Happened across a West Coast class 47 hauling dining coaches around the sidings at Joppa today, sadly no sign of steam at either end.
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"Forth/Fife Circle Steam Specials" (etc)
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Posted 3 years ago #
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Coming back from Ayr late Wednesday night stopped at Kirknewton level crossing, though I will give it the original title East Calder Halt. for a steam train towing one maroon carriage only
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a steam train towing one maroon carriage only
That would be its support coach. Modern railways aren't exactly geared up for steam trains so they take their own support staff, equipment and workshop along with them.
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Would it travel without a diesel 'in tow' in case of problems? Or do they only do that as an assist when hauling a train?
That said, the old WCR diesels look more likely to break down than the steamers.
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Tornado is of course a lot newer than the diesels and is even allowed to haul full trains without one.
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Tornado has run at 100mph on the mainline network, as part of testing towards certification for 90mph timetabled running. (There was a lot of fuss made about the 100mph run at the time but I've not found confirmation that it is certified for 90mph running yet.)
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Today
Bypassing (central) Edinburgh
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U13561/2021-08-15/detailed
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Tornado 'dropped' a motion link (?) and was subject to some scrutiny a while back - @arellcat might be more up to speed, but I do know the chief engineer from my University days, and a few of the support team so if detail, not immediately to hand ....
DB Schenker provide the shed link with dual-trained drivers, who are signed for almost all routes in an area
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We have The Great Britain XIV rail tour over the next few days, so lots of photographical opportunities. Not often we get a Merchant Navy class loco up here, but 35018 is bringing the tour to Edinburgh Waverley on Friday evening (having rendezvoused with 6233 Duchess of Sutherland that brought passengers up from London to York):
22/04/22 York to Edinburgh Waverley, then Joppa
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U91177/2022-04-22/detailed
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U91179/2022-04-22/detailedAt the same time, 46115 Scots Guardsman comes up the WCML with empty coaching stock:
22/04/22 Carnforth to Joppa, via Curriehill and South Sub
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U91182/2022-04-22/detailedFor Saturday and Sunday 46115 takes over:
23/04/22 Joppa to Edinburgh
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U91181/2022-04-23/detailed23/04/22 Edinburgh to Inverness via Cowdenbeath and Glenrothes
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U91182/2022-04-23/detailedOn Sunday the tour is Inverness to Stirling.
On Monday, 35018 heads north very early:
25/04/22 Joppa to Stirling, via South Sub, Kirkcaldy, Dunfermline and Alloa
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U91189/2022-04-25/detailed46115 then takes over for two trips from Stirling:
25/04/22 Stirling to Edinburgh, via Coatbridge, Carstairs and the South Sub
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U91213/2022-04-25/detailed25/04/22 Edinburgh to Stirling via Fife Circle (Kirkcaldy, Glenrothes, Cowdenbeath, Dunfermline, and Alloa
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U91214/2022-04-25/detailedAt teatime on Monday 46115 heads back to Joppa:
25/04/22 Stirling to Joppa, via Linlithgow and South Sub
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U91215/2022-04-25/detailedOn Tuesday, 46115 heads back up to Stirling very early in the morning with empty coaching stock:
26/04/22 Joppa/Edinburgh to Stirling
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U91254/2022-04-26/detailed35018 takes the tour south to Carlisle:
26/04/22 Stirling to Carlisle via Carstairs
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U91217/2022-04-26/detailedand 46115 goes south light engine, back to Carnforth on the WCML:
26/04/22 Stirling to Carnforth
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U91222/2022-04-26/detailedPosted 2 years ago # -
Much appreciated - thanks!
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Scots Guardsman was sitting under the bridge at Joppa having turned up early. Bit of a shame as couldn't really see it.
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British India Line (Twitter)
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in my FB 'memories' from this weekend in 2012 are both pics of my kids at POP and watching steam trains.
alongside this discourse:
"mummy's going to take you on a bike to see a steam train"
toddler "bike yay"
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I went to Drem for it:
and then nipped along to Longniddry for the action:
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He quickly jumped on his bike, and managed to intercept it at a bridge as it passed through the town.
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Headed out rather early today to watch 46115 Scots Guardsman
tacklingmaking short work of Beattock Bank:Posted 2 years ago # -
Overcooking that boiler at Drem, & blowing off steam at that rate..... Coal is expensive you know
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“Overcooking that boiler at Drem“
I think that’s the fireman’s responsibility, but as the driver got the train there 12 minutes early, there was obviously some emphasis on performance rather than economy!
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The Merchant Navy class have very good boilers.
There were quite a few people watching at Drem, and I did wonder if the pressure valve display wasn't entirely unintentional. But coal is not just expensive but rather harder to come by now. It's the main story in this month's The Railway Magazine.
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Briquettes made by compressing sawdust waste from furniture factories and sawmills at high presssure would be a good and cheap and perhaps more eco friendly substitute
I run my solid fuel Rayburn on them Instead of coal
Two tons a year for about £280 a ton
If well compressed they have long lasting embers and zero moisture content so a very good heat output and low ash and do not wreck boilers / chimneys with hot corrosive sulphuric acid like coal produces
Seem to remember reading some of the steam yachts on Windermere are using them instead of coal successfullyPosted 2 years ago # -
Are your briquettes similar to the Hotmax fuel logs? I use those in my woodburner in tandem with seasoned bits of trees.
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Custom Presto logs? They come in green, yellow and red versions, the red will get a train up above 88mph.
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How very 19th Century.
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@arellcat. No , i get mine from a guy in Helensburgh- Biohot
They are rectangular and much more tightly compressed - no loose sawdust at all
They burn much longer than the hotmax ones
I get them as a full pallet load and they work out much cheaper
Only downside from a green perspective is they come into Grangemouth by sea from Lithuania - and you need a dry shed to store them in as they are so dry they will suck in any ambient moisture and deteriorate
The guy who imports them tells me no one in the uk seems to have a powerful enough press to make them like these ones - I have had terrible uk ones that expand alarmingly and immediately turn back to sawdustPosted 2 years ago # -
Don’t think it will be crossing the Forth, but Flying Scotsman is on a ‘secret’ mission to Edinburgh.
Posted 1 year ago # -
Do you have a source/link on RTT?
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All a bit mysterious
Arrived at Joppa Straight yesterday
https://twitter.com/1701astarship/status/1628490159460155392
Was there this morning
No apparent RTT info
No idea if ‘leaves Waverley 12:52’ (info below tweet above) is accurate
Posted 1 year ago # -
24th February 2023 marks 100 years since the Flying Scotsman entered service so I suspect they've got something planned for tomorrow.
The Flying Scotsman is "officially" at the East Lancashire Railway at the moment where from this very interesting train ran to Edinburgh yesterday:
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U66023/2023-02-22/detailedPosted 1 year ago # -
Came in through Currie
Sorry to miss that.
Simon Armitage has written a poem about it
Posted 1 year ago # -
Going back again today
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U66025/2023-02-24/detailed
Waverley for 3 hours
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U66024/2023-02-24/detailed
Posted 1 year ago #
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