big jim
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29 minutes ago, rob D2 said:
True, have yet to see one in OO yet though !
imagine how boring it would be watching a train unload in real time for an hour!
6 minutes ago, Roy Langridge said:As slow as that? I thought MGR discharge was at 4mph. Every day a learning day.
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
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7 minutes ago, rob D2 said:
Don’t much see the point of the crawling . Real life trains don’t crawl much unless they are coupling up
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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!
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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
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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
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On 20/04/2024 at 11:07, Accurascale Fran said:
we were asked to bring something else that is big too
wonder if it’s this?
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1 hour ago, Colin_McLeod said:
lt's the rivet counters whohave spoilt it for everyone else!"
Well at least he didn’t blame the extra grille counters, the pink wheel counters, the wonky rod counters…….
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Spotted this in oxley this morning
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It’s moved down the yard now to where the green 47 has been sat for the last month or so
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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
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1 hour ago, StuAllen said:
I do know what you mean about the headlights though, my previous car had auto dipping and could be sluggish, probably one or twice a week I needed to manually take over as it didn’t react. Can’t say I’ve noticed with my current car, its reactions are very quick.
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!
3 minutes ago, SM42 said:By far the worst I've experienced is lane assist
the one thing I always turn off straight away when I get a hire car!-
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5 minutes ago, Sidecar Racer said:
Are you related to Cycling Mikey by any chance ????
One of my few muted people on Twitter along with vine (and I’m a cyclist!)-
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20 minutes ago, mikejames said:
are you more or less promised greens all the way?
pretty much, ring the box and tell them what your doing so they know to signal you right into the station at Carlislewe 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
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6 hours ago, Ray M said:
Can i ask,
How much time difference will they allow
when these trains are fully loaded.
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!)
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Night one of avanti testing, turns out it was an 807 not 805
331 in crewe
my unit to Stafford
changing ends
North end
another 805 came in on another platform
Varamis parcel train heading south
A brief stop in crewe where another 805 turned up, a different one to the unit seen in Stafford!
Awful colour to get a pic of at night!
Then it was away to oxenholme ready to do a timed run to carlisle
And into Carlisle, made it in time, 4 seconds under the required time
Ready to head back to oxenholme for run 2
had us away early back north to Carlisle, different platform this time
but amazingly exactly the same time, 4 seconds under!
DRS 57
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Once that was done it was a bit of a break and a sleep before heading back to oxley
Changing ends in Wolverhampton
and done
same again tonight
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2 minutes ago, Davexoc said:
Nice one Jim. Probably never get a chance to repeat that....
until next weekend!
taking one to site next weekend so hopefully get a better pic at the other end which is a bit more open
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1 hour ago, Roy Langridge said:
I hardwired a small decoder in my four, a Zimo a MX616R by memory. A fairly straightforward job.
Roy
did you do a thread about it or anything, or did you see a guide as I really want to get mine up and running -
I’ve not run mine yet as I’m not sure how to DCC it up!
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4 hours ago, Compound2632 said:
I have the later version of the Zafira (a 1.6 litre 10 reg); before that I had the earlier version (a 1.8 litre 03 reg), both grey. I recall the first time I came out of the supermarket: "now which one is mine?" Not having memorised either the registration or exactly where I'd parked, I had to go round discretely pressing the key fob until one responded...
I get a lot of hire cars through work, I called in at Aldi the other day en route to collect my personal car from basford hall, I sat in the car while my wife grabbed some bits, she ended up ringing me from the car park after wondering round it a couple of times as she couldn’t remember what car we had!
me and my lad thought it hilarious though as we’d seen her walk past twice but didn’t acknowledge her
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1 hour ago, 61656 said:
Maybe it only had the bufferbeam number at one end?
I recon that’s the case, I’ve got a pic of it in vic berry’s yard in Leicester in the famous triangle stack tooBachmann have a model of it previously, the old tooling though
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46 minutes ago, 61656 said:
The wagons look box fresh, so I’m assuming it’s working from Connah’s Quay, not towards it?
im going to have to ask my stepdad about it as its unusual that the ‘box fresh’ wagons are heading to crumps as well as what looks like a shot blasted wagon as there is no way a train could leave the yard and head back along the coast without turning back at the likes of mold jn but again why they would do that I don’t knowthe only other thing I can think is the tanks may have been coming from Ellesmere Port, some work was outsourced to Jake’s tank services next to the station so I’m wondering if they have been painted/blasted there and are off to crumps for finishing as the TTAs are unbranded
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10 minutes ago, mallaig1983 said:
Great pics but I’m absolutely baffled by the last one. Late April Fool?
I don’t know why the unit ended up in the shed at Llandudno jn to be honest, this thread fromback in 2016 kinds of explains why they were in the area though
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Possession train from valley to crewe
started by cascading the rear loco from my train to the one behind
Back to the pointy end of my train, brake tested and ready to roll and head toward the worksite marker boards
The boards were at Ty-Croes where we had to wait for a while before being able to leave
The signal box is only a crossing box now, not a block box so the section across Anglesey is from gaerwen to valley
We then set off for the possession boards at Bangor and as we were a bit early we had the chance of a quick stop on the Britannia bridge for a pic!
Don’t get a chance to get a pic like this every day!
Next quick stop was Chester
and into basford hall where someone took the train from us and we got away
a week of 805 testing to Carlisle then another valley job on Saturday
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On 12/04/2024 at 17:53, big jim said:
I’ve got a photo somewhere in my photobucket of one of the trippers running through flint behind a class 25 but I’ll have to find it
Here we go, a tripper to C.C. Crumps
a bit more variety in a Scotrail 47/7 on a ballast from penmaenmawr
or even a 31 dragging a scotrail unit from Llandudno Jn!
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Hellfire mileage on my hire car
my own car is in the EMT meridian numbering range!