LE Movements, ECS and Test Runs 2017

As a regular user of RTT,I have noticed that if a move is activated exactly 2 hours before booked departure it usually does not run - this was activated at 8.00 for 10.00 !!
On that basis,I think the rumours of the run being put back to Friday are correct

 

Automatic activation 2 hours before 1000 departure. No sign of movement on the Railcam diagram at 1130. AN

 

12:05 - 5m50 now showing cancelled

This service was cancelled throughout due to a delay not investigated (OU).

 

Must have seen the contrasting weather forecasts and decided to disappoint the photters by running in the rain tomorrow instead

 

Does anyone know please if 35018 British India Line's planned test run today is confirmed to run?

 

Not today , next week now I would say.

 

The freshly applied green paint is not quite dry today......

 

Don't start all that again please!

 

I'd like to see it come out in something other than the green the majority of Bulleids are running in

 

Just need some heat resistant stuff now and get ready to be amazed:-

http://allaboutwraps.co.uk/

 

Mrs W fancied a chicken & bacon with lettuce and mayo, I had to explain! On possibly a more serious note, has anyone else heard that 35018 will be given a new name more appropriate to its location whilst retaining the shipping line theme, Isle of Man Steam Packet Company. Now that would get a few Southern fans reaching for their Kwells.

 

Kwells. Now there's a 'blast from the past' I didn't know they were still marketed, they've been on the go for a lot of years.

 

Sounds like a good idea as it will routinely be running in the locality of where IOMSPC operates. Maybe a trundle down the Heysham branch or to Morecambe for a renaming ceremony?

 

In the racing community it was known as the Steam Racket Company.......................

 

I think you are confusing your "Steam Packet Companies", Ralph - The Caledonian one served the Clyde not the Isle of Man.

Peter

 

It wouldn't have been too difficult to get names for another ten or twenty MNs. Court Line, Denholms, Constantine and Runcimans come to mind for a start even if scarcely in the league of P and O, Cunard and Union Castle!

 

I seem to recall a shortlived CalMac service from Campbeltown to Douglas a few years ago, although I could be mistaken!

Steven

 

Oh I see Ralph - but the previous post (from Oswald T W) was suggesting naming the loco after a local shipping company and neither CalMac nor its constituents are exactly local to the Carnforth area, hence my misunderstanding of your suggestion. As you see I am easily confused.

Peter