PHOTOGRAPHY BY JACK BOSKETT

Home Page— Latest Photographs— Non Railway Photographs— Contact Jack

Cotswold Line Re Doubling

7th August 2009

66186 and 66055 top and tail a rake of ballast wagons on the Cotswold line near Mickleton Tunnel or Campden Tunnel as it is known now. This is laying ballast in aid of the re-doubling of the Cotswold Line. The line is currently shut for 6 weeks with a possession between Evesham and Moreton in Marsh. The train is seen crawling towards Evesham on the early evening of 7 August 09.

I then stopped off at Ashchurch on the way home from work and captured a Cross Country HST and Freightliner 66527 on a coal train.

66055 at Mickleton with the ballast train	66055 at Mickleton with the ballast train	66186 heads a ballast train towards Evesham. The consist is seen at Mickleton.	66527 heads south through Natton with a coal train bound for portbury
Cross Country HST no 43303 heads south through Ashchurch