Your new winners for sight

[fishquinn]

I have made this thread so people can post there winner locos and units for sight; kind of like the red pen thread for haulages.

I can only remember the locos for 2015 though.

10/1/15
66761
86632
66585
66011
66623
60063

14/2/15
57301
68009
66415
92033

21/2/15
66035
68011
68014

 

[StripeyNick]

Not much for me to shout about.......

13/2/15

68005

18/2/15

70806
70809

I go for numbers on an all time basis rather than reset each year like some so I'm mainly after new locos (68s and a few 70s) and a few 66s from GBRf, F/liner & DRS.

I'm still after a couple of odd electrics. I don't travel that much so all this is taking time!

 

[ValleyLines142]

I don't understand how this is any different from the Red Pen thread?

 

[fishquinn]

I don't understand how this is any different from the Red Pen thread?

This thread is for winners for sight, not haulage.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

I don't understand how this is any different from the Red Pen thread?

This thread is for winners for sight, not haulage.

I believe last year's thread for the same purpose was 'Black Pen 2014'.

 

[bb21]

The previous one was dated for 2014 only, but it was not a very popular thread. I have amended the title of this thread so that it can be used for all future discussions on sightings, not just in 2015.

 

[andyb2706]

02/01/15
86612

06/01/15
66125
350106
377118
377127
377154
377206
377308
377425
377426
377452
377470
377502
377506
377519
377601
377602
377609
377621
377622
377623
377703
378216
378229
387109
387114
387117
387118
442402
442406
442408
442421
11001(lu)
11002(lu)
11093(lu)
11094(lu)
11045(lu)
11046(lu)

07/01/15
153355
153374
507018
508143

12/01/15
350401

17/01/15
153316
156448

09/02/15
66564

 

[Techniquest]

Wow you needed a lot for sight there!

I will have to dig out my now-old notebook for the first lot of 2015's new sightings, once I've done that I'll get the rest added.

Like the idea of making it a long-term thread rather than limiting it to 2015. I will be posting on this thread more often this year, as I'm making notes of what I score for sight in my notebook rather than just ticking them off and forgetting what it all was!

Admittedly a lot of my new sightings this year have been MK3s and MK4s, to be fair there isn't a lot I need for sight in the UK these days!

 

[andyb2706]

Wait until I get time to through the rest of my logs for this year and update on here!!

Question: Is there any thread on here for new shacks?

Follow up Question: With posting on this thread, red pen, trains seen working and asking about a new shack thread am I becoming a bit obsessive with this?

 

[37038]

I mark off units straight away but I keep a record of what locos and electrics were new for sight (all time):

17/01:
08527 70008 90016

23/01:
43075

24/01:
08623 92015

14/02:
01529 56007 56031 56069 56098 56106

Thanks

 

[Techniquest]

Wait until I get time to through the rest of my logs for this year and update on here!!

Question: Is there any thread on here for new shacks?

Sounds like you've come across a need for a thread we don't yet have. My winner shacks currently get listed in my posts on Red Pen 2015, could be interesting to see if anyone else would find such a thread useful. I'm on my phone this morning, and I still need to dig out my old notebook for the rest of 2015's notes, but I'll start the thread shortly

Looks like you've had a busy year then, shall look forward to more updates!

Follow up Question: With posting on this thread, red pen, trains seen working and asking about a new shack thread am I becoming a bit obsessive with this?

 

[55013]

At the start of this year I required a handful of newer diesel locos (66/68/70), no electric locos, 4 DMUs (all 171s) and huggins of EMUs for sight.
So far I've scored these:

66756
66762
66766
375703
377464
395002
395014
395025
444044
450037
450113

and that's it. Hopefully I'll add one or two more before December 31st

 

[fishquinn]

28/2/15
Locos
66762
66768
56104
08417
37716
45112

NET
227
230
232
235
236

Units
158909
158907

 

[Condor7]

Ok I will have to come clean. What do you mean with "by sight" as opposed to haulage?

Thanks.

 

[Techniquest]

Ok I will have to come clean. What do you mean with "by sight" as opposed to haulage?

Thanks.

Claiming something for sight = Marking it off in the book as seen.

Claiming something for haulage = Having ridden on said train/behind said train, it then gets marked off in the book as had for haulage.

Sorry if I've either not answered your question very well or if you now have more questions!

 

[Condor7]

Claiming something for sight = Marking it off in the book as seen.

Claiming something for haulage = Having ridden on said train/behind said train, it then gets marked off in the book as had for haulage.

Sorry if I've either not answered your question very well or if you now have more questions!

