A few snaps here from a chilly January day in 2009.

66415 leads 4G20, 11.01 Chaddesden - Portbury coal empties. This was a Fastline working, with the DRS loco hired in, as presumably were the GBRf hoppers.

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Willington; 66303 on 4Z18, 11.08 Chaddesden - Portbury empties

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Cossington; 66304 on 6D62, 11.51 Daw Mill - Ratcliffe. The 66/3's were quite new then, and a sign that Fastline was on the up!

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Fallen flag Fastline operated an attractive but small fleet of 66's. Seen here with matching liveried hoppers is the 15.44 Daw Mill - Ratcliffe loaded coal.

This working was a staple here for some time, and usually came along the slow line, though sadly not today.

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Another set from twelve years ago, taken around Whitacre.

One of Fastline's small fleet of Sheds brings the 10.00 Radcliffe - Daw Mill empties west through the site of the former station here. The train ran round, I think, at Washwood Heath and came back east to Daw Mill colliery on the Nuneaton line.

Both Fastline and Daw Mill are sadly now long gone.

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