RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted January 14, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted January 14, 2021 The last couple of days of the 196 course was cancelled so today I got asked last minute to do a derby to bescot light engine, it should have been going to longport hauling new import 66797 but there was an issue so it didn’t happen Derby 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted January 16, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted January 16, 2021 Nice little job tonight, landor st to Doncaster light engine Ews 66 in Saltley and my loco in a snowy Doncaster possession tomorrow night in Sheffield, out of toton this time though 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted January 18, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted January 18, 2021 Some from today, should have been shrewsbury to telford then back to bescot but an issue meant the departure never happened relieved the train on the triangle in shrewsbury 175 heading for cardiff Shrewsbury Severn bridge Signal box having a lot of work done at the moment 175 heading into the station With a 170 heading to birmingham My train arriving Ready for departure and set back awaiting shutting down Tomorrow will be either going back for that train or Iport! 26 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WessexEclectic Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 On 16/01/2021 at 03:50, big jim said: Ews 66 in Saltley https://app.photobucket.com/u/s-type-driver/a/df13df34-bb5a-418b-a85e-bafd141fa586/p/1c9b84b4-59b3-4518-a970-938e13b766c3 Does the track in the immediate foreground lead to the EMR siding? - Just trying to place the photo, TIA. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted January 19, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 19, 2021 (edited) I think the loco is sat on the EMR line and the nearest one is just a dead end, can’t remember off hand Edited January 19, 2021 by big jim 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium phil-b259 Posted January 19, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 19, 2021 One of your company’s celebrity locos has been seen pottering round the south east last week Jim. 66731 seen at Crawley new yard on a stone train (and needing a bit of a wash) 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted January 20, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 20, 2021 Only one pic from yesterday, Iport and back change of job today, off to Donnington to rescue the train we left there on Monday and take it to Bicester 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iron Horse Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 This you then Bit of deja vu!!!!!! Apart from the rain!!!!! 12 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 22 hours ago, WessexEclectic said: Does the track in the immediate foreground lead to the EMR siding? - Just trying to place the photo, TIA. The loco I believe is on the EMR connection. The line in the foreground is a dead end. Andy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted January 20, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted January 20, 2021 Couldn’t be bothered with pics today but did get these while waiting in the loop at gresty lane, couple of 68s heading into the drs depot currently fighting my way back to crewe from Bicester but I’ve heard the line is shut between Stafford and crewe 23 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted January 21, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted January 21, 2021 Some from today, coton hill Stone train coleshill parkway shrewsbury rhis was the only view I managed to get of one of TFW class 230 units passing by, tried for a video but just as it passed a 150 unit went the other way blocking my view! and back in coleshill 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted January 22, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted January 22, 2021 Should have been day off but got a call while running my lad to work, can you conduct a train through crewe station in about 45 mins! Home and a quick change to my boots, down to basford hall jn to jump on it line side and take it to sandbach where the driver took back over back in tomorrow to east mids gateway then a varied week including class 37 derby to Marylebone and Ferme park on Monday night then Mountsorrel, possessions at bourneville and bloxwich then another 37 Oxford to derby, then the week after passing out on 196 units 26 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob D2 Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 Nice to see “ chinook “ on the MOD, appropriate. be great if GBRf could expand on the pairings - I could really buy into a typhoon shed or an F35 shed ! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted January 23, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted January 23, 2021 Some from today, crewe to EMG crewe and stabled at EMG to get an idea of the size of the place this is the public view (from the passenger seat of the van) of the site coming from the airport, it’s barely noticeable from certain angles then as you get further along the road you can see the unloading lines, my train is on the nearest and that is 18 wagons long (2000ish ft) with plenty of room to spare at the end of each road 29 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted January 25, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted January 25, 2021 My dad managed a better pic of the 230 unit than I did! 22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted January 26, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted January 26, 2021 Some from last night, derby to Marylebone and back to west ruislip derby 97 departing with another service Changing ends Stopped