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    Accurascale Announce OO HUO - NEW PRE-TOPS RUN ANNOUNCED 23/07/2020

    in Accurascale / Irish Railway Models

    Posted · Edited by Irishswissernie

    Never mind Northumberland. You know where I live.

     

    For anyone looking for some Northumberland inspiration, plenty of 24.5t tonners just been put up by Ernie.

     

    https://flic.kr/p/K2iTV8

     

    https://flic.kr/p/Ej7vFr

     

    https://flic.kr/p/Ej7Df4

     

    https://flic.kr/p/22CKsWL

     

    https://flic.kr/p/23swFww

     

    https://flic.kr/p/FjQdoE

     

    https://flic.kr/p/JvQrrK

     

    https://flic.kr/p/FjQdZE

     

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    I will be adding a few more shortly to the NCB Northumberland album and the next albums will be hopefully ECML Northumberland and ECML Durham. Off to Tanfield this sunday for the coal train day so there should be a few video stills from that to upload as well.

     

    4 packs of hoppers ordered! Still waiting for a RTR J27 though.

     

    Ernie

    Crianlarich

    in Railways of Scotland

    Posted

    Whilst wandering through Ernie Brack's wonderful WHL Flickr site, I found a picture of Bridge of Orchy which answers the 'did the coaches ever move' part of the above question. The picture is undated although on the basis that I cannot see any semaphores, I am inclined to think it is after 1986.

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/36536540725/in/album-72157684935256154/

    I Have the date 11May85 WBHS Special to Fort William I think.

     

    Ernie

    Waverley Route new image links and discussion

    in The Waverley Route

    Posted · Edited by Irishswissernie

    What a wonderful pic, and not just for the horseboxes - that's a marvellously modellable collection of bothies and sheds.  As I've said on another thread, it's the edges and corners of pics which can provide so much interesting detail and information.  Perhaps the Teris on here can advise if this is where other livestock wagons were loaded/unloaded, not just horseboxes?

     

    Alasdair

    An enlargment from CJB Sanderson/ARPT negative shows cattle wagons in the siding. The old 25inch map shows siding as a loading bank and the Auction Mart was just across the river.

     

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    ONE TIP, click on the Album list and then select the "Waverley Route". Images are arranged (I hope) in location order starting at Carlisle. The Flickr header sheet shows the photostream as and when I upload them hence the mixture of subjects etc.

     

     

    Ernie

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    Haltwhistle - What is this siding for?

    in UK Prototype Questions

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    https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/24071433927/in/photostream/

     

    Re why the loaded wagons were in front of the loader. I couldn't remember the loading sequence after nearly 20 years ( well I can't remember what happened last week never mind 20 years ago!). Then I realised that I started videoing in 1998 and a search through my DVD's produced 3 video sequences from August/September of that year.

     

    Empty trains usually arrived from the east and after the loading team were ready the train passed slowly through the loader and then reversed back through it at the same slow speed. There was a device on the track at the east end of the loader (see the still from the video - not very clear unfortunately) This was possibly a weighing machine or something to check the weight on individual axles. The loco .after uncoupling then proceeded through the Loader to the west end and then returned wrong line back to the east end points. After reversal the loco coupled on to the loads and then departed east to one of the Yorkshire Power stations. Loadhaul liveried 56111 went to Eggborough PS on 16Sept98.

     

    The previous week trains were going west via Carlisle; possibly to Fidlers Ferry. 56073 was on one train, it had to wait until Mainline Blue liveried 37203  on the Hexham log trip dropped off the shunter . The loaded wagons were still reversed slowly back through the loader before reversing and heading back through it and then off to Carlisle.

     

    When the Loader first started operation the signalling installations on the main line were in-complete and trains had to run past the loader and then reverse in to the siding, the HAA Board at the west end of the tunnel was to tell the driver that the tail end of the train had cleared the points. After loading the train then had to go all the way west to Carlisle to run round before returning a couple of hours later past its starting point!

     

    This still happens in Scotland where the Greenburn trains have to travel all the way to Kilmarnock to run round before heading south.

     

    Ernie 

    Crianlarich

    in Railways of Scotland

    Posted · Edited by Irishswissernie

     

     

     

    Hello

     

    I have found the copy of the picture that I used as the basis for the RMB's blanked out side windows, I have however been unable to trace the original online source in order to provide a link, it may be that it was lost in the recent Photobucket implosion so for now I am posting it here for information only.  Mod's feel free to delete this if there is any issue here with copyright or if you are the original owner then let me know and I will knock it on the head.

     

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    Yes this is one of mine, Due to one of my copyright holders being advised that I was selling his images for profit (totally wrong of course), I removed some 28,000 images from Flickr until this issue had been resolved as I didn't want him  at his time of life being upset. This has now been sorted out. Unfortunately shortly after removal my computer crashed and I lost the original Flickr files but not the images which are scattered in numerous folders. 

     

    The West Highland & Callender & Oban Albums are now back, greatly enhanced by images copyright of the ARMSTRONG Railway Photographic Trust+ photographer.

     

    This RMB photo is from September 1985 and as a 'quickfix' as there are quite a few other images which havn't been put back on, I have uploaded the original trip as a separate folder:

     

     https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/albums/72157686481907854

     

    I quite like it as it gives a particular 'Time snapshot'

     

    Ernie

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    Prototype for everything corner.

    in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)

    Posted

    That's a lot. I have heard that the DRGW used to run 13 loco lash ups, which I had assumed was quite a lot by American standards. Got no evidence though.

    Yes they were quite common on the DRGW over Tennessee Pass and Soldier Summit. In 2014 the Utah Railway was moving oil in 120 car trains over Soldier Summit with 10 locos, 5 on the front and 5 on the rear. Not quite impressive as 10 in one lash up but pretty spectacular!!

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/15037148473/in/album-72157648616588950/

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/15657297775/in/album-72157648616588950/

     

    Ernie

    Crianlarich

    in Railways of Scotland

    Posted

    Does anyone have any better shots of the ex Mk1 RMB, the former 1817 and later DB977078 which resided at Crianlarich for many years please?

     

    I have found this one https://www.flickr.com/photos/35138806@N08/3515115343 but would like to find a better shot of the rather home made looking number panel at the left hand end.  Also did this coach ever actually leave the yard at any time or was it a fairly permanent resident until it was binned?

    Enlargment from scan attached, finding the negative could be tricky!

     

    Ernie

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    Dave F's photos - ongoing - more added each day

    in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)

    Posted · Edited by Irishswissernie

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    Newcastle Central station.

     

    Merry Christmas Dave, Here's a J27 I havn't uploaded yet from the late Fleetwood Shawe negatives that Dave Dunn of the ARPT has given me permission to use.

     

    Hope the weather is a bit better where you are as its been hoying it down here for the last 24 hours and we are coming through to Blyth (well Seaton Sluice!) this afternoon to see Annie's Mam.

     

    UPDATE: As Haltwhistle is now cut off by Floods on the A69 we won't be venturing out today!!

     

    Ernie

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