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3 37s just passed with 3 empty flasks

 

[the_mikey]

 

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[QUOTE 3138271, member: 45"]How do you know they were empty?[/QUOTE]
They were going away from Sellafield.

 

[Spartak]

A couple of diesels seen at Avon Valley Railway, Biton this morning. 31130 & 07010.

 

[Smurfy]

3 37s just passed with 3 empty flasks

Triple header? Presumably the rail operators are extremely averse to having nuclear flasks stranded in public view with a dead loco, so even a double header is considered insufficient level of redundancy to guard against failure.

 

[Smurfy]

When dark blue ruled!
http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/gallery/image/12393-adb-977125-977123-leeds-06-04-1988/

 

[classic33]

When dark blue ruled!
http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/gallery/image/12393-adb-977125-977123-leeds-06-04-1988/

Taken from the old platform 9

 

[Smurfy]

Taken from the old platform 9

Did the platforms get renumbered? I see there's no 25kV overhead, it must have been full of diesels in those days!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

When dark blue ruled!
http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/gallery/image/12393-adb-977125-977123-leeds-06-04-1988/

The official name (except for 'BR Blue') was in fact Monastral Blue.

The problem is that every depot/works did things slightly differently as regards to undercoats, etc, so sometimes, its was very blue, but at other times it was slightly greenish blue, sometimes it was dark, sometimes it was light, so, in fact, there was no one comprehensive version of the blue.

 

[classic33]

Did the platforms get renumbered? I see there's no 25kV overhead, it must have been full of diesels in those days!

New platforms built either side of the existing ones.
Newer local electric services depart from "new" Platforms 1-4. Platform 6 is now Platform 9. Extra platorms built on the far side of the station. Still waiting on the new entrance being built on that side though.

 

[classic33]

Central platforms were the long distance service platforms. Mainly due to their length.
The outer platforms were more for shorter & local services.
Its less than 15 years since they finished building the new platforms.

 

[User16390]

My misspent youth was catching the train to Nottingham from Leicester in the summer, having a few pints in the Trip to Jerusalem and bashing the class 20's returning on the skegness train back to Leicester. If a rare one was hauling the train you would see bashers appear from all over the country.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gWvm_oGHB8


I also spent my time chasing the last of the Deltic's. Wonderful machines.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdQ1_fhBmak

 

[mcshroom]

Triple header? Presumably the rail operators are extremely averse to having nuclear flasks stranded in public view with a dead loco, so even a double header is considered insufficient level of redundancy to guard against failure.

Triple headers are unusual, but for safety reasons they don't want the train stopped anywhere, so the DRS services in and out of Sellafield always have two engines on them. I'd assume that the third was either being relocated, or the three flasks (with a dead loco) would be too heavy to pull by the one remaining loco.

A couple months back I watched a train pulling into the Sellafield sidings on my way back from a bike ride. From the North bound line they have to do a sort of zig-zag where they pull up to the National Rail station, then reverse down the South line a bit, pull forward and over onto a third line (siding), reverse back on this line and then finally forward through the site gates, manned by armed police. Quite an operation really

 

[fossyant]

For you 'enthusiasts', we were chuffed along with these two a couple of weeks back...

 

[fossyant]

It was the diesel from Victoria (Manchester) to Carnforth, there we were hooked up with the Steam engine (the one used in Harry Potter and carrying the side plates from the film). Then we set off for York. Got stopped short of Leeds, due to the high temperatures, and risks of fires from a steam engine. Rolled into Leeds, where the diesel then had to pull us backwards into York as Steam was banned. We were an hour late, so did a very fast Train Museum visit, then went to get food. Jumped back on train, but it was the diesel all the way back. Steam had now been prohibited in the area. Must say the old diesel was a quick and smooth beastie.

It was a tough journey as it was so hot - literally cooked in the carriages. If we do it again, we will pick a shorter day out, not 14 hours !!