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0Z40 33012 9-5-2012 by Next B Exam, on Flickr

 

Swanage Railway - Kidderminster S.v.r.

On it's way back from failing at Trent jn with a HABD fault, heading for Nemesis Rail. After failing to get to Barrow Hill to collect a Deltic.

 

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0Z40 47375 9-5-2012 by Next B Exam, on Flickr

 

Burton Wetmore - Barrow Hill. To take over from 33012.

 

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73139 9-5-2012 by Next B Exam, on Flickr

 

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6Z13 DR98960 11-5-2012 by Next B Exam, on Flickr

 

Toton - Stoke - Toton. Weedkiller.

After coming from Uttoxeter the MPV needed to cross over at Scopton SB to return back there. Since the crossing hasn't been used in the last 6 months it needed to be clipped and blocked.

 

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3Z19 37688 9703 12-5-2012 by Next B Exam, on Flickr

 

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0Z37 37608 37038 37409 12-5-2012 by Next B Exam, on Flickr

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I must admit to being very puzzled by the picture of the person in the four foot by the the crossover at Scopton - what is he doing? Surely not applying a point clip (which would be done from the cess, and in any case is that the trailing end or was the pic taken after the machine had crossed over?). A further explanation - if the details are known - would be interesting.

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I must admit to being very puzzled by the picture of the person in the four foot by the the crossover at Scopton - what is he doing? Surely not applying a point clip (which would be done from the cess, and in any case is that the trailing end or was the pic taken after the machine had crossed over?). A further explanation - if the details are known - would be interesting.

He is clipping the point blade as stated in the caption, why would it be done from the cess side?

The chap has taken a block and is protected by signals so is perfectly safe, when he has finished he will ring the siggy to give up the block, the siggy will then signal the MPV across, the chap will then get another block to remove the clips.

It is the trailing end and the move has not been made yet (look at the lights on the MPV), both points will be clipped and scotched.

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He is clipping the point blade as stated in the caption, why would it be done from the cess side?

The chap has taken a block and is protected by signals so is perfectly safe, when he has finished he will ring the siggy to give up the block, the siggy will then signal the MPV across, the chap will then get another block to remove the clips.

It is the trailing end and the move has not been made yet (look at the lights on the MPV), both points will be clipped and scotched.

 

 

How odd. In order to get the best leverage and working area, apart from being in the safest place, when putting on a clip you put it on from the stock rail side and thus wind the screw against the switch rail - which is the thing you want to stop moving of course and it is also by far the best way to close a switch rail if it is standing off. That way round the clip is at its most mechanically effective - especially one of the modern 'universal type although it is sometimes necessary to put the clip on from the inside if a conductor rail is in the way.

 

The lights on the MPV make no difference at all of course - it might just have set back over the crossover and not yet had the lights changed. And the reason I wondered if the MPV had set back over the crossover was because of the mention of using a point clip - there is no need to use a point clip on a trailing end in such circumstances, the use of a scotch in the open switch is sufficient (and its not just me that thinks that - the Rule Book says so too ).

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56311 and 56312 at Etches Park for fueling and a quick wash, 8-8-2012.

1S02 EMT HST at Skegness on this weekends summer special http://www.flickr.com/photos/68367056@N05/7759450584/in/photostream

3Q79 97304 TNT 37688 on a Mossend - Derby RTC test train, 10-8-2012 http://www.flickr.com/photos/68367056@N05/7759459304/in/photostream/

0Z56 56311, 56312 and 56303 passing Nemesis Rail, 4-8-12 http://www.flickr.com/photos/68367056@N05/7709577550/in/photostream/

7X23 66709 in MSC livery and 66732 on the underground stock move, 27-7-2012 http://www.flickr.com/photos/68367056@N05/7657796930/in/photostream/

6Z62 92019, 92011, 92027 and 92025 head up the Carlisle N.y. - Arpley Sidings test run, 16-7-2012 http://www.flickr.com/photos/68367056@N05/7586019900

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