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ELR Summer Diesel Gala 27 -29 June 2024

Discussion in 'Galas and Events' started by Britfoamer, Jun 16, 2024.

  1. Britfoamer

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    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/
     
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    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.
     
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    They are on Branchline gen page

    https://branchline.uk/gen.php
     
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    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:
    P1170948.JPG P1170952.JPG P1170953.JPG P1170954.JPG P1170957.JPG P1170958.JPG P1170961.JPG P1170965.JPG P1170968.JPG P1170970.JPG
     
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    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!
     
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    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.
     
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    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.
     
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