Hanson lost a cement wagon at Clitheroe !

[high camera]

Report on local facebook group with photo of a 2 axle cement wagon that appears to have rolled out of the branch line and derailed just before entering the main line. Thats all I know

 

[Wombat]

I thought for a moment, from the title, that they'd physically misplaced it.

Does that ever happen?

 

[Darandio]

And unless you are a member of both Facebook and that group, the link is useless.

 

[Murray J]

yep sounds accurate. national rail are reporting a derailment there causing all lines to be blocked. buses are replacing trains between blackburn and clitheroe.

 

[high camera]

Yes apologies for duff link, I have just been to take a look and will upload a link to photos shortly.

By the way the main isnt blocked, the Manchester train has just done the usual switchover reversal right next to the detailment

 

[Murray J]

ok, just going off what's on national rail.

 

[high camera]

 

[GB]

Trap points done their job nicely.

 

[Rockhopper]

I recall a film i saw a while back that said back in the 1950's before TOPS there were many hundred of railway wagons that were "lost" up and down the country!

 

[Bletchleyite]

I recall a film i saw a while back that said back in the 1950's before TOPS there were many hundred of railway wagons that were "lost" up and down the country!

That's more "don't know where they are" than "they have run away and ended up on the running line".

It still happens, I recall something quoted here from a TOC control bulletin of some kind a while ago along the lines of "does anyone know the location of 153xxx as we seem to have lost it?"

 

[ZL exile]

Be interesting to see where it ran away fro, was in it the Cement works, or just on the branch? If the former it has gone across a well used level crossing as well.

 

[high camera]

The level crossing has gates either side which are always closed when there are no train movements. Its quite common to see lone wagons in the yard, I think they peel them off the rakes one at a time for servicing in the shed ??

I have never seen a wagon parked alone on the branch siding so Im puzzled as to where it started its bid for freedom !!

 

[GB]

Its reported to have travelled over 1300 yards and over two level crossings. I don't know what speed it travelled but the handbrake is said to have been applied.

 

[StephenHunter]

There's a Mmm Bop joke in here somewhere.

 

[Re 4/4]

I recall something quoted here from a TOC control bulletin of some kind a while ago along the lines of "does anyone know the location of 153xxx as we seem to have lost it?"

Rerminds me of one memorable day when I turned up in Abergavenny, a 2-car set appeared and the guard apologised for the shorter train than usual - "this is because, when we turned up this morning, it was all we could find".

 

[Edders23]

I have some photos on my computer here somewhere of a rake of similar wagons plus gronk derailed on the ketton branch I think those wagons are quite lightweight when empty

 

[td97]

It still happens, I recall something quoted here from a TOC control bulletin of some kind a while ago along the lines of "does anyone know the location of 153xxx as we seem to have lost it?"

Here it is, TPE lost a 185 last year
https://www.railforums.co.uk/thread...oing-to-get-worse.196916/page-15#post-4359204

 

[furnessvale]

I recall a film i saw a while back that said back in the 1950's before TOPS there were many hundred of railway wagons that were "lost" up and down the country!

I remember one scrapyard, since closed, where some of the wagons shunted in to be loaded with scrap, were themselves cut up and emerged as part of the load rather than carrying it.

 

[Dunfanaghy Rd]

I remember one scrapyard, since closed, where some of the wagons shunted in to be loaded with scrap, were themselves cut up and emerged as part of the load rather than carrying it.

On the RAIL trip on Wisconsin Central in 1999 we passed a scrapyard to the north of Chicago. Ed Burkhardt remarked that it was one customer where they had to check everything that went in and out.
Pat

 

[pieguyrob]

That would be the wagon that is now stabled outside Blackburn railway station, or was yesterday. Anyone know its number?

 

[theironroad]

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It does look rather lonely all on its own.

 

[Deepgreen]

Yes apologies for duff link, I have just been to take a look and will upload a link to photos shortly.

By the way the main isnt blocked, the Manchester train has just done the usual switchover reversal right next to the detailment

Yes, looking at the photo the wagon is well clear of the main line, further away in fact than if it been on the rails! It must crept along at very low speed as it hasn't travelled at all past the trap point blades.

 

[Deepgreen]

Is the low loader wagon still rotting away by the up line near Bellingham (I think)? There may even have been more than one involved and the last time I passed the site they were being absorbed into the planet again!

 

[Deepgreen]

I have some photos on my computer here somewhere of a rake of similar wagons plus gronk derailed on the ketton branch I think those wagons are quite lightweight when empty

If on a gradient, the heavier the wagon, the more likely it is to 'run away'.

 

[GB]

Yes, looking at the photo the wagon is well clear of the main line, further away in fact than if it been on the rails! It must crept along at very low speed as it hasn't travelled at all past the trap point blades.

It traveled and derailed a wagon length past the end of the trap point rails. The trap points cannot be seen in any of the photos here as they are positioned further back.

 

[pieguyrob]

At least the troublesome truck only derailed itself and not James.......

 

[Spartacus]

On the RAIL trip on Wisconsin Central in 1999 we passed a scrapyard to the north of Chicago. Ed Burkhardt remarked that it was one customer where they had to check everything that went in and out.
Pat

Funny enough I think it was EWS who lost a loco, I think a 66, and it turned up at Shipley Crossley Evans scrapyard, admittedly in one piece!

 

[stj]

I remember my Grandfather going on about a trainload of bombs going missing during WW2.

 

[High Dyke]

Reported by RSSB as: "Wagon detached for handbrake maintenance." Clearly the handbrake wasn't working.

 

[duffield]

I remember my Grandfather going on about a trainload of bombs going missing during WW2.

That's bad, but at least they weren't *nuclear* bombs!

8 Nuclear Weapons the U.S. Has Lost

Whoops.

www.mentalfloss.com

During the Cold War, the United States military misplaced at least eight nuclear weapons permanently. These are the stories of what the Department of Defense calls "broken arrows"—America's stray nukes, with a combined explosive force 2,200 times the Hiroshima bomb.