St. Simon Posted December 25, 2015 Share Posted December 25, 2015 DR98008 made a rare appearance parked in the bay platform at Barnham earlier this week: Network Rail DR98008 Barnham Station 13/12/16 by John Upton, on Flickr Network Rail DR98008 Barnham Station 13/12/16 by John Upton, on Flickr Hi, Just to say that this unit is now used for Signalling Surveys using lasers and lots of sophisticated electronic magic as can be seen by the camera mounted on the nose, in fact it was instrumental in the design of the new Signalling around Birmingham New Street (being fitted out specifically for that project) Simon 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 4630 Posted December 28, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 28, 2015 (edited) . Edited November 15, 2016 by 4630 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Claude_Dreyfus Posted January 10, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 10, 2016 Picture taken on a Sunday morning - 13 September - at Leamington Spa. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Phil Mc Posted March 31, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 31, 2016 98905/98955 at York, with the revised style lights fitted. Looks like the repaint of the Yellow ends just went around the numbers!! Cheers, Phil. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Phil Mc Posted March 31, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 31, 2016 Railvac 3 at Doncaster. Cheers, Phil. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Phil Mc Posted June 1, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 1, 2016 RailVacs 's 2, 3 & 5 at Doncaster. Plenty of members of the 'Orange army' were surrounding RailVac 3, as it was put through its paces in the yard. Cheers, Phil. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandora Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 Just being curious. There are all these different track machines, presumably with many different cab layouts. So who drives them? They will need both route knowledge and know how to drive the particular machine. On the mainline under normal signalling, the same BR RT3251 Group Standards apply, the Tamper driver is a fully qualified main line driver. in an engineers possession the standards are relaxed to allow non RT3251 drivers to drive within a worksite at slow speed. . The driver needs to be certificated, ie, passed out, on the particular make model of tamper "Traction knowledge" In addition Drivers are Operators of the on-board computers systems for track maintenance and design work, plus you need the ability to operate the tamping banks and lifting frame. Tamper working is is a lot harder than being a passenger or freight train driver, 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 4630 Posted June 24, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 24, 2016 (edited) . Edited November 12, 2016 by 4630 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
emte Posted June 24, 2016 Share Posted June 24, 2016 Hallo All Could any kind soul tell me the allocated Net Work rail numbers for the Robel mobile maintainance trains. The reason I ask is about three months ago,I was at Milton Keynes station , and the two cl.20s that went to the Blue Bell railway to collect the coachs for filming at Kings Cross,were hauling what I think was an Robel M.M.T. T.I.A. Emte Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Phil Mc Posted June 24, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 24, 2016 One of the Robel units went through Barnsley at about 5.30 on Wednesday morning, no idea what the number was !!! Cheers, Phil. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted June 24, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 24, 2016 (edited) Hallo All Could any kind soul tell me the allocated Net Work rail numbers for the Robel mobile maintainance trains. The reason I ask is about three months ago,I was at Milton Keynes station , and the two cl.20s that went to the Blue Bell railway to collect the coachs for filming at Kings Cross,were hauling what I think was an Robel M.M.T. T.I.A. Emte 9750x/9760x/9780x is the series. Number info with his pic. And 97502 etc being hauled by a pair of 20s Cheers, Mick Edited June 24, 2016 by newbryford Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
emte Posted June 24, 2016 Share Posted June 24, 2016 9750x/9760x/9780x is the series. Number info with his pic. And 97502 etc being hauled by a pair of 20s Cheers, Mick Mick. Thank you very much .your answer has solved a big mystery. Emte Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pitbull1845 Posted June 24, 2016 Share Posted June 24, 2016 (edited) As I passed by Poole station last night I saw an unusual looking piece of track machinery, after a bit of research it would appear to be DR98217 - The Balfour Beatty drain train. Not something I've seen before. If its there in the morning I'll try and get a picture. UPDATE: Typically it's gone! Edited June 25, 2016 by pitbull1845 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jbqfc Posted June 25, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 25, 2016 a couple from darlington 04-06-16 Mastia ZWA B45 UE tamper DR 75303 by john brace, on Flickr Robel bahnbaumaschinen germany YXA mobile maintenance unit (MMU) DR 97501 by john brace, on Flickr 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stadman Posted June 25, 2016 Share Posted June 25, 2016 As I passed by Poole station last night I saw an unusual looking piece of track machinery, after a bit of research it would appear to be DR98217 - The Balfour Beatty drain train. Not something I've seen before. If its there in the morning I'll try and get a picture. UPDATE: Typically it's gone! Would have been a Plasser TRAMM (98217) Made in England mid 1980's Several have changed on Balfour Beatty for various other uses. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Phil Mc Posted July 8, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 8, 2016 A Rail Grinder, stabled in Wellingborough on 5.7.16 Cheers, Phil. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgie!! Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 9th September Network Rails DR98956 running from York Thrall Europa to Wigan L.I.P 664J, passed through Brighouse station at 13:19. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 4630 Posted September 9, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 9, 2016 (edited) . Edited November 12, 2016 by 4630 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgie!! Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 The headcode for this was 6Z08, Georgie!! - 664J is the 'masked ID' generated by Network Rail. It almost caught me out as it left York +45mins but missed the booked stop at Healey Mills B Junction and was only +5mins by the time it reached Brighouse, so I only just had time to grab my camera and get to the Woodhouse Lane bridge just up the line from you! Ah I see, thanks for letting me know, Russ, I never knew that. To be honest it also caught me out by surprise with it setting off rather late, but I was glad to catch it as I haven't seen the working before, usually miss it because of work. I need to go try the bridge out at some point, I always forget about it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 4630 Posted October 8, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 8, 2016 (edited) . Edited November 12, 2016 by 4630 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Phil Mc Posted May 23, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 23, 2017 73925 'Europa', stabled behind Reedhan Jn signalbox yesterday. Cheers, Phil. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Claude_Dreyfus Posted July 21, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 21, 2020 Hows about a bit of thread revival? Passing south through Pulborough with the 10:25 Three Bridges - Three Bridges circuit. I would be interested to know why this was out and about. It ran from Three Bridges down to Littlehampton, and then returned to Three Bridges via Hove. I wondered if it was to turn the machine, but despite the circuit, there was a reverse involved, so it would still be facing the the same direction. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Claude_Dreyfus Posted July 21, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 21, 2020 Another 'heading away' shot and again the unit is unidentified. This time we are heading north towards Billingshurst - 11th August 2019 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Railfreight1998 Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 SB Rail's DR73915 'William Arrol' heading from Arbroath to Kennethmont, seen passing Stonehaven. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 (edited) Spot the difference time : - .... Oxted 9/9/06 & Bangor 9/5/10 erspetively. Edited July 22, 2020 by Wickham Green too 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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