1 September 2022. Class 37 37099 powered the 3q07 20.53 Exeter Riverside to Exeter Riverside via Yeovil (Junction & Pen Mill) and Salisbury and return. On the return from Salisbury brakes seized on one of the coaches near Templecombe causing wheelset damage. Eventually the train moved at 5mph into the down sidings at Yeovil Junction. On 2 September 37099 was detached and ran to Whatley Quarry for Driver Training and returned to Yeovil Junction. The train was then moved to the upside sidings and stabled in the headshunt adjacent to the Pen Mill branch. On Monday 5 September two coaches were shunted out, whilst 37099 and the other 4 coaches departed for Reading. For some video at Yeovil Junction and Yeovil Pen Mill, have a look at Nick Parry's record HERE

2 September. train being propelled into the up sidings, before running forward into the headshunt.

Coaches 72630 and 99666 awaiting road transport.

These coaches are coupled by a drawbar, rather than a buckeye.

27 September 2022. These two vehicles are able to run on road or rail. Purpose is to lay an anti-slip treatment on the railhead which remains for a significant period, being reactivated when it rains. Named Jazzy (right) and Jezebel.

4 October 2022. Railhead Treatment Train, Balfour Beatty's Tiny Tamper (not really Tiny at all!) and stabled Network Rail coaches.

25 October 2022. 37099 seen at Pinhoe enroute to Yeovil Juction to shunt the defective Network Rail coaches. (Photo courtesy Dave Tozer)

Arriving at Yeovil Junction.

Running on the up sidings towards the coaches.

Drawing the coaches out towards a loading point with the Rail Head Treatment Train also seen.

Alleys transport alongside the coaches.

Coaches loaded.

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