sb67 Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 Always enjoy hearing about your exploits Jim, not one day seems to be the same! May seem a bit of an obvious question but when you uncouple and leave a train do you have to handbrake every wagon in the train or is there some sort of automatic device that's deemed safe enough? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 5BarVT Posted June 8, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 8, 2021 I’ll leave Jim to say how many handbrakes have to be applied, but I would expect some. There have been incidents caused by automatic brakes leaking off over time and the wagon(s) running away because no handbrake had been applied. Paul. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted June 8, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 8, 2021 I put 10 on just to be safe! Wouldn't need that many normally in a terminal while being loaded etc but Didn't don’t know how long I was going to be 3 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack374 Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 Very strange day in the Midlands yesterday as you say Jim...also a Freightliner failed near Coleshill blocking the line to Nuneaton just east of Whitacre! The 60 still wasn’t well and failed again at Weston on Trent - driver cited brake issues. After you’d attended, another 1Z99 rescue was sent from Toton in the form of 66101, which went to Stenson then reversed and followed the tanks up the SSJ branch, so was stuck behind it when it failed again! So it had to run bang road all the way back to a Stenson, then all the way back to Castle Donington bang road before coupling on the front. You can just see the tug as the rescue loco ran past: You were 3 hours late...the tanks were 5hrs 40 late when they finally got going with shed. Thanks as ever for the heads up about working EMG, I couldn’t get out yesterday until after work unfortunately. Jack. 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted June 8, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 8, 2021 Bit quieter today apart from a signal failure at chelford so sat in a Pendolino home for an hour! walking down to basford hall My train and the clithero cement Oxford road and into trafford park and run round short one tomorrow, crewe to landor st with the cement 31 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted June 9, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 9, 2021 Just a couple from today, cement crewe to landor st and back at crewe, 3 DRS 37s heading off to gresty bridge change of job tonight, nuneaton to didcot, getting on at crewe though 32 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted June 10, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 10, 2021 Just a few from today, crewe to didcot crewe didcot paddington, special livery IEP rhen it was over to euston and home 27 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted June 12, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 12, 2021 Some from today, crewe to derby with an IM Train, had to turn the train at trent jn so the DBSO was leading onto the rtc trent jn 50050 passing by also heading to the RTC Chad curve 50050 and 37240 passing by heading back to Nottingham 35 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted June 15, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 15, 2021 Forgot to do any updates the last couple of days, been concentrating on the fitness thread! anyway did a ballast drop between Ludlow and hereford on Sunday night basford hall unusually the drop was not done in a possession as it was cess side only so it was line speed between drop sites with the adjacent line open to traffic (but nothing booked to pass anyway) never done it that way before but it was much simpler than a possession as it meant it could be done quicker as the drops sites were some 15-20 mile apart hereford after a change ends Face mask GWR unit Ready to head north Ludlow after the drop and ready to head back to crewe Then last night should have been 196 testing but tut got cancelled just as I stepped into the unit! small Heath ballast running round EMR 170 on loan back to WMR 196011 So that was it, so I thought, got a call while driving home, can I go to bescot to get a rescue loco and go to east mids gateway with it! bescot and onto the failed loco in east mids And shunted out of the way I had to then stay on until stetchford as the train was so late a possession was put up on its route so had to divert but the driver on board didn’t sign the diversion stechford taxi back to bescot and home, hopefully 196s again tonight 32 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Chris116 Posted June 15, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 15, 2021 32 minutes ago, big jim said: Forgot to do any updates the last couple of days, been concentrating on the fitness thread! anyway did a ballast drop between Ludlow and hereford on Sunday night basford hall unusually the drop was not done in a possession as it was cess side only so it was line speed between drop sites with the adjacent line open to traffic (but nothing booked to pass anyway) never done it that way before but it was much simpler than a possession as it meant it could be done quicker as the drops sites were some 15-20 mile apart hereford after a change ends Face mask GWR unit Ready to head north Ludlow after the drop and ready to head back to crewe Then last night should have been 196 testing but tut got cancelled just as I stepped into the unit! small Heath ballast running round EMR 170 on loan back to WMR 196011 So that was it, so I thought, got a call while driving home, can I go to bescot to get a rescue loco and go to east mids gateway with it! bescot and onto the failed loco in east mids And shunted out of the way I had to then stay on until stetchford as the train was so late a possession was put up on its route so had to divert but the driver on board didn’t sign the diversion stechford taxi back to bescot and home, hopefully 196s again tonight Anyone would think they don't like you playing with the 196s! Many thanks for all your great photos which are always interesting. 