Class 52 C-C D1015 Western Champion on "Freight Tour"

Hello All,
Some news to interest the railway enthusiast/photographer.

D1015 Western Champion is to work from Quidhampton to Tavy Junction, Plymouth, with fifteen China Clay tanks this Wednesday afternoon/Evening, as far as I'm aware it is via Westbury.
On Thursday D1015 will continue with the tanks to Burngullow in Cornwall and then return Light Diesel to DBS Eastleigh. What a great chance to get the cameras out for some shots of a super hydraulic in a scenic part of the country in the autumn.

Best regards SteamHawk216.

 

this was earlier denied by one of the owners on WNXX (ish)

 

Times have been posted on SW Gen. And it is D1015 Western Champion........

Times now on WNXX aswell

 

I think you probably misunderstood my post.

 

Outline timings confirmed by a post on Wessex Rail Gen
Nothing loaded to TSDB this afternoon, so I suspect all timings will be produced as VSTP timings.

Regards, Neil

 

Hence the ish, Martin. I think your first post on wnxx on the subject was a little confusing

 

Being a pedant, my first post said "it was on rail gen before I got the request!!!" which was entirely true and also not the way things should work. However if I hadn't had the request by the time I posted I would have said "it was on rail gen but I haven't had a request"

If you see what I mean, like..........

;-)

 

Please somebody be out to record the Western Region's premier Diesel on china clay!, i'd be there like a shot if i lived nearer.

 

Trickling through the grape-vine, come these timings:
Romsey 14.36;
Sals 14.58;
Wilton jn 15.02/3;
Quidhampton a.) 15.08 d) 15.55;
Wilton jn 16.00/01;
Warminster 16.25;
Wsby 16.35/17.15;
C.Cary 17.40;
Taunton 18.23/25
I think these come from Wessex Rail-Gen, originally, and so are already in the public domain.

 

Full times posted out on UK-RAIL gen for those who recieve it.....

 

D1015 timings

They are also on today's news on www.preserved-diesels.co.uk
Harold.

 

Reported off Eastliegh at 14:18

 

"Champion Freight Tour"

D1015 departed Westbury at 17.36.
Hope there's some cameras out in this superb light. I shall get some shots of her hauling onto Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge tomorrow morning and running back "light" later in the day. Looking forward to seeing Western Champion again.

Best regards SteamHawk216.

 

Western Champion arrived at Quidhampton on time this afternoon. When it departed with the 15 bogie tanks it ran to Salisbury to run round. Word has it that Network Rail had forgotten that the crossover points had been removed. How true that is I really don't know. The train passed Norton Bavant approx 30 late at 16:45 and approx 20 late at Frome.
Today really was a blast into the past. Who could believe that in 2009 we can still see a Western class loco hauling a genuine freight train on the main line ....and in superb autumnal sunlight. Fantastic. <BJ>

 

"Western Champion's Freight Tour"

WESTERN CHAMPION down Dawlish at 1919hrs on a freight in 2009. Enjoy. Looking forward to tomorrow at the Royal Albert Bridge.

 

Saw it rumble through chandlers ford at about 2:30. Though it would just be a 67 when heard something coming along, but then that appeared and came past and I was pleasantly surprised!

 

My video and photo of D1015 Western Champion at Forder Viaduct and Hemerdon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5PKkdhO4Ig

http://www.hemerdonbank.fotopic.net/

Keith Miller

http://www.keithmiller.fotopic.net/
http://www.hemerdonbank.fotopic.net/
http://www.youtube.com/hemerdonbank

 

Makes you laugh it almost seems better than the 66 in terms of acceleration! Certainly looks and sounds thousands of times better,why do DB want 37s!? haha

 

My video of yesterdays(14/10/2009) first leg of 6Z52 up now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDrkC1EXyPU

 

Lovely vids guys, far superior to that GM nonesence.