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Horrible looking things, they don't even look like trains

6 hours ago, jasRMWeb said:

Here are some photos of D 9549 / P 601 0 3911 003 CMZ. They were taken at Redondela, Galicia on Thursday 26th July 1990.  The locos are on a site now occupied by the AVE depot.

 

The photos are scans of slides.

I didn't realise Spain used vacuum brakes

Just now, 6990WitherslackHall said:

It has got its TOPs number on already. unless you mean its old BR number (D6964?).

 

I'll be honest, the BR large logo livery, although it's a good livery, it was looking a bit faded. 

Sorry I meant preferred tops , for some reason I have a thing about preferred tops blue. I have quite a few locos in that livery on my layout 

Cracking job, personally I would have preferred preferred tops numbers and headcodes but that's just my preference.  Good to see its had a good restoration 

6 hours ago, Halvarras said:

 

Yes, I'm certain there were a few isolated examples of Classes 20 & 47. 20158 comes to mind (may not be this one but I've definitely seen a photo of one) and I noted 47256 in green with domino panels at Gateshead on 8th May 1977 (in two-tone green as this was some months before its short-lived single-tone repaint).

Didn't realise 47256 got repainted in single tone green . What was the idea behind that

Strange to see a green loco with domino headcode 

1 hour ago, kevsmiththai said:

In other news I have added a Great Eastern album to my Flickr channel. This has the higher res scans than I posted here. I've never really got around to uploading my East Anglia stuff but this Lowestoft thread has set me going

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/152010806@N03/albums/72177720315628680

 

Kev

 

Evening Kev 

Surprised you haven't got an album for the early Barrow hill galas

33 minutes ago, AY Mod said:

 

That was a couple of years later; sadly I couldn't make that year. Best sounding forest car, full stop.

Absolutely,  that new one they are producing won't be the same with the audi engine.  Just won't be as angry 

2 hours ago, AY Mod said:

 

I was in the grandstand at Highgate that we got turfed out of as it was starting to sink just after the F3000 started.

 

Weekend diversion over.

Was that the same event which had the metro super challenge with the 6R4s?

Probably the best sounding motorsport event ever all those V6s within a built up area

Anyway getting back on track, did any green loco of any class get the domino stickers in the headcode boxes? 

The signals in the yard were strange the bracket signal corresponded with the discs on one and two reception . An arm on the bracket took you out on to the main and disc onto the reception.  Also unusual was number 2 was nearest the mainline 

I've used lowestoft as a bit of an influence on my layout where there are houses with railway on both sides of them and the footbridge over sidings and running lines

Lowestoft was a busy railway location until comparatively recently.  Its train crew depot stayed open until mid 90s

1 hour ago, Reorte said:

The arch over the surviving lines seems to have been replaced with concrete too :(

It was done a few years back when the route was gauge cleared for 9ft6in containers 

53 minutes ago, adb968008 said:

Where is Saxby ?

 

even google maps struggled with that.

Between Melton Mowbray and Oakham 

38 minutes ago, melmerby said:

OS map shows the old alignment as well

 

https://maps.nls.uk/view/114592842

Hadn't realised it had such a big yard on formation of Lord Harboroughs curve

It's not Saxby is it Kev? 

20 hours ago, kevsmiththai said:

The earlier Nitric bogie tanks were the TEAs BRT 84183 to 84192. There is a drawing for these in the British railway Wagon book vol 1 published by OPC

 

The later ones were Riv registered (SNCF) with Channel tunnel markings. They were leased from GE

 

I went to Long Marston to inspect them for a renewal of the lease in November 2011

 

The numbers were

33 70 7899 022-9

33 70 7899 024-9

33 70 7899 036-9

33 70 7899 038-5

 

I don't think they ever ran in traffic afterwards as the move to road transport was in full force by them. If memory serves me, they sat at Kingmoor for a while and were then sent to M.O.D Longtown for store

 

I'll see what I have on the Caustics. It won't be much. If I get time I'll get my old trip inspection notebooks out and should be able to get the numbers

 

Kev

Hi Kev

I didn't realise that job ended so long ago, was the acid for thope?

1 hour ago, Mark Saunders said:

 

Fortunately I moved house as it looks like its planned for demolition!

I didn't realise you lived there 

1 minute ago, Mark Saunders said:

The APT is being resurrected as part of the rebuilding of Eaglescliffe station!

 

 

And a scorched earth policy for the estate between there and Allen's west!

These are the tanks I was thinking about 

22 minutes ago, hmrspaul said:

Presumably if you are talking about the Nitric acid I think that may have been the tanks that were later used by Hays for UKF traffic, but I'm not sure.  https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brtbogietank2/ed83fdec  But where they working to Sellafield or to Workington for the works at Albright & Wilson  Corkicle. 

 

Paul

Hi Paul 

I'm not sure they are the tanks I remember.  They may have had TRL logos on them. The job ran a few times a week to and from Sandbach 

I seem to remember there were 3 bogie tanks with a shiny finish in early drs days hauled by a pair of 20s or a single 37

16 hours ago, LNERGE said:

They must be the last ones in use Richard.  I wonder if they will fit couplers from modern units or if they will be scrapped 

3 minutes ago, LNERGE said:

The picture was taken at Ilford 

Sorry Richard,  of course it is. For some reason quickly glanced at it and thought 80s Colchester 

28 minutes ago, ste234 said:

This is the issue we had. We went through the weekend Gresley was there. Had it not been so expensive we'd of bought a ticket and had a ride on anything. My 1 year old daughter loves seeing the trains and enjoyed a ride at Llangollen railway a few weeks ago that cost very little. It was only a short trip, but that was enough for her current (limited!) attention span. My wife isn't exactly as enthusiastic about railways as I am and I'd struggle to get her to go back more than once in a year just to have a ride on a train which she finds completely boring, so £99 isn't a good spend for a day out really for us. And it's a shame as we only live 45 minutes away! Had it been cheaper or we could just go for example Grosmont to Goathland and walk back then they would 100% of had a ticket sale out of us, even if we had to pay for little one.

Instead they got nothing....

The other thing that short journey tickets allow is people to take kids for a shorter ride that would otherwise get bored on a nearly 3h round trip with hardly any phone signal 

When I was a kid in the 70s we very rarely did a full return round trip it was either Grosmont Goathland and back or through to pickering with my dad and my mum would drive the car there

I think there are still some of those in use at Ilford