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Class 395 to Railfest - 6Z30

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    60015 hauled 395019 down the ECML to Railfest (due Doncaster 16:09 - 16:39 then ML to York). Is this a first visit of the class to the ECML?

    60015 hauls 395019 down ECML to York Railfest - 6Z30 - YouTube

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    Thanks for the videos, Mark & John. That is one heck of a lot of wagons to provide brake force - or was the Javelin tagged on to the back of an existing working?

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    Someone on WNXX has answered my question:

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    OK - I'm just a simple steam bloke - so why couldn't the Javelin get there on its own, assuming you can get across from St Pancras to the ECML on the juice (or if not then drag it across)?
     
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    Probably no safety case for it on the ECML and no one passed on 395' who sign the ECML.
     
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    Ok, I'd have thought a pilotman was a cheaper option then hauling that lot around, but if they're not passed for the ECML then I guess that's game over.
     
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    It probably can't handle that Yorkshire electricity - it's hard stuff, you know. Them soft southern "Javelins" just can't handle it, tha' noz.

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    I also heard that the pantograph springing was "firmer" due to the higher speed normally acheived and this would not be compatible anyway.

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    That's also because the masts are closer together on HS1 than they are on ECML, so they can take the strain from a "stronger" pantograph. The joys of BR trying to save money on installing masts, meaning the wires now flop around if a sparrow farts nearby.
     
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    The ECML Cheapo Knitting is always the first to fall down if a stiff breeze gets up and decides it want a class 91 pantograph as a present, hopefully in all the recent WCML work, they used the original sturdy 60's cantenary as a blueprint.
     
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