class"66" Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 Impressive photos Jim!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted March 30, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 30, 2014 a few more pics from last week, went down to westbury to be passed out on 70s, worked it to eastleigh with the colas kirow crane and back again with 10 loaded side tippers just incase you had any doubt as to where i was my take on the 70 in wesbury photo having an A exam some class 59s.... and into eastleigh then last night i worked my forst 70 from mountsorrel to didcot with the redland self dscharge train which was bound for kemble, nice load, 2000 tons, 42 wagons!! 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerrySVR Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Thanks goodness your back at work starting to miss the updates Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted March 30, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 30, 2014 Thanks goodness your back at work starting to miss the updates its not that i'm back in work, i've just not been home at a reasonable hour or for long enough to update the thread! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swifty11 Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Nice pictures as usual!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngryMeerkat Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 You looking forward to giving the 10x class 60s that Colas have just purchased a good thrashing Jim? Mark Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class"66" Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 You looking forward to giving the 10x class 60s that Colas have just purchased a good thrashing Jim? Mark Nice to see that aleast x10 of the 60 fleet wil be saved and looked after!! not left to rot in siding somewhere on the network. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted April 6, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 6, 2014 a few pics from today, did a possession train in uffington, top and tail 70s on it 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gismorail Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 Those 70's have to be the ugly ducklings or 'trotters' as I call them as in my mind they look like a blown up robin Relient Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisB Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 Is that "Robin Reliant" as in Focus Ford or Clio Renault ? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class"66" Posted April 7, 2014 Share Posted April 7, 2014 More super photos Jim... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted April 7, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 7, 2014 a few pics from today, did a possession train in uffington, top and tail 70s on it I wonder what my great grandfather would make of that scene? He was in the Perway gang at Uffington and retired in the 1920s so would have known it in broad gauge days. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob D2 Posted April 7, 2014 Share Posted April 7, 2014 DBS must be fed up with having their wagons pulled by someone else's locos .... Seems colas is taking over Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gary H Posted April 7, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 7, 2014 DBS must be fed up with having their wagons pulled by someone else's locos .... Seems colas is taking over I dare say we (NR) get a better deal from Colas than we do from grabby DBS. That's why they keep losing work to the smaller FOC's. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted April 7, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 7, 2014 I wonder what my great grandfather would make of that scene? He was in the Perway gang at Uffington and retired in the 1920s so would have known it in broad gauge days. they certainly got a shift on with the work, it was relaying the track either side of a double crossover, i arrived on site at 07:00 and the old track was already removed and looked to have been placed onto a train of salmons at the london end of the work site, the ballast had been stripped back to the base (as can be seen in the pictures), the train in front of me moved forward and the ballast was machined out of the wagons into the void, i didnt move til about 11:00 (nice sleep) then i was ordered to move forward where they started to tip the ballast from my train too, my ballast appeared to be being dropped onto the top of the black membrane in the 4ft area, this bought the level back up to the track level where it was then whackered with a cool remote control triple whacker plate gadget, )i wouldnt mind seeing if colas have a spare one so i can get my new drive base nice and level!!) the rear of my train had a few salmons with new concrete sleepers on so i had to move back and forth so they could be off loaded, that was done by about 14:30 when i was told i wasn't needed anymore so i pulled out of the work site ready for the next driver to take over, when he arrived at about 15:45 i looked back and noticed the sleepers and track were loosly back in place at the london end of the crossover, obviously needing reconnecting and tamping etc but i was impressed how quick the rails were back in situ! the way the site was worked meant that 70804 at the london end of my train was uncoupled and recoupled to the ballast train in front (66606 london end) so the rear 70 could head to swindon solo with 'my' train, 70804 would then top and tail 66606s train and the train of used track panels at the london endof the site (with a colas 66 on the swindon end) would be the last off site 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gismorail Posted April 7, 2014 Share Posted April 7, 2014 Is that "Robin Reliant" as in Focus Ford or Clio Renault ? Yes our fav three wheeler as I Fools and Horses Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisB Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 Yes our fav three wheeler as I Fools and Horses I was referring to people's occasional tendency to call them Robin Reliants with the model name before the manufacturer's name rather than Reliant Robins. Something nobody does with any other car as far as I know. Sorry to Jim for wandering off topic. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astockfan101 Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 I was referring to people's occasional tendency to call them Robin Reliants with the model name before the manufacturer's name rather than Reliant Robins. Something nobody does with any other car as far as I know. Sorry to Jim for wandering off topic. Anyway the Reliant that was in only fools and horses was a Regal super van! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catkins Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 Getting back on topic - As I was leaving work about 18:00 today, I heard and saw the Boston steel train, but why would it have loco's top and tail? By the way today it was a 56 leading and a namer 47 trailing through Gonerby. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted April 10, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 10, 2014 had double headed 70s this afternoon, split them off at bescot to fuel them, left one there (for a job i have saturday) and the other is on 6X46 back to hinksey/westbury tonight just having a break before threading my way back to oxford with this 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerrySVR Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 More impressive photos Jim how do you rate the 70's? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MatthewEWS Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 Was it a Colas 70 which derailed between Dilton Marsh and Westbury yesterday evening? (9/4/2014) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted April 10, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 10, 2014 Was it a Colas 70 which derailed between Dilton Marsh and Westbury yesterday evening? (9/4/2014) Apparently wagons only - not the loco. Cheers, Mick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted April 10, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 10, 2014 More impressive photos Jim how do you rate the 70's? having now driven a few im quite impressed with them, very powerful machine, there are a few niggles though, they are over complicated in places, difficult to get comfortable while driving (ive still not worked out how to drop the seat yet!) and boy they can whine when they get moving! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
250BOB Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 having now driven a few im quite impressed with them, very powerful machine, there are a few niggles though, they are over complicated in places, difficult to get comfortable while driving (ive still not worked out how to drop the seat yet!) Perhaps you could ask Colas if they could retro fit you something more comfortable Jim..?? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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