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All the above photos and the one below are mine…..

Maybe it could be yellow? Like this…. More photos of it on here. Especially as it will only be used in emergency situations and for Infrastructure work.

I seem to remember that the owners choose the livery or does that only apply to steam locos?

Few more photos….

Network Rail’s Robel 6U88 MMT Set 8 (DR97508 – DR97608 – DR97808) was found this morning in fairly unfamiliar surroundings, at Bluebell Railway’s Horsted Keynes station, platform 2. Very interesting machine and great to see it here in day light as it normally found away from public view.

Yeeeeeeha! Finally! 33052…Cromptontastic….Get In! Horsted Keynes MPD.

And in YHO exactly what ethnic group are these Rednecks???? Go on…..? I have a friend very interested in your reply, from a professionally legal view point!

Totally. From Railrecord’s excellent site, early this morning.

The heat generated by a fire fuelled by hydraulic fluid is intense. These type of machines tend to be built around big steel beams as the frames, which will probably be affected by this type of fire. I can’t believe for a minute that this tamper won’t end up being a write off. Such a shame. I have actually been on this one, DR 75410, a couple of years back. Sounds like no one was injured, as mentioned earlier it was the rear ( in the direction of travel) of the machine that caught fire so the crew were likely all in the front vehicle at the time. At least the BBC managed to get the terminology correct today (well done to the reporter.....maybe a secret Crank). They managed to refrain from calling the Tamper... freight carriages, or engineering carriages or worse still ‘train engineering carriages’.......funny that generally when the media report on Aviation incidents or Road Traffic ‘Accidents’ they don’t seem to suffer from the same inability to use the correct terms.

Yeah I am now persuaded that it is going to need more than a coat of paint to fix it. That’s the tower or Number 1 end of the machine by the looks of it.

It’s probably made harder by virtue of the fact the machine is articulated, and not separate vehicles with a pair of bogies each. From the photos of the fire it would appear the Tamping bank end was at the rear as the machine transitted back to Bridges, and it was this end that caught fire. In happier times at ECR...

Cheers for the update. Fingers crossed crew ok.

On Track Machine on fire near Dunton Green station. Looks like it might be a Matisa tamper, from the cab roof and front configuration, with the edge of the white painted ‘front trolley’ below the right buffer.

I used to watch the loaded down trains go past Hamsey AHBC (48 M 12 Ch) in the early evening as I recall. I have a feeling that the wagons were ex Motorail, car flats....but I could be wrong, it was a long time ago. But it was quite funny to watch a line of Transit vans heading down Hamsey bank behind what was then a comparatively low line side vegetation level.

Hi All. Absolutely love this subject. If anyone is interested and it hasn’t already been mentioned the diesel shunter was preserved and it was and still might be on the Spa Valley Railway.....

ChrisF, it sounds like your hearty breakfast is a certain cure for constipation! Best of luck with the gardening, I’ve got that gardening ‘pleasure’ at the weekend, although hopefully mine will be helped along by a large cooked breakfast....fingers crossed.

Today I got my up date direct off of Bluebell’s ‘What’s new at the Bluebell Railway’ site. https://www.bluebell-railway.com/brps/whats_new/ Having read through the reactions to some of the recent posts within this thread I sadly get the impression that certain individuals regard it as their personal domain, act like Moderators when they clearly aren’t and shut out anyone who doesn’t agree with their narrow world view. Hopefully that person is a major contributor to Bluebell, volunteers a huge amount of time and donates a vast amount of money to it. Difficult to see the point in Bluebell news on here when it is already supplied from the horses mouth. I thought that RMWEB was fairly tolerant which is the main reason I joined but I certainly won’t be wasting my time and posting anything else on this thread....as I am sure that you will be pleased to know.