Jock67B Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 Jim, You might feel that those pics aren't your best but you must not lose sight of the fact that you have still managed to capture the atmosphere as well as reminding us how hard the night jobs can be! Very informative as usual and I know I'm not alone in hoping for more early in the New Year. Can I take the opportunity to wish you and your family a Happy and prosperous New Year, Kind regards, Jock. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted December 31, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 31, 2014 the pics that are showing now are the edited ones which are much improved over the originals so i'm happier with them now also i had to be careful getting pics as the london worksites are far busier and high profile than up at bicester or banbury rd for example where i can spend a bit more time composing pics during down time and be able to set up a tripod away from the tracks, and with all the hoo ha over kings cross over running you have to be careful that 'the media' or 'twitterati' arent lurking on an overbridge for a photo opportunity of a train driver 'doing nothing' while passengers are stranded at finsbury park, all it takes is one pic out of context!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
admiles Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 I think it's always going to be a struggle getting high quality photos in the depths of a British winter. The point here is you're give us all a glimpse of areas of the network we'd never usually see and I for one am very grateful that you do. Out and out quality really doesn't matter. The fact you're out there taking the time to do it does. I find your thread extremely interesting, please keep it up! Thanks for your efforts and all the best for 2015. Anthony Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Richard E Posted December 31, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 31, 2014 (edited) There are a pair of Colas liveried loco's that have been parked at Doncaster from before Christmas, a 70 and a 60. The 60 is CLIC Sargeant but so far I've failed to identify the 70! Edited December 31, 2014 by Richard E Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jock67B Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 Jim, had to say that the editing has really enhanced the images - 'craftsmanship and clever', Kind regards, Jock. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium DRS Crewe On A Mission Posted December 31, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 31, 2014 60087 & 70806. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted January 1, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted January 1, 2015 Halfway through todays job, taken a train bescot to oxford and am making my way back to bescot for train No2 to oxford! Eenie, meenie, minie, mo!! I took the leading loco (70808) for the first train, the next one will be 70805 which is the one with graffiti on Train 1 (6Z46) was 20 loaded falcons and 2 salmons Train 2 (6X46) is the one next to it, a nice long rake of point carriers, unfortunatly there wasnt enough room to place the loco on it ready for when i get back Then marcus37 rolled in with his road learner from shrewsbury And finally into oxford 90 mind early and thankfully back north on a late running XC service! Looking forward to getting in the hotel bed later! 27 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gismorail Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Some good shots over the Christmas period Jim well done......... With regard to the 60's in Colas livery , I'm not a great fan of the livery to be honest but those 60's are the first loco's to look good in it , only my personal view you understand Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted January 1, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted January 1, 2015 And part 2 finished!! Arrived into hinksey to find it all shut up, the wagons are running through to westbury so it was a trip along the receptions to the exit signals and off to get my taxi!! 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spannerman Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Looking at 66718 you may want to call that graffiti artist back and see if he can cover that mess up.☺ Atb Nik Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class"66" Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Nice pictures jim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railsquid Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 Great thread, excellent pictures. As someone who's always been interested in railways, reading this thread (and others here) from people at the operational end of things has been very enlightening - it's an aspect I never used to have any access to, and it's fascinating. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted January 6, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 6, 2015 some from last night/this morning had 70804 on the coal which made a nice change, ran via burton on trent both ways rather than leicester so ended up with 4 hours in toton waiting to get into the power station on the way in and after unloading and back in landor st and off it went to gloucester same again tonight and for the rest of the week 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railsquid Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Apologies if this a stupid question, but how come there are still 56s around but no 58s? (My one and only cab ride was in a new-ish 58 so I kind of have a soft spot for them). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheesysmith Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Apologies if this a stupid question, but how come there are still 56s around but no 58s? (My one and only cab ride was in a new-ish 58 so I kind of have a soft spot for them). That's a easy question. You have to remember that this was when EWS was going through its "not letting anybody buy it's old loco's phase", which required the rail regulator to step in to force them to sell old stuff, but then they had the "component recovery centre" at wigan, that recovered components from withdrawn loco's for reuse. At the time EWS was getting rid of the loco's that used all these old components, and one of the agreements with the regulator was that a loco was complete as long as body panels or minor bits had been removed from above the solebars only, which lead to the sight of the 47s with broken backs as the body work was cut in the middle with the engine and generator still in position. The 56 escaped a lot of that due to being saved from scrapyards or preservationists but the 58 was used further by EWS abroad. Once EWS had made their monies from the French/Spain high speed lines, and the few that had been sold to European open access opertators, they just quietly ignored them and left them to rot. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
