Heathfield

[PeterH]

Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this but any one know what the Heathfield to newton abbot line is now used for cant find any time tables for it if its freight is it worth going there to photograph it
Many Thanks

 

[devon_metro]

Yes it if for FLHH on Tuesdays IIRC. Otherwise it is Hackney yard. There is a good vantage point at a level crossing on a back road near Trago Mills. Also the main road into Kingsetignton if you are interested. I think it's night workings though. Not worth it really. Just stay at newton bbot

 

[PeterH]

thanks again am on holiday again next wek in Dawlish lets hope the holliday it wont rain last two there it has i pray i pray

 

[devon_metro]

Should have come today! http://paigntonrailwaycentre.50webs.com/090906.htm

 

[David]

Should have come today! http://paigntonrailwaycentre.50webs.com/090906.htm

I didn't know that 150/2s and 67s were tilt equipped....

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f169/paigntonrailway/dlw7.jpg

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f169/paigntonrailway/dlw8.jpg

 

[Dennis]

I didn't know that 150/2s and 67s were tilt equipped....

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f169/paigntonrailway/dlw7.jpg

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f169/paigntonrailway/dlw8.jpg

Cant :downtown:

 

[devon_metro]

I didn't know that 150/2s and 67s were tilt equipped....

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f169/paigntonrailway/dlw7.jpg

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f169/paigntonrailway/dlw8.jpg

Canton have been messing about with our units again

 

[16CSVT2700]

Cant :downtown:

Yup. Track is slightly elevated and angled on curves to allow trains to continue without reducing speed. Dawlish is one of the places where visible cant is the most pronounced.

 

[Nat the Ned]

Freightliner have never visited Heathfield! Occassionally one of their 66s will park on the junction of the branch at Newton Abbot, but they normally use Hackney Yard out to the east of the station. The Moorswater cement traffic is suspended until the new year anyway.... EWS visit Heathfield as the clay works still produces a small amount of rail bourne traffic, however this is very erratic. 6C43 the 17:57 St.Blazey to Exeter Riverside is booked via Heathfield Tuesdays and Thursdays(?), but depending on traffic requirements, therefore it often doesnt visit Heathfield. As 6C43 recesses at Tavistock Jn Yard (Plymouth) if it was to go Heathfield it will now be in the darkness with the nights pulling in! Hope this helps.. Nat

 

[devon_metro]

Ah must have read Trust incorrectly. The famous 'nat' ey

 

[Nat the Ned]

Am I famous?? If I am, why am I not rich??????

 

[devon_metro]

well among SWRG you are known
And the cracking 57+HST shot is fantastic!