LE movements, ECS and test runs 2024

It did, just as planned. As for tomorrows move........it wont take a lot of working out what it is likely to be.

Peter

 

Thanks Peter. Yes, I've just seen what it is meant to be. Not too hard to work out what the only other mainline registered loco is at York at the moment!

 

Flying Scotsman at Swinton with 5Z44 09.35 York NRM to Toton T.M.D. going for tyre turning
https://railway-photography.smugmug...otsman-Swinton-Monday-20th-May-2024/i-jbzpzTG

 

Has the agreement as to who looks after 60103 now been signed then, does anyone know who got it?

 

It was West Coast doing the turn yesterday, crew and support staff all wearing WCRC orange vests

 

Colin Green was on the footplate so it looks like Rileys.

 

When is it returning north, or has it already?

 

Science Museum piece on the ITT dated March 7 says expected new contract will start June 3. So likely still under the old contract, which I guess was extended as it said it expired December 31 2023.

https://www.railwaymuseum.org.uk/ab...e Museum Group has,last until 31 January 2032.

 

I think it would be a folly to not renew the contract with Riley. They have intimate knowledge of this loco as with their own Black 5's and have handled it's main line operation with dignity and respect.....

 

-------- try again !

70000 seems to be well on it's way back to Crewe 28 mins early at Searchlight Lane so hopefully today's run will be deemed a success.

Earlier in dull and wet conditions :- passing the Kronospan plant at Chirk and after the stop at Coton Hill approaching Wellington.

 

Britannia seems to be happily on its way to Southall https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U11890/2024-05-24/detailed#allox_id=0

 

Here she is, seen over a freight passing under Headstone Lane bridge.
Edit: That is about the best frame from a video, which doesn't say much for the rest, but it should at least qualify as "interesting". Not exactly bowled.

 

You did better than me --- clean bowled by a Pendolino at Colwich

 

At least they weren’t loaded!

 

When the freight appeared, the two of us on the Headstone Lane platform feared we were going to be totally bowled, but we were fortunate that the back half of the train had no containers. The shot over the unloaded wagons seemed to me a rare enough situation to be worth posting. A moment later the last wagon had passed and I should have had a better view of Britannia, but I hadn't bothered taking a tripod and my framing went all over the place.

 

Well someone has to remove and refit the coupling and connecting rods so that the wheel lathe centres can hold the wheelsets.

 

It is worth posting, most unusual and the flats cover less of the subject than a near side platform edge!

 

Bridge replacement over the A162 Barkston Ash

 

44871 engine move Carnforth to Carlisle