eastwestdivide Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 We used to put gurt great bin bags over the buckeyes on units in my days in this kind of weather. (Otherwise, you just could not get the bu88ers to open). Is that still done with Delners etc? I've seen yellow 'binbags' on Pacer couplings in recent years here in S Yorks in snowy weather. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trev52A Posted December 11, 2017 Author Share Posted December 11, 2017 Seen from the ramp leading down to the opposite platform at Monkseaton, Tyne&Wear metrocar No 4041 is at the rear of a train to St.James (Newcastle) on 15th January 2013 Trevor 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derekl Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 I've seen yellow 'binbags' on Pacer couplings in recent years here in S Yorks in snowy weather. I recall seeing bags on the couplers on Voyagers and 185s in some very cold weather at York a few years back - a good few years back in 2005 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
60091 Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 (edited) 60009 departing from Garsdale - November 1991. Edited December 11, 2017 by 60091 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 I've seen yellow 'binbags' on Pacer couplings in recent years here in S Yorks in snowy weather. Quoting myself, now I found the photo, from 2010: Also from 2010, the snow got too much for Rotherham Central: so they closed it and diverted stuff past the closed Masborough: And powdery stuff on the ECML: (I was the public side of the fence) 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted December 11, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 11, 2017 No snow in SW Hampshire, so a couple from 'the archives'! You cant go wrong with Vigo and Blackwell Andy! That 47 just needs these on the back.... Phil 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unicorn1 Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 This may have appeared on RM web before so apologies if it has. RHDR No7 near Pilot Crossing, Dungeness. 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastglosmog Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 (edited) Charlbury station this evening: And the 20:40 about to set off for Worcester: Edited August 27, 2022 by eastglosmog Restore photos 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trev52A Posted December 11, 2017 Author Share Posted December 11, 2017 This Q6 has been in the wars, by the look of it... 63456 at Sunderland shed in January 1965 Trevor 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Louch Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 You cant go wrong with Vigo and Blackwell Andy! That 47 just needs these on the back.... 2013 railway Xmas card.jpg Phil Thanks Phil, Happy days!! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium chris-shay Posted December 12, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 12, 2017 Back in 1997 I took a trip up to Prince George on the Cariboo Prospector. Picking up a hire car, I went in search of the Tumbler branch and was lucky enough to catch three of the GF6C electrics. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clydebridge Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 Mossend Yard in a blizzard. Mossend Down Yard 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 DIRFT yesterday... 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southof1E top tmd Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 67004 at a snow free Fort William with 1S25 sleeper from Euston on 220113. The snow was thick over Rannoch and Corrour with one large drift being relocated to Fort William! 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SED Freightman Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 33058 hauling an unidentified 4CEP at Waterloo East forming the 0831 Ashford to Charing Cross on 15/01/87, back in the days when the railway could still usually be relied upon in the event of bad weather. 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gareth 73 Posted December 14, 2017 Share Posted December 14, 2017 Network rails 97s leave shrewsbury after the end of rhtt duties. Photo by signalman Baker 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
60091 Posted December 14, 2017 Share Posted December 14, 2017 (edited) 2nd Feb 1991. 777 crossing Arten Gill Viaduct. ...and approaching Dent. Edited December 14, 2017 by 60091 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swindon 123 Posted December 14, 2017 Share Posted December 14, 2017 Some more shots I took whilst driving in snow. The two at Dorrington show how hard it becomes to spot signals, especially semaphores, when snow is falling. all pics taken working the afternoon Dee Marsh service on 9th February 2007. Approaching the site of Fords Bridge SB and level crossing. Road traffic on the A49 not having much fun either. Approaching Dorrington. The green light in the gloom is Dorringtons Up colour light distant signal. Dorrington again, this time Dorringtons Up home semaphore section signal is out there in the gloom. Paul J. 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted December 14, 2017 Share Posted December 14, 2017 Penistone Station between trains, less than 6 months before the closure of the Woodhead Route. 