The DB schedules don’t often appear on RTT until the weekend before, so I wouldn’t read too much into that. They do vary a bit with timings, and sometimes run twice daily. They’ve always been STP workings whereas GBRF have regular timetabled paths on the system even if not used yet. There’s still also old paths for intermodal and aggregate trains although these are never used (think the last ‘plonkliner’ was Dec 2023).6B92 from Portbury shows empty wagons in TOPS, so the KEAs might have just been there for familiarisation / loading test before the service starts properly. Can't see any DB schedules to Portbury for next week so maybe that's when GBRF take over.
The eastbound train is being diverted that way this week due to overnight engineering workI think there has been mention recently of the Trafford Park to Tees Intermodal... Noticed it coming through Derby. Is it routed Crewe, Stafford, Lichfield, Derby for a specific reason or to allow Trans Pennine upgrades?
Thanks for thatThe eastbound train is being diverted that way this week due to overnight engineering work
(the westbound train is still running via Diggle).
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The DB schedules don’t often appear on RTT until the weekend before, so I wouldn’t read too much into that. They do vary a bit with timings, and sometimes run twice daily.
Is it just my ageing eyes, or did anyone else (mis)read that as "cut-down IKEA wagons"!...until GBRF have enough cut-down KEA wagons available.
66707 it would seem. Loco left 25 minutes later, going back to Doncaster...Is something being parked up there?I see earlier today GBRF ran a 4Z50 Doncaster-Fiddlers Ferry PS which must be the first train in the power station for over 3 years.
I know there was talk about taking waste materials away by rail,so maybe that's what's happening.66707 it would seem. Loco left 25 minutes later, going back to Doncaster...Is something being parked up there?
Empty coal hoppers for storage , bit of an odd location.I know there was talk about taking waste materials away by rail,so maybe that's what's happening.
I see earlier today GBRF ran a 4Z50 Doncaster-Fiddlers Ferry PS which must be the first train in the power station for over 3 years.
Is something being parked up there?
Empty coal hoppers for storage , bit of an odd location.
"Existing rail sidings infrastructure: retained to safeguard rail connection and for future potential connection to employment area."
MV Swami is a fairly regular visitor to Weaste/Salford ? from Ireland.Cement is the load some of us think.The last freight ran 16.2.21 when 70801 headed the Oxwellmains-Weaste cement tanks..prior to that the previous freights were back in 2016 when there was a problem on the Ship Canal preventing the usual boats coming over from Ireland.These workings were from Northfleet...July 2016.A railtour came down the branch 5.3.22 top and tailed by class 60 /66 and there was the light engine class 56090 8.8.24.
Another two paths for one day only Friday 21st February 2025 has appeared on RTT, as 6J50 0325 Tunstead Sdgs (Fhh) to Weaste & 6H51 1454 Weaste to Tunstead Sdgs (Fhh). Would this run this time? Who knows?
It ran!
Realtime Trains | 6J50 0325 Tunstead Sdgs (Fhh) to Weaste | 21/02/2025
Real-time train running information for 6J50 0325 departure from Tunstead Sdgs (Fhh) to Weaste on 21/02/2025. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.www.realtimetrains.co.uk
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It ran!
Realtime Trains | 6J50 0325 Tunstead Sdgs (Fhh) to Weaste | 21/02/2025
Real-time train running information for 6J50 0325 departure from Tunstead Sdgs (Fhh) to Weaste on 21/02/2025. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.www.realtimetrains.co.uk
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The photo is at Navigation Road station.It was a mixed bag of 23 hoppers. 14 of them were IIA coal hoppers (original 61ft length) which were used on Ratcliffe coal workings until Jan 2024 (see post #32 in the wagon discussion thread). In summer last year that set was used on stone workings from Arcow, before ending up stored at Hexthorpe Yard (Doncaster) in August until the move of some of the wagons to Fiddlers Ferry yesterday.
There were also 5 HHAs (50ft aggregate hoppers converted from coal hoppers) which GBRF had been using out of Peak Forest to cover for Cemex wagons damaged in the Audenshaw derailment. Finally, there were 4 HYAs (another type of 50ft aggregate hopper converted from coal hoppers) which were working out of Rylstone until a couple of weeks ago.
A snap of the 4Z50 working (not sure where it was taken) which ran via Wakefield Kirkgate, Huddersfield, Guide Bridge, Stockport, Northwich, Hartford Jn, Latchford (run round):
https://www.flickr.com/photos/182994465@N08/54326764471/ (Photo: Kev Murphy)
I found a "development framework" for the Fiddlers Ferry site, it's a large PDF talking about redevelopment of the site, but the only real nod towards rail freight is this vague statement about retaining the sidings:
General website about "Fiddler's Ferry Regeneration": https://fiddlersferry.com/
I am sure I am missing something, but it appears to do an unnecessary trip up and down the line from Latchford to Ditton? It does not appear to involve a triangle junction or anything to turn the rake round.Interesting more wagons being taken to Fiddlers Ferry Power Station site. x10 JRA wagons hauled by 66186 yesterday apparently for storage / maintenace for Touax https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:R56267/2025-02-24/detailed
I think there was a scheduling error. The train ran round at Ditton Rec sidings and backed the wagons into the power station which must have been the easiest way to do it.I am sure I am missing something, but it appears to do an unnecessary trip up and down the line from Latchford to Ditton? It does not appear to involve a triangle junction or anything to turn the rake round.
Sure, that makes sense, I don't know what track is left in the Fiddler's Ferry compound so be able to get the loco off easily makes sense.I think there was a scheduling error. The train ran round at Ditton Rec sidings and backed the wagons into the power station which must have been the easiest way to do it.