Jim’s “out and about with GBRf” thread

[big jim]

only a couple from last night, lovely clear night but nothing worth photographing!

 

 

 

[big jim]

Last night of the logs for me tonight, been a long old week!

 

Got a right job coming up a week on sunday though, talk about going around the houses

 

http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U77716/2016/01/17/advanced

[acko22]

Not going to lie Jim that makes for an erm interesting route to say the least!

 

One for you though out of interest as you had to use one are the DB class 66s any different from the Colas ones?? While I guess they are broadly the same hence you can drive both are there any more subtule differences between the different batches?

[big jim]

there are a few subtle differences that you need to be aweare of such as where the TPWS isolating switch is on an EWS loco as its in a different place and there is only one of them

 

another important difference between standard and low emission 66s is the external doors are different, the low emission ones have a lip at the bottom of the door hole, handy at night to feel where the edge of the footplate is but not so handy when you trip over it getting in when you forget your on a low emission loco

 

some pics from this morning, done by 04:30 but no train home til 06:45 so loads of time sitting round in the station

 

kingmoor

 

and in the station

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and a video of the 37 departing carlisle

 

https://youtu.be/qTlYdmRaxbg

 

and that was that

Edited January 9, 2016 by big jim

[johnd]

And not a picture of the LNER kettle on show or reference to it. Brilliant !

 

Nice pics, boy do you get around

[newbryford]

And not a picture of the LNER kettle on show or reference to it. Brilliant !

 

Nice pics, boy do you get around

 

Give it a couple of weeks when it's rostered to do a S&C/WCML railtour...........

 

Cheers,

Mick

[Gary H]

And not a picture of the LNER kettle on show or reference to it. Brilliant !

 

Nice pics, boy do you get around

What LNER kettle??

[highpeakman]

Have not been able to see any of Jim's pics on this thread for the last few days. Even the older pics that i have seen have disappeared. It does not look like any other thread is affected as I can see the pictures fine. Have I changed a setting I don't know about? Any ideas gratefully received please as I do like this thread and appreciate Jim's photography.

[skipepsi]

Have not been able to see any of Jim's pics on this thread for the last few days. Even the older pics that i have seen have disappeared. It does not look like any other thread is affected as I can see the pictures fine. Have I changed a setting I don't know about? Any ideas gratefully received please as I do like this thread and appreciate Jim's photography.

They show up fine in google I have just done a long catchup from around page 100. Try a different browser see if they appear and work from there.

[big jim]

No issues here, they are uploaded to photobucket, so external hosting and ive never had any issues with it in the 8 years ive had my account

 

There are a few flickr uploads on the previous page, can you see those? (ews 66 in kingmoor on the silver bullets being one of them)

[Richard E]

I'm using Firefox, Safari and IE at home and Chrome/IE11 at work. No problem seeing pictures in those.

[highpeakman]

It'seems a real puzzle. Every other thread shows pics OK but all of the pics on Jim' s thread have disappeared - even those I have already looked at. Suddenly started yesterday - no settings have been changed.

 

Same problem using different different browsers (Firefox and Edge with no imports of settings) and, surprisingly,

 

I have same problem on my android tablet and a 2nd PC in the house.

 

Completely confused and baffled at moment.

Just getting file names but no pics after long delay in loading.

 

If I click on file name it takes me to photobucket but will not open pic.

 

Any suggestions and ideas welcome please.

 

Jim. Apologies for using your site for this question but I do really enjoy your pics and want to start seeing them again.

Edit: additional comment

Edited January 11, 2016 by highpeakman

[big jim]

Looks like an interesting night ahead, the logs are stuck in chirk due to flooding between gobowen and shrewsbury, to top it off the baglan logs is 100+ late leaving hereford heading to chirk

 

Its lashing down in crewe and im wondering if the carlisle logs will leave at all, (im on later wbq to carlisle) if not then the baglans will have to be recessed at crewe or wrexham for the night

[big jim]

It'seems a real puzzle. Every other thread shows pics OK but all of the pics on Jim' s thread have disappeared - even those I have already looked at. Suddenly started yesterday - no settings have been changed.

 

Same problem using different different browsers (Firefox and Edge with no imports of settings) and, surprisingly,

 

I have same problem on my android tablet and a 2nd PC in the house.

 

Completely confused and baffled at moment.

Just getting file names but no pics after long delay in loading.

 

If I click on file name it takes me to photobucket but will not open pic.

 

Any suggestions and ideas welcome please.

 

Jim. Apologies for using your site for this question but I do really enjoy your pics and want to start seeing them again.

Edit: additional comment

can you see this picture?

 

DSCF6581 by jim scott, on Flickr

 

that one is on flickr, if you can then it may be a photobucket plug in problem

Edited January 12, 2016 by big jim

[big jim]

Well its running and only 40 late at the mo, the caledonian sleeper is also back over this side of the country too

 

 

 

As that departed the baglan logs came through running 120 mins late

[highpeakman]

can you see this picture?

