eastwestdivide Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 14 hours ago, Metr0Land said: also a couple more photos in the sequence at Appledore one of which shows the rear of the train, with a ladder sticking out of the brake van veranda! https://www.flickr.com/photos/jerry-spillett/50929917971/in/photostream/ 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Rich_F Posted July 21, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 21, 2023 (edited) 4 hours ago, eastwestdivide said: one of which shows the rear of the train, with a ladder sticking out of the brake van veranda! https://www.flickr.com/photos/jerry-spillett/50929917971/in/photostream/ Speaking of Appledore... Taken from a RailforumsUK thread: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/trivia-southern-region-services-worked-by-dmmus.197694/ Class 117/119 on the Hastings-Tonbridge service deep in Southeastern territory. Edited July 21, 2023 by Weeny Works 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Pilotman Posted July 21, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 21, 2023 Class 117, isn’t it? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 23 hours ago, Fat Controller said: A rare photo of one of the vans that ICI used to deliver industrial explosives in. The black shed was a transfer point between the internal narrow-gauge network and BR. Yeah, I'm guessing that they were the replacement for the NG line after it was abandoned. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted July 22, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 22, 2023 Steam rescues of DMU's were by no means unkown but it's a nice touch here to have a tail load on the DMU as well. Gainsborough. Click on photo for caption. Steam-Hauled DMU by Allen, on Flickr 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted July 22, 2023 Share Posted July 22, 2023 When you've changed the BR crest decals on your Dapol O gauge Class 08, but couldn't quite get the new paint on that panel to match the rest of the engine.... 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 (edited) Drumochter 1986 by David Price Edited July 28, 2023 by montyburns56 19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 Not exactly Inverness ..... as per caption ! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted July 27, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 27, 2023 8 minutes ago, Wickham Green too said: Not exactly Inverness ..... as per caption ! Crossing from Perthshire into Invernessshire; the latter may reasonably be shortened to Inverness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted July 27, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 27, 2023 Flickr image caption: "Heading for an open day in Inverness, 673 Maude approaches Drumochter summit.Taken around 5AM on 27/6/1986." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 Just to add another former regular banking operation, here is a class 20 giving a Ravenscraig bound ore train a shove through Mossend. The 20 would have been added at Rosehall Junction Coatbridge. Banking was discontinued after a mishap on the Mossend North - Mossend East curve when the pair of 37s on the front braked sharply and the 20 kept pushing, resulting in HAAs being spread over the curve. After this the 20 was added on front at Mossend then later it became 3 × 37s. Jim 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted July 27, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 27, 2023 Great pic Jim, never seen a pic of a 20 on it (or indeed any loco banking!). I had it in my mind that it was an MGR of HAAs that derailed. In later years, a cl.26 was sometimes added to 2x37 at Mossend North Yard. There are some great videos on YouTube of the Ore & MGR trains 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titan Posted July 27, 2023 Share Posted July 27, 2023 It is not often that an entire video justifies being in this thread, but I think this one deserves it. From an intercity class 86 pulling a MGR hopper amongst other things, to a train made up entirely from DVT's being controlled by the lead DVT, test trains, other weird formations etc, in this almost 38 min long video you are never more than a couple of minutes away from something that could be in this thread... 9 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 Nuneaton 1985 by Lewis Bevan 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted July 29, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 29, 2023 I wonder if that's the same Lewis Bevan that was part of my teenage spotting group in the 60s. I last saw him in '85 at one of our favourite haunts from back in the day, Pengam Bridge, to the east of Cardiff, where we were amongst the crowd waiting for CoT to run past after visiting Maindy workshops as part of the GW 150 shindig. IIRC he said was living in Surrey somewhere and working in the Civil Service but don't quote me on that. In our spotting days, he owned a magnicent Voightlander medium format TLR camera, that his dad had brought back from Monte Cassino, the story being that he'd relieved a dead German of it... He was, as a teenager, a gangly sort of lad with an uncontrollable mass of hair, sporting a pair of thick-rimmed specs, surprisingly successful at cross-country running; his various dissassociated limbs and bits would be all over the place, but one of them quite often mangaed to get ahead of the field and over the line first... Good lad, and a great chum. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted July 29, 2023 Share Posted July 29, 2023 14 hours ago, montyburns56 said: Nuneaton 1985 by Lewis Bevan I seem to recall 58s dragging Sparkies in the Midlands was quite a common sight back then, during weekend engineering work possessions where the diversion took the train away from the wires. Not sure what the diversion route was, but this isn't the first photo of this sort of working I've seen. Nuneaton was, IIRC, the start/end point of the diversion, so the 58 might have just been coupled up, or would soon be detached, in this photo. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted July 29, 2023 Share Posted July 29, 2023 On 27/07/2023 at 22:39, keefer said: Great pic Jim, never seen a pic of a 20 on it (or indeed any loco banking!). I had it in my mind that it was an MGR of HAAs that derailed. In later years, a cl.26 was sometimes added to 2x37 at Mossend North Yard. There are some great videos on YouTube of the Ore & MGR trains Yes it was HAAs that were derailed, at that time coal from Hunterston to Ravenscraig could also be conveyed in HAAs Here are a couple more of my collection, including another 20. Jim 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold rodent279 Posted July 29, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 29, 2023 (edited) 2 hours ago, F-UnitMad said: I seem to recall 58s dragging Sparkies in the Midlands was quite a common sight back then, during weekend engineering work possessions where the diversion took the train away from the wires. Not sure what the diversion route was, but this isn't the first photo of this sort of working I've seen. Nuneaton was, IIRC, the start/end point of the diversion, so the 58 might have just been coupled up, or would soon be detached, in this photo. Almost certainly the 58 has just is about to drag New St - Nuneaton. Edited July 29, 2023 by rodent279 Looked at the caption in Flickr! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted July 29, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 29, 2023 (edited) 4 hours ago, luckymucklebackit said: Jim I have linked to it before but here's the video of the erupting 37. (Did you film it, Jim?): Edited July 29, 2023 by keefer 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welly Posted July 29, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 29, 2023 ^^ I've counted 44 HAAs in the video! That's 2200 tonnes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hexagon789 Posted July 29, 2023 Share Posted July 29, 2023 7 minutes ago, Welly said: ^^ I've counted 44 HAAs in the video! That's 2200 tonnes. 46 (I counted twice to be sure), so an even more impressive 2300 tonnes... :) 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR(S) Posted July 29, 2023 Share Posted July 29, 2023 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian Morgan Posted July 29, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 29, 2023 1 hour ago, BR(S) said: Social Distancing ? 2 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted July 29, 2023 Share Posted July 29, 2023 5 hours ago, hexagon789 said: 46 (I counted twice to be sure), so an even more impressive 2300 tonnes... :) Is there an officlal record of UK max load? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted July 30, 2023 Share Posted July 30, 2023 11 hours ago, KeithMacdonald said: Is there an officlal record of UK max load? A simple interweb search came up with https://www.gwrr.co.uk/news/jumbo-train-success/#:~:text=In the early hours of,currently running in the UK. ........ just a wee bit more than 2300 tonnes. 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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