Jim’s “out and about with GBRf” thread

[big jim]

One from 21Alizard after he dropped the crane off at didcot

 

[big jim]

some from today, couldnt be bothered with pics really!

 

 

 

 

[Iron Horse]

Here you go Jim, you on Friday    I'm quite pleased with the full res one, I can send it to you if you would like a copy

 

[Benjamin Brady]

Then into carlisle station, plat 1 for a change where I sat for a good 10 mins

 

 

Just caught up with your posts, I hope you did not mind platform 1 I was on the station panel that day and the casue of your 10 minute wait in platform one , but if I am not mistaken it was a RT departure, and worked well getting you off the goods lines.

[big jim]

not very often we go through 1, but with the line being bi-di from caldew bridge its quite a useful move

 

anyway some from today, loco swap between bescot and derby with a couple of 97s

 

bescot

 

into derby

 

and on to the RTC

 

 

31452 passing by with some MK2s

 

swapped locos and headed back to bescot

 

 

and that was that

[WCML100]

Here you go Jim, you on Friday    I'm quite pleased with the full res one, I can send it to you if you would like a copy

 

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Saw this yesterday at west drayton! Got a video of it as well!

[big jim]

Some random phone shots from today

 

Shrewsbury, london bound voyager

 

My train to baglan

 

Into Hereford

 

And off it goes south

 

I then went back to shrewsbury to meet someone to go and have a look at coleham depot, walked down to abbey Forgate to meet him, had to wait ages at this speed bump for permission to proceed!!

[big jim]

A few from this morning from the phone camera, not in the mood for proper pics again, prefered to get some shut eye when I could instead!

 

Ballast drop in Newtown again, top and tail 66s

 

66850 leading to Newtown, so on the rear in this pic as I changed ends

 

And 66849 on the other end

 

Had a look at the track being replaced, I think it's bullhead, some of the chairs are marked GWR 1927

 

And into Newtown station to wait for permission to leave the worksite

 

 

And off to Sutton bridge where I got relief and the train continued to Bescot

 

 

http://youtu.be/nJhAAgJs6vM

Edited March 20, 2016 by big jim

[class"66"]

More super pictures Jim..

[big jim]

some from yesterday, kirow crane from shrewsbury to toton and light loco back to bescot

 

started in salop, waited in severn bridge box for my train to arrive

 

 

 

 

 

then it appeared 70802 up front

 

 

 

looped at cosford for 45 mins, while i was there the air ambulance came in to land

 

stopped at wolverhampton to wait for a pendolino to head south

 

then onward to water orton for 30 mins

 

and into toton, no pics as it was straight in, straight out, back via leicester and nuneaton and into bescot

 

drs 68 waiting its stock

 

 

and that was that

Edited March 22, 2016 by big jim

[corneliuslundie]

Very nice pics of Salop.

Jonathan

[96701]

I must get myself into that box sometime soon. Thanks for the pics - you've reminded me to do something about it.

[tanatvalley]

Enjoyed the photographs of Salop. Any idea why the middle road has been severed.

[Great Western]

A Freightliner coal service derailed some years ago, it was easier and cheaper to plain line it than replace the damaged sections.

 

Great Western

[big jim]

the freightliner came off at the north end of the loop taking out the points, the area where the track is missing has always been plain rail.

 

i believe the piece missing in the pics is something to do with the refurbishment work thats been going on on the bridge, if you look closely you can see the removed track panels sat on top of the laid track at the north end of the loop, i think its due to be put back in at some point

[WCML100]

Saw this yesterday at west drayton! Got a video of it as well!

 

 

further to the above - i have now uploaded the video to youtube - link below

 

[Southernman46]

Reference post #3108 and the 1927 chairs ...........

 

I can confirm that there are many sleepers & chairs track in the Up Loop (Plat 6) at Exeter St Davids dating from 1930

[big jim]

some from carlisle today, couldnt be bothered with pics again!

 

60095 in need of a wash

 

snaking out of the yard

 

 

ready for the off

 

and into carlisle

 

and that was that for the day picture wise

[big jim]

some from yesterday, caught the train from wigton to crewe, rolled in and it was 37402

 

it may look like "noise" in the picture but its actually rain!

 

 

into carlisle where "roundhouse" also got off the train having had a trip round the cumbrian coast

 

 

9704 leading back to workington

 

and off it went, heck of a hump under the 2nd coach

 

57311

 

that was it, for that bit of the day, my job was to conduct a tamper between shrewsbury and gobowen, just one pic from this morning

 

should have been day off tomorrow but doing a loco move bescot to nottingham and onward in a van to immingham

[roundhouse]

Good to see you again Jim

[acko22]

Ok with the pic of the 37 pushing the DRS rake out of Carlisle one thing struck me.

 

Even with the 37 providing the power and having its light lite up to show its direction of travel why does it still need a lamp fitting? I thought it only required a lamp if there was no lighting fitted or in use on the rear of the train?

 

As in effect it is running like the old 87 and DVT expresses, and they never had to have a lamp when the loco was pushing

[big jim]

I'll be honest I wondered the same too when I saw it!

[South-East Rail]

Ok with the pic of the 37 pushing the DRS rake out of Carlisle one thing struck me.

 

Even with the 37 providing the power and having its light lite up to show its direction of travel why does it still need a lamp fitting? I thought it only required a lamp if there was no lighting fitted or in use on the rear of the train?

 

As in effect it is running like the old 87 and DVT expresses, and they never had to have a lamp when the loco was pushing

 

Is it a contingency in case the tail lamps fail? Or perhaps someone forgot to take it off!

 

Ed

[russ p]

In the old days two tail lamps indicated the royal train.

Three.. Maybe a member of the illuminati is being conveyed!

[Swindon 123]

the freightliner came off at the north end of the loop taking out the points, the area where the track is missing has always been plain rail.

 

i believe the piece missing in the pics is something to do with the refurbishment work thats been going on on the bridge, if you look closely you can see the removed track panels sat on top of the laid track at the north end of the loop, i think its due to be put back in at some point

The problem at Salop with the middle road is the road underbridge at the north end (Crewe Jcn end). It requires substantial refurbishment having suffered tin worm damage. It is unlikely to be replaced as the freight traffic has dropped off so much as the lack of the middle road has not caused much operating problems. As long ago as the mid 1980's when the first plans for resignalling at Shrewsbury where proposed, the middle road was not shown on the plans, all traffic was limited to the platform lines, with platform 3 reinstated, as it was many years later. The accident at Clapham junction and subsequent signalling requirements meant the plans where quietly kicked into the long grass and forgotten about. It will be interesting to see if the middle road at Shrewsbury is ever made operational again. Somehow I doubt it. 

 

Paul J.