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Landslip at Hatfield Colliery (near Doncaster) line to Hull/Scunthorpe now reopened.

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PhillH said:
My understanding is that the eastbound 153 is swopped with the previous days Barton unit so there would be no need for a road taxi or even a 144 taxi.
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On a weekday that is correct. On a Saturday, the incoming 153 works the 07:00 Cleggy-Barton and the full days branch diagram. The existing unit works the 06:00 Barton rounder (previously a 185, now on a weekday terminating at Grimsby on the return), getting in at 07:47. The ecs to Scunthorpe leaves at 07:32, while both 153s are working Barton services, hence the need for the pacer.
 
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clagmonster said:
On a weekday that is correct. On a Saturday, the incoming 153 works the 07:00 Cleggy-Barton and the full days branch diagram. The existing unit works the 06:00 Barton rounder (previously a 185, now on a weekday terminating at Grimsby on the return), getting in at 07:47. The ecs to Scunthorpe leaves at 07:32, while both 153s are working Barton services, hence the need for the pacer.
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The 06.00 Barton and Return has continued to be worked by bus but I note that the new S.X. diagrams involving 2x153s should now commence on Monday 29th July with the E.C.S. from Doncaster becoming an advertised passenger train at 06.01 all stations except New Clee from Scunthorpe to Cleethorpes. Whilst this means that Great Coates and Thornton Abbey can be served by the first Barton working, the termination of the 06.58 from Barton at Grimsby Town so as to be able to work E.C.S. from there to Scunthorpe for the 08.19 to Lincoln has left a hole in the early morning Barton Service with an 07.42 arrival at Grimsby Town and no forward service to Cleethorpes until 08.33.
 
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I had a ride through on Saturday on the 17.04 from Goole to Doncaster and I noticed that the spoil moving operation is still going on, of course well behind the boundary now and a retaining wall of pre-fabricated concrete about 4 or 5 feet high is now in place.

I also noticed that the connections to Hatfield colliery appear to have been renewed during the blockade indicating that the colliery must have a future in the medium term.
 
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TG said:
you were brave... the 1831 Hull to Doncaster can quite often get rather, lets say, lively!!!! :lol::lol:
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That one did too. I was amazed at the number of people who got on at Thorne North!
 
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corin paul said:
What about the new footbridge at Thorne South, how BIG?
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Yes, this is quite some construction. Nevertheless I am sure that its immense cost would be less than the costs of litigation ensuing from the next near fatality at the barrow crossing used by passengers to board the westbound stoppers to Doncaster. The circumstances which pushed networkrail into this "child of Barnetby" creation have been well reported in the local press but it is my further suspicion that a new 20 m.p.h. TRS the length of the Doncaster bound platform at Crowle is also linked. All the hazards associated with the Thorne "near miss" are repeated on the half hour with the additional factor that sighting of approaching trains is poor due to the curvature at the eastern end of Crowle Station.
 
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PhillH said:
Yes, this is quite some construction. Nevertheless I am sure that its immense cost would be less than the costs of litigation ensuing from the next near fatality at the barrow crossing used by passengers to board the westbound stoppers to Doncaster. The circumstances which pushed networkrail into this "child of Barnetby" creation have been well reported in the local press but it is my further suspicion that a new 20 m.p.h. TRS the length of the Doncaster bound platform at Crowle is also linked. All the hazards associated with the Thorne "near miss" are repeated on the half hour with the additional factor that sighting of approaching trains is poor due to the curvature at the eastern end of Crowle Station.
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Saxilby likewise where I am told that there is to be a footbridge provided. I understand that the local instructions there now include a clause whereby it is forbidden to pull off for an up train until at least two miniutes after the departure of a down stopping passenger service. The implications from this will, I'm sure, be far reaching; the two rural stations in Lincolnshire that I personally travel to most, Metheringham and Ruskington, are both only provided with barrow crossings and on a line whose maximum permissible speed is shortly to be raised to 75 M.P.H. Of particular concern must be Ruskington as, like Crowle, there is a curve immediately south of the station.
 
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