A recent GBRf acquisition 66403 is seen at the head of 4L22 Hams Hall - Felixstowe on the 31st of March 2011, seen here passing under the wires at Ledburn on the West Coast Mainline
Former DRS workhorse 66403 powers through Barrow On Trent with 6Z97 Beeston - Cardiff Tidal loaded scrap on the 14th of March 2011, this location is situated on the freight only branch between Sheet Stores Junction and Stenson Junction and hidden out of view behind the trees on the left is the Trent and Mersey Canal
66403 heads a recently introduced service in the form of 6Z97 Beeston - Cardiff Tidal loaded scrap through Portway on the 7th of March 2011, this working is just a small part of the ever increasing levels of traffic that Europorte are currently working
In the early days of September 2010 GB Railfreight operated a biomass trial to Avonmouth BBHT using two of its fleet of class 66's here 66403 is seen pausing at St Andrews Road before heading back under the loading silo on the 8th of September 2010
With Ferrybridge Power Station firing on all cylinders 66404 passes Blackburn Lane with 6H32 Immingham - Drax on the 14th of April 2011
66404 catches the last of the days sun while hauling 4L22 Hams Hall - Felixstowe through Stoke Hammond on the 24th of February 2011
With its fully loaded rake of giant IOA's 66703 makes light work of 6O96 Mountsorrel - Eastleigh through Cholsey Manor Farm on the 3rd of May 2011
On the 31st of March 2011 66704 heads 4M23 Felixstowe - Hams Hall through Stoke Hammond
66707 pauses at Barnetby for a crew change on the evening of the 13th of September 2010 with 6R48 Maltby - Immingham loaded coal for blending, If you look closely you can see just how well loaded this was
66707 works hard through Melton Ross on the 30th of June 2010 with 6R45 Maltby - Immingham loaded coal boxes, on arrival at Immingham the coal will be unloaded and blended with imported coal before again being loaded into hoppers and distributed to various power stations in the Aire Valley
66707 passes Berkley near Frome on the 22nd of April 2010 with 4E31 Taunton Fairwater - Whitemoor, this is GBRf's only regular freight to the South West of England, the loco would have arrived at Taunton the previous night with a set of wagons loaded with new sleepers ready to go out on the Track Replacement train from Taunton Fairwater to engineering possesions, since this photo was taken GBRf lost this contract and is now operated by Freightliner at a very unsociable hour!
Unique Medite liveried 66709 heads 6H86 Maltby - Drax through England Lane Knottingley on the 14th of April 2011, not the classic shot at this location but due to the drab weather went for a better angle!
66710 became the first member of the GBRf fleet to be re-branded with 'GB Railfreight Part Of Europorte' and on the 29th of October 2010 is seen passing South Kenton on 4M23 Felixstowe - Hams Hall
Despite being recently taken over by Europorte and most of the companies fleet of Class 66's being stripped of their First branding, 66710 is seen on the 28th of June 2010 still sporting its old logo while passing Elford with 4N67 Doncaster - Daw Mill
66711 approaches Brondesbury on the 26th of February 2010 with 4E31 Taunton Fairwater - Whitemoor used sleepers
With the trees and bushes already showing slight hints of Autumn, original liveried GBRf 66713 shines superbly in the sunshine as it leads a very impressive 23 fully loaded IOA's through Hinksey on the 3rd of October 2011 while working 6O96 Mountsorrel - Eastleigh
66713 passes Ledburn on the 24th of March 2011 with 4L22 Hams Hall - Felixstowe, After the sun had completely dropped into the thickening high cloud it was more than pleasing to get this with at least a little brightness on the train
On a gloomy damp afternoon 66713 passes Barnetby with 6H32 Immingham - Drax, 13th of September 2010
66714 glints in the super evening light of the 6th of April 2011 while passing just south of Lydney with 6Z97 Beeston - Cardiff Tidal loaded scrap
On the 29th of June 2010 66716 catches a bright patch while at the head of 4R41 Drax - Immingham, seen passing Melton Ross just to the east of Barnetby
66717 hammers through Melton Ross with 4R51 Drax - Immingham on the 14th of September 2010, The consist of this working was made up of a rake of coal hoppers bearing the name of the short lived freight operator Fastline
Metronet branded 66719 heads a fully laiden 4M23 Felixstowe - Hams Hall through Stoke Hammond on the 19th of July 2010
66720 heads 6O10 Forders - East Grinstead through Stoke Hammond on the 24th of February 2011, Very lucky to get this with the Pendo bearing down in the distance
66721 passes under the footbridge of New Barnetby with 4R67 West Burton - Immingham on the 13th of April 2011
66721 heads 4R67 Wakefield - Immingham through Melton Ross on the 11th of April 2011
Branded with its 'Metronet' livery 66721 passes Stoke Hammond at the head of 4M23 Felixstowe - Hams Hall on the 24th of February 2011
The 17th of June 2010 threw up one of them very unusual workings, seen approaching Patchway standing in for the booked class 57 is Metronet liveried 66721 with its rake of Arriva coaches and Virgin 57305 tagged on the back forming First Great Westerns 2C79 Cardiff Central - Taunton, the reliabillity of the class 57's on this working was never much better than horrific and little more than 2 weeks after this DB Schenker took over the running of this diagram with 67's with much more success for the remainder of the contract
66724 is seen working hard at the sharp end of 4L22 Hams Hall - Felixstowe through Stoke Hammond on the 13th of April 2010
66725 trundles through Upper Holloway on the GOBLIN (Gospel Oak to Barking line) on the 15th of April 2010 with its load of used concrete sleepers forming 4E31 Taunton Fairwater - Whitemoor
Wearing GBRf part of Europorte's new house colours 66728 heads 6H93 Tyne Dock - Drax passing Blackburn Lane on the 14th of April 2011
The 8th of July 2010 produced one of the moves of the year with 66728 hauling 7 off lease First Great Western buffet cars from Laira - Eastleigh via Bristol and running under the headcode 5O66 seen here passing Flax Bourton, the really unusual part of the move was the fact that 2 class 73's were provided purely for the use as barrier vehicles, 73206 is seen tucked in behind the 66 and 73212 brings up the rear
66730 powers through Pilning on the 18th of July 2011 with a diverted 6Z97 Beeston - Cardiff Tidal, due to major signalling problems in the Cheltenham area the train was routed via Leamington and Swindon before passing into South Wales through the Severn Tunnel, currently there are no GBRf freight diagrams on this stretch of line so quite a rare and welcome occurance
On the 8th of September 2010 66730 becomes the first GBRf loco to use the loading silo at Avonmouth BBHT, this was a trial working for the loading of biomass
On Sunday the 21st of August 2011 66731 worked 6V35 Ferme Park - Cardiff Tidal, seen here exiting Chipping Sodbury Tunnel with a rake of empty box wagons, the new GBRf livery is certainly smart and shows up nicely on a day of late summer sunshine
After standing around for around 4 hours in pure cloud a few bright patches started to appear but to get this in sun required a whole heap of luck! 66731 newly named 'InterhubGB' approaches Lower Basildon on the 4th of April 2011 with 6O96 Mountsorrel - Eastleigh loaded JNA's and MLA's as a northbound Voyager passes through
Now a regular GB Railfreight working 6Z97 Beeston - Cardiff Tidal loaded scrap passes through Undy on the 13th of June 2011, at the head of the train is recently re-branded and re-numbered 66737 complete with it's oversized '37' number, seen on the skyline just above the front of the loco is the second severn crossing which was opened in June 1996 to ease traffic flow between England and Wales