Andrew Murdin

@trainfanmatt Sounds plausible.

@Andym13 I have a record of it moving from Willesden to Longsight at the end of Jan 2025 although I might have put the wrong year in 🙈

Longsight Depot ✅️ A relic of a bygone era parked up around the back still showing its Intercity past before we got some very claggy Gronk haulage thanks to 08887 & 09007

@colasgrid @S26PHY @CalSleeper @GBRailfreight @WayDunwoodyTMD @nb_Snowgoose @SydneyBridgeTMD It had been left in the HRD next to the wheel lathe, so by the time I’d got up to the shunt neck you were already signalled through. Lack of room up top due to Easter shutdown. Good to see you out and about on the 92’s.

@Andym13 @S26PHY @CalSleeper @GBRailfreight @WayDunwoodyTMD @nb_Snowgoose @SydneyBridgeTMD My mentor asked who’d be driving the C2C and I jokingly said ‘probably Andrew murdin he goes all over the place ‘ He meant which FOC! passed you at Wembley, you were waiting for us to back in before going through the shed with the unit, got a pic once stabled and shut down

@CalSleeper into King’s Cross this morning, met it there with a light loco and took it back to Wembley via the goblin with my mentor @GBRailfreight @WayDunwoodyTMD @nb_Snowgoose @SydneyBridgeTMD @S26PHY

@Electra88007 Where’s the sunset shot 🤔🤣

Signaller contacts me near Rugby and says he’ll need to stop me in platform 6 for around ten minutes as there’s not quite enough margin to get me ahead of the passenger train. No worries, I’ll just stop in the perfect position to get 88006 and 86259 in the same shot together!

#TractorThursday Love the heavy industrial look of the Engineering Delivery Unit on the RTC in Derby. 37501 under maintenance 24/03/2026.

@steviez10 @thesatnav89 @WilsonBone @holtona72 @Bennybizzle1 @MrDeltic15 @kingy69beard @LeicRailAle170 Virtually nothing in that area has survived. Barely tell where Saltley depot was.

#SignalBoxSunday The West Midlands Signalling Centre at Saltley. 66305 passing with a liner, 4M32 0036 Southampton W Docks (Gbrf) to Hams Hall Gbrf. 📷 25/03/2026

Heard it arrive from my Hotel Saturday morning. Close to departure a member of the Vintage trains footplate crew captures the moment. We’re all cranks at heart. 📷 28/03/2026.

@DaveWeb93044940 @WilsonBone @holtona72 @Bennybizzle1 @MrDeltic15 @kingy69beard @LeicRailAle170 @thesatnav89 That was yesterday and it was for 720604 to Wembley ICD.

Quite rare nowadays for me to Lodge in Stratford, managed a room with a view. Unfortunately nothing booked via High Meads so a DLR terminating at Stratford International had to do. 📷 30/03/2026

Taken me all day to realise but today is my footplate anniversary! 39 years of moving stuff around the country on the rails. 🎉 no class 39 so have a 93 instead.

@TomDearlove1 Yes there for works and an exam.

@Andym13 37 714 ain't that a GCR loco 🤔🤔

A scene from back in the 80’s yesterday whilst on Derby RTC. 37508 and 37714.

#SteamFixSaturday 60163 “Tornado” departs Crewe for Carlisle with Vintage Trains “The Shap Mountaineer” 📷 27/03/2026

#TractorThursday 37800 during a crew change after arriving at Derby from Soho depot. 5Q16 Soho LMD - Gascoigne Wood sidings. 📷 25/03/2026

@AndrewT100308 Yes they have a couple there to move stuff through the Wheel Lathe.

@Andym13 Sure I saw one of these linked up to an Avanti near Wembley the other day....

#ShunterSunday 08822 currently based at Bletchley in connection with the renewal of walkways In Bletchley carriage sidings. The old concrete platforms being ripped out and loaded on to wagons for unloading in the tamper siding on the TMD.

@Tom_Maddox @holtona72 @Bennybizzle1 @MrDeltic15 @kingy69beard @LeicRailAle170 @thesatnav89 @WilsonBone Not entirely sure, don’t think i had it wide open on Monday.

@Andym13 @holtona72 @Bennybizzle1 @MrDeltic15 @kingy69beard @LeicRailAle170 @thesatnav89 @WilsonBone Is notch 8 locked out?

To work with the Mk5A sets there is a lot of additional equipment in the cabs of the fitted 68’s. View from the rear cab whilst prepping 68025 for departure from Leicester L.I.P.