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GWR Cornish Night Riviera Sleeper and GWR Class 57 updates from Long Rock
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co-tr-paul
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Think we have...... .
Whether we're allowed to use the access equipment though is a different matter !Spare PC on depot but can't say which way its facing, other one on exam.
Whether we're allowed to use the access equipment though is a different matter !Spare PC on depot but can't say which way its facing, other one on exam.
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You just know that, rather than just going "what an idiot", GWR will have had someone spend a day doing a risk assessment and a load of paperwork (possibly with human factors input as well) and have come up with this as the mitigation.
co-tr-paul
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Spot the difference. Emails were bounded around !
co-tr-paul
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198 swapped for 147.
Warwick
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"Cleansing body bar" eh? I can remember when it was called soap. Isn't a cleansing body bar what trendies eat to de-tox themselves?
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Maybe a potty mouth had a flashback to childhood and thought, "Well Ma always said I should wash my mouth out with soap."
My mum did that to me once.
Soap tastes orrible...
Brush 47337
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I hope nobody minds me asking this question in my first post.......!
I am hoping to "find" class 57 602 while i am in sunny Cornwall - in the next week.
Down from "less sunny" glasgow with my lovely wife and she has "given permission" for me to go loco hunting.
i did the train spotting thing between 1978 and 1982 and class 47 337 (now 57 602) was the only class 47 i never saw. when i gave up - i needed one class 40 (090) one peak (45 059), one class 20 (009) and a handful of other locos (not counting shutters).
but it was 47 337 that bugged me the most and continues to bug as, technically..... it still exists and hasn't been turned into razor blades.
i am hoping someone can tell me if it will be working in the next week on the Night Riviera and i can hopefully go and see it either at Redruth or in Penzance (if visible from road).
sorry for long story - but it has been 36 years in the making.......!
stuart
I am hoping to "find" class 57 602 while i am in sunny Cornwall - in the next week.
Down from "less sunny" glasgow with my lovely wife and she has "given permission" for me to go loco hunting.
i did the train spotting thing between 1978 and 1982 and class 47 337 (now 57 602) was the only class 47 i never saw. when i gave up - i needed one class 40 (090) one peak (45 059), one class 20 (009) and a handful of other locos (not counting shutters).
but it was 47 337 that bugged me the most and continues to bug as, technically..... it still exists and hasn't been turned into razor blades.
i am hoping someone can tell me if it will be working in the next week on the Night Riviera and i can hopefully go and see it either at Redruth or in Penzance (if visible from road).
sorry for long story - but it has been 36 years in the making.......!
stuart
57602 is currently stopped at Reading TCD for repair! I’ll try to keep an eye out for it and post on here if it gets put on the down Sleeper.
Welcome to the forum by the way, hope you get your Loco after all this time
My 2 year old, sat on my lap “look daddy chocolate” pointing at the correct product without prompting!
Brush 47337
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thanks for that quick reply. Back in the day i hunted for it on every trip - and with the wonders of the internet - i have since found out it was under repair in Crewe works for a large part of the time i was searching. it smacked into another loco in Birmingham New Street. had i known i could just have blagged my way round the works (as you did back then - simply by asking nicely).
hopefully it comes off repair soon and if you find out i would appreciate a heads up and will post a photo of it with a pale skinned Scottish, happy fat bloke in Cornwall - where it is still too warm for Glaswegians.
thanks
stuart
co-tr-paul
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Final Veg-Ex today. 57605 with 17174_12142 and 10225.
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Is this the very last one forever as well
co-tr-paul
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Should be but we said that last year. Cascade delays !
PHILIPE
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Shouldn't be affected. The Sleeper and its stock and the 57s to work it will still be with us.
co-tr-paul
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.....until well into next long term franchise. Refurb was designed to last 10 years. New stuff should be part of the franchise requirement but don't tell anyone yet....... .
co-tr-paul
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Atmospheric shot. Thought there may have been more people on the platform to record the event ??
Shame I couldn't have travelled.on it.
Shame I couldn't have travelled.on it.
Harbornite
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Indeed. I thought the same when I got off it at Newton Abbot and no one was on platform 3 taking photos.
Thanks. Me too, only a small number disembarked and took photos. Same with last HST to Newquay yesterday, only around a dozen enthusiasts on board. Thought there would be more given it was a Sunday.
57602 is off repair but was used as the ECS pilot engine last night so remains at Reading. Will keep an eye out for today’s status update.
@Brush 47337
57602 is allocated as tonight’s down train engine!
1C99 timings:
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/C40203/2018/09/11/advanced
Hope you’re able to catch it.
57602 is allocated as tonight’s down train engine!
1C99 timings:
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/C40203/2018/09/11/advanced
Hope you’re able to catch it.