The End for 76401
11 October 2010
At the start of October the unique Plasser Wet Spot Machine, 76401, moved from Rugby OTPD to EMR Kingsbury for scrapping.
11 October 2010
At the start of October the unique Plasser Wet Spot Machine, 76401, moved from Rugby OTPD to EMR Kingsbury for scrapping.
6 October 2010
Several arrivals and departures occured during August/September.
30 September 2009
A lot of redundant OTP (mainly Fastline-owned) is currently being cleared...
3 January 2009 - thanks to Paul Wade for this article
Raxstar have been cutting various wagons at Ashford OTPD during December, but some OTP has been done too...
1 January 2009
Fastline have recently had a clear-out at Doncaster Marshgate...
17 June 2008 - thanks to The Fastline Insider for this article
Quite a few Fastline machines have been sent abroad recently, with more to follow...
4 June 2008 - thanks to Ben Williams for this article
Network Rail have recently sent three of their redundant breakdown cranes for scrap...
24 April 2008 - thanks to Ben Williams, Fastline, Brian Stanway, Roy Hennefer, Dave Denton, Les Wild, AB for this article
Several items of stored plant have recently moved. Some good, and some bad...
17 October 2007
It's been quite a while since the last news update. Not too much has happened - mainly a few preservation movements...
6 May 2007 - thanks to Roy Hennefer for this article
This has been dumped at Duddeston for nearly 15 years. At the end of April 2007 the scrap man finally arrived...
20 October 2006 - thanks to Lerpass Mapter for this article
Fastline have been getting in on the scrapping action too.
10 October 2006
Since the last article a few more of Carillion's machines have gone to Booth's scrapyard in Rotherham. Get ready for some huge lists of numbers..
17 September 2006 - thanks to Stuart Taylor for the photo. Vince for this article
Another few months have gone by - quite a lot has happened this time!
4 July 2006
Not a lot has happened lately, but I'll do a quick round up anyway.
16 March 2006 - thanks to Roy Hennefer, Pete Winch, Ben Williams for this article
Time for another quick round up of recent happenings in the OTP world.
8 October 2005 - thanks to Roy Hennefer, Pete Winch, Ben Williams, Keith Gunner. Russell Wear for this article
Another few months have passed since the last update, and another few things have happened.
15 June 2005 - thanks to Pete Winch, Nick Wilkinson, Mark Thomas for this article
It's been a busy(ish) 6 weeks since the last update!
24 April 2005 - thanks to Chas Tallis, Charlie Cross, Pete Winch, Ben Williams for this article
A quick round up of recent (and not-so-recent) happenings..
2 December 2004 - thanks to Chas Tallis, Peter Hall, Cromptoneer, Dave Shell, Brian Loughlin for this article
Quite a lot has happened during the last few months!
9 August 2004 - thanks to Vince, Al Weiss, Pete Winch for this article
It has been a couple of months since the last update. Not much has happened though...
7 March 2004 - thanks to Vince, Ben Williams, Lerpass Mapter, Peter Hall for this article
There have been several developments recently, so here is a quick round-up of what has happened.
29 March 2003 - thanks to Peter Hall for this article
One area not covered very well on both the internet and in books is the scrapping of snowploughs. This section aims to rectifiy that.
22 November 2002
Well, we've recently had a preservation round-up and numerous new machine updates. Now here is a quick review of some big machines which have been scrapped in recent months.