D421 Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 Good to see a number of semaphores still in use... You certainly get around the network..... Shot 56094 at Dorrington yesterday.. Is the person in the 2nd man's seat route learning Jim? Regards D421 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted June 27, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 27, 2013 thats not me on it but yes, i think its the other guy who is learning newport at the moment i'm going to hopefully sign off as far as hereford once an assessor can get a ride out with me, struggling to get over the route south of there so definatly not putting my name to it! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ews60002 Posted June 27, 2013 Share Posted June 27, 2013 56094 at Cardiff Central today, came in a load of empty logs wagons, disappeared then came back and stayed on the through line for 10 minutes waiting to venture into Canton railway sheds. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ews60002/9155279132/in/photostream/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted June 27, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 27, 2013 another trip to reading today, no pics though as i forgot my camera and didn't really see anything of huge interest to photograph with the phone anyway been told i need to get banbury to didcot under my belt asap so have a few more days at it next week as well as a couple of sinfins and possibly a 47 from basford hall to ealing! baglan train again tomorrow, learning hereford to craven arms again and working it from there north, should be 094 again 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swifty11 Posted June 28, 2013 Share Posted June 28, 2013 another trip to reading today, no pics though as i forgot my camera and didn't really see anything of huge interest to photograph with the phone anyway been told i need to get banbury to didcot under my belt asap so have a few more days at it next week as well as a couple of sinfins and possibly a 47 from basford hall to ealing! baglan train again tomorrow, learning hereford to craven arms again and working it from there north, should be 094 again Where you on the Boston steels yesterday Jim with 56105? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted June 28, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 28, 2013 Where you on the Boston steels yesterday Jim with 56105? Not unless it was diverted via Reading ! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
maudgca Posted June 28, 2013 Share Posted June 28, 2013 (edited) Hi ...a couple of sinfins... I must drag myself down to Blythe Bridge station sometime soon for the Sinfin tanks, while it's still light at 06.30 (especially if there's a 47 or 56 on them... which is unlikely????) Andrew Edited June 28, 2013 by maudgca Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted June 28, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 28, 2013 Hi I must drag myself down to Blythe Bridge station sometime soon for the Sinfin tanks, while it's still light at 06.30 (especially if there's a 47 or 56 on them... which is unlikely????) Andrew Monday and thursday next week, probably a 66 as usual though, shame you missed the 47 on it last week! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
maudgca Posted June 28, 2013 Share Posted June 28, 2013 Oooh, Monday, that's different. B) If I'm awake in time, I'll check realtimetrains then venture out (weather permitting) I saw the 47 last week (and got a video), but only from my bathroom window. It was rather a surprise to hear something approaching at "tank time" that obviously wasn't a 66. Andrew Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted June 29, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 29, 2013 only 1 pic from last night, due to a possession south of gobowen the log train in front of me had to sit there until i was fuelled in chirk then i ran down light engine onto the back of his train with 56094 which then left northbound, i then took his engine (56302) back to chirk but as there is no crossover and weston rhyn has no wrong direction controls i had to run to wrexham to change ends which i had to do in the 'bidston line' platform, first time i've been in there for a long time 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
maudgca Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 (edited) Hi OK, so I dragged myself out of bed at 06.00 and went down to the station. Jim (assuming there hasn't been a roster change) turned up at 06.37 with 66850 and 8 TEAs for Sinfin. Here he comes (the light grey building with green roof on the right is the former goods shed, the main station buildings once stood on the left, roughly between the end of the post & wire fence and the road, and the signal box was on the far side of the road and would have been visible over the end of the first tank) and there he goes (former goods yard on the left, former cattle dock (I think) and small Network Rail compound with radio mast lost in the trees on the right near to the road/rail access point sleepers in the 4 foot, Stallington level crossing ahead of the loco, the signal box for which was on the right, the crossing keeper's house (I think it was) on the left (both now gone. The house outlived the 'box by about 15 years). In the far distance is the overbridge carrying the A50, which is the bypass for the road through the village, across the level crossing in the first picture). You can just see on the second photo that the "Jet A1 Aviation Fuel" stickers (about half way up the barrel at the near end on the last tank) are starting to peel off around the edges. This is good, because it means that where I've accidentally pulled the corner off the homemade transfers that I'm currently applying to my rake of 5 TEAs is completely authentic Andrew Edited July 1, 2013 by maudgca 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted July 1, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 1, 2013 yeah that was me, i did give you a toot, and i tooted nearer to your landing window just in case you were there!! a few pics from today..... nice day to have a trip down a country branch line, oh wait.....i'm in the middle of a city! there are tracks there somewhere! then when i got back to stoke the signaller was "playing trains" i recon as he ran me wrong direction through the up (london bound) platform which then took me on position lights onto the up goods (in the down direction) finally coming to a red next to cockshutt sidings, as seen here, a move i've never done before, and indeed didn't know it could be done from there trains can continue on the up goods as far as etruria before taking a position light towards grange jn which is the old entrance to shelton steel works where they can then set back into etruria sidings, however i was signalled back out of the goods to continue northbound, a move which involves crossing a ladder onto the down goods which is the only way out northbound, you cannot cross over onto the main, here is the ladder found this in the trees at cockshutt too, some sort of engineers wagon 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted July 1, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 1, 2013 found this in the trees at cockshutt too, some sort of engineers wagon looks like a ZCA "Sea Urchin". Once very common, but now a dying breed. Built on various underframes from OAA/OBA/OCA/SPA/VBA/VCA/VDA donors. Cheers, Mick 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
