LSL Wales and South West Explorer

It does not appear to be the trip I was thinking of.
Just found the video from 2014. 34046 captured sliding into Salisbury right at the beginning:


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See what you mean. That is worrying, and it wasn't even raining. The problems on the Gloucester trip I referred to were apparently caused by heavy braking on the long descent from Sapperton.

 

My video of the two 37s at Hemerdon...........

2 LSL 37s on Route Learning at Hemerdon - YouTube

 

I am reassured.

 

It's interesting to see that 40.145 ran wrong road through Middle Hill and the Box tunnel yesterday while en route from Bristol to Euston.

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Also interesting ,it ran via Weedon on the WCML,en route from Euston to Crewe ,instead of via Northampton the usual route for ECS trains. Photo of 40145 near Weedon attached.

 

40145 yesterday afternoon

 

What you do if a steam engine is sliding depends how serious it is ,that's is if you a approaching something like a stop block fast or not. Take the brake of and reapply ,try again ,if sliding still continues ,brake of again ,then drop some sand down, that 99 times out of a hundred will do the trick If in a difficult situation ,brake off, and sand down first time. When a engine slides ,everything goes quiet in the cab ,wheel are not going round etc, it takes a bit of experience but not a lot to realise this .I worked with a driver who had many years of driving ,but still had not got it sust.

 

Rather depends on the loco having one (most of my acquaintance don't!)

Tom

 

Any news of 45231? Is it still at Llandeilo?

 

Light loco from Crewe runs Tuesday https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U91271/2021-04-13/detailed

Class 8 (wheelskate ?) move to Port Talbot https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U91272/2021-04-13/detailed transfer to road for loco and tender

Then Friday diesel and support coachback to Crewe https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U91273/2021-04-16/detailed

 

Not when its a tender wheel.....

 

With no experience of loose coupled trains todays steam driver will not encounter the situation very often, it happened daily in steam days. Speedos weren't fitted until the mid fifties ,and then only on express loco's for the start. There was a pile up in the mid 50s ,Didcot I think ,due to the driver taking a crossing to fast.HM inspectors report said that all passenger loco's should be fitted with speedo's .No doubt someone's going to say ,what about so and so class that had them long before.A4s for instance.

 

Passed 45231 on a low loader on the A42 at about 8.30 this morning, heading east towards the M1, near Ashby-de-la-Zouch.

 

I wondering where the loco is off to?

 

Tender arrived in Crewe on Friday, so I imagine the same for the loco

 

Ok thanks for that