Jim’s “out and about with GBRf” thread

[ess1uk]

Some great pictures there Jim.

[big jim]

Nowt special yesterday, medical in romiley near Stockport, decided to go by train

 

Bendy bus from Piccadilly out via guide bride

 

Old signal box at the jn, left to Piccadilly via brinnington and right via Hyde and guide bridge, there are a right mush mash of lines over this side of Manchester/Stockport

 

And a 150 back via brinnington

 

I didn't get any pics of the station building at romiley but it sure is an impressive structure, don't know it's company origins but I've never seen a station like it before, 2 flights of steps up to the Manchester platform, floor 1 takes you to the underpass to the Sheffield bound platform, certainly a prototype for everything station

 

Edit: wiki link

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romiley_railway_station

Edited May 9, 2017 by big jim

[ColinK]

Shame ypu weren't in Romiley on Wednesday, as you would have been welcome to pop into the model railway club for a brew. Its only 200 metres from the station.

[big jim]

Some from earlier, popped out to fott the 88 on the northern belle, went down to LNWR for a different viewpoint away from the public!

 

 

 

 

 

And the 88

 

 

 

 

 

 

68 on the rear

 

 

And that was that, back to the station in a bit to get my train, too and tail 73s round Cheshire then drive off to westbury!

[big jim]

couple of days of pics

 

73s round cheshire

 

biomass near northwich

 

 

 

chester

 

 

 

 

and off at warrington

 

 

 

and down to westbury the day after for 67s to weymouth

 

159 in westbury

 

66s 

 

and away to weymouth, stopped at mayden newton to let a unit pass

 

 

 

into weymouth

 

 

 

 

back to maiden newton to let another unit pass before we could get the token to veovil pen mill

 

chinnok

 

station building, listed as its a fine example of brunel rural station architecture

 

unit arriving in

 

the bridgehole to the left used to be the branch to bridport and west bay, according to the info plaque on the station there used to be a gravity siding for trains coming in from the branch, the train would come in, propel into the siding, detatch the loco and move out of the way before the coaches were left to drop back by gravity into the platform under control of the guard before the loco reattached to the outbound train

 

another helicopter

 

into bristol east yard

 

 

back to westbury but this time onto a chord avoiding the station from the trowbridge direction and out onto the avoider to change ends

 

 

the white horse

 

 

and that was that 

[alibuchan]

Another cracking set of photos Jim.

 

66740 gets about a bit. I grabbed a photo of it coming through Oxford Parkway yesterday morning on a Bicester to Marchwood MOD trip.

 

Hands down, one of the best threads on here.

[ajwffc]

The other helicopter could be a Wildcat 

[Foo]

Other helicopter is a lynx

[Andy7]

Other helicopter is a lynx

It's not, it's a wildcat as already mentioned. Boxy tail structure and upwards pointing exhausts for infrared suppression!

[Foo]

Yes. A lynx wildcat......

[Andy7]

Yes. A lynx wildcat......

AW159 if you like. Not lynx though.

 

Great pics as always Jim, 67's are starting to look nice and grimy.

[corneliuslundie]

I took your photo of the Pendolino of 9 May to model railway club last night to ask how to model the siding in the foreground!

I assume that some of the effect is caused by your long lens, but what attracted comment was that the rails are far more shiny than one would expect of a siding which from its state one would expect to be little used. Or is it a refuge loop?

Still interesting track.

Jonathan

[big jim]

thats the through siding at LNWR, 5mph track and used all day every day by stuff coming into and out of the carriage sidings, probably 20+ units a day over it, 150s, 158, 350, voyager, 67s and wag, test trains etc

[corneliuslundie]

Thanks for the response.

I'm glad to hear the limit is 5 mph. I hope not too much falls off.

