Bedworth Tug Finale?: Class 60 at Bedworth Murco Sidings

            DB Cargo class 60 no. 60092 sits in Bedworth Murco Sidings on 28th November 2016 under a lovely blue sky having arrived overnight with 6M03 Robeston-> Bedworth loaded tanks. The train is currently on the return to Robeston as 6V55.

It is possible that this is the last time that DB Cargo will operate this service, depending on whether or not the train runs on Wednesday and is possibly the final class 60 to visit the sidings. 

The Bedworth trains have been operated by EWS/ DB since privatisation and have run from various terminals including Port Clarence, Humber, Immingham, Lyndsey and Robeston. The train comes down in the early hours of the morning and is reversed into the terminal on Bayton Road from Bedworth Ground Frame, split into two halves and then stabled for unloading. The locomotive is then shut down and the crew leave by road. Later in the day, a fresh crew arrive, start the locomotive up, shunt onto one half of the train, haul it clear of the points via the mainline before reversing onto the other half of the train and waiting for clearance to depart. Once clearance has been granted, the train crosses the mainline and heads to Coventry Yard for a run-round. It then heads back past the terminal through Bedworth and to Nuneaton before heading back to its destination via Whitacre. Under normal circumstances, the train goes back to the terminal from which it has come but on occasions it has gone back to an alternative, for a time in 2015 it worked from Lyndsey but went back to Robeston and vice versa. During my time in the hobby I have seen various 66s and 60s on the working and over the years the train has ran on a combination of days of the week, most recently on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

As of next week, a new chapter arrives as the Bayton Road site has been transferred from Murco to Puma and the contract to operate these workings has transferred to GB Railfreight with the train running down from Immingham as 6M45 in the early hours and returning as 6E45 at around 2pm. 

With the transfer of the workings, it will mean the end of class 60 workings in and out of the Bayton Road site and will render the sight of a class 60 on the Bedworth branch a rarity. 

I hope the train does run on Wednesday for the chance to get a final shot, but this could well be it. Many thanks to Andy Wright for the tip-off.

Taken on: November 28, 2016

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