British meets French in the Netherlands! Former British Rail and EWS no. 58038 on a railtour meets a Thalys unit at Rotterdam Centraal.
58049 tears through Purfleet station on the 1147 Cambridge to Thameshaven tanks.
58007, 58011 and 58050 display the three different paint schemes of the operators that they were hired to in France to build a new high speed line. Orange was SECO, grey = Fertis and yellow = TSO... (more)
These class 58's (the other two are 58040 and 58047) have been working in France where they, and numerous others, had been hired in to help construct a new high speed line. This is nearly finished... (more)
On hire from EWS, 58004 stands in Pagny Yd. with hired EWS Class 56's & SECO Rail Ex-DB Class 211's.
58049,047,007&050,on lease from EWS,stabled in Pagny TGV Est construction yard with a Class 56 in the background.
TSO 58033,on lease from EWS,sits in Pagny TGV Est construction yard.
SECO Rail 58009 & 027,on lease from EWS,sit in Pagny TGV Est construction yard.
58029 passes Grimsbury Yd. Banbury on a long welded rail train.
Hired Class 58 from English,Welsh&Scottish Railways by Fertis works a TGV-Est construction train.
58015 returns to St. Hillare Yd at the end of the day. TGV-Est construction train.
On hire from EWS, 58046 bank a train laying ballast on the new TGV-Est line. note the rear wheel of the Class 58 glowing red hot with wheel slip.
Hired Class 58 from English,Welsh&Scottish Railways by SECO Rail works a TGV-Est construction train.