ryan125hst
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Having found old Carriage Working Booklets from the 50's to the 80's online, I was wondering how the locos were diagrammed back in the days of loco hauled trains operating the majority of services. Some carriage working books contain carriage diagrams which show that sets of coaches would maybe work two to three trains per day. I've also read that turn around times were around 90-120 minutes in those days instead of the 30 minutes more typical with long distance services today.
The only set of diagrams I've found so far is on the Chronicles of Napier site, but this is only for a small class of (admittedly fantastic ) locomotives and they were also intensively worked from what I have read.
So how were Class 47, or Class 40's typically diagrammed on ECML work? Did they do a similar number of journeys a day to the coaches, or more than this, or less. How often did they have to visit the depots for servicing and fueling? I'm led to believe they used to go between journeys during the day unlike with trains these days.
If anyone has any locomotive diagrams I'll be interested in seeing them. I'm mostly interested in passenger services on the ECML, but I would be interested to see services in other regions if you happen to have information about them. I'm not as interested in the freight diagrams as I'd imagine it would be a lot more varied, but if you happen to know of a particularly interesting or unusual freight diagram I would be keen to hear of it.
Also, while I have mostly talked about diesels in this post, I have mentioned the 1950's as I am also interested in finding out how steam locos were diagrammed (if that was even the term in those days) if any information exists. I know it'll be a lot different from diesel locomotives so I'm interested to hear of this as well.
Many thanks
Ryan
The only set of diagrams I've found so far is on the Chronicles of Napier site, but this is only for a small class of (admittedly fantastic ) locomotives and they were also intensively worked from what I have read.
So how were Class 47, or Class 40's typically diagrammed on ECML work? Did they do a similar number of journeys a day to the coaches, or more than this, or less. How often did they have to visit the depots for servicing and fueling? I'm led to believe they used to go between journeys during the day unlike with trains these days.
If anyone has any locomotive diagrams I'll be interested in seeing them. I'm mostly interested in passenger services on the ECML, but I would be interested to see services in other regions if you happen to have information about them. I'm not as interested in the freight diagrams as I'd imagine it would be a lot more varied, but if you happen to know of a particularly interesting or unusual freight diagram I would be keen to hear of it.
Also, while I have mostly talked about diesels in this post, I have mentioned the 1950's as I am also interested in finding out how steam locos were diagrammed (if that was even the term in those days) if any information exists. I know it'll be a lot different from diesel locomotives so I'm interested to hear of this as well.
Many thanks
Ryan