RMweb Premium Barry O Posted October 18, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 18, 2019 (edited) Jim Thought of you today as we passed a 4 loco set of 66s moving around in Donny...two were GBRf, another was Biffa.. but that was it as our Azuma bounced into Donny Baz Edited October 18, 2019 by Barry O Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted October 18, 2019 Share Posted October 18, 2019 This was your Rush job passing Rotherham. We were noodling about looking at the tram-trains and I looked on RTT to see what was passing, so we nipped up past Booths scrapyard. Only a phone for the photo and should have been the other side of the bridge if I'd realised what it would be: 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack374 Posted October 18, 2019 Share Posted October 18, 2019 4 hours ago, eastwestdivide said: This was your Rush job passing Rotherham.... ...And Stenson...ta for the tone for the gallery! Meeting 4E94 was another Stenson classic switch, where the 'modal wanted the Castle Donnington line and you wanted the Uttoxeter line, so each was held until the other had cleared. The intermodal was let go as soon as you’d cleared the junction, hence the very short time between you passing under the bridge and the 'modal passing the other way. Jack. 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siggie in the east Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 Will the 'new' 66 need much modification to pass fit for our network, aside from a repaint and some appropriate light clusters. Thanks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 13 minutes ago, Siggie in the east said: Will the 'new' 66 need much modification to pass fit for our network, aside from a repaint and some appropriate light clusters. Thanks AWS fitting, along with driver-monitoring equipment, I suspect 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted October 19, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 19, 2019 i believe the brake rig needs a fair bit of work doing as well as electrics 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steadfast Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 Needs horns fitting too! Interesting to see it side by side with a 66/0 in Jack's pic, play a game of spot the difference. Jo 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted October 20, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 20, 2019 Only took one pic last night, first bit of the job was cancelled, 2nd bit was the RHTT from rugby to bescot then I did a possession from bescot to adderley Park, pathed through new st but unfortunately I didn’t stop to grab a pic! couple of days off then 4 days of the Trafford park job next week 15 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted October 26, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 26, 2019 Just one pic from 7am this morning, possession between wrexham and Chester 66753 on the rear at balderton level crossing back in tomorrow to take it back to Basford hall 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 5BarVT Posted October 26, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 26, 2019 58 minutes ago, big jim said: back in tomorrow to take it back to Basford hall If you can! Hopefully the water will have gone down or an ‘interesting’ route is still available. Do you sign Middlewich? Paul. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted October 26, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 26, 2019 i take it the line is shut at calverley? yes i can go via middlewich if needs be Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted October 28, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 28, 2019 On 26/10/2019 at 23:31, big jim said: i take it the line is shut at calverley? yes i can go via middlewich if needs be Ah Calverley. Better not say too much about Lance the Lamp Man, the Purity Police will block it. Was up there with the lineman 'Coddy' Turner in the summer of 1968. We had a big thunderstorm the day I was back off holiday. Got stuck with floods trying to get to Crewe and missed him at the depot. Got the bus to Nantwich to catch up with him on a barrier fault at Shrewbridge and had to wade to the station. There was a lightning strike at Beeston Castle so went to fix that. We headed back to Calverley to restore Block Working . Got stuck in a flood and towed out by the farmer. Drove round to Worleston. Control had sent a Class 24 to check the line because of reports of flooding. PWay gang were rescuing fish from the cess with a bucket. We set off on the 24 to look for a possible line wire problem but soon found water over the rails. Climbed down and the water in the cess was up to the top of my waders so we changed ends via the six-foot and returned gingerly wrong line to Worleston. Happy days on the old railway!! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 5BarVT Posted October 28, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 28, 2019 On 26/10/2019 at 23:31, big jim said: i take it the line is shut at calverley? yes i can go via middlewich if needs be I understand it was Wardle. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted October 28, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 28, 2019 Yeah, got through in the end but had to pass 2 signals at danger just outside chester In tonight with a short trip from landor st to Toton with a Stone train, should have been from shrewsbury but the marches line is closed so it’s going via the lickey just one pic from Earlier tonight, got a new(er) iPhone yesterday which supposedly has a better camera, we’ll see when I use it properly at night! 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted October 29, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted October 29, 2019 Couple from early this morning in toton 22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted November 5, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted November 5, 2019 Some from yesterday, trying the new iPhone camera TFW 158 Loco swap on the rhtt Rugby Getting dirtier Macclesfield Back to rugby GBRF and a 110 mph pendo 350 unit Same job today but didn’t bother with pics 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold CovDriver Posted November 5, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 5, 2019 I followed you all the way from Stechford to Rugby I thought it was you when it was heading back North from platform 6. It was a tad slippy when I was right behind you as my sanders and WSP light was on most of the time. Cheers Colin 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted November 5, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted November 5, 2019 It was slow going from stetchford to Coventry today, the pendo in front never seemed to get moving until after there. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted November 8, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted November 8, 2019 Just one from this morning in rugby, back to the RHTT again tomorrow 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted November 9, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted November 9, 2019 Should have been RHTTing again today at 06:00 but I noticed on the roster it was uncovered from london so I called control who said “has no one asked you to come in and take it for rugby at 02:00?” simple answer, no!, so a taxi down to rugby to work it back to bescot and into the shed, thankfully the shed was manned last night so I managed to get it on the fuel at 04:00 but as I was in early I didn’t have enough time to do my booked job to rugby and Macclesfield so the first leg was cancelled and it will pick up it’s path with another driver later this afternoon On shed at 04:00 Such a shame that on this eve of Remembrance Sunday one of our commemorative loco is bolted filthy to the RHTT set, unfortunately they didn’t have the jet wash out this morning on the shed or I would have given it a damn good clean interesting week coming up, working out of Ferme park traction conducting class 37 and DBSO on an IM train to such exotic places as Cambridge and fenchurch street 21 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted November 12, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted November 12, 2019 some from last night, derby to ferme park via marylebone derby marylebone west ruislip where we changed ends and ran to greenford, over to acton and onto the north london line to ferme park ferme park off to cambridge tonight 23 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted November 13, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted November 13, 2019 Some from last nights job, didn’t bother with pics at Cambridge just a few from Ferme park and back in this morning all being well were off to shoeburyness and fenchurch st tonight 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted November 14, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted November 14, 2019 And last night... ferme park Changing ends at hornsey Leigh on sea Fenchurch st Shoeburyness From there it was back to Ferme park and stabled, I have had to rush back home for an emergency MRI so caught a train from Euston back to crewe where one of our 92s was sat on the blocks off the sleeper train 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikejames Posted November 14, 2019 Share Posted November 14, 2019 I'm surprised you sign all those far away places! but good for photos regards mike j Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted November 14, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted November 14, 2019 I don’t sign anywhere down there, I’m just traction conducting the class 37 and DBSO with a driver who signs the routes tonight were off to Watford on the D.C. lines 1 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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