26/2/81 cheers 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post unravelled Posted December 14, 2017 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted December 14, 2017 Two from Oxford in 1966 Brockley Bank, looking towards New Cross Gate in 2009 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Storey Posted December 15, 2017 Share Posted December 15, 2017 33058 hauling an unidentified 4CEP at Waterloo East forming the 0831 Ashford to Charing Cross on 15/01/87, back in the days when the railway could still usually be relied upon in the event of bad weather. Lovely picture, but I am not sure about the comment! I was still SM at Brighton that winter, which was a bad one, and little moved there for days. P/Way were doing everything they could, but the drifts and the freezing temperatures simply overwhelmed them and the point heaters. I went out with a venerable colleague, carrying what I can only describe as flame-throwers (goodness knows where he got them from) in an attempt to clear the points on the western side. How we didn't die I don't know (the juice was still on but you could hardly see the con rail anywhere) and it was all a complete waste of time. As soon as we released one point and tested it with the box, and moved on to the next, the previous one would have frozen up again by the time we finished the next one. So we tried setting routes manually, by winding and blocking, but there was virtually no track detection and we just did not have anywhere near enough flagmen. We moved one train from Hove in four hours, and that had about six people on it. Great determination, but little to show for it. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Border Reiver Posted December 15, 2017 Share Posted December 15, 2017 On 2nd April 1966 a few of us that lived in Carlisle, despite severe blizzard conditions ovenight, decided to go to to Carleton (2.5 miles south of the station) on a local bus to photo 4472 Flying Scotsman on the 'Stephenson Locomotive Society / Manchester Locomotive Society Lakes & Fells Rail Tour'. The train was coming up the Settle line then down the WCML to Penrith, then on to Keswick hauled by 2 Ivatt 2-6-0 locos.After we got off the bus. we struggled along a footpath through two foot snow drifts to the railway line and waited. Unknown to us the train was delayed waiting for a snowplough to reach Hellifield resulting in departure from Hellifield 54mins late. Meanwhile we were all freezing while standing in snow at the entrance to the cutting at the end of the embankment.Eventually, 79 mins late, we saw a plume of smoke approaching. My friends had decided to go to the cutting a couple of hundered yards from where I was standing by the embankment. As the train approached I fired off a couple of shots, the latter one resulted in the photo below. However, immediately as I clicked the shutter, a class 40 on a long down freight hurtled past. Needless to say my friends never got any decent photos due the the freight. To say they were annoyed is an understatement and they expressed their annoyance very verbally indeed! 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted December 16, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 16, 2017 Some more shots I took whilst driving in snow. The two at Dorrington show how hard it becomes to spot signals, especially semaphores, when snow is falling. all pics taken working the afternoon Dee Marsh service on 9th February 2007. Approaching the site of Fords Bridge SB and level crossing. Road traffic on the A49 not having much fun either. Fords Bridge. 09-02-2007..jpg Paul J. Ford Bridge was the station and signalbox name. Not Fords Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted December 16, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 16, 2017 Lovely picture, but I am not sure about the comment! I was still SM at Brighton that winter, which was a bad one, and little moved there for days. P/Way were doing everything they could, but the drifts and the freezing temperatures simply overwhelmed them and the point heaters. I went out with a venerable colleague, carrying what I can only describe as flame-throwers (goodness knows where he got them from) in an attempt to clear the points on the western side. How we didn't die I don't know (the juice was still on but you could hardly see the con rail anywhere) and it was all a complete waste of time. As soon as we released one point and tested it with the box, and moved on to the next, the previous one would have frozen up again by the time we finished the next one. So we tried setting routes manually, by winding and blocking, but there was virtually no track detection and we just did not have anywhere near enough flagmen. We moved one train from Hove in four hours, and that had about six people on it. Great determination, but little to show for it. The problem always was that if you melted the snow the melted snow and water would quickly freeze (steam lances were probably safer to the user than flame guns although you obviously needed either a steam engine or a diesel with a boiler to use a steam lance) . the trick was therefore to get salt down on the slide chairs as soon as they were cleared and ideally to slosh it with oil to avoid rust on the slides. But it was always a battle against nature if the snow was still falling and especially if ground temperature was below freezing - I spent several hours of New Year's Night 1978/79 desperately trying to clear and keep clear both ends of a long double slip and it was re-freezing almost as quickly as I managed to clear it. Provided you could keep them clear it was usually the simplest to clear and keep clear points in deep settled snow but you had to take care to clear out any icing between the switch and stock rails when they were moved or you were back to square one (hence the old hands would have a special scraper ready for use in such circumstances). A long way from 'silly soft stuff' is snow. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted December 16, 2017 Share Posted December 16, 2017 Cliffe Hill between Bardon Hill and Bagworth Junction... 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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