Observation at Chesterfield
On Wednesday 16 August a number of RCTS Sheffield branch members gathered on Chesterfield station for a busy high-summer observation session from around 11.30, with a number of interesting freight and passenger trains seen on what turned out to be a largely fine and sometimes sunny afternoon. Some members noted that Chesterfield can sometimes boast more freight movements than Doncaster on a busy afternoon, albeit all freights seen were in the hands of the ubiquitous Class 66. Most passenger services ran to plan with no cancellations noted but the 13.22 EMR service to Liverpool was held in the station for 40 minutes after a person on the train was taken ill on the train and required the attendance of paramedics. This meant a few services used the bi-directional Platform 3 and once able to move the EMR service ran forward via Dore South Curve (avoiding Sheffield) to make up lost time.
GB Railfreight 66727 Maritime One passes Chesterfield with 6F78 14.28 Tunstead- Wellingborough loaded aggregates on 16 August. Image credit Robert Pritchard
Freight/light engines seen (with passing time):
11.38 66721 0D01 10.05 Doncaster Up Decoy-Eastleigh East Yard light engine south
11.40 66030 6H11 11.04 Toton North Yard-Dowlow empty aggregates north
12.24 66733 4H73 05.52 Washwood Heath-Tunstead empty aggregates north
12.28 66011 4E94 05.06 Southampton-Rotherham intermodal north
12.33 66783 0E20 12.56 Toton-Doncaster light engine north
13.12 66616 6D17 11.48 Peak Forest-Elstow aggregates south
13.21 66508 6M73 10.50 Doncaster-Toton North Yard engineers south
13.42 66768 4E34 05.27 Southampton-Doncaster iport intermodal north
14.16 66780 6H10 10.20 Bletchley-Peak Forest empty aggregates north
15.06 66434 4E49 10.38 Daventry-Doncaster intermodal north
16.17 66727 6F78 14.28 Tunstead- Wellingborough aggregates south
16.32 66754 6V89 13.34 Middlesbrough-Trostre ferrywagons south
17.07 66615 6M81 11.10 Theale-Earles empty cement north
Passengers
Seen on CrossCountry services: 43239+43303, 220004+220008, 220007+221135, 220009, 220013, 220015+221124, 220017+220023, 220022, 220031+221123, 220032, 221122, 221130, 221131, 221132
Seen on East Midlands Railway London services: 222001/004/007/010/012/017/020/022/101/103/104
Seen on East Midlands Railway Norwich-Nottingham-Liverpool services: 158777/866, 158810/846, 158812/862, 158854/863, 158856/857, 158862/889, 170501/535, 170502/515, 170511/515
Seen on Northern Leeds-Nottingham services: 158853/869, 195002/003/008/010/018
Seen on a test train: 155379/384.