Not Captain Kernow

Missed this one from 1st June

Class 143 2 Car Pacer DMU Set number 143 606 at Swansea with 2B60 1510 Swansea to Abergavenny.

Some Welsh 142s and 143s in action:

All on 9th July 2019

Class 142 2 Car Pacer DMU Set number 142 002 with Class 143 2 Car Pacer DMU Set number 143 609 at the rear depart Cardiff Central with 2M34 1326 Barry Island to Merthyr Tydfill.

Class 142 2 Car Pacer DMU Set number 142 085 arrives at Cardiff Central with 2Y53 1345 Abercynon to Barry Island.

Class 143 2 Car Pacer DMU Set number 143 610 with Class 142 2 Car Pacer DMU Set number 142 080 at Rhymney with 5R24 1858 Rhymney to Rhymney Sidings.

All on 10th July 2019

Class 143 2 Car Pacer DMU Set number 143 614 with Class 142 2 Car Pacer DMU Set number 142 076 at the rear at Pontypridd with 2F36 1217 Treherbert to Cardiff Central.  

Class 143 2 Car Pacer DMU Set number 143 616 departs Radyr at the rear of 2Y33 1039 Pontypridd to Barry Island.

Class 142 2 Car Pacer DMU Set number 142 069 at Cardiff Central with 2M08 0656 Barry Island to Merthy Tydfil

7 hours ago, rockershovel said:

 

DLR is hardly a mass transit system

 

Not sure what your definition of a mass transit system is, but something with 121 million passenger journeys a year sounds pretty mass to me...

Resurrecting this, found one of mine at Weymouth.

Formation of BSK, SK, BSK, GUV, TPO, TPO, BG

I was thinking exactly the same thing Royal Oak!  Not that I have done it either! 

The bigger problem will be the loading times at Woking and Guildford in particular.  Haslemere and Petersfield in the peaks produce good loads as well, all trying to squeeze through those end doors.

The 442s previously covered off-peak workings on the Portsmouth direct and were taken off because of the frequent stops, long station dwells and not particularly great acceleration from what I remember.

The standard "fast" stopping pattern at that time was Waterloo, Woking, Guildford, Haslemere, Petersfield, Havant, Southsea and Harbour.  The current fast pattern has all of those and adds Godalming as well.  Be interesting to see how well they perform this time!

1 hour ago, jim.snowdon said:

No - just at an obscure foot crossing, posting two pictures which to all the world were clearly taken from inside the railway boundary. It's the very sort of thing that everyone was getting so worked up about over Flying Scotsman's travels around Burton, and the legality is, to put it bluntly, a matter of splitting hairs. Being inside the railway boundary is legitimate if the purpose is to cross the railway, not as an excuse to get lineside through a ligitimately provided gap in the fance.

 

Jim

OK I have told you more than once that I was not inside the railway boundary.  I explained I was a former railwayman and policeman so know the difference, and yet you continue to assert that I was on the wrong side of the fence.  Lumping me in with the halfwits who trespassed for Flying Scotsman is ridiculous.  I don't know what else I have to do to prove this to you, or why I should even have to?  The footpath is configured in a way that the style is indented which allows you to stand outside the fence but in a position that lets you take a clear picture.  I think this is quite common at many foot crossings.  

3 minutes ago, jim.snowdon said:

So where was it then?

 

Jim

OMG - it says on the original post and also on the caption on my own website - Treleigh!  Do you want a grid reference or something?

4 hours ago, Pandora said:

I guess the shot was taken "On or near the line" when standing in a safe and legally permitted position on a foot crossing,   In my 19 years "up front" I have never seen anyone using or waiting to cross the line  by  the  foot crossing, a question on a route assessment paper is how many whistle boards on the route?  Those boards are for the driver to  warn crossing users  of the approaching train

Interestingly there was someone at both crossings on this date!  Including someone with a dog out walking which is the first time I have seen someone actually using the footpath to walk along for purposes other than railway photography!

1 hour ago, jim.snowdon said:

It might have been, in which case why the evasiveness about answering the question in the first place? 

 

Jim

No evasiveness, I answered it in my reply to you!  If you go back and read my reply you will see that I clearly stated "it was not on the wrong side of the fence".  

2 hours ago, The Stationmaster said:

And seeing one name in those various links I don't doubt that he will continue 'putting passengers first' and take little or no notice of freight just as he did in one past role.   As ever on the railway some folk have a record of carrying their baggage with them and there are others around who know about it.

Andrew Haines was our Account Manager at Railtrack Southern Zone and we had many discussions about access planning issues!  I have no doubt he understands the issues as it was always clear when he was uncomfortable trying to present the Railtrack party line which he did not agree with!

On ‎15‎/‎05‎/‎2019 at 10:46, The Stationmaster said:

I'm not so sure about that.  We went through several pretty hefty reorganisations on BR between the mid 1980s and 1994 and the trains kept running all the way through that upheaval of change.  but then just how much upheaval was there - don't forget that we were very well practiced at managing change by the late 1980s if not before and generally the interruption to work could be measured as no more than a day and often a lot less in most of the changes and reorganisations.  