maudgca Posted July 2, 2013 Share Posted July 2, 2013 The Sinfin branch looks like my lawn did before I mowed it on Sunday (although I didn't find a 66 or TEAs in there) I did give a little wave when you tooted, but I was also trying to hold my camera steady so my photos weren't blurry!! Sounds like you had an interesting journey back through Stoke! There's a video on Youtube of a 56 with empty BDAs backing across that crossover (I assume it's the same one) before drawing forward into Shelton. Andrew Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted July 2, 2013 Share Posted July 2, 2013 I couldn't get over how overgrown Cockshute yard was. I remember spending long hours looking at the variety of wagons that used to be stabled there- sadly, I was skint, so never took any photos. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted July 2, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 2, 2013 cockshute is looking very overgrown whereas granville sidings have been cleared for network rail to use, funnily enough i've been asked to work an engineers into and out of there next week, so yesterdays move was handy to do i've still got to go and have a look at the sidings before i work into there to see the MOW for it etc, despite signing the route for years i've never worked into any of (whats left of) the yards until i started with colas Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
11B Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Hi Jim, Was it you turn on 6J37 today........ From www.prestonstation.org.uk web site ..... Colas 56094 has disgraced itself just past Oxheys Loop, to the north of Preston, whilst hauling the 6J37 Carlisle - Chirk logs. 57304 has been dispatched from Preston to drag it into the station, whilst 4M44 has been put into the loop at Oxheys to allow passenger traffic to pass.Rescue loco and failed train proceeding very slowly back to Preston, as at 15.00. Kind regards Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted July 3, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 3, 2013 Not Jim today - he was doing other things. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted July 3, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 3, 2013 no not me as beast says, i was supposed to do a basford hall to ealing engineers (as far as didcot) which was cancelled so i ended up taking the loco to washwood heath for onward transit to taunton never been onto "metro cammell" before but have passed it hundreds of times on the main line so i asked for someone to meet me to get me on there as i didn't know how to operate the electronic ground frame etc, i'd had a look at my sectional appendix so i knew which route i needed to take from the main, or so i thought, the signaller put me onto the siding line at bromford bridge which i knew took me towards the ground frame for washwood heath, i just wasn't counting on it taking me through the "cemex" sleeper factory en route, it is a legitimate route onto metro cammell but the siding supervisor was a bit puzzled when i called him from the stop board, turns out most (if not all) trains going to metro cammell take the goods rather than the sidings, oh well, another couple of sidings to scratch off my quail atlas!! so i was conducted onto metro cammell, disposed of the loco and began to walk back to the exit to get a train from aston when this came up the hill, seen here crossing the road to the cemex factory, dcr operated 56091 its quite a climb onto the factory and onto the yard where the driver shut it down and very kindly let me share a taxi to new st! nice day, something different, worked over a few routes i'd not driven for a while (but had refreshed recently from the 2nd mans seat) such as bushbury to walsall, sutton park and the derby line towards washwood heath 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted July 3, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 3, 2013 Hi Jim, Was it you turn on 6J37 today........ From www.prestonstation.org.uk web site ..... Colas 56094 has disgraced itself just past Oxheys Loop, to the north of Preston, whilst hauling the 6J37 Carlisle - Chirk logs. 57304 has been dispatched from Preston to drag it into the station, whilst 4M44 has been put into the loop at Oxheys to allow passenger traffic to pass. Rescue loco and failed train proceeding very slowly back to Preston, as at 15.00. Kind regards Ian 56105 later went north to collect 56094 and train from Preston. Cheers, Mick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpb56125 Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 56105 later went north to collect 56094 and train from Preston. Cheers, Mick 56105 & 56094 at Warrington Bank Quay http://mark5812.smugmug.com/Trains2013-1/July-2013/30338804_bxPstH#!i=2613198179&k=pCMkDcQ&lb=1&s=A Don't seem to have much luck with 56's on the WCML Mark http://mark5812.smugmug.com 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted July 3, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 3, 2013 im more interested in what the 57s are doing on the freightliner coal on the low level at WBQ in your pics? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted July 3, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 3, 2013 Rescuing the failed 66596, driven by F/L staff apparently. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpb56125 Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 Rescuing the failed 66596, driven by F/L staff apparently. DRS driver joined it at the staff foot crossing on low level next to Warrington PSB. Failed north off Preston in one off the loops, so two 57's sent from Carlisle to work service forward into Fiddlers Ferry and return to Carlisle. Mark Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
11B Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 Nice photos Mark. Jim, any chance you might get a go with the class 86? Kind regards Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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