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More class 66 renumberings
Posted on Tuesday 29th July 2025 by Thomas Young
Following the regearing and renumbering of DB class 66 locos as 66651-66660 over the past year, the same is now being done to some of the GB Railfreight locos. With spare numbers in short supply, these 66/7s are also becoming 66/6s, with the numbers either being 90 or 100 less than before. A total of 12 are reported to be planned, the first two released being 66689 (ex 66779) and 66693 (ex 66793).
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Sunday 28th September 2025 by Thomas Young
If you have been using any of the LTSV websites over the past few weeks, you will probably have seen this come up:
This is not part of my website and it seems to come up when the site is temporarily unavailable. It will usually go if you refresh after a few seconds, although it will sometimes stick around for a few minutes. I would recommend that you do not click any of the buttons on this page, or use the back button.
I have asked my service provider to look into why this page is appearing, and I have also asked them whether it would be possible to replace it with a more helpful message, something like 'service temporarily unavailable'. It could be that heavy data processing requirements resulting from the very large number of records in the LTSV Rail Data website are the cause, in which case finding a solution may not be straightforward. I will provide an update as soon as I have any more information, and I apologise for the disruption caused.
To be honest, LTSV
does use cookies, but only session ones. These are essential for the functioning of the site and are only retained in your browser's memory (not saved on your device). When you close the browser window, the session cookies are wiped clean.
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Catch up on renos
Posted on Sunday 15th June 2025 by Thomas Young
I've added 24 renumberings that have taken place over the past year and a bit. These include classes 66, 69 and 458.
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New photos, at lastPosted on
Thursday 12th June 2025 by Thomas Young
I'm still here! Some problems with my bus society work have more than doubled the amount of time I am having to spend on it, which has left precious little for LTSV. Still, the issues are temporary, although it may be a few more months until things get back to 'normal'.
The technical issues of earlier this year seem to have gone away. As far as I can tell, the root cause is the very large size of some of the database tables. As these are continuing to grow, it may be that I will need to makes changes to the coding to avoid the problems recurring.
A trickle of photos has come into my in-box over the past 11 months, and a batch of 90 has been uploaded today. Highlights are below.
Simon Burrell sent some photos of preserved wagons (plus a couple of more modern ones).
B782114 is a Palvan now preserved on the Mid Hants Railway.Paul Nicholls was in Scotland again.
The slope-gangwayed 380s are one of several classes of modern EMU used by Scotrail.David Hunt sent a couple of photos taken at Exeter.
This KEA is one of 25 of the type that have subsequently been reduced in height for steel slab traffic.Graham Goswell contributed some views of wagons stored at Healey Mills in the mid-2000s.
2-axle tank wagons like PR58276 have now pretty much disappeared from the network.Justin Whatley submitted some photos from the Mendips.
The green livery on Freightliner 66618 is giving way to the 'American' orange livery.Derek paid a visit to Westbury in February and photographed several locos and wagons, plus some on-track plant.
67023 has de-branded Colas Railfreight livery.
66315 is one of the more recent imports for GB Railfreight, numbered as 66/3s because the 66/7 series is full-up.
These two Colas track machines were delivered last year.Derek was out again at the end of May.
A pair of Ospreys had been red-carded and shunted into the siding at Basingstoke Station.
Recent rebuild 69016 was seen at Winchfield, returning from its naming ceremony at Waterloo.
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Possible technical problems
Posted on Tuesday 25th February 2025 by Thomas Young
I have had various reports recently about problems while using LTSV websites, including slow page loading and some functions not working. Strangely these only seem to be affecting certain users and not others, which makes it rather hard to know how to provide a fix. If you do encounter anything not working (or not working well), I would be grateful if you could let me know about it, so that I can investigate further. An e-mail to tom at ltsv.com with details (such as the page title and your browser type) would be the best way to do this.
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