Railmotor on the Liskeard-Looe branch?

Keep the insults coming...

 

Welcome back to Nat-Pres Chris. Hope you enjoyed your day. <BJ>

 

Can anyone advise if there is heating in the Railmotor or do we need to take thermals just in case.

 

If it doesn't have true under-seat heating installed, the presence of a boiler and fire should keep things reasonable!

 

It does have steam heat that seems to be quite good when checked the other week.

 

Do you feel the heat from the boiler/firebox with it and the passenger accomodation being in the same vehicle ?.

 

I would say not a great deal as the boiler is insulated and there are walls between you and the boiler, but then I don't often travel in the coach and when driving from the other end you are 60ft away with 5 walls in between.

 

There are timings for these runs now on uksteam

4/11: t1104a.htm

11/11: t1111a.htm (I think they are the same)

Note the ECS move back to Bodmin in the evenings (It also runs up from Bodmin to Liskeard on the day before)

 

Timings thanks to W. Cookworthy. <BJ>
Sat 3rd and 10th Nov.

SO 03/11/12 to 10/11/12 5Z20
Bodmin Parkway 19:30
Largin 19/46
St Pinnock Viaduct East 19/48
Liskeard 20:04

 

Surely these are diesel hauled - the railmotor won't be running under its own steam?

 

Indeed it is diesel hauled, a Class 37 IIRC

James at SVN

 

BBC weather site currently suggests thundery shower conditions for this weekend in Cornwall. Anyone else on the very first departure from Liskeard?

 

37.516 0Z37 10:29 Southall to Bodmin Parkway. Friday, 2/11/2012.
Southall 10:39 10:41
Kennet Bridge Loop 11:24 11:32
Reading 11:36
Newbury 12:00
Frome 13:07 13:19
Taunton 14:05 14:10
Exeter St Davids 14:54
Newton Abbot 15:13
Plymouth 15:52 16:18
Lostwithiel 17:08 17:29
Bodmin Parkway 17:40

Thanks to Driff47844 at SWRG. <BJ>

 

Following on from what Campainr was saying, the weather hasn't improved at all - if anything, it is getting worse! Fingers crossed it gets better in time.

James at SVN

 

Time to get out the umbrella once again. Although not a metal one - or else you may be struck by lightning!

 

By heck that's a lot of LE mileage to move one vehicle not very far! Presumably there no cheaper alternative - e.g. loco off the china clay trains or similar?

 

Well it needs to be a West Coast loco - and Southall is the nearest place!

 

as this is a WCR operation I assume it has to be a WCR diesel which would'nt be the case with locos on china clay trains

 

This is one of my pet hates about railway privatisation/sectorisation. In the bad old days of single entity railway operations, it would have been the nearest available loco to hand doing this move.

 

Indeed. Though I did wonder if the loco needed to be vacuum braked too.