Namings and nameplate sales at Direct Rail Services’ Kingmoor open day

Direct Rail Services staged its biennial open day on July 6, with crowds flocking to its Carlisle Kingmoor depot. It was the first of the freight operator’s open days to have no older ex-BR locomotives of Classes 20/37 in attendance. The event, which alternates between Crewe Gresty Bridge and Kingmoor, raised more than £65,000 for local charities. Two Class 66s were named at the open day: 66431 received the Kingmoor TMD nameplates previously carried by 37688 and more recently 66301; and 66429 was named Charlie Birse in honour of a senior manager in the maintenance side of DRS who died in a motorcycle accident in September last year, near Gretna. Other locomotives on display were: 57309 Pride of Crewe, 66421 Gresty Bridge TMD, 66424 Driver Paul Scrivens 1969-2021, 68001 Evolution,…

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