 

I was involved with WR freight and departmental planning from 1986/87 tight through to the end of the Region in 1992 and then covering the same geographic area plus the former SR from 1992 to 1994,  during that period I reintegrated long term and short term planning including an office move of both to a new single location,  Carried out various minor changes virtually every year to both reduce costs and meet the aims of those who wished to go on redundancy, completely overhauled the way in which we produced and issued freight WTTs for the WR, moved to a different building with largely new IT kit and integrated diagrammers into the planning team as part of sectorisation, then did the same on the former SR area.  Through all of that we didn't lose the publication day or time of a single notice, all of our WTTs went out on time and everybody had a desk to sit at from Day 1 with a working computer (in most instances, we had occasional IT problems but none were serious).  

 

The main reasons for reorganisation are to meet changing needs, to cater for major organisational change (sectorisation in this case), and - obviously - if possible to save money.  Provided the essential work flows through that process and people remain motivated and settled in their work (if not their change of location) you are doing what is needed

As one of the people reintegrated by Mike I can confirm that it was all done with enthusiasm and the full support of all the staff involved, which is how it should be and how it does usually work when the boss knows what he is doing and has the respect of his staff!  It was only the offer of a very senior position at Thameslink that enticed me away from freight!

25 minutes ago, jim.snowdon said:

And after all the fuss about Flying Scotsman, I trust that you were the right side of the boundary fence.

 

Jim

Having served 14 years on the railway and 7 years in the Police I am well aware of the correct place to stand thank you.  It was not on the wrong side of the fence.  Are you going to ask everyone else who has taken pictures the same question?

Here is 43 093 and 43 188 passing Treleigh on the 0650 Penzance to London Paddington this morning.

2C83 was the 0911 Penzance to Plymouth.  Monday - Friday, booked to be air braked air con stock, usually by taking the seated coaches of the Night Riviera.

21 hours ago, brianusa said:

Sadly it may just lie in a field close by getting rustier and rustier which is usually the fate of structures on some preservation lines .  It will be a pleasant surprise to see it tidied up and spanning the branch!

It is to be subject to a detailed restoration first before being erected at the new home on the Helston Railway.

Monarch received its blue roof at Landore, not Canton.

Its about models that are being produced and corners being cut. Make of this what you wish. Twist the original post I made as you wish. No matter how enlightening you feel this buffer envy is, the facts are that costs are being cut and some models will suffer as a consequence.

 

Amusing or not...............its FACT !

It is a fact that you are eleven years late in reporting!  32-780Z 37 207 William Cookworthy released in 2007 had fixed non-sprung buffers!

If you can find where I claim the railway was innocent please show me?  It is the emotive language of the RAIB statement I have a problem with.

Lots of things have no lights on them - livestock for example, a fallen tree etc.  Most people don't crash into them at 40mph just because they have no lights!  Different if they fall in front of you or suddenly appear, but stationary in the road you should be able to see in your lights.  If you cannot, you are driving too fast!

That statement from Simon French is pure sensationalism and will play straight into the hands of the media.

What about the fact that the driver was approaching the crossing at 40 - 50 mph (and if that is what they claim, it was probably faster) and did not see the wagon, which had however been seen by the car coming in the opposite direction.

If this had been 200 yards back, and the driver had hit a parked unlit vehicle, or a cow or similar, it would not even have been investigated!  I don't think I would approach a level crossing at 40mph.

No doubt the issues about the crossing need sorting, but as a driver you are responsible for driving in a manner which allows you to stop short of any obstruction.    If you cannot spot something as big as the biomass wagon in your headlights you are clearly driving too fast!

That sounds about right, I don't have the definite dates to hand, but I know by the time the 67s were running it was all from St Blazey, and they were in from 2000 onwards.

 It was not so much they were not stabled in the station area in the privatisation era, more there were so few of them there was no need.

The TPO was no longer stabled at Penzance during the day, running empty to and from St Blazey.

Cross Country workings if loco hauled would propel their own train outside to run around.  Sometimes the 08 would be used, sometimes not.  The same with workings to and from Long Rock - they did sometimes use the 08 and sometimes they didn't!

As everything tended to come in and go out again with the same stock there was no real need for any locos to be left on their own in the station area.

I have nothing showing snow ploughs fitted (does not mean it didn't happen of course) but here are a few images that might assist.

Class 37/5 Diesel Locomotive number 37 671 named "Tre Pol and Pen" at Lostwithiel, having returned light engine from Carne Point to collect the CDAs left in the loop.  For some reason this locomotive carried metals branding for a short time with red backed nameplates.
15th June 1989

Class 37/5 Diesel Locomotive number 37 671 named "Tre Pol and Pen" arrives at Lostwithiel with 6B03 1125 Fowey to Goonbarrow empties with black backed nameplates.
3rd December 1993

Class 37/5 Diesel Locomotive number 37 671 named "Tre Pol and Pen" passes Liskeard heading light engine to St Blazey.  It looks like the nameplates are black backed in this earlier view in September 1992.  Perhaps the nameplates were painted black when the Distribution decals were applied?