LE movements, ECS and test runs 2024

Well worth checking out the interior of Flora/55022 in this vid, why is it I get the feeling Mr Valentine was a bit of an inspiration for it?

 

Way way outside my area of expertise, but how are these braked, an example of how CDL can be applied to vacuum braked stock perchance?

 

60103 returning to the NRM from Shildon.

"Flying Scotsman", 18/01/24.

 

The Swanage DMU uses electromagnets at the bottom of the doors to keep them shut - you can make out the plates on some of the doors, but the rest have been sealed up.

 

47746 'Chris Fudge' passing Brock with 5Z87, Crewe to Carnforth. The ECS from yesterday's Cumbrian mountain express.

 

Now ‘advertised’ as 46100 instead

 

If LSL have sufficient dropbolt stuff recovered from scrap Mk2 d/e/f & Mk3 coaches, 55022 being a 1st generation DMU, has a reasonable supply of control air at 70psi from its two engine driven compressors.

 

sorry forgot to change the loco

 

I see 11 mk1's (plus 2x 47 and 1x33) came back to Carnforth from Southall this afternoon.

 

Royal Scot passing Brock at dawn on a very wet, windy morning.

 

Quick trip over to Leeds this morning in dreadful wet weather to see 46100 Royal Scot working 5Z70 0558 Crewe H.S. to Grosmont
https://railway-photography.smugmug...eeds-5Z70-0558-Crewe-HS-to-Grosmont/i-bfsbnwN
Neil

 

46100 at Wennington and Clapham this morning:

 

Considering the weather forecast this morning. You managed a couple of good shots.

 

Thanks, you know when you wake up to the sound of rain on the window it must be a gricing day.

 

60007 down to London for Steam Dreams trip on 02/03/24
Realtime Trains | 5Z07 1011 Crewe H.S. to Southall Loco Services Ltd | 01/03/2024

 

Friday 16/02/2024 - Black 5 - 44871 frpm ELR to Carnforth via Copy Pit - https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U00669/2024-02-16/detailed

 

44871 passes Clegg Hall on her way to Carnforth in dismal conditions this afternoon. The rain hasn't put the canoeist off though!

 

44871 passing Brock in the drizzle.

 

The week had been wet and staying with the theme today was dull, drizzly and dismal. All the more reason to stay indoors but with a black 5 on the move only a fool would stay in - this fool was heading out! I'd considered the options from Huncoat through to Hapton; Cherry Tree or Pleasington were favourites but 44871 was booked to cross with the York train at Pleasington, it would be just my luck to be bowled. I could opt for the "tight side" but the platforms are narrow at both Cherry Tree and Pleasington, it is half term and there could be kids all over the platforms. An overbridge would be a safer bet, so off to Chapel Lane (yet again).

I stayed at home until RTT showed the train had made it to Rochdale (21L). There was heavy traffic on the A666 so I made a quick diversion around the back streets and was doing well until a got a red at Hoddlesden Jn. (This was really temporary traffic lights on Goosehouse Lane but exactly where Hoddlesden Jn SB once stood.) Once moving it was a trouble free journey save for heavy spray on the M65. I parked and checked RTT, 26L at Copy Pit but it looked like there was a clear path thro' Blackburn. The drizzle came and went and came again. About 10 mins before the train was due it stopped - yes! I gathered up my kit and walked the few yards to the bridge. A couple of minutes later and I was ready and so was the drizzle, it started and soon became heavier. Brolly up! The drizzle drifted in bands from right to left.

The far distance was all murk and clouds hanging in the trees but finally a dark shape emerged. Leaving a white trail in her wake 44871 moved effortlessly along towards Hoghton summit where a "lone gunman" waited, a damp one! A blast on the hooter for the crossing and away under the bridge. The exhaust hung about in the cutting long after 44871 had gone, Oswald hung about another couple of minutes and he too was gone. 9C (but feeling cooler) & 21L. No CDL, no air-con stock and no diesel; things could change for Saturday - but bring it on!