RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted September 23, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted September 23, 2017 (edited) Some from last night, had to drive to Derby to leave my van and get a train to reading to meet the NMT but I decided to go to St Pancras and over to Paddington instead, get a few HST pics while I can! Glad I did as it was quite interesting First up in derby was a 387 unit being delivered south by freightliner Then after Pancras it was a tube to paddington, I wonder where this photo was taken, not much to indicate where I am! And into Paddington, nice surprise on the platform of the GWR band giving a free concert, just caught the end of it but info to be had below if you want to catch it yourself And then onto the trains Another nice surprise as an IEP pulled in Old and new 57604 on the sleeper train, looks stunning in old GWR livery GWR livery HST And then my train arrived Ready to depart 387 unit And away we went,I got into the driver seat at Didcot and took it back to derby Almost home Final change ends and into the RTC And that was it for the night, shut down and home Couple of videos https://youtu.be/9_S9E8r0Rrw https://youtu.be/gfnbA3NkSMc Edited September 23, 2017 by big jim 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dvdlcs Posted September 23, 2017 Share Posted September 23, 2017 Some from last night, had to drive to Derby to leave my van and get a train to reading to meet the NMT but I decided to go to St Pancras and over to Paddington instead, get a few HST pics while I can! Glad I did as it was quite interesting And into Paddington, nice surprise on the platform of the GWR band giving a free concert, just caught the end of it but info to be had below if you want to catch it yourself Oh no! I'm sure the composer of the Water Music suite was named Handel... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted September 23, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 23, 2017 Oh no! I'm sure the composer of the Water Music suite was named Handel... Dead mans handel? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted September 24, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted September 24, 2017 And today was collecting the RHTT wagons from bescot 97 in coleham 70 getting ready to go We had to sit and wait for another member of the crew to arrive at shrewsbury, they have done a load of cutting back of shrubs so you can now just about make out the old turntable pit in the triangle behind the box, this is looking back to the pit, you can see the edge just in front of me, the cut down bushes are on the opposite side of it Stabling road running off the turntable And in bescot, wagons collected and ready to roll Shunting into coleham, it's a double shunt to get in the yard, luckily the wagons had a platform on the rear and using back to back radios I rode on it communicating with the driver! Waiting the road to run into the head shunt And all parked up 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium corneliuslundie Posted September 24, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 24, 2017 Are you driving the special on the Cambrian Coast line next month? I assume it will have to be class 97s from Coleham. Jonathan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CazRail Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 Are you taking a Tamper to Aberystwyth today...? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iron Horse Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 What traction have we got this year on the RHTT please Jim? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted September 25, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 25, 2017 Are you taking a Tamper to Aberystwyth today...? No not me, may need to nick the 97 off it later though when it gets back to coleham! What traction have we got this year on the RHTT please Jim? 56s and 97s again Are you driving the special on the Cambrian Coast line next month? I assume it will have to be class 97s from Coleham. Jonathan No not me, don't sign the ERTMS yet Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 Nice selection of shots there Jim, good to see dear old Paddington again. I'm off to Bescot tonight, the first of four nights on the trot with 6V25 to Hinksey. Rock on (G)WR! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted September 25, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 25, 2017 Not been to Hinksey for a while, passed it at speed a couple of times in the last week though (best way to see it really) Only 2 from today 3 freightliner 66s departing crewe station Then I turned out the train we left in coleham yesterday was facing the wrong way (generator needed to be at the south end) so we had to do a turning move, I was hoping to merely go round the triangle towards abbey Forgate and propel back towards the station then head back to coleham but one of the signal boxes didn't want a propel move to happen within their station limits (despite having radios and a platform to ride on at the rear of the train) so we had to get a path from shrewsbury to Wrexham/Chester/crewe and back to shrewsbury so the train went round in a big loop ending up facing south which is what we did Ready to depart Caught people by surprise as it was a vstp move but a former school friend happened to be on Chester station and got a shot of us passing through Picture by Richard spray And that was about it really, had trains to catch so no more pics at coleham but we put a 97 on the the set too and parked up the 70 to await the arrival of another batch of them (and 2 56s) in readiness for a big job at the weekend 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swifty11 Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 Nice pictures and info Jim! Have you got any of the engineers jobs this weekend? Hopefully some nice 56s or winning 70s for the Sunday morning runs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted September 25, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 25, 2017 yeah, got a couple of trains to and from huyton and roby, 56s and 70s on them Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerhaul 70 Pey Posted September 26, 2017 Share Posted September 26, 2017 yeah, got a couple of trains to and from huyton and roby, 56s and 70s on themGood to see some Colas action coming up in the north west. I will try and see the Sunday morning trains. Thanks for the information Jim. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted September 30, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted September 30, 2017 some from last night, did a job to liverpool, thought i was working at huyton but turned out it was down the branch to the docks near anfield basford hall, firing up mine and another drivers locos shunted round and into site, not fantastic pics as i didnt have a tripod after dropping ballast on one side it was all the way back towards edge hill to cross over and do the other side then once complete wait for the paperwork and away to exit the possession at mosseley hill, exiting my worksite at bootle branch jn with its interesting (previously discussed) bridge hole through picop land and into the next worksite changed ends at edge hill and away to the possession exit and into basford hall, shunted and locos parked up, no pics as it was a long day and i wanted to get the train away and home to bed! 23 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerhaul 70 Pey Posted September 30, 2017 Share Posted September 30, 2017 Hello Jim did you take 70802 from Carnforth to Crewe yesterday? I am hoping to see some Colas engineers trains tomorrow morning in the Warrington area. