Jim’s “out and about with GBRf” thread

[big jim]

Light loco crewe to clitheroe tonight, gave mick a wave as I passed by!  

 

crewe

 

horrocksford Jn 

 

Stabled in the works 

 

 

off to melton Mowbray later for a week of work out of old Dalby heading to Sheffield and back 

[big jim]

I A late update today as the internet in melton Mowbray is awful and I’ve struggled to upload any pics to photobucket!

 

last night was the first night of 810 testing this week, started of at old Dalby 

 

into melton Mowbray where I changed ends in the station and picked up a route conductor to Leicester 

 

 

away to Leicester 

 

out to Kington jn and back into Leicester again 

 

158 heading to Nottingham 

 

and away to Sheffield stopping at all the stations en route to check the door release and PIS were working ok

 

dronfield 

 

Sheffield 

 

Ready to head south again 

Leicester 

 

We were booked another run to derby and back but we didn’t need it so headed back to melton Mowbray, for some reason we missed the slot back into the test centre as it involves a wrong direction shunt move along the main line so I got put in the siding in melton where I sat for an hour and a half before being let out to head into the rest track where I stabled the unit, back on it again later unless told otherwise 

 

 

 

 

[corneliuslundie]

A surprise for the residents of Dronfield etc when you pulled up there.

Jonathan 

[big jim]

57 minutes ago, corneliuslundie said:

A surprise for the residents of Dronfield etc when you pulled up there.

Jonathan 

and Belper!

 

surprised no one has commented on the hidden ‘Easter egg’ in my pics yet! 

[5BarVT]

5 minutes ago, big jim said:

surprised no one has commented on the hidden ‘Easter egg’ in my pics yet! 

Nope, missed that first time through.

Well done.

Paul.

[Busmansholiday]

1 hour ago, big jim said:

and Belper!

 

surprised no one has commented on the hidden ‘Easter egg’ in my pics yet! 

I look forward to seeing one in Sheffield that's also got the driver's name on the destination box. You obviously 'know the right person ' to be able to do that.

 

Keep posting, I enjoy reading your blog.

[big jim]

9 hours ago, Busmansholiday said:

I look forward to seeing one in Sheffield that's also got the driver's name on the destination box. You obviously 'know the right person ' to be able to do that.

 

Keep posting, I enjoy reading your blog.

I can type anything into the PIS

there is only a full stop or comma though

 

Edited Wednesday at 05:49 by big jim

[big jim]

2nd night of it, a single trip to Sheffield and back again, popped in to see @Ian Smeeton at his crossing before work too, made a new friend in his dog Jim, was a bit wary of me at first but once I’d fed him some mini cheddars he liked me a little bit! (The dog not Ian!)

 

After departing melton it was off to Leicester where I changed ends on the goods

 

 

Right away Sheffield

 

 

 

 

absolutely pouring down

 

Derby 

 

new and old

 

And into Leicester we we sat for 3 hours before heading to melton Mowbray

 

thankfully we didn’t have a repeat of yesterday where we sat in the siding and we managed to get back into the test track I little bit early 

 

may not be running tonight, should find out in the day after I wake up 

 

 

Edited Wednesday at 06:23 by big jim

[Ian Smeeton]

A pleasure to meet you last night @big jim, you are welcome any time.

 

The hairier one, little (Big) Jim, my constant companion also enjoyed meeting you (and the Mini Cheddars)

 

I normally introduce him as my Patterdale Terrorist, very like a Patterdale Terrier, but you can't negotiate with this one.

 

He was actually quite amenable last night. Must be getting mellow in his old age.

 

Regards

 

Ian

 

 

[BR traction instructor]

15 hours ago, big jim said:

I can type anything into the PIS

there is only a full stop or comma though

 

 

...two EE's in needs Jim 😃

[Mol_PMB]

 

15 hours ago, big jim said:

I can type anything into the PIS

there is only a full stop or comma though

 

 

5 hours ago, big jim said:

 

 

 

 

Looks like you found the colon and equals sign too? 

[Nick C]

45 minutes ago, Mol_PMB said:

 

 

 

 

Looks like you found the colon and equals sign too? 

The scary thing is, I understand what that says...

[Mol_PMB]

4 minutes ago, Nick C said:

The scary thing is, I understand what that says...

It would be even scarier if you could access the IP address and control the PIS from home.

[Nick C]

2 minutes ago, Mol_PMB said:

It would be even scarier if you could access the IP address and control the PIS from home.

That's a private address range, so probably only accessible from on-board the train. Wonder if there's an ethernet port tucked away somewhere in the passenger area (you'd hope not - they ought to be at least behind a locked cover...)

[5BarVT]

2 hours ago, Mol_PMB said:

It would be even scarier if you could access the IP address and control the PIS from home.

 

2 hours ago, Nick C said:

That's a private address range, so probably only accessible from on-board the train. Wonder if there's an ethernet port tucked away somewhere in the passenger area (you'd hope not - they ought to be at least behind a locked cover...)

While in Canada I was shown this display at a station on the TTC Subway.  It was rather expensive apparently.

The artist’s intention was that the public would write nice messages that would be displayed BIG on the station using this keyboard.

It’s out of use.

Because what people actually wrote was . . . 
 

You might have thought that someone could have seen that coming.

Paul.

[big jim]

Testing was cancelled the last 2 nights so I ended spare Wednesday night and got a job last night/this morning, a nice little crewe to Nuneaton intermodal turn 

 

66748 

 

Nuneaton 

 

196 in Nuneaton, my train home wasl ate so don’t normally get to see this train in the morning 

 

MPV later tonight then a weekend off, looks like more intermodals next week too

Edited 2 hours ago by big jim