| Wandsworth Road is situated just outside of London Victoria on a main arterial route for Passenger services to Kent. It also sees large volumes of Freight traffic running to and from S.E. London, Kent and the Channel Tunnel. Cars, Enterprise, Aggregates and Engineers traffic were the main flows and before most Freight services were 'Shedded' there was a huge variety of 'Classic' Traction to be seen including 33s,37s,47s,56s,58s and 73s |
47125 passes with Land Rovers for export to the Continent from Washwood Heath Buy Print |
47293 leads a classmate with a Northbound Intermodal as the light fades rapidly Buy Print |
47228 passes with the Paddock Wood-Wembley Vans. This was one of several Enterprise 'Feeder' trips that ran Buy Print |
I usually avoided Wandsworth Road on a Monday as it was a quieter day for Freight however the news came that 47s were soon finishing on Freights with RFD. A working i hadn't fotted was the MO train of China Clay from Exeter Riverside-Dollands Moor. This is the only shot i have of this train in very poor light running 45 mins late. Note the leading 47 has a Blue Tinsley Rose crest and Nameplate Buy Print |
47200 chugs through on an Intermodal for the Tunnel. The Duffs would give way to a 92 at Dollands Moor for the trip through the Chunnel Buy Print |
One freight service that is still running is the movement of Ford car parts between Dagenham and Seville in Spain. 47304 passes at a red signal with the Dagenham bound train Buy Print |
47150 and 213 coast through with a train of covered car carriers bound for Ghenk in Belgium Buy Print |
The Washwood Heath-Dollands Moor cars are in the hands of 47049 GEFCO Buy Print |
47338 produces a not so healthy looking exhaust as it powers up with the Transfesa Ford Blue train heading towards the Tunnel Buy Print |
47375 emerges through some shadows caused by the low Winter sun with the Washwood Heath cars Buy Print |
Standing in for a RFD 47 was 47476 'Night Mail' seen approaching a red signal Buy Print |
58s were employed on some aggregate traffic in the South as well as Enterprise and Engineers duties, a far cry from the MGR traffic they were built for. 58005 heads some ARC empties for Hither Green Buy Print |
Another long established working is sea dredged aggregate which is loaded at Cliffe and Angerstein Wharf. The 6Y91 Purley-Cliffe empties pass with Dutch duo 37097 and 098 in charge Buy Print |
You can almost hear the racket as 37798 slogs away with 20 loaded Seacows in tow on the Three Bridges-Hoo Jn engineers working Buy Print |
The Basford Hall-Thamesport (Grain) Freightliner working was booked for a pair of 47s. When the booked pair failed another 2 were added and all 4 Duffs continued to Thamesport!! Buy Print |
33116 and 33030 erupt with the 6Y91 Purley-Cliffe empties Buy Print |
56066 trundles through with a lightweight 6S75 Sheerness-Mossend Enterprise. Grids were booked traction on these services as far as either Bescot or Warrington Buy Print |
37072 heads a the infamous 7O22 Temple Mills-Hoo Jn engineers train. This working had a habit of producing 37s well into 2000 even after the Shed evasion had taken effect Buy Print |
73119 Kentish Mercury drags a DEMU from Ashford Chart Leacon to Selhurst after repair Buy Print |
37037 returns to Temple Mills L/E as the Washwood Heath cars pass the opposite direction Buy Print |
47344 leads a classmate with the Dagenham bound 'Blue' train Buy Print |
The 33s found gainful employment on the Marcon workings off Angerstein Wharf. EWS liveried 33030 and 33202 head the Marcons to Park Royal Buy Print |
Shortly after the 33s went through an English Electric double header passed on the Cliffe-Crawley New Yd bogie boxes Buy Print |
Another double header that day saw an Inter City pair of EDs on the 6Y91 Purley-Cliffe Buy Print |