Thank you, you have answered it very well. Fairly obvious now you explain it but I just could not get my head around what it meant before.

Many thanks.

 

[Techniquest]

Thank you, you have answered it very well. Fairly obvious now you explain it but I just could not get my head around what it meant before.

Many thanks.

Nay drama, we've all got to learn sometime! If it helps, I'm clueless with the talk of electrification, I have no idea what a lot of it is about. I have to re-read some posts a few times to get it read properly but I still don't understand it.

Glad I could help

 

[alexf380]

A few (59 in total!) from today's session at Edinburgh:

04 March 2015
156449
156495
156504
158703
158712
158716
158717
158719
158721
158727
158730
158734
158735
158738
158741
170393
170394
170396
170404
170405
170407
170416
170418
170419
170424
170425
170426
170429
170430
170451
170453
170455
170458
170460
170473
170474
170477
221xxx (I'm unsure of the number, to the TOPS request thread I go!)
334002
334004
334007
334010
334011
334012
334013
334017
334018
334022
334030
334031
334033
334035
334039
334040
350403
380107
390013
390125

Quite a day, all in all.

 

[Techniquest]

You've sent me to memories of the days (2004-2006) when I needed absolutely loads of stuff for sight in Scotland! Happy times

I should have a fair ol' list to add to this on Monday, following a trip to Manchester. Megaton of Metrolink trams is probably all it'll be but still

 

[alexf380]

Happy times indeed! Just starting out so I need near enough everything. Funnily enough, next to none of that was for haulage!

 

[Techniquest]

Happy times indeed! Just starting out so I need near enough everything. Funnily enough, next to none of that was for haulage!

Same for my first Scottish trip in November 2004, not much haulages (not that I was recording them sadly) but a megaton of ticks in the book!

I have a feeling you're going to love Clapham Junction on a weekday evening peak, same for London Bridge. Good gosh those two make it hard to spot everything and keep track of it all!

*Heads off-forum for a while, overloaded with nostalgia*

 

[fishquinn]

Same for my first Scottish trip in November 2004, not much haulages (not that I was recording them sadly) but a megaton of ticks in the book!

The first time I went to Edinburgh while doing spotting, (and the second, and the third), I wasn't recording haulages, and to this day I have never had a SR unit for haulage. But I now don't need many 170s, 158s and 380/1s for sight, but I still need a fair few 334s and 156s. Never been to Glasgow though!

 

[andyb2706]

19/02/15
66013
66740
Sheffield Supertram:
102
104
105
111
112
115
116
119
122
123

20/02/15
31233
43274
43315
43318
43367
66035
66529
66587
66595
66745
66766
66767
66770
66771
67003
70018
91118
158859

28/02/15
390138
Metrolink:
3013 (at long last. Got for haulage too!!)
3092
3094

 

[fishquinn]

5/3/15
Midland metro tram 31
60100
319361
142011
319362
156466
156455
142051
507010
507004

 

[GWRjake]

Cleared the entire class 150/0 class for sight today (all 2 of them!)

 

[Techniquest]

08/03/2015

73910 (tamper)
76503 (HOBC)

All Metrolink M5000 trams, and I'll be here all night putting them in order so they're coming as they are!

3066
3084
3075
3022
3090
3082
3083
3063
3073
3059
3019
3061
3080
3067
3070
3072
3078
3047
3058
3009
3087
3045
3028
3092
3091
3094
3079
3035
3055
3086
3054
3088
3069
3062
3093

I'm now down to 29 Metrolink trams to get for sight

YTD: 119
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09/03/15

66747

Metrolink M5000 trams:

3020
3023
3024
3025
3026

3032
3033
3034
3036
3037
3038

3049

3051

3068

3076

3081
3089

YTD: 137

 

[55013]

Three consecutive winning units for haulage also provided me with my last three 507s for sight:
507012, 507020 and 507032.

As I've seen scrapped 507022 (and 507004 in its original form), that means the 507 fleet has been completely cleared, which I'm happy about

 

[Techniquest]

Congratulations, how do you mean 507004 in its original form? I never saw 507022 sadly, so will never fully clear the class for sight, same sort of story with 142s and the two scrapped ones.

 

[87electric]

Info regards 507004/022

507022 was written off as a result of a serious collision with 507004
at Kirkdale TMD in 1991. Driving motor 64388 is now in 507004, as the
latter's was damaged beyond repair, and the other motor carriage,
renumbered, is in Glasgow-based 314203.

 

[Techniquest]

Thanks for the gen, never knew that. 022 was gone 12 years before I came to the hobby!