LE Movements and Test Runs 2013.

Ah, it must be Hogwarts Maroon then on Galatea!

I was wondering if the mystery loco was from the un-rebuilt Merchant Navy project which has slipped under everyone's net....................Ian Riley secretly back converted 35009 while everyone's attention was on the 4472 saga...........................

 

Being serious for a moment :

Not quite black but:



Richard

 

Halloween is coming.....

 

Are you sure?..................................................

 

Yeah, and so's bloody Christmas!.............................................

 

A heads up for anyone who can make it today................................................... 70000 5Z21 and the return working on Monday...................... 5Z26

 

There's more, we had two brits busting out of Southall this morning. The schedules had them going through West Ealing 15 mins apart,

 

Yeah, and Dave went to Brookmans Park for Ollie.................................... I tried to get hold of him, but he'd already left!!

 

I wasnt going to bother till I check RTT for Southall where I found the second one listed.

 

It may be my imagination, but I am sure I just heard a chime whistle at Watford Junction. Does anyone know whether anything has passed? This was at about 18:20-25.

 

Could be this... not sure what it is though!

http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/P92258/2013/10/18/advanced

60009 perhaps?

James at SVN

 

I was going to say, Oh no here we go again...........................................

But it would have been 60009, as she's going out of the cross Tuesday morning........................... so it must have been a late activation on the system!!

 

Thanks for the info. Shame I didn't actually see it pass through!

 

Me too............................. AND I was in the area but sans camera!!

Still roll on the 30th....................... off up to York for the evening loco light show ........................... (I must be mad, train home in time for the last tube, fingers crossed................)

 

There is a move from Southall to East Grinstead on Tuesday 22/10. I presume this is 45231 (tender first) to the Bluebell but I don't have confirmation.

David

 

RTT has the trailing load for the three engine (34046, 70000 and 60163) and two support coaches movement tomorrow as 2,020 tons - UKSteam has it as just the five vehicles in total, which doesn't add up to even half of this load. Is there more to this movement than meets the eye?

 

I vaguely recall someone explaining that the loads in RTT were effectively a set of nominal loads for working out schedules, rather than the actual load. So normally, heavier load = slower schedule; but in the case of a move towing locos (presumably) in light steam, slow maximum speed = slow schedule = heavier nominal (but not actual) load shown in the software. So I think it is just a quirk of the system for timetabling.

Out of interest, the Black 5 move to the Bluebell tomorrow is also down as 2020 tons.

Tom

 

Tom - many thanks. I knew my hopes of some mega-convoy were ill-founded!

 

It's definitely not just a quirk, it's surprisingly accurate for freights!

 

All three looking shiny coupled together outside Southall this morning. No sign of MGR or other heavy freight for them to pull, sadly… ;-)

Simon