Class 60

	60008, 60046 and 60049 form an 0Z96 Immingham - Washwood Heath light engine movement, seen here passing Barrow-on-Trent at 14:17 on Thursday 21st September 2006. All three had recently been re-instated to traffic.
	60019 coasts downhill through Leamore (between Bloxwich and Walsall) with a coal train from Mid Cannock. This shot was taken at 11:43 on Saturday 15th February 1997. It's the train rather than the loco which is really of interest here. The sidings at Mid Cannock were being used as an opencast disposal site at this time, and I recorded this train as being destined for Daw Mill (where the load would doubtless be blended with better quality deep-mined coal). In 1996 similar wagon-sets had been used to deliver coal from places like Maltby to Mid Cannock, again for blending. The empties off that service also ran through Bloxwich as 6P60 Mid Cannock - Toton, but this loaded train makes for a better picture. Although coal trains still rumble around the Black Country to Ironbridge and Rugeley power stations all the local sources have now gone with the sole exception of Daw Mill. The last pit in Staffordshire was Littleton which closed in 1993.
	60021 heads the 6M11 Washwood Heath - Peak Forest stone empties through Willington at 10:20 on Tuesday 18th September.
	60041 trundles down Elford loop at 15:10 on Wednesday 21st March 2007. The train is 6G47 Mountsorrel - Bescot, which ran via Loughborough, Sheet Stores Jct and Burton, unlike the outbound working which goes via Nuneaton and Leicester. Taking a circular route meant that the loco didn't have to run-round the wagons.
	60041 again, this time heading a late-running 6M11 Washwood Heath - Peak Forest past Washwood Heath yard at 11:40 on Wednesday 31st October. The train is a mixed rake of wagons in RMC and Cemex liveries. Mexican-based Cemex bought the RMC Group in 2005.
	This train proved popular amongst photographers in the summer of 2007. Firstly because it ran at a very useful time for a midsummer shot, and secondly because in the week commencing 30th July it was regularly producing a Class 60 and HTA wagons - a rare combination in the Midlands and south as only a few HTA rakes have conventional couplers on the outer wagons. The train is 6V17 Bescot - Portbury, formed of empty coal hoppers off a Fiddlers Ferry - Bescot working. This view was taken at 17:03 on Thursday 2nd August, and shows 60056 passing East View Road (Wylde Green) on the Sutton Park line. Pete Tandy also shot this train at Croome Perry nearly two hours later in the last of the evening light.
	60068 worked a 6Z00 Lindsey - Kingsbury tank train on Friday 6th April 2007. It arrived in Elford loop at 15:25, and didn't depart until 16:15 so there was ample opportunity to do it both arriving and departing. This picture shows the 20-bogie train climbing past Portway at 16:17.
	60500 passes Barrow-on-Soar with 6E52 Peak Forest - Peterborough. This train is booked to run on Mondays and Wednesdays, and the shot was taken at 14.14 on Monday 10th October 2005. The MBA wagons convey limestone.