November 2017
57602 hauling the sleeper ECS (Stock: 17175 12142 10219 10616 10612 10594 10589 12161) heads west through Totnes at 14:57 forming: 5C99 10:28 Old Oak Common to Penzance T&RSMD. Tuesday 21st November 2017. The up sleeper on Sunday with 57604 evening failed on Hemerdon. The train was towed back to Plymouth with a Class 08 from Laira where passengers were transferred to an HST (43150 & 43194). On Monday 57603 was sent down light engine from Old Oak Common to Laira to haul the failed 57604 with the sleeper stock back to London for Monday evenings down sleeper service. However 57603 hauling 57604 failed with an air leak near Marley Tunnel on Monday evening, blocking the up line for nearly 2 hours! As a result Monday evenings down sleeper was an HST (43003 & 43023) resulting in Tuesday's ECS move with 57602
With frost on the ground and the temperature at 0 degrees, 68022 hauling failed 68027 heads east through Totnes at 08:58 forming: 0Z11 08:31 Plymouth to Gresty Bridge. 68027 on 27/11/17 had hauled the pretendolino back from Crewe but failed at Plymouth before returning light engine. 68022 was sent down from Crewe on 28/11/17 to rescue. 68022 is carrying unbranded DRS livery ready for it's new livery for Transpennine Express. Wednesday 29th November 2017
With frost on the ground and the temperature at 0 degrees, 68027 being hauled by 68022 heads east through Totnes at 08:58 forming: 0Z11 08:31 Plymouth to Gresty Bridge. 68027 on 27/11/17 had hauled the pretendolino back from Crewe but failed at Plymouth before returning light engine. 68022 was sent down from Crewe on 28/11/17 to rescue. Wednesday 29th November 2017