101 Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 20 minutes ago, russ p said: Used this as a route learner at thornaby couple of times, it had big tv monitors and end cameras. It also had a three phase generator which supplied power for this and aircon in the saloon in the former DTC vehicle. It went rather well too as it had two Leyland TL11s but sounded odd getting turbo scream from a DMU before changing gear Was that the RL set that had two big screens showing front and back and swivelling seats inbetween? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owd Bob Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 Cheers Russ Really a very interesting unit then, i wonder whatever happened to it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted May 5, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 5, 2020 2 hours ago, Owd Bob said: Cheers Russ Really a very interesting unit then, i wonder whatever happened to it? I left thornaby in 97 and it was dumped there , last time I used it was that summer as an air conditioned class room 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted May 7, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 7, 2020 (edited) Peterborough just now Train 6G66 A class 66 hauling 1 bogie open wagon! https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/18969/2020-05-07/detailed Can't post picture as it's Railcam copyright Also Train 5Z50 (519R) 2 x37s hauling 10 Greater Anglia Mk3s bound for Long Marston https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/18989/2020-05-07/detailed Edited May 7, 2020 by melmerby 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owd Bob Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 1 hour ago, melmerby said: Peterborough just now Train 6G66 A class 66 hauling 1 bogie open wagon! https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/18969/2020-05-07/detailed Can't post picture as it's Railcam copyright Also Train 5Z50 (519R) 2 x37s hauling 10 Greater Anglia Mk3s bound for Long Marston https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/18989/2020-05-07/detailed I saw it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack374 Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 3 hours ago, melmerby said: Peterborough just now Train 6G66 A class 66 hauling 1 bogie open wagon! https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/18969/2020-05-07/detailed Can't post picture as it's Railcam copyright Also Train 5Z50 (519R) 2 x37s hauling 10 Greater Anglia Mk3s bound for Long Marston https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/18989/2020-05-07/detailed Just seen shots in my Flickr feed: 6G66 must be a wagon trip/cripple headcode used often: ...And my favourite...6G66 with the ratio of wheels loco:wagon way overpowered at 3:1! (Click any of the above photos to be taken to the Flickr page) Jack. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ramblin Rich Posted May 7, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 7, 2020 Second photo is one for the 'real thing looking like a model' thread Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted May 7, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 7, 2020 Want to put a GB sticker on your unit? No reason why not to. 207.010 at Bramley Apr93 (frame grabbed from video). The unit had been to Europe (France?) on a railtour I believe. Unforunately I don't have details and quick search online didn't show anything, but it did have a legitimate reason for the sticker. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR(S) Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 21 minutes ago, Metr0Land said: Want to put a GB sticker on your unit? No reason why not to. 207.010 at Bramley Apr93 (frame grabbed from video). The unit had been to Europe (France?) on a railtour I believe. Unforunately I don't have details and quick search online didn't show anything, but it did have a legitimate reason for the sticker. Comment from Flickr user Adrian Nicholls under a picture of 207010: "Geoff, efforts were made to run a 'Hastings' unit through to France before the stock was withdrawn using the Dover Train Ferry. I can't remember who the promoter was but think it was the SEG (Southern Electric Group) unsurprisingly it never came to fruition." 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR(S) Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 Same unit with some tinsel on the front: 207010.1 by mike bunker, on Flickr 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted May 7, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 7, 2020 I remember finding a circuit of Ireland rally sticker on a bit of wood that had been dumped on the railway , I peeled it of and stuck in on the headcode class on 20144 it was on there for ages 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted May 7, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 7, 2020 Can be seen on this https://images.app.goo.gl/cDv1QwZiMKE5G5E57 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 Modeling balls up Pt. 2 "And I spilt some paint on the other half as well" 11 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post montyburns56 Posted May 7, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted May 7, 2020 Passenger: I wonder why the aircon isn't working... 16 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owd Bob Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 Just for a laugh, my 12 year old Philips lekky razor, it could almost be a cl.802 & TPE livery prototype. 5 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted May 8, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 8, 2020 (edited) Like the way the new sleepers/ties are ditributed along the P/Way on this US clip from Horseshoe pass (starts at (0:35) Watch the CAT machine moving from truck to truck! A following train dumps ballast on the go at about 8:35 onwards Edited May 8, 2020 by melmerby 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Colin_McLeod Posted May 9, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 9, 2020 (edited) Driver training at Downpatrick and County Down Railway. Edited May 9, 2020 by Colin_McLeod typo 10 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 Just the sort of thing you get on driver training simulators : unexpected photographer lying on the track. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted May 10, 2020 Author Share Posted May 10, 2020 On 07/05/2020 at 16:50, russ p said: Can be seen on this https://images.app.goo.gl/cDv1QwZiMKE5G5E57 Are you sure it's the right link? That takes me to a list of Ebay items. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted May 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 10, 2020 1 hour ago, jonny777 said: Are you sure it's the right link? That takes me to a list of Ebay items. Not sure what's happened there Jonny, unless the original picture has been sold or something. It did work 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WessexEclectic Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 On 08/05/2020 at 13:40, melmerby said: Like the way the new sleepers/ties are ditributed along the P/Way on this US clip from Horseshoe pass (starts at (0:35) Are those brake tenders at 5:25 in the vid? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted May 10, 2020 Author Share Posted May 10, 2020 On 08/05/2020 at 13:40, melmerby said: Like the way the new sleepers/ties are ditributed along the P/Way on this US clip from Horseshoe pass (starts at (0:35) Watch the CAT machine moving from truck to truck! A following train dumps ballast on the go at about 8:35 onwards What amazes me, is that the CAT driver decides to do his wagon hopping at the same time as a train is passing on an adjacent track. If something had gone wrong, who knows where the machinery would have ended up? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted May 10, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 10, 2020 23 minutes ago, WessexEclectic said: Are those brake tenders at 5:25 in the vid? I think you will find they are "Slugs" Used for distributing engine power. They are just a loco chassis with motors & ballast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slug_(railroad) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catkins Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 On 30/04/2020 at 20:10, melmerby said: I remember seeing it on the Northern reaches of the WCML when in Inter City colours. Wasn't it also later called "Avocet" If I haven't been beaten to it;- 89001 was repainted from Intercity to Intercity Swallow, and Named "Avocet" at Kings Cross. The naming was to celebrate a significant anniversary for the RSPB - who use an avocet as their logo. The honourable person who performed the naming ceremony was Margret Thatcher PM, after the naming was done, the loco hauled a special formed of mk1 (landcruise) stock to Sandy. if I have been beaten to it, sorry for the duplication. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 I don't know how rare it was to see a 40 on a train with air-con stock, but I don't recall seeing one before. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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