Rolling Stock Movements

Saw it on the M5 heading north on Thursday afternoon.

 

Apparently the class 107 DMUs and support coaches are set to leave the Tanat Valley in the next few weeks, destination currently unknown. No mention of the box van that was part of the sale.

All will be replaced by... another Pacer.

 

Apparently the ex-Bletchley Tube wagon has moved to the Aln Valley Railway. Not sure what the plans for it there are.

 

Bulleid brake 3rd 4365 and the Devon Belle observation car have apparently moved from Swanage to Westwood - https://theisleofthanetnews.com/202...otive-storage-in-margate-11-museum-collection

 

The Devon Belle car has returned to Swanage from storage in Margate to be put back into service. 4365 has gone in the other direction and been put into undercover storage in Margate.

 

Thanks - so much for local news websites!

 

To be fair - the final sentence of their report does state "The Pullman car has, however, left the Locomotive Storage site today (June 21), and returned to Swanage."
It was withdrawn from service due to COVID restrictions effectively prohibiting it's use.
Now those restrictions are no longer in force Car 14 has been returned to Swanage (as a return load) for some [hopefully] fairly minor works before re-entering passenger service.

 

Not a move, but a change of ownership: Pullman car Aquila, which has been at the Bluebell Railway since the middle of 2021, has been sold by it's former owner to the Bluebell Railway Trust.

(Source: Pullman Newsletter No. 67)

Tom

 

Mk1 BFK 14021 moved from Hardingham station (adjacent to Mid Norfolk Railway) to Sheringham on the North Norfolk Railway on Wednesday 20th July. The coach will be restored as a Brake First Open with a kitchen in the luggage area to run in the NNR’s North Norfolkman dining train replacing the existing kitchen car housed in BG 81033. The passenger saloon will have 24 first class seats in what will be a unique vehicle as BR never built and Mk1 BFOs.

 

Tar Tanker moved from Northampton & Lamport Railway to it's new home at Nene Valley Railway - see NVR Wagon Group thread for more detail/images

 

SR (SECR -design) Dance Hall Brake van No. S55490 has moved from the Bluebell to the KESR. (The vehicle was indentently owned, not a Bluebell vehicle).

The other Dance Hall, 11916, remains on the Bluebell and is currently on display at Kingscote.

Tom

 

I saw 0-6-0 GWR tank engine No 1501 (?) going North up past Nottingham the M1 on a low loader around 5pm today. Is it doing a Gala somewhere or a longer term hire?

 

Off to Barrow Hill for their gala this weekend.

 

GSWR third 813 has been moved from the old Mullingar loco shed (previously used as an RPSI base), to the Connemara railway at Maam Cross, arriving on 18th August

GSWR Open third 837 has been moved from the old Mullingar loco shed (previously used as an RPSI base), to the RPSI base at Whitehead, arriving on 16th August

Mk2 TSO 5188 has been moved from the Caledonian Railway, to the RPSI base at Whitehead, arriving on 18th August. It will be renumbered as 306 and in due course join the RPSI MK2 running fleet after some repairs, fitting of secondary door locking, fitting of 5'3" bogies and a repaint.

 

1964 Monoblock tank 5209, moved from the Nottingham Heritage Railway to the Great Central Railway on the 31st August. Receiving a wash on the 1st September

 

Photos on Facebook show that the LNWR Semi-royal saloon No. 806 which for the last few years has been sat outside an Indian restaurant in Kent, has been removed by lorry. I don't know where it is going, but hopefully an operational future awaits somewhere.

Tom

 

Let's hope so., Then after that the GN family saloon that is an Indian restaurant on Tyneside!

 

I noticed the DMU 101 convtered Observation Saloon 6300, converted and used in the late 80s and early 90s for the Kyle of Lochalsh line in the highlands, was sat outside in the yard when passing through Crewe. Looking very much worse for wear but does anyone know if something is now happening to it?

 

I guess that this is the vehicle you are refering to, seen behind 37025 at Kyle in July 1992. I had no idea that it had survived

Peter

 

37025 looks absolutely brilliant in that livery. Let's all pile in on the SRPS until they get the grey paint out.