A Carnforth bound heritage train was derailed today in Salford causing major road and rail disruption.
2 locos, one at the front and one at the back of a 5 coach train, were involved. The front Class 47 derailed and cought fire.

http://www.itv.com/news/granada/upda...centre-bridge/

http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co....in_Manchester/

 

Hope the loco is OK. No-one injured apparently.

 

The story on National Preservation is punctured fuel tank combined with 5 decades of built up grease & crud on the bogie. General concensus is it will be towed to Carnforth for parts recovery then one way trip to Booths

 

Another duff gone then.

 

I am a closet railway enthusiast, but only steam.... I just can't summon up any interest whatsoever in diesels or diesel electrics... I saw that yesterday and while it's sad it would be ten times worse if it was a steam locomotive in my opinion.

 

Another for Booths cutting torches!!
i used to live not far from Booths and knew the guy in charge of the guys with cutting equipment
The ammount of tractors,goils, duffs and eggtimers etc that were disposed of in hrs was frightning!!
Made many a saturday morning there to see a 47 or 37 reduced to a bin of ferous/non ferrous scrap

 

Another of Loughborough's finest bites the dust

 

I beg to differ. Locomotives from that era of railway development represent the last bastion of our magnificent engineering heritage, before successive decades of political interference left nothing but devastation, and call centres

Companies like Brush, English Electric, BRC&W and others, managed to develop and build, from a knowledge base of almost nothing, powerful, solid, & reliable locomotives that were still the backbone of the UKs railway system over 5 decades after they were first introduced

Whilst I understand why they will never find a place in your affections, they (and their designers and builders) are fully deserving of your respect

 

so,
a 37 = tractor ??
a 50 = hoover ??

so, what are the others, please (for us closet lightweights).


PS - nothing wrong with either steam or diesel.

 

Happy Aus Day Velohead

Those that I can remember, and I wont bore you with trhe obvious 55 and 33

56 - Grids
20 - Chopper / Wheelchairs
40 - Whistlers
31/0 - Skinheads / Toffee Apples (probably the best nicknames)
08 - Gronk / Billys (Billy Bunter)
58 - Bone
HST - Flying Banana

 

also

31 - goil
33 - crompton
45 - peak
47 - duff
50 - hoover
58 - eggtimer !

I was involved traveling on trains for about nearly 20 yrs ,best years of my youth traveling on the overnights or week passes traveling around in Scotland there isnt many rail lines in England i havent been on from Wick/Thurso to Penzance, Holyhead to Norwich and all inbetween !!

 

I'm of an age to (just) remember double headed-hoovers thundering over Shap to Carlisle

I still mourn the days of 87s and Mk3s, on the WCML, the Pendolinos aren't a patch on them for ride or comfort

MrsD and I went to Carlisle a couple of years ago behind 6233 (in her black year) in one of Smithy's Mk1 pullmans, talk about travelling in style

 

Yeah those were the days,i have done a few double headed excursions in my time

double headed choppers sheffield to skegness summer saturday madness!!
double headed hoovers penzance to paddington
double headed deltics leeds to carlise via ribblehead

and the old "push pull" one at each end duffs from Glasgow to Edinburgh

to name but a few !!

 

Latest news on National Preservation is that Network Rail, whilst not admitting liability, have installed a check rail on the offending curve, and put up a notice acknowledging that the tyres on 47500 had just been freshly turned to NR specifications

 

That is just unbelievable.
They must be turning an awful lot of metal from the wheels.
A prime example of minimum spec for wheels meets maximum spec for gauge of track.

 

One less Duff

 

Bit of a Dreamliner on the quiet then!

Les