5 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted June 17, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 17, 2021 Only a couple from last night, finally got a 196 out, 011, first time it’s been out mainline stafford hopefully same again tonight 26 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted June 20, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 20, 2021 (edited) Just a couple from last night, possession at wigston, raining early on when I got there I then had a loco failure, a complete puzzle as to what happened but I lost all the functionally in the cab, the computer went off, brake went, AWS inoperable, absolutely nothing working, even the engine stop buttons didn’t work including the ones in the engine room so I ended up switching it off with the battery switch! I then restarted it there was a strong smell of electrical burning so I quickly turned it back off and declared it a failure, luckily there was a loco on another train nearby that I ‘borrowed’ and used it to drag mine out of the worksite so they could continue working before taking it to toton double headed, another driver then took the loco back to the possession and reattached it to the train we nicked the loco off Edited June 20, 2021 by big jim 35 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted June 21, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 21, 2021 Some from today, started with a Warrington to Leicester turn with 56081 leicester then it was over to Leamington spa to work an MOD north to crewe via Stoke on Trent back on it again southbound early hours of Wednesday morning and a small Heath ballast job north 27 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted June 23, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 23, 2021 Some from last night, first bit was supposed to be Crewe to Leamington spa but it was not required so I only had to take to loco to bescot basford hall tail lights of 6G88, we’ll see more of that later! bescot then it was over to small Heath to relieve 6G88, the same train I followed all the way from crewe, 66731 up front abandoned vehicle carrying wagons in the bushes in Caledonian yard Run round at Tyseley And into crewe Intercity 86 on basford hall shed 196s again tomorrow 37 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted June 25, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 25, 2021 Just a few from last night, 196 testing again 196103 this time, Stafford freightliner 66 passing theough and down to Nuneaton while I was waiting for the road the freightliner ‘jumbo’ passed through with a 70 and 66 upfront pulling 40 loaded Stone wagons, the class 70 sounds so good under power! Then it was back to crewe, back to nuneaton, back to Stafford and eventually Tyseley, didn’t bother with any more pics they only other one I took was of a family of Canada geese on the canal on my bike ride back to new st from Tyseley! short small Heath job tonight, just taking it to bescot then 2 days of possessions in Walsall 33 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium corneliuslundie Posted June 25, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 25, 2021 They actually let you get your hands on a 196 this time! Jonathan 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted June 26, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 26, 2021 Only one from last night, small Heath to bescot, seen here after arrival into the yard bescot to Walsall possession train tonight, one to take on site then back to bescot for the 2nd one to site! 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted June 27, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 27, 2021 (edited) Just 2 from last night, couple of trains into site at Walsall, couple of issues so very late on with the 2nd one which means ill be late tonight now! walsall rycroft Edited June 27, 2021 by big jim 23 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted June 27, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 27, 2021 22 hours ago, big jim said: Only one from last night, small Heath to bescot, seen here after arrival into the yard bescot to Walsall possession train tonight, one to take on site then back to bescot for the 2nd one to site! Is that taken with your phone ? The definition is brilliant if it is. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted June 27, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 27, 2021 (edited) Yeah, it’s my iPhone 8 so the camera is quite dated compared to the newer models but it does take good pics, all the pics in this thread since at least 2015 are off an iPhone of some sort i set the camera to HDR mode which takes 2 different resolution picture one of them stitching the best bits of various exposure points to make one good hi res pic which is the one above, the pic below is the non hi res one which has a bit more ‘noise’ particularly in the dark sky, of course the new white yard lights at bescot help the situation too compared to the old tungsten type the other issue I get it if the lens is greasy the light from say yard lights, headlights etc steaks across the photo as can be seen in this picture, compare it to the one int he post above with a clean lens Edited June 27, 2021 by big jim 22 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted June 28, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 28, 2021 just one from yesterday, back to site to drop the ballast 20 hoppers dropping Stone on a severe gradient was fun on the downhill run, keeping it at 2mph was interesting to say the least! trafford park the rest of the week 30 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted June 29, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 29, 2021 Just 2 from last night, trafford park job landor st last night And Nuneaton this morning, had a bit of a mad rush as I was late getting into the station due to an emergency possession being taken at colwich to repair a broken rail, made me 30 late but managed to get back a few minutes so rolled in at 05:52 with my train home at 05:55! same job tonight 29 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted July 1, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted July 1, 2021 Just one pic from the last couple of days, couldn’t be bothered getting any at night as that’s sleeping time! crewe heading north last night of it tonight then a ballast tomorrow evening 28 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted July 2, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted July 2, 2021 Just 2 from trafford park last night and a couple of vids stafford, 66725 heading to Hindlow And an unusual one from nuneaton, ledburn jn to bescot service, what I can assume is a rail recovery train top and tail with barrier wagons 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted July 3, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted July 3, 2021 Only 3 from tonight, bescot to rugby with LUL map livery class 66721”Harry Beck” bescot Rugby that’s me until Monday now, crewe to small Heath ballast job then 196 testing and a possession next weekend 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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