...Coventry! Today, 'The Slash' drove upto Coventry Railway Centre to help out. He picked 'Feltham2105' up at Soton Parkway and me up at Basingstoke (Seth hadn't even left his bed!) and he drove us up. Upon arrival, 'TheSlash' introduced us all and went to pick 'Metrocammel' up from Coventry station.
We started off by starting to remove some old points in terms of jacking the rail up and removing the chairs. They then uncovered an old point that would fit from under a bramble bush. All the chairs for the point were moved to a safe location ready for tomorrow.
There is a huge variety of stock up there from shunters to SUBs, EPBs, MLVs (soon to be at the EKR - shameless plug), a 50 (50040 IIRC) and amongst other things, a DMSO(b) from a Class 457 - looks great!
The dumper trucks were in constant use all day (and didn't 'Metrocammel' love that!). All in all, it was a great day complete with a miserable amount of snow. If you want to see something different and have a good old laugh, Coventry is the place to be.
P.S. 'Metrocammel' must now be reffered to as 'farmer'. There will probably be some pictures upload shortly...
Cheers for a great day out to all, particulary Steve. Much appricated!
http://www.emus.co.uk
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/CovRC
We started off by starting to remove some old points in terms of jacking the rail up and removing the chairs. They then uncovered an old point that would fit from under a bramble bush. All the chairs for the point were moved to a safe location ready for tomorrow.
There is a huge variety of stock up there from shunters to SUBs, EPBs, MLVs (soon to be at the EKR - shameless plug), a 50 (50040 IIRC) and amongst other things, a DMSO(b) from a Class 457 - looks great!
The dumper trucks were in constant use all day (and didn't 'Metrocammel' love that!). All in all, it was a great day complete with a miserable amount of snow. If you want to see something different and have a good old laugh, Coventry is the place to be.
P.S. 'Metrocammel' must now be reffered to as 'farmer'. There will probably be some pictures upload shortly...
Cheers for a great day out to all, particulary Steve. Much appricated!
http://www.emus.co.uk
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/CovRC