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    WCML, electrification, Class 90s, DB Cargo uk AC traction, other electric locos, Class 86, 87, 88, 89, 91, 92. Other DB locos. Historical steam train routes long since disappeared, the Leamside line (Washington, UK), Consett to Sunderland steel works line and Ouston Junction (nr Chester-le-street)

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  1. Ah, yes, so, it did ... Sneaky badgers ... or rather Skodas ... https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:R06075/2024-03-16/detailed Friday night's train 4L96 had a shed on, rather disappointing after the chilly wait ... between 4M87 and 4L96 .. So, the Skodas went out Saturday instead :-( lol ... Did you video them ?
  2. Loco update - March 2024 Latest DB90 to join Johnson Street IEMD 90035 was one of DB's active 90s during their tenure of the contract to provide traction for MALCOLM Group. 90035 was, during this time, repainted from tired EWS livery with faded decals into new DB red but unlike matching classmates 90019 and 90028 wasn't named. One of my first DB90s to join my fleet was 90028, named Sir William McAlpine, nicknamed "Bill", named at York's National Railway Museum Museum in early 2019, seen below at this event, a Class 90 on a turntable, an unusual sight for an electric locomotive. This, following on nicely from Multimodal (90019)'s appearance inside the NEC exhibition centre, for the Multimodal logistics trade show in 2016, seen below, 90035, now into DB red went off to join an electrification testing project team on the Great Western mainline (GWML) electrification project, seen below: This was then followed up by 90035 being seconded for similar work, again as part of a consist for the Midland mainline (MML) electrification project. At the end of this project, 90035, fondly nicknamed CB Hall on my YouTube channel returned to Crewe International Electric Maintenance Depot (Crewe IEMD) for pantograph conversion work ahead of a return to traffic most notably on MALCOLM workings, seen on the last leg, thank you to Youtuber Angel Of Crewe: 90035 working on MALCOLM post GWML / MML work: Having already acquired Bill and Multimodal for Johnson Street IEMD, the first Bachmann DB90 to be unveiled two years and several seasonal release windows after the first Class 90s were launched in the summer of 2019, inevitably this was always going to be one I already had commissioned and so it was with Bill. With Multimodal having also been sourced, I left "New Bill - 32-616NRM" off my priority radar, now though with this coming to a more sensible price point, he's been acquired. Changing Identity One of my existing DB Cargo red 90s will be unnamed and renumbered into 90035 - a nice job for the magician 🎩 he knows who is. New Bill just needs a weathering.
  3. @Dagworth do you think we can raise a WHWW OLE page ?
  4. Like you say, the key thing is the variety of structures, it isnt all the same, no matter which network we are talking of, yes, some are more consistent in appearance, but even those like the ECML there's variation, these new gantries - hopefully give us hope, and more importantly, the cantilevers need to be PECO compliant I would say
  5. Hi Andi, Yes, they are doing the double track single mast gantries and they appear to be doing them in the GWML style but also possibly may be adaptable to the similar ones seen on the WCML as one of the pictures i have seen has vertical boom at the end of the horizontal, its hard exactly to describe, but i plan to adapt these, as soon as i get my hands on them ... Kat :-)
  6. This was referred to me that Rail's have the NRM DB90 for sake at £164, making them slightly more accessible and affordable https://www.instagram.com/p/C4ItFFgtB-q/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet
  7. MT3 @ Blakemere - 7th January 2024 Having joined the volunteer team at Making Tracks Three in the summer, a further opportunity was extended to me to do so again at Blakemere and I had signed up to do four days there, over the exhibition, culminating in four Sundays, the last of which was 7th January. It was a great day, really busy and a pleasure to work with the other volunteers and the Railnuts gang to entertain the folks of Cheshire. For this event, I took along my MALCOLM rake and some DB electric traction, DB Cargo 90026 got the nod along for blue box duties and later in the day, two light loco moves got an airing ... 90026 on 4M25 Christine (90037) and Malcolm (90024) on 0Z90 92042 and 92027 on 0Z92
  8. 16th December to 7th January 2024 As one of the volunteers at Making Tracks Three at Chester Cathedral, i was asked if I would like to take part over the Christmas period and when someone asks would I like to take my locos out for a run out through an electrified landscape, that could only lead to one answer ... hell yes ... so ... my DB90s took to the Making Tracks landscape, this time, at Blakemere, which is near to Northwich, Cheshire (CW8) ... I have been twice so far ... and had a great time ... Week One - Christine (90037) came along for the ride - light engine Week Two - Bumblebee1 (90026) and DB Blue (90034) came along for this session - but Blue failed - so Bumblebee1 went on solo MALCOLM workings: What will be out on my next visit ? You'll just have to wait and see ... The exhibition is on until 7th January 2024, if you haven't see it, there's still time to get to see it ...
  9. My latest DB90 has landed... 90037 in DB red Glider livery ... but whilst it picks up nicely on the Gaugemaster Prodigy, it isnt being recognised by the Dynamis, rather annoyingly .. any ideas why this is happening ?
  10. Christmas is on the nearby horizon and in light of this, Santa Claus's sleigh accidentally dropped a couple of new arrivals in to the Johnson Street stable. One of the Skodas I had been looking to add to my stable for some time was Christine, in DB red. 90037 had been going to Toton along with 90039 for new liveries. 90039 had been going for Grand Central liverying. It was all set to become the fourth of five DB90s into Bumblebee livery, when the news broke that the plan to operate push pull Class 90/DVT and Mk4 carriage sets between Blackpool North and London Euston had been cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. 90039 ended up being liveried into Backbone livery and the three already liveried DB90s into Grand Central were de-branded and returned to the freight pool. 90037 went into the DB Glider livery and was soon out working with several of the de-branded Grand Central 90s on MALCOLM group workings, a good shot of this, seen at Stafford, five DB90s in the same place, very unusual. Jack Mills (90036) was also seen in this clip, working with Multimodal on 4S47 DAV-MOS duty: 90036 in DB minus Schenker, named Driver Jack Mills, weathered and sound fitted was one which came across my radar whilst I was in the process of sorting consecutively numbered team Red Skoda, 90037, in the more recently liveried Glider livery named Christine. Christine has also been weathered to reflect an in-service liveried state and has her own acoustics as well. Christine, not long after returning to traffic in her new colours: It seemed a shame to let Jack past on this occasion as he had been created by the magician tasked with my loco masterpieces, so Jack got snapped up. Now, Jack Mills was already a mainstay of my stable already so Old Jack is going to get a new identity. What that will be remains to be seen but either one of the 90s currently missing? Either 90020, 90029 or 90035 .. 90021 in Donald Malcolm is one on the radar for the future and there's going to be another 90, one which is going to keep the new liveries going. In the real world, these 90s are now stood down, retired by DB and are due to be sold soon, but in my modelling world, they're very much active under the Team Red brand. The last 90 to be liveried was Donald Malcolm (90021) and my plan is to have a DB90 to follow on from 90021.
  11. they could also do 92029 in new DB red and then I won't have to have one repainted.
  12. That Tug looks something special ... maybe GBRf could do one in those colours :-)
  13. @The MeerkatI am not really sure .. I would probably signpost you to @legomanbiffo on this one.
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