East Anglia has been blessed with some very nice weather recently and, if I manage to get away from work fairly sharpish and the trains are running to time, this brings the opportunity of capturing a couple of freights that run in the region.
Although Class 66 hauled, I am thankful that I don't live somewhere where freight trains are non-existent, so if I'm in the mood I will capture them for posterity. I have learned with regret that it is prudent to record what at the time may seem mundane as once the chance has gone, you'll rarely get another go. Things change so quickly on the railways.
First along is a freightliner heading for Felixstowe:
A few minutes later, 6A33 North Walsham-Harwich passes conveying oil condensate:
6A33 and its northbound empty equivalent are quite familiar to me and in the 20 years I've worked in Needham Market, I've seen single and double headed Cl.37s, Cl.58, EWS Cl.66 and now GBRf 66s handle this working. Whilst I managed to get a few photographs of British built traction on these trains, the advance in technology means that these days it is simply a case of using the mobile phone to grab an image.
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