more class 70 news/rumour

It appears that the first workings for these ugly beasts with F.L.H.H. could be coal traffic from Portbury to Rugeley P.S.whcih may well be routed via Worcester and Stourbridge instead of the current route via the Marches and this change could occur at the end of next month.

The "booked" motive power should be the new class 70 locomotives, two of which are due to arrive in newport shortly, with more to follow in December.

matters could of course change

wetbag with thanks to the northern monkey

If they are routed via Stourbridge, then I look forward to seeing one climb up through Old Hill, which I think is on a gradient of about 1 in 50.

Will wait & see what happens.

wont we get the beasts on heavy haul coal around worksop from immingham

im sure once more get established but this is the likely "testing ground" for the early examples

I think in due course, 6M00 Humber - Kingsbury will be a candidate for the 70's as well.

Should be an interesting year in 2010 regarding these machines

not sure it will as DBS have won the conoco traffic from Humber

wetbag wrote:not sure it will as DBS have won the conoco traffic from Humber

Oooo wasn't aware of that, oh well I guess it will mean more 60's to Kingsbury then or is that wishing too much lol

james posted on the forum on thurdsay look for the dbs win oil heading

heads up first for news

DB definately won the oil traffic. Contact in Barnetby said it starts on 1st November. 70001 and 70002 loaded on boat and it departed on Friday 23rd to Newport. See progress on twitter.

Cheers Jenks