ZiderHead

Great photo. Its like Gary Mason and Lennox Lewis squaring up

Both of course! Option to change bogies, full DCC sound fitted for £20! ok, to be serious for a moment the 37 looks just wrong as a BoBo. yuuk!

Its about time Hornby or Bachmann produced this livery ... I'll start a wishlist!

It could be that it is entirely the engineer's fault. Presuming that it isnt his fault is no more valid than presuming it is, either are just guesswork at this stage.

Certainly looks like it. I wonder how long it takes one guy to apply say 40/100 handbrakes on a mile-long train in the middle of the night on an unlit section of track after a long, boring shift? Especially if the train is parked on an uphill gradient (assuming the brakes are applied on the downhill end of the train) and he has to walk the entire length of the train. Not a 10 minute job I imagine. When you are dealing with such long trains, especially single-manned, there seems to be a good case for a simple system to apply all the handbrakes using electric motors, although that does introduce a potential electrical hazard for flammable loads ...

Thats not damage, its character

A single loco on flasks? I thought they were always doubled up for redundancy

wow thats verdant grassy ballast! do they not have weedkiller trains through chester?

I can never see too many pics of my favorite (non-hydraulic ) loco, more please! BTW whats with the "quotes" ?

Seems strange that the ballast delivery and spoil removal is being done by truck rather than rail given the line isnt being used for anything else ... Unless there is no capacity left on the adjoining lines because of diversions perhaps?

some great info and pics in this thread, exactly the stuff Ive been looking for

great layout gents. If you're ever on the Lake Street footbridge, I'll be the guy on the fluoro-green mountainbike pausing for rehydration and to watch a bit of shunting

great idea, but only useful if the bold quote above is noted. date, location and a decent description are essential if its going to be a useful resource. maybe consider setting up something on Flikr or Photobucket to host them?