Simon_R

I pass toton most weeks along the A52 and this scene has been developing gradually for the past few months. It looks like DBS are storing all of their potential disposal haulage at Toton now, including the failed 37419 and a few 08's. Sad to see them like that. Presumably they will shortly be offering them for sale 'as is' and with any luck one or more of the smaller TOC's will be brave enough to save a few from the gas axe. If you look at it from DBS's point that a whole chunk of cash just sitting there. I bet the scrap value alone would pay a few months worth of the lease on the 66 fleet.

60040 seen alive and well today outside Burton-on-trent :-)

And in 50 years time when all 'BR' are using is Japanese built 200mph EMU's that all look the same and make virtually no noise how many people are going to get excited about the idea of seeing a huge rumbling beast beltching black smoke? Quite a few i would expect.

It came in with the 58's so that would be early 80's maybe 83?

Doesn't it have to have trains to be classified as a 'railway' rather than just strips of redundant rusty metal.... It runs right through the middle of the Conkers development in the national forest so i'm pretty sure they are aware of it. Apparently there's a tunnel as well

The new tube stock ran past my house? How random is that!! I'm sure it does get used as i could have sworn i heard a shed the other night. It was definatly a shed type 'ying' and it did seem to move so couldn't have been to do with the industrial units that are the other side of the line. A couple of 'non train' people in Ashby have suggested that there may be a morning and afternoon working of 'frieght' along the line so i shall continue the quest. One thing to note about the line is that it isn't fenced for the most part. I could easily have strolled along the track on sunday morning. I'll have a look through the Flickr, thanks for the tip.

85 views and not one reply. I guess the workings along this line are even more elusive than i thought

Ok so that's not it's official name, rather the name the campaigners were/are using to try and get much needed passenger services restored. What i'm waffling about is the goods only line from north of burton-on-trent that goes via Coalville and Bardon and joins the Midland in Leicester. I know FL work the Bardon to Leicester section quite regularly as there are generally a couple of FRED's stables at Bardon and i remember seeing some excellent cab shots on the earlier RMwebs. What i'm interested in is the workings to the west of Coalville, across through Ashby and down to the burton-Derby line. It passes within about 200 yards of my house but i haven't as yet seen a single train on it. I remember seeing a couple of EWS sheds crossing the M42 some years ago but that's it. We have a signal box at Moira West if that helps as a passing point? It's definatly live as it's all been re-signed and tarmaced and the box has a NR hi-vis jacket hanging inside. Can anyone with access to TOPS or Frieghtmaster give me the times of the regular workings?

Bump for the paint colour. I've tried the glacier white and it's nothing like it! Any other suggestions?

I had a relco on my first layout when i was a kid. I was mostly old Hornby stell track and was a constant battle to clean hence being draw into the Relco idea. It never really did anything and i got rather sick of the electric shocks i used to get when touching the track. One thing i did notice was that if i left the layout powered up by accident my dad would go mental because the relco would put out that much HF interferance that he couldn't get Radio 4 in the kitchen! It seems the track was acting as an antenna and the relco a short range HF transmitter!

I'm really just after coaches, either the motor or divisable, that can be attacked with an exacto saw Does anyone know what the light grey is? I have Phoenix's blue and eurostar grey, but that appears to be the shade of the grilles rather than the body sides. I did see some mention of Renault Glacier White but i'm not sure if that's accurate?

I have a set of the Hurst overlays but i'm not entirly sure i want to use them. Apart from the additional bulk they would add to the stock, it would certainly mean trying to match the paint finish or re-painting the entire set. I did have the HO guys site bookmarked but it's not there anymore. It was basically a guide to a simple cut-and-shut of the more readily avaliable leading coaches into a passable intermediate coach. I'm sure it's not totally accurate i just fancied building a few more articulated units rather than cheating and using lots of expensive and inacurate divisble coaches. I have the recent MR article, and it does refer to the original, but goes on about filing and filling windows which to me sounds like a recipe for disaster. The article i saw originally suggested cutting the side out and flipping it to give the raise window line effect of the bar car. I do plan to have a full set one day, i just wanted to build it up gradually. The idea of having an 18 unit emu that is unusable until it's all finished would drive me slowly bonkers.

Just driven past Toton and it looks like a 'TugsRus' there are that many parked up.

Sad news about the tugs, i have fond memories of them first appearing and being wowed by the size and power of these beasts. If your a skip fan (67's) get your photos now cos i heard a more than rumour that they may not be with us much longer either....

Hmm bit of a trek then to see it

So we'll just call them Fugglies then? as in Frieghtliner Uglies, or the 'alternative' meaning Portbury to Rugley, so thats Bristol to Cannock, which way does it pass B'ham? I might make it out that way later/tommorow to try and catch one.

Did anyone here take a copy of the article that used to be on the HO modellers site that describes how to convert Hornby eurostar power coaches into additional articulated coaches? I've got a hankering to build a decent eurostar but all you can buy are the devisable coaches which should be in the cetnre of the set.