LE Movements, ECS and Test Runs 2017

Thanks. I will keep checking the usual sources.

 

Any updates on 45699 Galatea's.move from York to Carnforth today
Should be via Hellifield but Wennington to Carnforth line is closed due to flooding.

 

Rtt now show 45699 move from York to Carnforth now cancelled at request of operator

 

I see 46233 has just arrived at York from Butterley.

 

I note that 98818 has been allocated to train 5m50 at 06:30 this morning but nothing shows on RTT; is the test train a runner ?

 

Nothing showing on RTT AT 0930 are you sure?

 

5M50 runs "if required" Tuesday to Friday.

Schedule Information

• WTT schedule UID P90398, identity 5M50
• Runs MSSuX between 13/12/2016 to 10/11/2017
• Service code 22244008
• Empty Coaching Stock

Operational Information

• Schedule from ITPS
• Timed for 60mph max
• Diesel locomotive, trailing load 420 tonnes
• Runs as required

But there isn't any reason why it couldn't be requested as a VSTP schedule on Monday....

Any idea what is working -
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U62872/2017/09/18/advanced
5Z13 0910 Bo'ness Exch Sdg - Carnforth Steamtown?

Cheers, Neil

 

2 Class 37's plus brake coach. Were up in Scotland hauling the Inverurie to Oban and return railway during the weekend.

 

Strange ECS move, 5Z50 1056 Derby to Etches Park Sdgs http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/J01638/2017/09/18/advanced shuttling between Chesterfield and Woodburn Junction. Anyone know the reason for such a move?

Probably nothing as TO is East midlands but brought to my notice as passing Barrow Hill six times.

 

Note from TOPS list at 06:30 posted on Freightmaster at 06:57 this morning

98818 AWCS CARNFTHST 115M50MG17 E * CARNFTHST N -14H A

hence my query.

 

Thanks for the answer to 5Z13.

Interesting about 98818, but with my now rusty knowledge of TOPS I think it has been allocated to 5M50 on the 17th. Clerical error for the 19th or a deliberate ploy by WCRC? ( But then, can a loco be allocated to a train which hasn't been "called" in TOPS?)

Sorry, more questions than answers again.
Cheers, Neil

 

It might be worth checking other recent lists from whatever source you have? On the TOPS lists I have access to, it has been showing allocated to 5M50 every day since it did it's last run round the circuit on August 17th!

 

In fairness I haven't been checking the TOPS listing every day hence may have missed the "continuity" aspect of its non-disappearance.

 

Thought it may have had heritage implications but another source has told me that it was probably driver training/route familiarisation.

 

I expected that you hadn't, or you probably wouldn't have asked the question. I just thought it might be worth checking back a day or two if you have lists to hand, just in case my sources lists are incorrect (or have been deliberately doctored as some people do as a means to see if they are being re-posted elsewhere).

 

Probably a Class 222 as it was timed for a 125mph Diesel Multiple Unit operated by East Midlands Trains

 

Ive heard from a good sauce that 98818 is being readied for the Lune Rivers

 

Heinz? Colemans? HP?

 

Thought someone would ketchup