Unusual freight working Exeter to Westbury

[KeithHC]

I have watched a couple of freight workings that seam to happen on a Sunday. The route is Exeter st David’s to Westbury Tarmac two weeks ago it was 022F last Sunday it was 030V. It’s the routing that is interesting. From Exeter to Bristol then Bath down to Westbury using the Heyworth avoiding line joins the Berks and Hants line to Newbury where it reverses. It then routes back to Westbury and then to Westbury Tarmac. To me it is a bit of a strange route why does it not route Cogland junction to Westbury and why does it go to Newbury to reverse.

 

Any one know why.

 

Keith

[The Stationmaster]

23 minutes ago, KeithHC said:

I have watched a couple of freight workings that seam to happen on a Sunday. The route is Exeter st David’s to Westbury Tarmac two weeks ago it was 022F last Sunday it was 030V. It’s the routing that is interesting. From Exeter to Bristol then Bath down to Westbury using the Heyworth avoiding line joins the Berks and Hants line to Newbury where it reverses. It then routes back to Westbury and then to Westbury Tarmac. To me it is a bit of a strange route why does it not route Cogland junction to Westbury and why does it go to Newbury to reverse.

 

Any one know why.

 

Keith

Sounds very much like a consequence of engineering blockades and then going up to Heywood Road in order to turn whatever the train was conveying (because otherwise it would have been the opposite way round on arrival at Westbury).

[Steadfast]

It's a road learning engine, been running most Sundays lately. Could well be routed that way to get two routes in together

 

Jo

[Gilbert]

13 hours ago, Steadfast said:

It's a road learning engine, been running most Sundays lately. Could well be routed that way to get two routes in together

 

Jo

This is what I've also been told..

Chris

[PaulRhB]

I’m guessing it’s Freightliner’s 47830 again? It was doing route learning based at Southampton Maritime the last few weeks and I know one of the guys doing the training said they were doing some around Westbury. It came through Salisbury a couple of days too. 

 

 

[KeithHC]

Thanks for all the reply’s much appreciated. Paul thanks for the picture don’t let James Makin see it or he may have to get the paints out………

 

Keith

[Steadfast]

9 hours ago, PaulRhB said:

I’m guessing it’s Freightliner’s 47830 again? It was doing route learning based at Southampton Maritime the last few weeks and I know one of the guys doing the training said they were doing some around Westbury. It came through Salisbury a couple of days too. 

 

 

Every time I've seen it it's been one of the 66s off Mendip work that is stabled up the cement works over the weekend. From what I've seen, the 47 has been doing out and back trips from Southampton 

 

Jo

[PaulRhB]

Ah they didn’t get it again then, they’d struggled to get it some days 😁 They probably thought they were enjoying themselves too much with the 47. 

[Wickham Green too]

On 04/07/2022 at 17:21, Steadfast said:

It's a road learning engine, ..... routed that way to get two routes in together

........ er - surely you'd want to learn any route when facing in an 'up' and a 'down' direction !!?!

[Chris M]

Well i'm not impressed with the weathering on that Brush 4. Not at all realistic.

[Ray M]

Needs just a little touch of T Cut.