KDG Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 Oh my eyes, what does 419 look like?..... Great pics Jim, thanks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted June 2, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 2, 2019 Some from Friday and this morning bescot shunt again Another 60 to fuel, 60100 this time If you weathered a wagon like this you would be laughed at! Don’t worry about mixing your weathered and un weathered wagons, it happens in real life One from last night, ready to leave bescot And into South Ruislip to enter the possession left it at Harrow Sudbury Hill station and off to a hotel in Ealing before I reman it later this evening back to bescot 22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted June 3, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 3, 2019 Just a few from last night/this morning, possession train back from ruislip a proper multi company job! the train parked in the higher level up line, the line I took the photo from is the start of the old flying junction at ruislip where the original secondary line to Marylebone joined the main line to Paddington, the ‘evergreen 2’ remodelling changed it all so the primary route was to Marylebone and the Paddington route was just a branch line, behind me is also a new bit of track built back in about 2013 that sent the down fast line alongside the slow at 100mph line speed to avoid the 50mph duck under the Paddington line and into bescot at 04:00 20 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Markwj Posted June 3, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 3, 2019 (edited) I am having problems viewing this thread my iPad keeps reloading the previous page. Have tried 2 different browsers with no improvement. Does this happen to anyone else, is there a cure? Edited June 3, 2019 by Markwj Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted June 4, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 4, 2019 no problems here but rmweb did have an outage around the time of your problems Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Markwj Posted June 4, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 4, 2019 Thanks Jim but still happening will report my previous post to flag it up. mark Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted June 5, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 5, 2019 Something different today, having a couple of days away in mid wales at my step dads house with the youngest lad had a ride on the fairbourne railway got the ferry over to barmouth then got the mainline train back to fairbourne after having a go in the arcade and dodgems! back in on Friday doing a shift with Marcus37 moving the class 50s from Kidderminster to crewe for the LSL open day 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted June 7, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 7, 2019 Well today was a disaster photography wise, so wet I couldn’t be bothered with pics got to kiddy to find Mine and Marcus37s train wasn’t put together for departure and someone had shoved a deltic in the consist! so off I went to collect the 66 from the carriage sidings of the SVR and was conducted onto the locos, nice selection of locos on the diesel depot And the train all consisted up for departure And then the 50 failed so we decided to take the 66 and wagons to bescot on their own while the fitter fixed the 50, as I type Marcus is heading back to kiddy to collect the 50 and deltic to take it to crewe on a VSTP ready for the open day tomorrow so wet today thats the only pics i managed to get! 17 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombatofludham Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 On 06/06/2019 at 00:13, big jim said: Something different today, having a couple of days away in mid wales at my step dads house with the youngest lad had a ride on the fairbourne railway got the ferry over to barmouth then got the mainline train back to fairbourne after having a go in the arcade and dodgems! back in on Friday doing a shift with Marcus37 moving the class 50s from Kidderminster to crewe for the LSL open day You should have said you were in "my manor", I'd have treated you to a coffee in the café. My friend Dave, who was originally from Llwyngwril could have joined us. The Fairbourne railway is rather fun although when I look at the photos of the old 15" line I can't help thinking it might have had a bit more character then. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted June 7, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 7, 2019 Yes I remember it as a 15” line with Katie, count Louis etc nice to see pics of it in its hayday in the ‘museum’ Just as I remember it, I would have only been between 4-7 years old when I lived down there while my dad was the local Bobby based in llwyngwril but it certainly sticks in my memory, similarly seeing just the single beach hut remaining as you turn the corner is sad as I remember a big long line of them back in the 80s Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Coryton Posted June 8, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 8, 2019 23 hours ago, wombatofludham said: The Fairbourne railway is rather fun although when I look at the photos of the old 15" line I can't help thinking it might have had a bit more character then. I think it did. On the other hand, it fits in more with the rest of the Great Little Trains of Rails now, being scaled down narrow gauge rather than standard gauge locomotives. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted June 8, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 8, 2019 Some from today, should have been on the crewe tripper which was cancelled so I was stood down to do some training then due to an error I ended up working a train to Toton! Colas 37s passing by on a test train Then in the way home I called into crewe diesel depot where that had an open day today, I got there after it had closed to the public so managed to get some nice pics and that was that, bescot shunt again tomorrow before a nice little job Monday moving the class 50 and deltic from crewe to barrow hill and then the 50 onward to Doncaster 38 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted June 9, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 9, 2019 Too busy for pics today, just this one of 3 66s lined up for fuel at bescot 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Covkid Posted June 9, 2019 Share Posted June 9, 2019 On 08/06/2019 at 00:53, big jim said: Yes I remember it as a 15” line with Katie, count Louis etc nice to see pics of it in its hayday in the ‘museum’ Just as I remember it, I would have only been between 4-7 years old when I lived down there while my dad was the local Bobby based in llwyngwril but it certainly sticks in my memory, similarly seeing just the single beach hut remaining as you turn the corner is sad as I remember a big long line of them back in the 80s Me too Jim as I also grew up in the county of Merioneth in the 1970s. . Sian, Katie and Ernest W Twining were the staple steam locos, and the aforementioned pair were beautifully proportioned locos. The blue pacific was just OK for me because of the slatted cab window. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted June 10, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 10, 2019 Some from today Had to move this to Doncaster Taking a deltic back to barrow hill en route Ready to go Colas 56 Wichnor jn Into barrow hill Ready to leave for doncaster Masborough jn the obligatory arch shot! And into Roberts road Azuma Couple of new northern units 27 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithlington smithe Posted June 10, 2019 Share Posted June 10, 2019 Thanks for the pics Jim great shots again,50049 still looks spotless I’m guessing it was a fairly quick fix when it failed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted June 12, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 12, 2019 Just a couple from tonight, last minute job covering sickness, hams hall to Leicester and drive back. the roads back were horrendous due to the rain, glad to get home Leicester nice short fuelling job this afternoon in bescot 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted June 13, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 13, 2019 Only one from tonight, got asked to do the same job so same loco at Leicester again! 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted June 14, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 14, 2019 A few from last night, starting in bescot And away to Wembley to drop some ballast and back to bescot this morning weekend off now 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
flapland Posted June 14, 2019 Share Posted June 14, 2019 The road sign on the fourth one down looks like its there for the railway not the road. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted June 15, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 15, 2019 Something a bit different again, went to Manchester for the evening, wife and eldest went to see ‘book of mormon’ While the youngest and myself went to see ‘men in Black international’ in the cinema, which happens to be in the old goods shed on deansgate and poking though between the buildings down a side street was the old manchester central station 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 5BarVT Posted June 16, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 16, 2019 You’re educating your son well! My dad would have approved: he took me to Manchester Central (and Exchange) just before they closed to passengers. Paul. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted June 18, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 18, 2019 Just one from last night, a nice cheap modelable train! 18 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted June 18, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 18, 2019 And there it was, gone! the final wall from the old crewe north shed is now demolished to make way for Lidl and B+M, without it there you can now see crewe powerbox from the main road for the first time 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted June 18, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 18, 2019 Road learning Leicester to Peterborough this week between jobs, had a first run out over it on an intermodal service to get the basics in, I have done a few trips over it with Colas being conducted in the past, seems like a straight forward route, lots of crossings though, absolute block signalling and even a single lower quadrant signal on the wrong side of the track! Peterborough anglia 170 And back to nuneaton to get my train back to crewe later in the evening, a new to West Midlands trains class 172 in use on the new nuneaton to Leamington spa service Quite fancy getting March or Ely too at some point, maybe even Felixstowe 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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