big jim

Hellfire mileage on my hire car my own car is in the EMT meridian numbering range!

imagine how boring it would be watching a train unload in real time for an hour! 0.5 is the norm but if the coal is damp or poor quality it’s slower, also you have to stop a few times for the hopper to empty (in ratcliffe) soul destroying but interesting at the same time

unless your modelling a power station coal discharge plant (0.3 to 0.5mph)

Couldn’t really be bothered with pics last night Couple from the day when I drove into town, 37108 en route to the NEC for the @Accurascale stand First trip ready to leave oxenholme, the moon peeping through the trees 2nd trip the full moon higher in the sky A stop in crewe on the way back And done should be cancelled tonight as we got it all done but I may have to go in to take it crewe to oxley, had a look at the mileage for the week, I was doing about 550-600 miles a night which is a fair old whack as quite tiring both physically and mentally!

Nice, would have been so much easier for me! as it happens I need an extra warwell anyway so I’ve ordered one of your Ltd Ed ones and a set of sides

If not watched the vid but my trainees mate is part owner and he said it was off there for the weekend im working both days so went make it unfortunately

wonder if it’s this?

Well at least he didn’t blame the extra grille counters, the pink wheel counters, the wonky rod counters…….

Spotted this in oxley this morning

It’s moved down the yard now to where the green 47 has been sat for the last month or so

Much of the same last night but with a power pack isolated to see how it does with reduced power crewe stafford Varamis unit again Off to oxenhome and then away to Carlisle Back to carnforth and back again to Carlisle Then just before the final trip back to oxley this rolled in and we ended up behind it all the way to winsford, as well as a GB service so it was a drag of a trip back Into wolves to change ends and into oxley same tonight, if it goes well then we won’t need to go out on Thursday, I’ve got more testing next week to Holyhead though

the issue I have with them is on the motorway, if a lorry is coming in the opposite direction, in particular in an area with solid concrete central barriers you the sensor doesn’t seem to pick up on their headlights so it puts the full beam on, of course they are higher up so are getting dazzled and inevitably they put their full beam on, which on some trucks can be like perma noon! the one thing I always turn off straight away when I get a hire car!

One of my few muted people on Twitter along with vine (and I’m a cyclist!)

pretty much, ring the box and tell them what your doing so they know to signal you right into the station at Carlisle we check open train maps at oxenholme to see what’s ahead on the signalling diagrams to get a clear run, last night there was a class 4 (75mph) freight in front of us that we waited until it had passed though Penrith before we set off

not a clue! These runs are really ‘pushing it’ braking and acceleration wise, I think the in service runs will be slower than the time I have to do it in (I hope!)