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https://shop.kelsey.co.uk/product/BOOKSHED6/On Shed #6 Western Region - South Wales & Bristol just checked and it allowed me to add it to my basket. (Didnt complete the purchase though as I’ve already pre-ordered the remaining issues when I ordered No5) According to the website the release date is FRIDAY 31ST MAY 2019.

Still being used in traffic at the moment.

No, just unlucky. Like most days there are a small number of 80x units running round in traffic with a diesel only restriction.

Remaining GWR HST Diagrams Remaining HST diagrams and their particular workings can be found here ^

RTT doesn’t show diagrams or booked traction. It only shows the timing load! High Speed Train (HST 125) on RTT applies to both HST & IET operated workings.

Cow Lane was closed last weekend to allow for road resurfacing & new road markings for the final configuration- there are now filter lanes for both Cardiff Road & access to the TCD.

Good idea, the local newspaper “The Little Muddle Gazette” has already made an appearance way back in this thread (courtesy of Stubby47):

Isn’t that normal operation? Changeover Point is at Moreton Cutting for all trains (with the exception, as noted, Up trains stopping at Didcot can pan up in the Station) Down Trains will pan up again once through Steventon bridge and on the leccy all the way to Bristol Parkway / Stoke Gifford (and just short of Chippenham, come 21/04).

That chap is certainly multi-skilled! Not only can he be seen at the Station or behind the controls of a diesel loco, he can also turn his hand to a spot of signalling (and he gets to keep his legs ), here he is booking on in the train register in Stowbury Signal Box: Where will he turn up next ?

First saw a couple of these ONE pink containers interspersed on a Freightliner at Reading West Jn, as I whizzed past on a train. To top it all off was the FL 66 which had just been out shopped in their new owner’s Orange livery! You definitely needed your sunglasses that day!

No, Sat & Sun are different diagrams to Mon-Fri, If you are on about RailUk Forums then you may want to check back to these posts: Frequently requested diagrams Remaining GWR HST Diagrams

The ECS moves have to reverse in Swindon Station to access Cocklebury Sidings. On the current diagrams, Cocklebury sees a 12 car and 2x 8 car 387 s stabled overnight.

Reading TCD, you can see the derailer in the closed position on the rail, just to the front of the 387. All the shed roads are protected by a derailer and they are interlocked with the Depot Protection System. The yellow case to the side of the track is the operating motor.

This is a picture of Colas 60021 refuelling at Reading TCD. The machine in the immediate foreground is one of the CET stations, the plastic tube coming from the attachment at the top is for the flushing / extraction of the waste. The black rubber hose protruding from the front is for refilling the tanks.

http://www.airquick.co.uk/cet-systems/ This is the company that provides the equipment at Reading TCD, there is also a short video of the equipment in use at Reading.

Thanks to all for the replies. No need to apologise for the length of the post, PH, most excellent!

On-Topic: Changeover Point is near Newbury Racecourse. Like it is at Didcot, Up trains can pan up in the Station when stopping there. The problem with the IET’s CCTV cameras isn’t the image per se, it’s just that the camera lens screen somehow gets covered in lots of crud, there’s no shield / deflectors on them unlike the 387s for example. Off Topic: As for house prices, a colleague of mine was looking at abodes ‘oop North’. He saw a 5 bed detached house with double garage, massive garden etc all for in the region of £250,000. (Somewhere in Humberside IIRC) I then showed him a very similar house, close to me, which is on the market for a cool £1,250,000!

The accident at Chester General on the 8th May 1972 involved a train with Brake Vans at both end. “The train had run from Ellesmere Port as an unbraked freight train and stopped at Helsby, where it needed to reverse. The guard had forgotten to connect the vacuum pipes when the locomotive coupled up to the opposite end of the train, so that extra brake power was not available on the falling gradient into Chester. The driver had also omitted to carry out a brake test before departure.” http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/DoE_Chester1972.pdf

I agree, that office furniture is impressive especially the printer! Where’s that sourced from or have 3d printed it yourself?

I was born in Dumfries in 71 but moved to England in 82. My interest in railways didn’t start until after I had moved and a good mate introduced me to ‘spotting’. I was aware that Dumfries had a Railway Station but that was about it. Fast forward to the present and I started to look at the railways around Dumfries using the excellent NLS website. It seems that ‘The Port Road’ to Stranraer is well known (I’ve just bought the excellent book by Andrew Swan) but looking at the maps I realised there was a railway that ran from Dumfries to Lockerbie which used to run straight past my old Primary School at Locharbriggs! It obviously never occurred to me that the footpath we always crossed on the way home was an old railway. The South West of Scotland does seem to be the poor relation when it comes to Scottish railways but when it comes to the railways of South West Scotland, the Caledonian Railway Dumfries - Lockerbie Branch seems to be the poorest relation of them all when it comes to ‘media’ coverage. I’ve got the recent edition of ‘Steam Days’ which donates a good few pages to Dumfries and has a short summary of the Branch and indeed one picture of Locharbriggs Station. Does anybody know of any other resources that cover this particular branch and in particular Locharbriggs Stn? On the railway model side of things, as a what if I were to base a model on the area, what would be available RTR (OO)? Thanks in advance Regards

Certainly something different! Any plans to motorise any of the RRVs?

May I ‘point’ you (pun intended ) towards this website, if you aren’t aware of it: https://www.brian-lambert.co.uk/index.html one of my major stumbling blocks was the electrics but after having a good read of this site, I was happy enough with the basics to wire my DCC layout up, (to be fair I don’t have to worry about points). if you are planning to have ‘droppers’ from every track, use two different colours of wire. One for the +, the other for the - connection to the DCC bus, just make sure that one colour always goes to the top rail (as you look at the plan), the other colour always goes to the bottom rail. Hope this helps but as I say I was (still am ) a complete amateur when it came to electrics but I got trains running and have installed working lights on the layout without blowing myself up (yet!)

I’ve also overheard plenty of positive comments whilst onboard the ‘new trains’ so let’s not try and make out the whole populace hate them! i’m quite sure that if these weren’t replacing the HST, there wouldn’t be half the ‘hysteria’ that does follow them!

1C82 is HST in the current valid LTP diagrams (IW3). The week just gone and next week it was/is on IW2 (STP), the following week it reverts back to IW3. My point being was it’s not an HST vice IET if it’s working on a booked HST diagram. Saying that it will be an IET soon enough, perhaps the reservation system (or someone populating it) has got ahead of themselves.

1C82 was part of a booked HST Diagram all last week. It is next week as well.