RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted March 14, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 14, 2016 One from 21Alizard after he dropped the crane off at didcot 28 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted March 14, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 14, 2016 some from today, couldnt be bothered with pics really! 25 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Iron Horse Posted March 14, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted March 14, 2016 Here you go Jim, you on Friday I'm quite pleased with the full res one, I can send it to you if you would like a copy 23 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin Brady Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 Then into carlisle station, plat 1 for a change where I sat for a good 10 mins Just caught up with your posts, I hope you did not mind platform 1 I was on the station panel that day and the casue of your 10 minute wait in platform one , but if I am not mistaken it was a RT departure, and worked well getting you off the goods lines. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted March 15, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 15, 2016 not very often we go through 1, but with the line being bi-di from caldew bridge its quite a useful move anyway some from today, loco swap between bescot and derby with a couple of 97s bescot into derby and on to the RTC 31452 passing by with some MK2s swapped locos and headed back to bescot and that was that 34 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WCML100 Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 Here you go Jim, you on Friday I'm quite pleased with the full res one, I can send it to you if you would like a copy 37 025 Willaston Crossing 11MAR16.JPG Saw this yesterday at west drayton! Got a video of it as well! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted March 16, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 16, 2016 Some random phone shots from today Shrewsbury, london bound voyager My train to baglan Into Hereford And off it goes south I then went back to shrewsbury to meet someone to go and have a look at coleham depot, walked down to abbey Forgate to meet him, had to wait ages at this speed bump for permission to proceed!! 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted March 20, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 20, 2016 (edited) A few from this morning from the phone camera, not in the mood for proper pics again, prefered to get some shut eye when I could instead! Ballast drop in Newtown again, top and tail 66s 66850 leading to Newtown, so on the rear in this pic as I changed ends And 66849 on the other end Had a look at the track being replaced, I think it's bullhead, some of the chairs are marked GWR 1927 And into Newtown station to wait for permission to leave the worksite And off to Sutton bridge where I got relief and the train continued to Bescot http://youtu.be/nJhAAgJs6vM Edited March 20, 2016 by big jim 28 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class"66" Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 More super pictures Jim.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted March 22, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 22, 2016 (edited) some from yesterday, kirow crane from shrewsbury to toton and light loco back to bescot started in salop, waited in severn bridge box for my train to arrive then it appeared 70802 up front looped at cosford for 45 mins, while i was there the air ambulance came in to land stopped at wolverhampton to wait for a pendolino to head south then onward to water orton for 30 mins and into toton, no pics as it was straight in, straight out, back via leicester and nuneaton and into bescot drs 68 waiting its stock and that was that Edited March 22, 2016 by big jim 38 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium corneliuslundie Posted March 22, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 22, 2016 Very nice pics of Salop. Jonathan 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 96701 Posted March 22, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 22, 2016 I must get myself into that box sometime soon. Thanks for the pics - you've reminded me to do something about it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium tanatvalley Posted March 23, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 23, 2016 Enjoyed the photographs of Salop. Any idea why the middle road has been severed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great Western Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 A Freightliner coal service derailed some years ago, it was easier and cheaper to plain line it than replace the damaged sections. Great Western Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted March 23, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 23, 2016 the freightliner came off at the north end of the loop taking out the points, the area where the track is missing has always been plain rail. i believe the piece missing in the pics is something to do with the refurbishment work thats been going on on the bridge, if you look closely you can see the removed track panels sat on top of the laid track at the north end of the loop, i think its due to be put back in at some point Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WCML100 Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Saw this yesterday at west drayton! Got a video of it as well! further to the above - i have now uploaded the video to youtube - link below 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southernman46 Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Reference post #3108 and the 1927 chairs ........... I can confirm that there are many sleepers & chairs track in the Up Loop (Plat 6) at Exeter St Davids dating from 1930 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted March 23, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 23, 2016 some from carlisle today, couldnt be bothered with pics again! 60095 in need of a wash snaking out of the yard ready for the off and into carlisle and that was that for the day picture wise 27 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted March 27, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 27, 2016 some from yesterday, caught the train from wigton to crewe, rolled in and it was 37402 it may look like "noise" in the picture but its actually rain! into carlisle where "roundhouse" also got off the train having had a trip round the cumbrian coast 9704 leading back to workington and off it went, heck of a hump under the 2nd coach 57311 that was it, for that bit of the day, my job was to conduct a tamper between shrewsbury and gobowen, just one pic from this morning should have been day off tomorrow but doing a loco move bescot to nottingham and onward in a van to immingham 29 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted March 27, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 27, 2016 Good to see you again Jim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
acko22 Posted March 27, 2016 Share Posted March 27, 2016 Ok with the pic of the 37 pushing the DRS rake out of Carlisle one thing struck me. Even with the 37 providing the power and having its light lite up to show its direction of travel why does it still need a lamp fitting? I thought it only required a lamp if there was no lighting fitted or in use on the rear of the train? As in effect it is running like the old 87 and DVT expresses, and they never had to have a lamp when the loco was pushing Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted March 27, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 27, 2016 I'll be honest I wondered the same too when I saw it! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
South-East Rail Posted March 27, 2016 Share Posted March 27, 2016 Ok with the pic of the 37 pushing the DRS rake out of Carlisle one thing struck me. Even with the 37 providing the power and having its light lite up to show its direction of travel why does it still need a lamp fitting? I thought it only required a lamp if there was no lighting fitted or in use on the rear of the train? As in effect it is running like the old 87 and DVT expresses, and they never had to have a lamp when the loco was pushing Is it a contingency in case the tail lamps fail? Or perhaps someone forgot to take it off! Ed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted March 27, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 27, 2016 In the old days two tail lamps indicated the royal train. Three.. Maybe a member of the illuminati is being conveyed! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swindon 123 Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 the freightliner came off at the north end of the loop taking out the points, the area where the track is missing has always been plain rail. i believe the piece missing in the pics is something to do with the refurbishment work thats been going on on the bridge, if you look closely you can see the removed track panels sat on top of the laid track at the north end of the loop, i think its due to be put back in at some point The problem at Salop with the middle road is the road underbridge at the north end (Crewe Jcn end). It requires substantial refurbishment having suffered tin worm damage. It is unlikely to be replaced as the freight traffic has dropped off so much as the lack of the middle road has not caused much operating problems. As long ago as the mid 1980's when the first plans for resignalling at Shrewsbury where proposed, the middle road was not shown on the plans, all traffic was limited to the platform lines, with platform 3 reinstated, as it was many years later. The accident at Clapham junction and subsequent signalling requirements meant the plans where quietly kicked into the long grass and forgotten about. It will be interesting to see if the middle road at Shrewsbury is ever made operational again. Somehow I doubt it. Paul J. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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