acko22 Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 (edited) From what I understand also the design of the 58s are a bit of a pain to work on compared to other fleets. Don't ask me how exactly I am just going on stuff I have been told from family friends who worked on the 58s back in the day, and now complain the DB fleet is boring and taken the fun out of it! Ok small update to this one of the issues that was one of the classes down fall is the main chassis unlike you my find in other classes for structural reasons it was a one piece chassis so if they were damaged or needed the cab frame replacing it was a hell of a task. Where as other classes (even older ones) had a compartment type structure so the frame under the cab could be taken out and swapped easily for another frame, I know the HST power cars use this. So if the frame had to be redone and welded in not just bolted in effect it is a big task meaning the availability was down, hence they have gone before other classes that don't have this issue. Edited January 6, 2015 by acko22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gary H Posted January 6, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 6, 2015 I heard some years ago that the Bones were also a pain in the arse for wheel slip issues. Not quite so good at keeping their feet compared with 56's. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ramblin Rich Posted January 6, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 6, 2015 Off the wall comment* - Jim's last post, 6th picture - why does the 170 have a picture of a gun (AK47?) on it's destination board? * SO far off the wall, it's across the lawn & into the shrubbery Another random idiom. © R Poyner, 2015 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
acko22 Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Must have been heading for Nottingham Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted January 7, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 7, 2015 Just a video from today 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted January 7, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 7, 2015 (edited) Not quite Jim's area, but 60087 saw the first Colas tug on 6M32/6E32 Preston-Lindsey bitumen tanks today. Not my pic, but seen here crossing over to regain the mainline at Daisyfield at Blackburn. I need to go and see it for myself........... it is pathed to run Thursday and Friday this week...... Cheers, Mick Edited January 7, 2015 by newbryford 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 I saw that 66 that looks like a child has used their crayons on it at Manningtree on an oil train heading to Parkestone Quay no idea what the oil was for. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted January 11, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted January 11, 2015 (edited) a few from last night and this morning did a railvac at barrow hill. anyway with one thing and another it never actually happened so i just had to man the 47 for the night and didnt move! one thing that did happen was my memory card went funny in the camera and wouldnt let me take any pics to it which really annoyed me, i took it out and managed to use the internal memory instead which unfortunatly could only handle 3 pictures so the night time shots were limited, also it was lashing it down so i didnt want to be stood out in the rain, these are the only 2 useable shots i managed in the end! so this morning at the end of the shift i went to tesco in chesterfield and bought a new memory card, an ultra SD 32GB whcih will hold 4000+ photos, and hopefully write to faster than my old bog standard 8gb chip i then went back to barrow hill for a couple of shots of the train in the daylight while i waited for the driver to return to take it north smart looking class 60, had a look in the cab, first one i've been in to be honest (well since 1993 at an open day) and i'm surprised just how much class 66 controls look the same, same type of brake controller etc so after meeting up with the driver i headed up to slitting mill to see if i could get a shot of the train heading north, i walked down to the crossing but thought i may get a better shot from futher up the hill unfortunatly for some reason the camera didnt focus on a few pics so i've had to bin them, i'll have to have a look at the settings on it again as i'm struggling to get good pics again, this one for example is totally out of focus, i have it set at a fixed focal point (i think) in the centre of the image but this is totally to cock! but a few seconds later it focussed perfectly! then the 60 appeared witht he railvac the next 2 pics were out of focus so i binned them and this was the next one in the sequence which is ok (but the 47 is 1/2 obscured by a tree! and that was that, i headed home via buxton and the cat and fiddle, was going to go to peak forest for a look but couldnt be bothered in the end! Edited January 11, 2015 by big jim 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 Jim a question what exactly does the Rail Vac do I have seen several mentions of it on other threads and am interested. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted January 11, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 11, 2015 i didn't actually see it work as the job was caped, i thought it was a gulley cleaner but apparently it lifts the ballast and cleans/replaces it somehow! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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