LE movements, ECS and test runs 2023

That must have been what I just heard go through Salisbury about 30 minutes ago!

Tom

 

https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U66127/2023-04-11/detailed

Should be due at Shrewsbury just after 5pm by which time it should be raining nicely

 

Checked webcams down here. Raining in Newport and Abergavenny.

 

Presumably 45596 and support coach KWVR to Bristol, tender-first as far as Hellifield:
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U66221/2023-04-13/detailed

Edit: Now running on Friday 14th instead.
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U66221/2023-04-14/detailed

 

It did rain horrendously with high winds, but by the time 70000 reached mp 18 1/2 at Prees station the rain at least had stopped.
I had envisaged a shot in the wet platforms but NR look to have recently installed new tactile safety treads, which are yellow and almost luminous.

 

and for those keeping track a loco movement, I assume, from Bristol to Carnforth a few hours after the GB travels up the Marches
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U66319/2023-04-16/detailed

 

Why the reversal at Salisbury, followed by another at Hereford, rather than straight ahead at Laverstock?

 

I think the Salisbury one was to reverse into the bay platform at Salisbury, I assume for water. I suspect Hereford was also water.

 

Good to see 46115 & 45699 did a test run to Hellifield and back today.

 

Dismal conditions as 'Scots Guardsman' heads' Sierra Leone' passed the old Borwick Station during their jaunt out to Hellifield



With no improvement in the weather No. 46115 'Scots Guardsman' pilots No.45562 'Sierra Leone' over Capernwray viaduct towards Carnforth

 

Great moody shot there Shep

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Mick Kelly gives Peter Walker (I think) the thumbs up as 'Galatea'45699 (running as 'Sierra Leone/Alberta') gets ready to leave Wennington with ‘Scots Guardsman’

 

This path has now moved from today to Friday.

 

Friday's path for 45596 move from KWVR to Bristol:
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U66221/2023-04-14/detailed

 

Yes it was - shown to use platform 5 ( West Bay) and reversing at signal SY240 to the West of Salisbury station.

Cheers, Neil

 

Wonderfully clear and sharp pictures, given the low light. What sort of camera are you using these days, David?

 

Jubilee 45596 "Bahamas" passes Gregson Lane on her positioning move to Bristol in preparation for hauling the Great Britain over the weekend. 14th April 2023.


https://www.flickr.com/photos/167082436@N06/52817248130/in/datetaken-public/

Phil

 

Expect the unexpected could sum up railway photography (even in these days of RTT et al). I had imagined Bahamas would be working away through Church Stretton ( better class of bus shelter here to get out of the biblical deluge Shropshire was experiencing), but none of it -the loco was slowing on the approach to the station -- a restriction maybe, no 45596 stopped in the platform for a pick up I think but I couldn't see from where I was.
So here we have the one coach Church Stretton stopper - the daffodils say it's spring the rain feels like November.

 

Expect the unexpected - 2

Well, with the monsoon dictating a sheltered photo-spot, I opted for Shrewsbury station, but, I really should have gone for the soaked-to-the-skin option at Bayston Hill.......

The loco was scheduled to transit the station via the through road, but they put it on the back road.... Tish and Pish......

A quick run up platform 3 and I managed to grab this as "Bahamas" glided past the signal box under a brooding sky. Insult to injury - as I type this, the Sun has just arrived....

Cheerz,

Alan

 

Nice to see sections of Brunel’s baulk road still exist!

Tom