ELR Summer Diesel Gala 27 -29 June 2024

What was threatened to become a boring to some, me included, Class 47 bash has blossomed into a much more interesting spread of motive power including a Freightliner Class 70, details on the website including timetables but not all the loco allocations as yet:

https://www.eastlancsrailway.org.uk/events-activities/summer-diesel-gala/

 

Only a few days to go and no loco allocations on the timetable except the goods trains, and one of them is wrongly annotated. Let's hope they appear shortly.

Edit: appeared by Monday evening, now available on ELR website also.

 

They are on Branchline gen page

https://branchline.uk/gen.php

 

https://www.branchline.uk/gen/ELR.pdf

 

Couldn't make Thursday, Saturday says miserable for the weather, so it was Friday. The weather and light was all over the place, but here are a mixture of motive power and locations:

 

I assume (wrongly?) the Class 20 was inside the Class 70 for the braking? Wasn't on the timetable and I don't know enough!

 

I think - and I'm going by what I've read so might be wrong/misinterpreting - that ELR set is dual-braked but there's a reason why a Cl.70 can't couple directly to a Mk1 and needs a barrier vehicle (or loco) of some form in between. Great set of pictures.

 

The buffers don't extend far enough beyond the light clusters/anti-climb pods, so there's a risk of the corridor connection getting caught between them.