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Top Marks and well done this is stunning............Just need some highly detailed wagons now to follow!

Re the Immingham to Saton Ore trains. When the then new tippler wagons went onto the flow moving the imported ore pairs of 37s was used on the trains, In 1991/2 these gave way to single class 60s and the length of the trains raised from 21 to 24 tippler wagons in around 2010 66's started to be diagrammed on the ore trains but with the last 4 wagons empty! Class 56s have never been used on the trains they trial a 56 in around 1980 but the loco was out of gauge for the unloader at Santon and 3 56's have worked the empties back when incidents have occurred.

Royal Oak North Signal Box still survives in a back garden in East Hull

Still waiting for the Steel wagons as well!!!!

Is the consist split as in is one portion of the train destined for Tinsley Park and the other Deepcar?

You are right in what you say Station Master. A work college was a driver based at Old Oak Common in the "Freight Link" and he was in the initial batch of drivers who learned the new type 5's The key that made the whole 59 project as you say was the second to non support EMD offered. He has told it was quite common to find EMD engineers at Old Oak or Acton or even riding out on the type in traffic and discussing any issues that he would be having with the loco's. The fault books would be constantly checked daily and the exam program that locomotives had was also brilliant. During his time on the 59s he only ever had to protect his train once near Taplow when he was working 4,000 ton loaded train and the alternator gave up the ghost and and he could apply any power. A new class 60 came out to rescue him and drag the whole lot back to Acton and even with a dead loco and 4,000 tons of stone the 60 manged very well. With regard to class 66s having spent the best part of 15 years working with them they are the cooking version of a class 59. However, the diagrams these locomotives work are far more punishing then any diagrams the former BR trainload companies ever created. The loco's mile per causality rate is streets ahead of what class 37s, 47s, 56s, 58s and 60s would ever achieve. Admittedly some of the operators who operate the class 66s have totally flogged the loco's and they are in need of major exams but on the whole what one of these locomotives can do on a full tank diesel is amazing. Yeah they can be rough riding and they are loud in the cab (but so are the 59s) but they are a solid loco and says something when GB want more of them and have paid a premium to get them.

In 1997 Knottingley North Link and some of the Ex National Power Ferrybridge men learned Tyne Yard and so they did not get stranded waiting for a late running south bound coal job or to get a 60 back into Scotland we used to give them a 58 to take this way they a ride back home at least if there southbound job was running late.

Hi, Myself I would like to a decent priced HAA hopper that would be great along with HDA,HBA,HMA, so and so on. I would love to see a class 59 done in all liveries and variations and also the JHA & JMA Hopper wagons. Also I would like to see BBA Steel wagons I know that particular model was to be done by Dapol I'm unsure if this is still the case. Also the HIA & MJA wagons are these still going to be done by Dapol or will these now fall by the wayside. I echo the view of the freightliner flats and RHTT sets that's quite a good idea. I think some of DMU's that have been asked for 117s and Transpennies old and new are a good idea. Also what about some Chemical tanks like the Carbon Dioxide, Acetic Acid and Albright and Wilson and Ciba Cigy tanks surly there must be a market for these and maybe a decent ready to run VEA and SPA wagons.

Looks like Goole to me

The Billy can is a give away straight away being driven by the then Knottingley Driver Nick Ainley now at FLHH Ferrybridge

56073 at Milford the coal has a flat top to it the train will have come from Widderington as that had a rapid loader Butterwell trains are loaded by buckets and Wardley was shut by then

Good Luck to GB Having it on a coal circuit if I had a pound for the ammount of times I had to arrange assistance for a 70 I would be a rich man

'B' Track at West Burton is ued to discharge the box wagons that GBRF Haul onto site. There is enough room to get a few lorries and JCB for the discharge to take place. As James stated the train is optimistically loaded the last time I saw it the sound of axels was deffening! Also when it pulled away from its crew change the 66 was well and truely working flat out with the power controller in notch 8 before the train started moving!

FLHH finest rother valley man there Mr Ashley Torr getting off at Water Orton

Right the Scunthorpe Traffic coal and Iron Ore is not going to Hull that traffic is running as normal its power station coal that is cuasing the porblems

The traffic that is wantng to be moved is for the Aire Valley and Trent Valley Power Stations all the Scunthorpe traffic (Coal and Iron Ore) is being being moved as booked the problems are occuring with the power station traffic not all of it will switch to the North Bank but small ammount of it will and the smaller ships will be sent to Hull instead of Immingham or thats the plan the FOC's have been told of anyway infact it is already happening there is an extra train already leaving Hull Coal Terminal at 2016 for Rugeley and GBRF are loading an West Burton train over night. As James say's the line is good for 22 trains a day and to be honest its about time it was used to its capcity as well and with the American coal producers slashing the price of coal mined in the USA and the our power generators buying it up like there is no tomorrow I would say all the Ports that handle coal will be busy with this additional tonnages.

If a train runs on the former Eastern Region it denotes that the train is internal special movement,Like F is on the western and P is on the Midland and so on and so on

Yes the toilet is still filled that way its awful

Re the diversions only Northern Drivers and Conductors based at Hull sign the road from Hull to Docnaster Via Selby and one link of Sheffeild Depot sign Sheffield to Cleethorpes Via Gainsborough and Brigg. I am not suer if 185 are passes via Brigg or not and I don't think it would be worth learning Cleethropes or Sheffield Men the route that way even if TPE at Sheffield has just taken two ex freight men who both sign via Brigg and Worksop. You never know tho they might spend the money and do some route leaning as there is talk of this carrying on for 3 months

Nice pictures and I was on the 1st one in when Fastline Freight went belly up looking at the pictures it looks like ground that Up Scunthorpe Slow and Fast has risen alog with the loading line near Stainforth East Ground Frame shame its going to be closed for a month nice little jobs them Hatfields

Shame no Knottingley Men ever signed class 20s would have been a nice site class 20s powering through Sudforth Lane

When the loco works it it works well and will pull a street down its just the daft niggling faults that let the class down there acceleration is something else when coming off the Tyne Valley at Norwood Jn and trotting down the slow's to Birtley once you get the road the road there by the time your passing through Chester le Street your shutting off power as you just about at line speed and with a 66 your doing 35-40 mph depending on how good the 66 is! They just need to sort the daft faults out with them!

Yes Tinsley Yard is still in use nowt as far as I know runs into the SIRFT as of yet but the 5 sdg's that are left as used by DBS and recives a daily train from Immingham that brings in slabs and rolls them into coils this used to be a two way traffic flow but back in 2006 this went to a one way flow the slab runs to the SMCC & SPACE the site connects with the rest of the network at Tinsley West Jn on the Rotherham to Woodburn Jn line.

Have you tried the Railfreight since 1968 books by Paul Shannon the Coal one is a great read along with all the others

If I may be so bold and chip in, The National Power 59s was very very well looked after by the engineers at Ferrybridge Depot and the diagrams these loco's worked was not as punishing as the ones operated by the Mendip Pool in contrast the trains the National Power loco's worked was quite light in comparison and every weekend until they was send down south the loco's had a 'B' exam. I don't know what work now gets carried out on the loco's at Whatley but yeah they must be due an overhaul I know when I was on the North East loco desk at EWS it was very rare for any of these loco's to have isolated traction motors unlike the class 60s and 56/58 that often had at least one isolated.