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id agree about kimble not changing but risborough is totally different even since i first started going down there in 2010, new centre road, bi directional signalling, chinnor railway in the back platform, signal box open to the public

 

i suppose since 2001 the line will have been doubled north of risborough too

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On 16/12/2019 at 11:03, big jim said:

id agree about kimble not changing but risborough is totally different even since i first started going down there in 2010, new centre road, bi directional signalling, chinnor railway in the back platform, signal box open to the public

 

i suppose since 2001 the line will have been doubled north of risborough too

The doubling of the line was done I believe around 97/98 as I remember watching it when mum drove me to/from school in Risborough when we lived in Thame.

I didnt realise it was now BiDi signalling as well. Maybe I need to take a trip down there next time I visit my Dad, or see what google maps can show me!

Cheers Jim

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Some from last night, Bicester to crewe 

 

started in crewe to get a train south 

 

new livery Pendolino 

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Banbury, changed trains there, colas 70 heading north 

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Chiltern 165

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At Bicester, run round and ready to set off 

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Into Hinksey to run round again, chiltern 68 at the turn back signal on the arrival line

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And run round again, I sat on the goods for 4 1/2 hours!

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And into crewe

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Couple of trains tonight, shrewsbury to crewe Stone train then a footplate swap back onto the MOD again back to Leamington 

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15 minutes ago, Iron Horse said:

You'll be going past my new house tonight Jim, about 1/4 mile before the Willaston crossing :sungum:

 

I'll look out my window :lol:

 

but will you be out in your shorts, your well known to lots of drivers as “that guy who wears shorts even in the snow”

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Of course, always in my shorts :sungum: :sungum:

 

To be fair because we've been moving I haven't been out that much, but I'll be making up for it soon and no modelling time is killing me. I'm hoping to build a viewing platform against the annoying sound deadening fence (which does nothing with a class 70 coming up the hill :lol::lol:) when I really get to grips with the place. Any time you go past tunes are always welcome :sungum:

 

And Merry Christmas to you and thanks for the continued supply of pictures.........without which I would never have dreamt of running a 66 and a single VGA ;)

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Looks like the Hanson branded JPAs are to be used on the Penyfford flow and PCAs will be the order of the day on the Clitheroe-Avonmouth.

(Today's 6M82 to Clitheroe has three JPAs and the rest are PCAs)

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