RMweb Premium skipepsi Posted May 22, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 22, 2012 If you catch a bullet from the M82 it is organ donor time not the scrapyard. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium petethemole Posted May 22, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 22, 2012 If there are any organs left Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 If there are any organs left I have a small organ. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Reid Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 Yamaha? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fay Singpoint Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 The line to Cheadle passing under the A50 has also lost its track. I too saw the Cheadle line disappearing as I drove along the A50 last week, but I am sure I saw a Network rail vehicle on the trackbed as well The line under the A50 has had to have some major tree surgery to get at the track. Found this which might explain things http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/Metal-thieves-fail-derail-plans-restored-train/story-15959581-detail/story.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
D605Eagle Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 Found this which might explain things http://www.thisissta...tail/story.html I heard MCR had got some sort of agreement to reopen the line sometime in the future, and in the meantime taking the track to use on the stoke leekbrook branch. Rumor mill suggests its just subdifuge to get the track and they have no intention of reopening the cheadle branch. Time will tell. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debs. Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 I have a small organ. Hammond?.......... .........but, he`s small generally! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny Emily Posted June 14, 2012 Author Share Posted June 14, 2012 When I went into Trafford Park the other day a lot of the track there has disappeared too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PLD Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 I know of a lot of schemes currently being run by various Police forces that are actively seeking out the scrap merchants and dealing incredibly harshly with any found to of purchased stolen items, either purposefully or through a lack of precautions and ignorance. And to be fair, those schemes are having some success. One gang was convicted just yesterday: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-18670144 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Not directly railway-related, but it came up in conversation with the driver I passed back with today. At the back end of the 1980s, he was just starting his first job as a crew member on one of the Dover-Boulogne ferries, the 'Pride of Hythe'. The crew were aware that the ship was going to be scrapped or sold at the end of the season, and they would probably be out of work. They were desperately helping themselves to any of the brass work on board that could be unfixed; eventually, the 'Old Man' decided it had gone beyond a joke. He made an announcement whilst they were between trips to say that a trolley would be placed out of CCTV-range on one of the car decks, and asked that the crew put any of their 'findings' in it. It was a singularily unsuccessful attempt to appeal to their better nature; when the officers went to look a few hours later, not only was the trolley empty, but it was stood on blocks, with the wheels having been removed..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny Emily Posted July 22, 2012 Author Share Posted July 22, 2012 When I passed through the Birmingham Bermuda triangle (Bescot interchange - traffic goes in but rarely comes out at rush hour) I noticed that trees had been cleared on part of the long mothballed line towards Dudley. Is this going to be the start of another long mothballed line losing its (admittedly now probably only fit for scrap) rails? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chubber Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 I too saw the Cheadle line disappearing as I drove along the A50 last week, but I am sure I saw a Network rail vehicle on the trackbed as well ...probably 'borrowed' the Network Rail vehicle too! They do come up at auctions, still in liverey, or the livery daubed over and easy to restore. That might be one of the reasons they are getting awy with it. Doug Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 ...probably 'borrowed' the Network Rail vehicle too! They do come up at auctions, still in liverey, or the livery daubed over and easy to restore. That might be one of the reasons they are getting awy with it. Not that the white livery is difficult to copy! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
avonside1563 Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Found this which might explain things http://www.thisissta...tail/story.html I personally feel that the suggestion of returning traffic to Cheadle is rather spurious seeing as the station site in Cheadle is now under houses and the final embankment to it long since bulldozed away. Unless they are intending to undertake major civil engineering this project would be a non-starter and unlikely to produce an economic return. Having said that I walked the complete branch in the 1980s thinking what a good preserved line it would make, the station at Cheadle was virtually intact at the time and all track was still in place. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzie Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 When I passed through the Birmingham Bermuda triangle (Bescot interchange - traffic goes in but rarely comes out at rush hour) I noticed that trees had been cleared on part of the long mothballed line towards Dudley. Is this going to be the start of another long mothballed line losing its (admittedly now probably only fit for scrap) rails? Forum link Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicester Thumper Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 it's interesting to see that in spits and spats closed lines (and mothballed) are being reopened in some form. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian777999 Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 Where do thieves sell the stolen rails ? Surely it must ring alarm bells when they front up at the local scrap metal yard with a truck load of cut rail ? This is not something to which the average person would have access. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eggesford box Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 I can remember walking along the mothballed part of the Oxford - Bletchley line once near Swanbourne. The sleepers had been stolen except for one left about every 60ft. The rails had bowed in and out but had done so perfectly symetrical and looked most peculiar. I did take a photograph, if ever I find it or the negative I will post it. The rails themselves have since been stolen. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eggesford box Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 Where do thieves sell the stolen rails ? Surely it must ring alarm bells when they front up at the local scrap metal yard with a truck load of cut rail ? This is not something to which the average person would have access. Lots of unscrupulous people about but why they have been attempting to get a bill through parliament aimed at scrap metal merchants not paying out in cash etc.I believe they are supposed to keep a whole load of records about what scrap they do receive at present. I also think the police do pay visits to scrap yards. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welly Posted August 4, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 4, 2012 ^^^ There are plenty of bent scrap men willing to pay cash without question..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eggesford box Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 ^^^ There are plenty of bent scrap men willing to pay cash without question..... Although I think we had better point out not all of them before Andy gets sued! I have known someone being reported to the police by a scrap merchant. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted August 4, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 4, 2012 A lot of areas of the UK are now operating a scheme pioneered in the North-Eastwhere ID is required before payout. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-16352524 Initial results are a drop of 40-60% in metal thefts http://www.btp.police.uk/about_us/latest_news/operation_tornado.aspx Just don't turn up at a scrapyard with any metal marked "66734"........................ Cheers, Mick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicester Thumper Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 A lot of areas of the UK are now operating a scheme pioneered in the North-Eastwhere ID is required before payout. http://www.bbc.co.uk...ngland-16352524 Initial results are a drop of 40-60% in metal thefts http://www.btp.polic...on_tornado.aspx Just don't turn up at a scrapyard with any metal marked "66734"........................ Cheers, Mick Well Guv'nor, i got that covered, i put the bits in my attic but then the cieling collapsed with EMD goodness Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Kris Posted August 4, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 4, 2012 The last time I took scrap to a yard photo ID had to be produced and was copied. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eggesford box Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 Found it. Network Rails answer to accomodate stock of any gauge! More prosaically, the remains of the track at Swans Way near Swanbourne station on the mothballed section of the Oxford - Bletchley line after someone had stolen most of the sleepers and before they returned for the rails. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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