| On Saturday 4th July I made my way to London Liverpool Street to join the 10:00 service running through to Great Yarmouth, a loco-hauled service that only runs through in the high summer, worked by a Class 90 as far as Norwich with a Class 47 dragging it forward for the final 35 minutes or so. The corresponding 13:10 return is also dragged back, along with the 12:00 departure from Liverpool Street which then returns empty to Norwich.
On this occasion DRS's 47802 'Pride of Cumbria' was in charge on the diesel leg, in previous years Class 47s operated by Cotswold rail have been used but this is the first year of DRS being involved. The first run had 90013 in tow, with its rake of eight Mark 3s and DVT, the second run had on-hire 90019, in First Scotrail (!) colours. The 'Wherry lines', as the network around Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth is known, had some timekeeping troubles on this day and I ended up getting stuck at Great Yarmouth in between the two loco workings, if one wants to catch the second run en-route by train then you must catch the 13:17 out of Great Yarmouth but an error by the Yarmouth signaller saw this and the delayed 13:10 loco-hauled service leave within a couple of minutes of each other. After my enforced wait at Yarmouth, seeing the service depart and later return, I did manage to photograph the empty stock run at Brundall, an attractive small junction station en-route back to Norwich. We also see one of the NXEA-liveried locos and carriage sets at Norwich, with the recent news of NXECs defaulting on payments these colours could disappear completely .... |
47802, Brundall 640x426 09D1502.JPG 2009-07-04 16:08:13 |
47802, Brundall 640x426 09D1501.JPG 2009-07-04 16:07:53 |
47802 & 90019, Great Yarmouth 640x426 09D1500.JPG 2009-07-04 14:53:12 |
DVT 82127 & Mark 3 set, Great Yarmouth 425x640 09D1499.JPG 2009-07-04 14:47:05 |
47802, approaching Great Yarmouth 640x426 09D1498.JPG 2009-07-04 14:43:55 |
47802, approaching Great Yarmouth 640x426 09D1497.JPG 2009-07-04 14:43:51 |
47802, approaching Great Yarmouth 640x426 09D1496.JPG 2009-07-04 14:43:42 |
47802, approaching Great Yarmouth 640x426 09D1495.JPG 2009-07-04 14:43:15 |
47802, approaching Great Yarmouth 640x426 09D1494.JPG 2009-07-04 14:43:09 |
47802, approaching Great Yarmouth 640x426 09D1493.JPG 2009-07-04 14:42:41 |
170273, Great Yarmouth 426x640 09D1492.JPG 2009-07-04 14:16:39 |
47802, Great Yarmouth 640x426 09D1491.JPG 2009-07-04 13:16:54 |
47802, Great Yarmouth 425x640 09D1490.JPG 2009-07-04 13:16:51 |
47802, Great Yarmouth 425x640 09D1489.JPG 2009-07-04 13:16:47 |
47802, Great Yarmouth 640x426 09D1488.JPG 2009-07-04 13:09:16 |
47802, Great Yarmouth 640x426 09D1487.JPG 2009-07-04 13:01:23 |
47802 & DVT 82132, Great Yarmouth 640x427 09D1486.JPG 2009-07-04 12:58:46 |
47802 & DVT 82132, Great Yarmouth 640x426 09D1485.JPG 2009-07-04 12:57:29 |
90013, Great Yarmouth 640x426 09D1484.JPG 2009-07-04 12:52:07 |
47802 & DVT 82132, Great Yarmouth 640x426 09D1483.JPG 2009-07-04 12:49:02 |
47802 & DVT 82132, Great Yarmouth 640x426 09D1482.JPG 2009-07-04 12:47:41 |
47802, Great Yarmouth 640x426 09D1481.JPG 2009-07-04 12:46:45 |
47802, Great Yarmouth 640x426 09D1480.JPG 2009-07-04 12:46:41 |
47802, Great Yarmouth 640x426 09D1479.JPG 2009-07-04 12:41:48 |
47802, Great Yarmouth 640x426 09D1478.JPG 2009-07-04 12:40:59 |
NX-liveried DVT 82107, Norwich 640x426 09D1475.JPG 2009-07-04 11:57:48 |
NX livery on a Mark 3, Norwich 640x426 09D1474.JPG 2009-07-04 11:56:11 |
90003 'Raedwald', 47802 & 90013, Norwich 640x426 09D1473.JPG 2009-07-04 11:54:01 |
90003 'Raedwald', Norwich 640x426 09D1472.JPG 2009-07-04 11:53:21 |
90003 'Raedwald', Norwich 640x426 09D1471.JPG 2009-07-04 11:52:36 |
47802 & 90013, Norwich 640x426 09D1470.JPG 2009-07-04 11:51:53 |
47802 & 90013, Norwich 640x426 09D1469.JPG 2009-07-04 11:50:51 |
47802 & 90013, Norwich 640x426 09D1468.JPG 2009-07-04 11:50:29 |
