Recent content by OGLO

As per my earlier post, living 20 metres from the line, I can confirm that. One sounded particularly severe. The typical caution of drivers when slowing to a stop in these unfits now makes sense. ("5H17"... hehehe...)

I don't know. Sorry!

I'd guess that there might just be some rusty set of rails at Tees Yard that could have been used. I wonder how fixable a 180 is "in the field". Generally, they seem elderly and fragile these days. I've often seen an anxious and weary riding fitter on board. Meanwhile, the failure rate of...

Ah! Thanks for the update! I've been monitoring Real Time Trains to see if it's planned to move. Then, just at the point that I post on here... It does raise the question in my mind that, if something mechanically/electrically catastrophic had happened, how would folks get it into a fit...

A unit has been in the down loop since Saturday (I'm writing this on Tuesday). If the train needs "fitters attention" (now there's a classic 1970's B.R, phrase...) before it can even limp away, is there any restriction on work taking place from the down cess side? If not, then without the...

Meanwhile, any idea what the name "Forest City" refers to? Not Nottingham, probably. (I am a Nottingham Youth)

Thanks for the clarification and correction, folks. Just for the record, trains pass Eaglescliffe with coal (not just biomass) for Drax. I can see into the wagons from my upstairs window!

Thanks. It's notable that it's not every train, and the wagons appear to be a fairly scruffy "scratch" set , some bearing the remains of National Power livery. I live next to the line south of Eaglescliffe South, so get the chance to watch closely.

Apologies if this appears elsewhere, but does anyone know why certain MGR workings from The North East (mainly to Drax) are running with 42 wagons rather than the usual 22? There's usually a dead loco in tow, too.

I've just watched (on Open Train Times) 1P17 (0817 TPE Manchester - Newcastle) set back into a siding at Tursdale Junction (Ferryhill) 136 late. The siding is not showing occupied. 1E11 just passed me at Eaglescliffe South.