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Davexoc Posted September 30, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 30, 2017 Some stunning night shots in there, you could start a new thread with some of them, 'When the real thing looks like a SIM'. Dave Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted October 2, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 2, 2017 Only managed 2 from today, working at Huyton, taking the train back to crewe Sat in the worksite ready to head off to St. Helens jn at a leisurely 5mph all the way Discovered something new on the class 70 tonight which was great fun, I've known about it for a while but never got it to work until today, it's called 'plug mode' which is part of the slow speed controls, basically with it engaged the loco will stay at whatever speed you put into the computer while going down hill I set off from Huyton to rainhill which is up hill all the way so had the slow speed set to 5mph (max speed within the worksite) but once past there the line drops all the way to sankey viaduct so I had a go at 'plug mode' as far as the worksite marker boards basically you toggle it and the slow speed on using the computer, inputting your chosen speed then the bit that doesn't feel right is you put the throttle to 0 and put the direction handle in reverse while moving forwards then take power again but this time instead of the loco powering up the higher the throttle number you choose the more the dynamic brake operates to hold you back to whatever speed you have already chosen! I had just short of 1200 ton behind me at 5mph and notch 2 on the throttle (i.e. Brake) held me at 5mph all the way, the slow speed control then kept me at 5mph in the flat bits without me having to touch anything! I must admit I am very very impressed with the function and can see me using it a lot now I know how, I also discovered it can be set from a standing start too, so if it can be set while setting back then backing into chirk at 3mph will be a breeze Only one more pic while I was walking back to my van of a DRS 68 Back to yellow trains later, 73s around the north west again 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted October 3, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 3, 2017 Lots of proper camera pics today but here is a taster iPhone photo until I have a chance to upload them all Helsby Jn 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted October 3, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 3, 2017 so proper camera pics... started off by going passenger to stockport where i had 20 mins to wait for my taxi so i hung around the platform knowing there was a cement train due 323 the plane, the plane!! cement train coming into view voyager 66610 another plane then over to northernden jn to wait for my train, it was running 90 late at one point and was 70 late getting to northenden jn DB 66 freightliner 66 and heading off to hazel grove 142 passing by the line towards stockport heading off in the distance, it becomes a single line just beyond the bridge 66 again and my train waiting at Mobberley for the section to plumley wrexham then a trip to bidston and back to wrexham central helsby and over to warrington then back to chester and that was that, same train again tonight then pick up a UTU to go to holyhead and bangor 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted October 4, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 4, 2017 Some from last night, 73s again, this time from crewe diesel depot Where a 42XX was being delivered for repair, amazing to watch it practicaly offloaded in lass than 30 mins! Then off we went to northwich via sandbach, at Middlewich we had a spurious brake demand which halted us for about 40 mins, had to fault find the problem, as the 73s can be a bit let's say, temperamental, had jumper cables out, isolated bits and bobs, reinstated them, shut them down, restarted them to no avail, it was starting to look like game over when the OTT pointed at the pass comm butterfly valve on the outside of one of the coaches and noticed that it was in the 'pulled' position despite there only being 3 on board and that coach was locked out, we recon that as we passed some close trees a branch must have hit the butterfly valve and opened it! Anyway we got it shut and the brake came back, what was confusing us was there was no significant escape of air from that coach to indicate the pass comm had been pulled so we by default went to 'worst case scenario' mode and went to the loco to look for problems! With he likes of MK3's if a pass comm is pulled you put it in full service so when you walk back you can hear the coach with the pulled pass comm 'whistle' so you know where to look and it saves a lot of hunting around for the pulled chord Anyway after that delay and due to the slack timings we still arrived into northwich early and headed off to Chester, a good run as northern were on strike so I never got stuck behind anything' And away to warrington again Where I got off and went pass back to Chester to pick up a UTU to conduct it to Holyhead at 30mph where we went into the sidings Changed ends and back out to Bangor where we stabled for the day Back on it tonight to Chester where another driver takes over and takes it to Cardiff at 30mph all the way! 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great Western Posted October 4, 2017 Share Posted October 4, 2017 Which end is the loco on please ? i.e Loco leading to Crewe etc trying to work out where to go tomorrow when it comes down here. Ta Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted October 4, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 4, 2017 Loco leading to crewe with no planned turns 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted October 5, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 5, 2017 Just a few from last night, Bangor to Chester with the UTU Bangor with typical north Wales weather And into Chester and home in my van Anyone else on the coast see the burn off flame at point of Ayr gas plant last night, in all the years I've been along (and lived) in the coast I've never seen the flame so big!! 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted October 6, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted October 6, 2017 And some from yesterday, NMT to Holyhead and Liverpool Crewe first, postman pat passing by And my train Chester Llandudno jn (panorama pic hence the wonky platform edge!) Holyhead Back in Chester Crewe with the 73s lurking in the background Edge hill Then it was back to crewe and back to edge hill again, recorded both fast and slow lines hence the 2 trips Temporary walking route as all Lime st bound trains are turning back at south parkway, some have to continue to edge hill depot to turn back as I did Then as we were running an hour early I had a chance to fuel the train at crewe, also gave it a run through the wash and watered it too Nice little 08 That was it, parked up and home to bed 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted October 7, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 7, 2017 Just a few from last night Derby to Birmingham and Rugeley with 37175 New st Rugeley Then back to new st and Derby, couldn't be bothered with any more pics after that one! 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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