I will get to drive them again 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 #Team70

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A year ago today. 27 Dec 2024 and my first drive of #Team70 70008 in its (then) new Heavy Haul green and yellow livery. Seen at Wallers Ash Loop working 4M61.

A year ago today 18th December 2024 and #Team70 70020 wearing the Mk1 Tango livery. Arriving into Nuneaton with 4o49, where I would take it the rest of the way down to Southampton Maritime.

This was also the first (and one of very few) day time photos I managed of 70020 😅

So pleased when I turned up to find I was working the last leg 4o99 tonight 🥲

#Team70 70015 at Maritime, waiting to shunt the train away (which I volunteered to do 😁)

For the first time in 2 weeks, there's a 70 working an intermodal train down to Southampton today!!!

#Team70 70015 is currently working 4o99.

The last 70 to work down here was 70020 on 4E91 on 24th November 25 🥲

On borrowed time.

#Team70 70006 at Eastleigh during crew change this morning.
After working up from Maritime, I took extra time at Eastleigh to take as many photos as I can because every drive of a 70 now could just be my last 😢

#Team70 70004 "The Coal Industry Society" waiting on the up slow, just north of Eastleigh, having only just departed minutes before.

#Team70 70007 again today, arriving into Eastleigh from Birmingham for a crew change.

One from yesterday I forgot to post.
#Team70 70007 arriving into Eastleigh from Birmingham. I took it the final 7½ miles down to Maritime and shunted the train away.

#Team70 waiting to enter Southampton Maritime tonight with a clear view of the full moon overhead.

(Photo taken from a position of safety)

#Team70 70020 seen at Basingstoke during a crew change in the early hours. I will take the train via Andover to Southampton Maritime.

#Team70 70020 keeping the containers company in Maritime, just as the crane exits the view after putting a container down.

Oo shiny. #Team70 70007 in unbranded Heavy Haul green and yellow 🟩🟨 on the outside pit at Maritime.

My train back south tonight will be led by #Team70 70020 🥳

As I'm not booked to stop anywhere enroute to Eastleigh, here's a photo from Saturday in Lawley Street terminal terminal, after working it up from Eastleigh.

Me and #Team70 70020 are getting to know each other very well on our run to Birmingham this morning 😅🤦🏻‍♂️ seen at Eastleigh this morning before departing.

Spending another night with #Team70 70004 "The Coal Industry Society". Seen here, held at a red outside Coventry station, coming off the branch from Bedworth earlier this evening.

Now, waiting time outside Oxford 30 minutes early ⌚️

After working #Team70 70004 "The Coal Industry Society" down from Nuneaton last night. It's seen here departing Eastleigh under the cover of darkness for the last leg of its journey to Maritime.

Same shift again tonight 🫡

Double vision.

Colas Railfreight #Team70 70802 & 70811 at East Yard earlier this afternoon as I booked on for the start of shift.

#Team70 70015 applies the power as it departs from Eastleigh, having just brought it up from Maritime on a service for Coatbridge.

#Team70 70015 and 66566 waiting in the Redbridge sidings earlier before departing with a service to Coatbridge. (With me as far as Eastleigh).

#Team70 70005 waits in the goods loop at Banbury this evening with a service to Southampton Maritime.

It's been a hot minute since I last drove a 70.

#Team70 70016 with a service from Southampton Maritime to Trafford Park. Seen waiting time at Coventry. I'm now at Nuneaton waiting for my return working which should have 70005 up front 😁

#Team70 70008 is scheduled to work 4o31 tonight from Leeds to Southampton MCT.

Seen at Wallers Ash Loop on 27th December 2024.

May 2024. #Team70 70020 pauses at Wolvercote Junction with 4M65 while 70007 races by with 4S59.

#Team70 70005 waiting silent and idle at Maritime. Which will form my train as far as Basingstoke via Andover.

#Team70 70004 "The Coal Industry Society" behind Redbridge station. The train will go via Laverstock & Andover to Basingstoke, where I will hand over to a colleague, who informed me this is his last ever train with FL before he joins Avanti 🥳 all the best 🫡

This.... this right here is why I can't be trusted with Internet access and a disposable income 🤦🏻‍♂️ but I had to!

A #Team70 USB stick! I think it's a promotional item made for the class 70s when new, I don't really know anything about it, other than I had to have it 😂😁

#Team70 70004 "The Coal Industry Society" waits at a red at Worting Junction this morning as the last passenger service of the day goes ahead via Andover towards Salisbury.

Beautiful sunset at Maritime this evening. 08785 can just be seen in its usual spot, 66414 on the fuel point and #Team70 70015 chugging away to itself in the sidings. Photo taken from aboard 66415 "You Are Never Alone"

#Team70 70004 "The Coal Industry Society" waits time at Wolvercote Junction, just north of Oxford this morning with a service to Birmingham Lawley Street.