in princes risborough for an op stop, lovely 08 lurking on the chinnor railway Marylebone West ruislip we then took a van to willesden jn and got a train into euston, travelled on a new(ish) 710 unit that’s me until tomorrow, mountsorrel Stone train 28 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siggie in the east Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 Crewe is looking a lite soggy following the storms. Picture courtesy of Network Rail Take care 10 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted January 26, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 26, 2021 It’s open again now but in normally park my car at the bottom left of that picture so glad I didn’t that night funny how it’s never normally suffered that bad and in the last 12 months all the fields around the edge of the yard have been built on with warehouses and housing right Upto the boundary fence 4 3 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted January 28, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted January 28, 2021 Some from today, first up showing someone round bescot Class 56 and 70 waiting to head to Doncaster, one of my former colas trainees driving Walking past the ballast siding, spotted this in the stones, an old walkers crisp packet, best before end April 1992 on the back! Imagine all the stuff that would have witnessed around bescot back then Then over to Leicester to wait for our loco to come in 1/2 through the run round in humberstone road, note the new track alignment and the removal of the fox st sidings HST in the platform Cement train to hope And my loco which can now run into the platform instead of fox st without disrupting the main line Flashy new London Underground wagons? And back on the train In humberstone road and that was it as it went dark Possession tomorrow night on the Cannock chase line 28 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted January 29, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 29, 2021 Only one from last night, possession at bloxwich, waiting to leave and head for crewe basford hall just about to head off for Oxford to collect 37254 again and work it back to derby 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted January 30, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 30, 2021 (edited) On 28/01/2021 at 00:49, big jim said: Walking past the ballast siding, spotted this in the stones, an old walkers crisp packet, best before end April 1992 on the back! Imagine all the stuff that would have witnessed around bescot back then I lost that packet at Bescot open day, it was my lucky packet. Railways have been cursed ever since. if you give it me back, all EMUs will vanish and LHCS will return, 58’s will rise from Rouen and 87’s will come back from exile. To think that packet was abandoned before the first Birmingham built Eurostar entered service, and has been found pretty much as they finished at a Birmingham scrapyard... you finding it is an Omen.. you have been chosen ! Edited January 30, 2021 by adb968008 1 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted January 30, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted January 30, 2021 Some from this morning oxford to derby, trouble with the DBSO so the 37 was leading to derby with the train in darkness as there was no power, unable to drive from the DBSO all well and good except for the reverse move to get into the RTC! a very wet oxford Derby We managed the reverse move by me changing a couple of switches on the generator and control unit which enabled me to get it to export power to just the DBSO enabling the cab to be energised and driven from, I bet the guys who’d sat in the train in the cold and dark since london had wished I’d tried it in oxford before we left so they could have had heat and light for the trip back! possession tonight in rugby then a varied week, Donnington, Leicester and Tyseley to finish off 196s, should have been on a nice little longport to SVR job Monday but that’s been postponed for a week 23 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithHC Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 19 hours ago, big jim said: Some from this morning oxford to derby, trouble with the DBSO so the 37 was leading to derby with the train in darkness as there was no power, unable to drive from the DBSO all well and good except for the reverse move to get into the RTC! a very wet oxford Derby We managed the reverse move by me changing a couple of switches on the generator and control unit which enabled me to get it to export power to just the DBSO enabling the cab to be energised and driven from, I bet the guys who’d sat in the train in the cold and dark since london had wished I’d tried it in oxford before we left so they could have had heat and light for the trip back! possession tonight in rugby then a varied week, Donnington, Leicester and Tyseley to finish off 196s, should have been on a nice little longport to SVR job Monday but that’s been postponed for a week Longprort to the SVR moving a bodysnatcher by any chance. I presume it will be towed. Keith Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
APOLLO Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Th ballast reminds me of a "Bowyers" pork pie I bought on a Bristol to Newcastle express back in the 70's (Peak hauled - proper train). It was harder than a lump of ballast, and had probably travelled more miles than Rommel !! I still ate it though !! Brit15 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted January 31, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 31, 2021 One from This morning, ballast back from rugby to bescot, 66707 and 66742 too and tail bescot Donnington tomorrow 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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