Freight trains terminating at Chippenham this week/

[DK123GWR]

I have found a curious set of trains on Real Train Times. Today, a train marked as freight is set to terminate at Chippenham Platform 2, from Bristol Kingsland Road. On each of the next three days, a train from Swindon Transfer is set to do the same. Although I cannot find any trains originating from Chippenham in the following week, it appears that trains are using platform 2 as usual. Does anybody know what these trains are for, or where they are magically vanishing to? The links to Real Train Times are here:

Realtime Trains - 623Y 2301 Bristol Kingsland Road to Chippenham

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Realtime Trains - 667F 2314 Swindon Transfer to Chippenham

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Realtime Trains - 673N 2309 Swindon Transfer to Chippenham

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Realtime Trains - 653V 2314 Swindon Transfer to Chippenham

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The nearest sidings to Chippenham are Thingley Junction, but I was under the impression (perhaps incorrectly) that trains using these would show as terminating at Thingley Junction, as a pair of civil engineers workings next Tuesday would appear to suggest (an example is attached below).

Realtime Trains - 636T 2222 Reading Triangle Sidings to Thingley Jn

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I would be very grateful for any information on this curious situation.

 

[pdeaves]

I would expect that the trains enter an engineers' possession (so 'disappear' from the system) at Chippenham. In the morning they emerge somewhere else (likely but not necessarily the other end of the possession).

 

[Freightmaster]

I have found a curious set of trains on Real Train Times. Today, a train marked as freight is set to terminate at Chippenham Platform 2, from Bristol Kingsland Road. On each of the next three days, a train from Swindon Transfer is set to do the same.

Those moves are a tamper (Colas Rail DR75011 in this case, running as 6Q59) running to an engineers possession on Dauntsey bank:

As per pdeaves' post above, the return trains start from the 'other side' of the possession:

Realtime Trains - 697Z 0354 Wootton Bassett Jn to Swindon Transfer

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Realtime Trains - 650H 0354 Wootton Bassett Jn to Swindon Transfer

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Realtime Trains - 669P 0354 Wootton Bassett Jn to Swindon Transfer

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MARK

 

[DK123GWR]

Thank you for the information.