which the Class 37 conveyed away on the 5Z22/11.36 Long Marston-Crewe HS.
Two days later Nos. 47805 and 37688 handled the
