Wensleydale Railway Matters

Not sure to be honest they were built to work with a trailer car so I’d say at least one coach possibly 2 at a push.

Unless anyone knows different there are currently no plans to re livery the 33 although I did joke about painting it in mainline grey livery.

250s Livery still looks great it’s more to do with my photography

David

 

On paper*, they were allowed haul a trailer car plus a further 12 tons of tail traffic, which works out at roughly 40 tons.

I recently travelled on 55001 on the East Lancs hauling a Commonwealth bogied (37 ton) Mark 1 BSK and things underneath were smelling warm! It was perfectly capable of doing the job but adding further weight would be considered unwise.

So a general rule of thumb, they wouldn't regularly haul more than one full length vehicle behind.

(*Regional instructions differed, so I've deliberately used rough numbers - there are BR examples which differed slightly)

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Had a great visit to the Dale last weekend, with the railway shipping us from Leeming to Leyburn for a walk and lunch, and bringing us home again. I was thrilled to get the bubble car - the green livery just looks right on this country railway, and the massive windows all round are great for taking in the passing scenery. I'm looking forward to being able to travel all the way to Redmire of course, but in the meantime Leyburn is a cracking destination with some amazing views just a short walk from the middle of the village.

 

Meant to say, thanks DavidW for your comprehensive updates on the trackwork between Leyburn and Redmire. I came home wondering how this was coming along, and it was great to read through the thread and find out

 

Your very welcome goldie I must admit I’ve been slacking of late had a lot on including completing my asssement to become a PicoW (person in charge of work) and it is generally a lot of the same stuff replacing sleepers re-ferruling.

on top of that I have been training to be a pacer guard so I can help out in a pinch

 

Well on the last Mondays we have done a mix of ongoing tasks spot resleepering and MSP on the 4th




and we spent the 11th doing joint maintenance till the heat got the better of us all



Dave

 

Should you be disturbing the track during periods of high rail temperature??

 

Hi Ploughman, That is a fair point we have not had any issues so far (famous last words) and we have been packing up earlier than normal we did cancel yesterdays work party due to the heat and we have done previously. Obviously if we inadvertently caused an issue we would just have to maintain the line block until the following morning when things had cooled off so we could rectify to allow the safe passage of trains.

 

Well thankfully this Monday was much cooler so we went back to Crakehall to continue where we left off we replaced 3 sleeper and serviced 25 pairs of joints not too bad even if I do say so myself




And in addition the first lot of track from eggborough has arrived



Dave

 

The main headline for this update is that the he first batch of kit from eggborough has arrived and has now moved to where it will be stored pending its use definitely enough to help keep us stocked for a while with more to come later in the year.

Meanwhile the gang continued dealing with the general bits and pieces to keep the railway up to scratch resleepering, joint maintenance and treating dips with MSP.



Last Tuesday we had some welcome help with a group of volunteers for the company SYSTRA they enjoyed themselves and were willing to come back.



We have also recently acquired a new piece of kit a Milwaukee impact and so far are very impressed and the reduction in noise and weight saving definitely make a difference.

Dave

*edited - to correct wording*

 

Auto-correct excels itself.

 

It certainly does now corrected.

 

A new arrival,we have acquired a Mark 1 Brake Gangwayed (BG) coach, number 92347 Looks very nice next to the 47



Photo credit Tom Robson



And we’ve had another group of staff volunteering from systra so we obviously didn’t scare them off the first time round a pleasure to work with.

David

 

That shot of 47714 with the RES BG, phenomenal.