Project Wareham

Nothing new there.....

 

A video worth watching from Eastleigh



It was taken on 6th December

 

Are the small white hoses some form of pnematic/hydraulic test of braking system? (Photo by Carl Watson 6th December 2019)

 

Standard DMU's (with a Blue square code) have an electro-pneumatic control system, the air being used to change gear and direction.

 

Another reason to close level crossings https://twitter.com/printinthebag/status/1208163556941815808
Trains and people don't mix at track level.

 

Looks like the 117will be returning to Swanage Railway early January with a view to starting service in May providing
license is granted.

 

I do hope this is so. I do wish someone at SR would update the Wareham Project update page on the SR website, it's nearly 5 months old and mostly out of date.

 

The 121 has been back for a few weeks now and has been undertaking driver training runs.

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Do you mean the 117 returning January?
I see on the SR website Project Wareham update page

If delayed till May will miss the Diesel gala, but if due to safety mainline safeguards understandable.

Hopefully when the timetable is published will have some provision for the steam loco 31806 to make some Swanage to Wareham passenger journeys as well as the DMUs?

 

Try this one https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/K23452/2020-01-02/detailed

 

Is that the DMU being driven under its own power?

 

Looks like 33012 is going to fetch it.

https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/R26376/2020-01-02/detailed

 

Here are the times of the wareham trains for the first two weeks in May (No Mondays and Fridays).

https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/P90115/2020-05-02/detailed
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/se...20-05-03/0000-2359?stp=WVS&show=all&order=wtt

 

Its funny that the 117's are the railways choice of motive power for the Wareham services because of multiple engines, allowing for redundancy, yet a single engine is sent to pick them up!

 

The real advantage of 117s (and indeed the 121 bubble car) is that they are constructed differently to mark 1s (and indeed the old SR EMUs) and aren't covered by the same regulation.

 

Apparently NR gauging 'issue(s)' at/around Brockenhurst so move cannot be undertaken without it/them being sorted - hopefully soon!

 

Is there any West Coast Driver that would have traction knowledge of DMMU's? I very much doubt it!
Also I think you will find that the class 117 is not passed for working under it's own power over NR Metals yet.

 

It seems to be on https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/K23452/2020-01-02/detailed

 

No its not. Not running today.

 

I would suspect that it has been so long since a class 117 vehicle ventured onto the mainline that any gauging certification has expired. In that case they will need to be laser scanned and go through the whole gauge clearance process as if they were new vehicles.
This isn't anything new - 850 Lord Nelson had to be gauged from first principles at the end of its overhaul in 2006, even though it had previously run on the main line in preservation.

Cheers, Neil