Network Rail train Wolverhampton 28/1/16 ~8.10am

[CharlieSpotted]

This morning at about 8.10am I was standing on the platform in Wolverhampton and (unusually for that time of day) a yellow Network Rail train came through behind me dragging what I think were hoppers for ballast.

At the front was a modern-looking loco which I felt looked like Chiltern's Class 68 (it had that kind of angular, aggressive front end) and an older one which I think was probably 97303.

Are there any 68's in NR yellow? I gather that DRS have some and that they contract to NR? If not, what was it likely to have been?

 

[DarloRich]

i have seen pictures of a Colas 66 hauling a 97 and hoppers of the Cambrian recently

 

[CharlieSpotted]

Thanks Darlorich. I don't *think* it was a 66, though perhaps my memory is playing tricks on me.

I've found it on RTT now:

http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U77760/2016/01/28/advanced

Doesn't really matter, just curious.

 

[Roy5tone]

Colas Class 70 70807 + 97301 + 97302 pass Wolverhampton with the 0530 Newtown (Powys) to Bescot Up Engineers 28/1/16

 

[CharlieSpotted]

Colas Class 70 70807 + 97301 + 97302 pass Wolverhampton with the 0530 Newtown (Powys) to Bescot Up Engineers 28/1/16

Thanks Roy5tone, that "angular" front end on the 70 is what I remembered.