 

DSCF6581 by jim scott, on Flickr

 

that one is on flickr, if you can then it may be a photobucket plug in problem

 

Yes, I can see that one perfectly Thanks. I still have no access to any of your other pictures on this thread on either of 2 PCs, a tablet or my phone (is it something I've said?) although there is no problem with any other thread that I can find.

 

It's either some mysterious problem with photobucket (but nobody else seems to suffer from it?) or with my ISP it seems. 

 

Thanks for posting the pic Jim. It helps in trying to resolve the problem although I have no solution at the moment.

 

I do note that the photobucket file number appears in the post (but only after about 30 - 40 seconds). Clicking on that takes me to the photobucket site and the page for the picture but it still won't open it. If I go to the main web site page it displays the main page pictures fine.

 

I am anxious not to divert any attention away from your pictures on this thread so just one last plea in case anyone has any ideas as to the cause of the problem. I so enjoy the pictures and comments it is not so enjoyable reading the comments but being unable to see the pics. 

 

Keep posting please and Thanks again for your help and in providing such an interesting thread.

Edited January 13, 2016 by highpeakman

[big jim]

some from last night, no camera so just iphone pics this time

 

first up was the sleeper that was running northbound via the WCML again, video of it leaving crewe (as well as 60047 and 60095 on the 2 log trains)

 

https://youtu.be/L-Z8MuBVeLo

 

then it was up to carlisle, had a trainee with me so he did the run round

 

gbrf 66

 

 

66 and 60

 

and into the station where there were 2 sleeper trains, the reason being they were doing a loco swap between them, the southbound had come in diesel hauled as it had come via the south western route and the locos were being swapped onto the northbound service that was returning that way (and vice versa witht he electric loco going south)

 

interestingly the northbound service was comprised of a 66 and 47, apparently it should have been 2 x 47s but one had developed a fault so was replaced by 66720 in its kids design livery, i should imagine the run round was fun at carlisle as the 47 needed to be next to the coaches to provide ETH so coming in southbound would have meant the 66 coming off first into the loop then the 47 off and onto the rear of the 66 so it was trailing going north, combine with that the fact every road bar one in carlisle station was occupied by stabled trains!

 

66720 and 47848 

 

 

 

once the southbound sleeper left 66427 arrived with a ballast job going north

 

 

and a video of the sleeper departing

https://youtu.be/U08aQQhn_9A

 

 

same job tonight so i think i'll take the proper camera and tripod 

Edited January 13, 2016 by big jim

[Jock67B]

Fascinating insight as ever Jim, and the videos add another dimension. Thank you,

Kind regards,

Jock.

[Gary H]

Looks like Carlisle comes alive at night.

Plastic during the day and proper trains at night!!

Good stuff, Jim.

[Trainshed Terry]

Keep up the great photography Big Jim. I do like to see night time photos of the railway industry.

[big jim]

some more from last night/this morning, proper camera this time, all unedited , straight out of the camera, check flickr for some of them tidied up later today (link in my signature)

 

crewe to start

 

desiro

 

90 on the sleeper

 

 

 

150

 

158

 

66 heading to arpley

 

my train 

 

and away i went to kingmoor.....

 

snow on the ground tonight

 

running round

 

china clay tanks

 

66152

 

menage a trois

 

ready to back into the sidings

 

and off to the station

 

66720 and 47848 on the sleeper again

 

 

 

 

 

scotrail 156

 

and down to warrington where i had to change trains, tesco train heading through

 

 

pendolino's

 

 

 

and there we go, night off tonight so no piccies tomorrow

[s182ggu]

Hi Jim

 

Is the Tesco train usually double-headed? Is the load that great or was it likely to have been a positioning move?

[DRS Crewe On A Mission]

Well if I'm honest at the moment there is a bit of a lack of consistency with the DRS Tesco trains.

 

Sometimes you get a single Class 68 at the head of the train although the majority are busy tied up in other work which is when the DRS 66s have to step in. When the 66s are used on these trains there usually double headed although sometimes they can be worked by a single Class 66. At the moment with the current DRS fleet going through a series of repairs, exams and overhauls I think it's just use what's available and if this means swopping between traction so be it.

 

Traction for these trains is usually swopped at Kingmoor. So this also means it's just what's on Kingmoor at the time that has been repaired, off exam and in active traffic. The locos that come off the train are then stopped for exams and repairs and consequently return to traffic a lot of the time going straight back onto the Tesco trains.

Edited January 14, 2016 by DRS Crewe On A Mission

[s182ggu]

Seems a 'tad' haphazard, but thanks for the speedy response - much appreciated.

[DRS Crewe On A Mission]

The traction for these Tesco trains is always DRS 66s or 68s but it depends what's available.