Rods_of_Revolution Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 In "West Cornwall Mineral Railways" by Maurice Dart there is a photo taken of 56013 carrying out "clearance trials" at Trelavour on the 27th of February 1990. Does anyone have any further information regarding this? Kindest Regards, Jack Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Fatadder Posted December 6, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 6, 2011 If I remember rightly it left Cornwall at the end of the trial powering the sleeper Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clay Country Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 I'm sure it was only down here for one day, but still, gives you an excuse to run a grid on your CDAs Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rods_of_Revolution Posted December 6, 2011 Author Share Posted December 6, 2011 I'm sure it was only down here for one day, but still, gives you an excuse to run a grid on your CDAs Exactly my thinking! Any idea how it was it worked down? I take it when it worked the sleeper back it was ECS? Bit chilly in Feburary with no ETH! Cheers, Jack Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Fatadder Posted December 6, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 6, 2011 You would assume do Though I guess it could have been a rescue for a failed 47 I'm pretty certain someone sent me a photo of the working Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clay Country Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 There are a few photos of the Cornish Grid adventure in John Vaughan's excellent West Country China Clay Trains book. I'll have a look when I get home and report what I find. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted December 6, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 6, 2011 In "West Cornwall Mineral Railways" by Maurice Dart there is a photo taken of 56013 carrying out "clearance trials" at Trelavour on the 27th of February 1990. Does anyone have any further information regarding this? Kindest Regards, Jack I've an idea there were some surplus 56's knocking round at that time and there was thought of using them with potentially longer trains in Cornwall. Not satisfied with our advice not to bother the business sector decided to go ahead with a trial of some sort although I forget the details (shame I won't be seeing our former loads and route clearances man this Yuletide's reunion nosh because he might remember more about it than me?). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clay Country Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 The loco arrived in Cornwall on a train of CDAs from Tavvy Jn. It rescued 47815 on the down sleeper after it failed on Treverrin Bank. The 56 worked through to Penzance before returning east. If you're modelling in N, Dapol is planning a model of 56013 in coal sector colours for next year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rods_of_Revolution Posted December 6, 2011 Author Share Posted December 6, 2011 There are a few photos of the Cornish Grid adventure in John Vaughan's excellent West Country China Clay Trains book. I'll have a look when I get home and report what I find. I assume you must have the 2nd edition as I have the 1st and there are no Grids within. Would be great if you could tell me where it actually went apart from Trelavour. The loco arrived in Cornwall on a train of CDAs from Tavvy Jn. It rescued 47815 on the down sleeper after it failed on Treverrin Bank. The 56 worked through to Penzance before returning east. If you're modelling in N, Dapol is planning a model of 56013 in coal sector colours for next year. That must be fate that Dapol are doing 013 in the correct livery! I've an idea there were some surplus 56's knocking round at that time and there was thought of using them with potentially longer trains in Cornwall. Not satisfied with our advice not to bother the business sector decided to go ahead with a trial of some sort although I forget the details (shame I won't be seeing our former loads and route clearances man this Yuletide's reunion nosh because he might remember more about it than me?). I can imagine that with the variations in the clay output that more often than not a 56 would be overpowered for the trains, a rake of 6-12 CDAs wouldn't require anything beyond a type 3 that's for sure. Kindest Regards, Jack Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold bcnPete Posted December 6, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 6, 2011 Jack, hi If you have a scroll (up and down) in the excellent DITD thread, there is a bit here about the 56013 visit to Cornwall. Has some good links too I recall... Pete Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rods_of_Revolution Posted December 6, 2011 Author Share Posted December 6, 2011 Cheers Pete, that thread has a nice little round up of 013s movements. Many thanks, Jack Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clay Country Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 I assume you must have the 2nd edition as I have the 1st and there are no Grids within. Would be great if you could tell me where it actually went apart from Trelavour. That must be fate that Dapol are doing 013 in the correct livery! Sorry, wrong book, the picture on the sleeper was actually in John's Illustrated History of the Cornish Mainline. Just flicking through Grids by Keith Bulmer, which says 56013 pushed the sleeper from Treverrin Tunnel to Par before running round and hauling the train to Penzance. It later returned north on a Speedlink working. The book also also mentions 56019 (another one being produced by Dapol) reached Exeter the same month on a china clay working from Cliffe Vale. Not quite Cornwall, but still an interesting 56 working to the west. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterbournecm Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 A small correction, 56013 worked down on the over night freight, I remember this as I was lodging in the house next to St Germans station and remember her screaming past at around 4.30 in the morning. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornish trains jez Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 I've got my Dapol 56013 now and just need to check something before I make a mess of it. Just going through John Vaughan's "Illustrated History of the Cornish Mainline", it appears that the buffers to one end are round and to the the other end of the loco they are oval. Were these changed for the China Clay trials? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xerces Fobe2 Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 I thought they were considering using them on the Silver Bullets to alleviate the need for double heading Class 37's? XF Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomJ Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 I'll need to check the oracle (John Vaughan books!) but I think the idea was to use the 56 on the heavy long distance out of Cornwall trains rather than the local CDA workings. This way they could replace pairs of 37s. Of course the 'silver bullets' which started just a year or so earlier were originally hauled by pairs of 37 before being replaced by a single 60. Also I wonder if a 56 might have been too heavy for some of the local china clay branches? It makes for a good excuse to run one on a Cornish layout. Would be particularly fun to run a 56 on the sleepers at a show, then when some expert complains you could produce the photo. Prototype for everything! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomJ Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 Sorry x-post with Xerces Fobe2 above Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted September 14, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 14, 2012 Class 56 diagrammed on Heathfield timber next week. Over. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clay Country Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 56s along the sea wall, can't wait to see that. I just hope they don't switch the Boston steels over to 66s as I'm trudging all the way up to the Midlands in two weeks time to photograph them. Am I right in thinking this is the first diagrammed work for 56s in Devon? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterbournecm Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 The local "gen" group SWRG seems to indicate that 56094 is at Eastleigh already for the working - BUT as we know - things can change. 56013 arriving back at Burngullow having worked the sleepers to Penzance 56302 in 2012 at Burngullow (theme developing here!!) working 6Z23 8th March And screaming past Largin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xerces Fobe2 Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 Sorry x-post with Xerces Fobe2 above No problem - great minds think alike! XF Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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