Class 50 049 (Defiance) carrying 9 carriages which are in order:
Eastern Railway Service
Eastern Railway Services x9
From Castleton Hopwood GF to Watford Junction
7/3/2026
1Z43 – Watford Junction to Rawtenstall – UK Railtours ‘The East Lancashire Railway’ with 50008 ‘Thunderer’ leading 50049 ‘Defiance’ passing Old Linslade on 7th March at 0723 running 4 minutes late. 50008 later failed at Leicester and 66032 was attached to the rear of the train at Toton for the onward journey.
1Z50 – Watford Junction to Derby – UK Railtours ‘The Derby Express – Positioning Move’ with solo 50049 ‘Defiance’, following failure of 50008 the previous day, passing through Leighton Buzzard at 0926 running 20 minutes late.
Interesting working this morning. 93006 on a driver training run from Crewe to Edinburgh. Interesting route – Crewe – Carnforth – settle, where the train reverses – Carlisle – Edinburgh. I believe to loco then goes on to York. Train seen here at Balshaw Lane.
The 09-3X is a continuous action 3-sleeper levelling, lining and tamping machine.
The 09-3X is the modern successor of the well proven 09-CSM type machines.
It represents the results of long years experience in operation and development of continuous action tamping technology, which enables a further increase in tamping performance and quality (performance up to 40% higher compared to 09-CSM machines).
The new feature of the 09-3X tamping express are the 3-sleeper tamping banks, which enable for the first time three sleepers to be tamped in one operation resulting not only in higher tamping performance, but also in considerably increased tamping quality.
Furthermore, each tamping bank can be lifted and lowered individually to be able to tamp single sleepers on tracks with irregular sleeper spacings.