LE movements, ECS and test runs 2024

P.O.B. in between the locos

 

It is - misread TOPS list in haste.

Photos of 44932 and 45999 here. Note that 45699 now has 45627 cab side numbers, previously 45562.

https://andrewstransport.smugmug.com/Northwesttrains/North-West-trains-2024/i-CTXZCJM

Andrew N

 

45699 and 44932 on a test run Bentham an Paley Green Lane

 

Good to hear a Jubilee again .

 

What if passengers promised not to take Pullman fittings home with them...?

 

Yes it was fitted with retention toilet tanks which were full to the brim after the previous days UKR and so passengers told to use the station toilets at Paddington and/or Banbury where possible

Good old Riviera stock

 

Just something else to be factored into servicing railtours. Finding TOC's with pump out facilities which are manned and have capacity to deal with a charter over and above their normal traffic and are willing to help.

Cheers, Neil

 

(Apologies for continuing thread drift)
I wasn't told that. What they told me was that only one toilet on each coach had been fitted with a retention tank. Unfortunately the other one in my coach was out of order (possibly tank full, but no-one said that) and the next one down the train that was available had a door that was hard to close and even harder to open.

 

Read this half a dozen time is it a wind up if not how the hell was stock allowed to be used

 

I suppose because the only alternative would have been to cancel the trip.

 

A bit silly not to fit retention tanks to all of them as someone else was paying for it

 

But are they paying for the long term serving and emptying or just the conversion?

 

Just the conversion but they will both discharge into the same tank

 

Tangmere departing Carnforth to work the Great Britain south from Carlisle.

 

Great to see Clan Line back after so long. Plenty of whistling here:

 

Seen at Egham and Berrylands 35028 Clan Line on a test run



all the best
Matt

 

A pair of black fives passing Brock at Sunrise. Working the ecs for today's leg of the Great Britain rail tour.

 

Great to See 35028 back out last night, seen in the video at Kensington Olympia and Chiswick,

 

Oh my god! The world will end!

There’s a diesel on the back.