Phill Dyson
Western Thunderer
Taken about 20 mins ago, the Scarborough Spa Express.........
Phill
Phill
From The Bottom Of The Garden (45305)
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lancer1027
Western Thunderer
Great pic mate, looks almost as nice weather as when me & swmbo came past yours on the way back from Glasgee.
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Although you were'nt at the bottom of the garden taking a pic of our train
.Although you were'nt at the bottom of the garden taking a pic of our train
Rob Pulham
Western Thunderer
My current job of work is fitting out the IT in Wakefield Council's new office building. Which by good fortune overlooks Westgate Station so I have managed to catch site of the Scarborough Spa express each day since it started this season. Sadly I will probably only be there for another two or three weks than it's back to dismal Pontefract
Phill Dyson
Western Thunderer
You will have seen Scots Guardsman last week then Rob
Rob Pulham
Western Thunderer
Yes, it was on the week before too, the first thing I did when I got home was to price up the JLRT and David Andrews Kits to build one
Dog Star
Western Thunderer
...., the first thing I did when I got home was to price up the JLRT and David Andrews Kits to build one
Ouch! That is the price of doing everything in duplicate.
Rob Pulham
Western Thunderer
Hi Graham, I didn't plan to build two - just trying to work out which was affordable= neither at the moment
Phill Dyson
Western Thunderer
I would cross a few more off that 'Currently Building' list below your posts first..........what a pity I don't listen to my own advice
Phill Dyson
Western Thunderer
46115 Scots Guardsman tonight ...........
not much steam in evidence though!
I got bored while I was waiting, so I took these as well
I won't bore you any further
........well not tonight anyway
Phill
...........not much steam in evidence though!
I got bored while I was waiting, so I took these as well
I won't bore you any further
........well not tonight anyway Phill
Rob Pulham
Western Thunderer
Funny you should say that there wasn't much this morning either.
mickoo
Western Thunderer
As you wish
That's about as close as you'll ever see a 66 in BR blue with yellow ends, TOC called Advenza, came and went very quickly as far as I recall.
Kindest
40126
Western Thunderer
As you wish
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That's about as close as you'll ever see a 66 in BR blue with yellow ends, TOC called Advenza, came and went very quickly as far as I recall
Kindest
Where was the pic taken
Cheers
Steve
mickoo
Western Thunderer
Port of Felixstowe, no idea what it was doing here as Advenza have never had a intermodal contract with us, These 5 locos came from the DRS fleet in summer 2009 but the Advenza TOC wound up in October 2009, this photo was taken in Jan 2010 so I presume it had been taken back into DRS fleet ownership but not repainted, however as far as I can recall DRS have never had an intermodal service here either.
What throws all that into chaos is that the loco is on track 7 with GBRf wagons and the date stamp is 10:17, now that time and location is the morning storage for GBRfs 4M23 10:45 service from FLXN Mondays excepted (FLXS on a Monday) and 27th Jan 2010 is a Weds. so that all fits.
66 844 was leased to Colas who repainted it in their colors and has since been released by them to GBRf where it was renumbered to 745, ironically one of two GBRf locos I need to complete that fleet photographically at Felixstowe.
So a final summation is that the loco is still numbered 844 from Advenza days, bought by GBRf who then promptly leased it to Colas who after a couple of years sent it back to GBRf who now renumbered it 745, the photo being taken in the weeks when GBRf took it from Advenza and before leasing to Colas.
To make matters worse there was another big shuffle around last year, see all class 66 are not equal, there being long range and short range tanks, differing emissions standards and heavy haul gearing (restrained within Freightliner), so mid last year the TOCs got around the table and agreed to swap locos to suit their changing business needs, those needing short range tanks released their long range locos to those needing them and vice versa with short range tanks, the shuffle wasn't restricted to one or two TOCs, it was all of them, DRS being the biggest loser who's fleet was cut back to meet their needs, overall loosing 20 (not all in last years swap around, some went a few years before when Advenza started up) but gaining 5 from Fastline, Fastline went bust, Colas gave back their GBRf locos and then took another 5 from Freightliner, Freightliner gave 5 to GBRf and then took 10 from DRS.
In short,
DRS-15,
Freightliner swapped 10
Colas swapped 10
GBRF +15
EWS was the only TOC who did not feel the need to enter the fray, their 250 locos are all the same design (negating those modified to work in France when required) and they are happy as such.
There...sorry what was the original question?, ohh yeah, it was taken at Felixstowe North terminal LOL.
Kindest
Phill Dyson
Western Thunderer
Black 5 again so far this week
