From the guard's van

You have seen the locos... hired from DRS but painted in TPE livery.  Now we have the complete trains. Just a reminder... the class 68 locos. This one is standing in the north facing engineers siding in York station.  The Driving Trailer.  The complete train as it leaves platform 3 for the south. 

After a break of a few days the TPE class 68s are back although they did not seem to be doing their usual trips to Scarborough.  The Colas engineers' train was hauled by the usual class 70 even though the load was very light. The daily rubbish train was headed by one of DB's newly repainted class 66s. MARITIME is a container company... but not the one which deals with the rubbish containers. It seems that East Midlands are still hiring their power cars to LNER... ... and of course there was the usual Thursday steam excursion to Scarborough.  Ex-LMS Jubilee class no. 45699 named "Galatea" seen here travelling from NRM to Holgate sidings to collect the train.