RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted September 5, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted September 5, 2016 some from today, loco swaps between crewe and derby started with 37069 to derby from gresty bridge had to wait while freightliner shunted some wagons the HOBC was also being moved in the distance into the station and away to derby unusually got stopped in the platform at kidsgrove and once that was in derby i had to bring this lot back to crewe! this must be following me round! and into crewe and away to gresty bridge its such a ballache getting 3 locos together to move, prep each one, jumpers in, brake test, double check brakes/handbrakes etc, i put the control cut out switch in on the centre one so it wasn't powering up, the outer 2 were as i needed to change ends 5 times between leaving derby and arriving onto gresty bridge! 37 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig1989 Posted September 6, 2016 Share Posted September 6, 2016 Followed your thread for ages some nice pics Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted September 6, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted September 6, 2016 just 4 from today, yet another 37 (man i'm getting fed of of them!) 37219 derby to stoke with another UTU stoke op stop in Tutbury and Hatton derby 27 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted September 9, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted September 9, 2016 didnt bother with the camera tonight but got a couple of iphone pics loco for the evening and into derby station to change ends, meant i had the dbso all night to crewe so when i got off in crewe my relief had the 37 all the way to newport at 30mph (rather him than me!), although i've got tyseley to didcot and back this evening at 30mph which is going to be soul destroying https://youtu.be/WOInkqGzZIw 22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markmiller2008 Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 Jim, What time are you through Banbury tonight? I'll pop out onto the work balcony and give you a wave if its before 23:00. Mark Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted September 9, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 9, 2016 Jim, What time are you through Banbury tonight? I'll pop out onto the work balcony and give you a wave if its before 23:00. Mark 3Q11 00:12 TYSELEY L.M.D. - 08:48 DERBY R.T.C.(NETWORK RAIL) TYSELEY L.M.D. 00:12 TYSELEY SOUTH JUNCTION 00:14 BENTLEY HEATH CROSSING 00:21 DORRIDGE 00:22 HATTON 00:29 LEAMINGTON SPA 00:37 FENNY COMPTON 00:49 BANBURY JN. 00:57 BANBURY 01:00 AYNHO JN 01:13 HEYFORD 01:25 .... DERBY R.T.C.(NETWORK RAIL) 08:48 train finishes 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great Western Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 70806 on Westbury 08/09/16 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted September 10, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted September 10, 2016 some from last night, tyseley to didcot and back via the leamington to coventry branch, 37716 again on it into didcot with its new wires over to coventry back to leamington and away to derby and done 73s down the chiltern later today! 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted September 12, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted September 12, 2016 some from sunday, all the way to london and job cancelled! new art installation in St Pancras, much better looking than the 'clock' that was there earlier in the year, this one was rotating slowly new eurostar sets not a cloud in the sky but there was an airbus A380 monday was old dalby (no pics obviously) but i saw the virgin 'azuma' set and the crossrail 345 unit which looks very smart, after that over to derby where i captured 37057 departing to bristol NR 73/9 arriving in from a test run and finally we took 37025 out to leicester, from there its continuing to hither green some time this morning road learning later 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class"66" Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 More "top" pictures there Jim!!! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig1989 Posted September 13, 2016 Share Posted September 13, 2016 Great pics as always keep them coming Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted September 13, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted September 13, 2016 some from today, road learning preston to blackpool unusual sight in crewe a LM 323 (soho to crewe lnwr) someone having a laugh couple of trips to blackpool and a look in the box, its going to close in november 2017 and be demolished straight away a few trains passing by some of the infrastructure has seen better days, this signal is held up by scaffold after it fell down a couple of years back! this is quite possibly one of the ugliest semaphores ive ever seen on the network! and after that i did one more trip between preston and blackpool and away home 27 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted September 14, 2016 Share Posted September 14, 2016 Who would have thought that we would be seeing pictures of 37,s in service after all this time its great to see this class earning its keep surely one of the best cclasses from the old days. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railsquid Posted September 14, 2016 Share Posted September 14, 2016 I was watching this earlier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giYAha2eBYY which among others shows a 37 and a GWR-design 0-6-0 banking up the Lickey in the 60s, and here we are in 2016... Great to see classic traction still in use. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted September 14, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted September 14, 2016 Who would have thought that we would be seeing pictures of 37,s............ and on that note here is the loco i had today! road learning loco, first off, shrewsbury then away to derby via leicester, had to wait a few mins in east midlands parkway back to bescot and into the consist of 6V46, the 70 will drop onto the train later 25 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted September 17, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 17, 2016 Some iPhone pics from last night, tyseley to new st, over to bushbury jn then back to new st, out to tyseley, back to landor st, up to banbury and back to derby!! Some pics on the proper camera that I'll upload when I get home New st, platform 12, first time I've ever been in there! 2nd trip back and into 12 again Having never been that far over its the first time I've ever seen this bay platform right over the back of the station, it looks to be an old motorail type bay with a loading ramp at the end And finally home and dry into derby As a slight aside today we went to twycross zoo where the little un was looking forward to going on the miniature railway, when we got to it we discovered it's been ripped up within the last few months which is a real shame There are a few stretches of track still in place such as over the tressle bridge and various foot crossings but everything else has gone, the auto crossing barriers so it looks like it won't be back anytime soon Panorama view 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Richard E Posted September 18, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 18, 2016 From what I can find the Twycross miniature railway had closed by April 2015. There isn't anything to say why although the very big (£55 million) development plans to completely rebuild the zoo might have something to do with it. The rebuilding is supposed to have started in earnest this year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted September 18, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted September 18, 2016 proper camera pics from friday 23 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium GWRPhil Posted September 19, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 19, 2016 proper camera pics from friday Some nice pictures there. Particularly like the second pictures with the cloud in the background. Really looks good 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Richard E Posted September 19, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 19, 2016 37025 and Colas branded 37116 spotted northbound in York (platform 5) tonight. Stopped briefly and has just gone on its way. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siggie in the east Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 3Q77 with 9702 and 37421 running derby to great yarmouth and lowestoft via norwich tonight, currently recording over trowse swing bridge. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted September 20, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 20, 2016 some from last night, a grand tour of the midlands........was the plan, but unplanned possessions put pay to that so we had a minitour instead had to miss out lichfield to aston as we didnt have a route conductor so ran via sutton park to walsall and picked up the path from there to international international to stafford via bescot mentor into new st where we should have gone to reddich but didnt get there so did a trip out to washwood heath and back then sat in New st for 2 hours we then headed off towards soho, over to perry barr and back into new st, changed ends and did the same in reverse from there we then headed back to derby! 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold CovDriver Posted September 20, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 20, 2016 (edited) Bu***r if I was back at work I could have route conducted you from Lichfield TV to Aston piece of cake really just between Butlers lane and Sutton Coldfield can be slippy as well as between Chester Road and Gravelly Hill. Cheers Colin Edited September 20, 2016 by CovDriver Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markmiller2008 Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Trust me to be away when you're right outside the office! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted September 23, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 23, 2016 some from last night, yet another 37, stafford to crewe via stone, back to stafford, down to preston and back to crewe 37254 on it, thankfully i had the DBSO for most of the night crewe stafford on my return from crewe super power for the cars! preston and that was that, same train tonight over to longsight and stockport 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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