Jonathan

[big jim]

67 again last night, not quite as picturesque as maiden newton, this time it was Wolverhampton, Rowley Regis and rugeley

 

Wolves

 

Rugeley

 

 

Rowley

 

 

Tyseley

 

 

 

Moor st

 

And back to derby

Edited May 13, 2017 by big jim

[The Stationmaster]

Seems you Conductor Driver misled you a bit Jim - the Bristol pictures are at East Depot where your train is standing on the Down Goods Line while those at the bottom are on the Up Westbury Line adjacent to the former cement works connection at Heywood Road and very definitely not on the Westbury Avoiding Line (where there is no crossover or signalling to facilitate reversal).  In fact if you had turned left after reversing at that spot you would only then have been going towards the Down Westbury Avoiding Line.

 

The line you went over from Hawkeridge Jcn to what is nowadays called Westbury East Loop Junction is nowadays called  East Loop although I think the proper full name is still Westbury East Loop.

[big jim]

I use the term avoiding line in the loose sense, as in I personally avoided Westbury!

 

i wouldn't say he misled me as he knew where we were, as did i track layout wise but when I come to relay the info on here i just put what sounds about right, I don't take notes for my pics

 

And yes east depot not yard for Bristol

Edited May 13, 2017 by big jim

[D854_Tiger]

A lovely railway, that line to Weymouth, I'm guessing not quite the S&D but not far off.

 

I first experienced it back in the 1970s on a glorious mid-summer day.

 

I had selected the through train from Cardiif because i knew it was one of the few loco-hauled (class 47) services.

 

It was but for some reason the class 47 was removed at Westbury, as I lent out of the droplight in the compartment, I had sole-occupancy of (all the way), I heard a familiar noise I dared not to hope was for our train.

 

Needless to say a filthy Western (why did they always seem that way) was backing down onto our train, oh deep joy, glorious weather, glorious scenery and the perfect soundtrack to go with it.

 

By then, only a handful of Westerns survived, mostly concentrated around Westbury, and not normally used on passengers trains so it was a bit of a result.

 

[big jim]

Forgot to put this up on Monday, did the logs to chirk with 60087

 

 

Doncaster later with 60085 from Toton

[big jim]

far too wet for pics today, was planning on hanging round doncaster station for some pictures but couldnt be bothered in the end, even missed out on fotting an IEP on test

 

60085 from toton to doncaster

 

toton

 

changing ends in marshgate to run back through platform 1 to the carriage sidings

 

and safely stabled

 

there is a fenced walking route from the staff carpark to the station, had it not been raining id have got some more pics from here with the proper camera as its quite a good viewpoint and safe!

 

and that was that, back in at 04:30 for a pair of 37s back south to derby

[big jim]

Some from this morning, IM train Doncaster to derby with 37025 pushing

 

Nice bit of graffiti in the dirt on the 31

 

[big jim]

Popped down to crewe station to collect man van just as there 2 locos were departing the platform for Basford hall

 

 

Swify sent me a message last week about them working a train later today, anyway thought nothing of it then I realised they are on the train I'm working in the morning from Llandrindod wells to shrewsbury, will have to remember my camera later and hopefully get some shots of them in Llandrindod station at 03:00!!

[DRS Crewe On A Mission]

Popped down to crewe station to collect man van just as there 2 locos were departing the platform for Basford hall

 

 

Swify sent me a message last week about them working a train later today, anyway thought nothing of it then I realised they are on the train I'm working in the morning from Llandrindod wells to shrewsbury, will have to remember my camera later and hopefully get some shots of them in Llandrindod station at 03:00!!

 

Brilliant photo!

 

I have been waiting to see a photo of 608 and 611 since they have been repainted into Europhoenix livery. They look fantastic and the livery suits them really well.

 

Bachmann really need to upgrade their tooling to produce 37/6s.

Edited May 22, 2017 by DRS Crewe On A Mission

[Craig1989]

Anymore updates Jim?

[big jim]

Nowt much happening, been training a driver on 37s in Derby and in tonight on the SGT doing calibration runs so I may get some pics later, not really been in the mood for pics this week to be honest