Huge RAIL-CRANE for the Trans-Pennine ELECTRIFICATION | Diggle Diaries: March 2023 Part 1
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- Diggle Diaries: An attempt to film all daylight running freight and interesting workings from Diggle Junction. Situated on the picturesque Trans-Pennine, Manchester to Huddersfield and Leeds route, Diggle Jn lies at the top of a steep incline leading into Standedge Tunnel. Providing beautiful scenery, varied freight and trains working hard up the hill, there aren’t many better places for a bit of trainspotting.
This month includes:
- Engineering trains for the transpenning upgrade
- 37401 at full power in the snow
- TPE Class 68's blast through the snow
- Colas 70's in details
- And much more...
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Dedicated to Alan Gaskell.
Thanks to Ben & Joel for the loco icons, check out the 2023 Train Database here:
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Great video!! I retired from Network Rail, early 2022, and my last job was managing the fleet of engineering wagons, OTMs and cranes - great to see them all still in action!!
Thanks for sharing👍🏻
Cheers Bob 👍 that must have been a very interesting but taxing job, keeping track of all those random wagons going here, there and everywhere! And congratulations on retirement, hope you’re enjoying yourself!
And yet, still, the 37 is the best sounding and best looking locomotive out the lot!
100% agree, can’t beat em!
Fantastic. Just for the 37 coming out of the tunnel. 👍👍👍👍👍
Honestly one of my favourite shots since starting the channel. Cheers Alex 👍
Grew up in Diggle village, in the 80s and 90s... these videos are like im 10 years old again! Back then of course, it was all 37s, 47s, 56s and 60s! engineers trains could turn up with 20s, 31s 33s and 37s on the front! pot luck! I can remember 2 gen1 DMUs setting on fire in the tunnel, and in fact 1 of them was lineside facing the loop for about 6 months! we had great fun as kids exploring it! there were no high fences then, just wire.. and you could stand on the Old Diggle station platforms to watch the trains. we knew all t he signallers, and they would tell us about the chance of special stuff, and odd ball operations.. I can remember them running the snow plough down once, to clear the line during a particularly bad winter, and lets not even get started on the steam specials.... and of course back then, no cameras or camera phones! I think the highlight for me was cab-riding a tamper from Diggle to Greenfield station (the only place they could put me off) I was 11 or 12 then, so it would have been 91 or 92! happy magical railway days I tell you..... great stuff, keep up the Vids! You have a new sub... :)
Thanks a lot mate, that was great to read. I’m glad the videos can bring you some nostalgia from what sounds like a very interesting time. Can’t imagine ever getting to cab anything nowadays! Amazing stuff.
@@DiggleJunction yea pal, it was great! I could tell you some tales... :D :D
Great work, loved the views in the snow and that 37 sounded great as for chasing a train through Standedge Tunnel that has to be a first!
Many Thanks mate, definitely worth trudging out in the snow for that 37 shot. I’d be very interested to know if anyone has managed that at Standedge, the possession has been shortened to Diggle after that one day so it’s no longer possible. Cheers.
Thanks for capturing such a variety of workings in all kinds of weather! I just love to hear 68s doing their stuff, they remind me of the times I saw the prototype Deltic hammering through Hatfield, Herts, that really sounded powerful.
It’s always my pleasure John but appreciate that. Lucky for me I only have to nip out and be in it for a few mins at a time haha. Love the 68’s, you’re right they have a powerful sound. My favourite ‘modern’ diesel.
The roar or 37401 exiting the tunnel is amazing
Big props to the DRS driver, I think he saw us up on the bridge and gave it some welly. Possibly my favourite shot since I started filming that.
Hi im tired so may not get it all love talk video n Scenery
I'm from the us but I love UK trains great video my favorite class is the 66 end the 37 laugh out loud you guys have more snow that we did have this winter
Cheers Jack, all those 66’s are produced over there in Cleveland, OH. You must have felt an affinity haha. Love the old 37’s, they sound great even when chugging along. The snow has been on and off this year, whereabouts in the States are you?
Hi, another good video with varied freight workings, you have a lot of enthusiasm to go out there in all weathers and times of the day, look forward to the next one.
Thanks a lot Graham, I’m fortunate to live so close. I’d be nipping out to spot everything anyway so glad I can fill it too for you guys!
What beautiful scenery, loved the winter ones
Great watch, thanks for the hard work.
My pleasure Stu, appreciate the comment, glad you enjoyed it!
Great video as always👍
Thanks a lot mate, much appreciate the support as always!
Another great video, thanks !
Thanks a lot! Thanks for the comment 👍🏻
As ever top video .👏👏👏 interesting to see in the loop the heat conductors in the points no snow on them .👍
Thanks pal, I hadn’t noticed that! Had to go back and check. These may be new after the other end froze last year.
Only recently subscribed to your channel and have caught up with this vid. Great vid, I was actually at the WVR steam gala that weekend, a challenging drive from the SW and you have captured the snowy weekend very well. And a good spot with crane, I am amazed at all the additional equipment that comes with the crane itself. Cheers, keep up the good work, Chris
Thanks a lot Chris, it’s much appreciated and glad to have you along 👍🏻 this was one of my favourite videos to date, the snows a pain to film in but the shots come out great. Don’t envy you driving all that way in it mind!
@@DiggleJunction Thanks for your reply. Yes an interesting drive but I am so glad I made it! I have just watched Don Coffey’s latest Driver’s Eye view on his TH-cam video; Piccadilly to York non stop passing through Diggle, a different perspective. Next one maybe under the wires?
'Nuther nice one. Thanks, stay warm.
Cheers Bill, all the best.
Snow shots Yeh never hadthis wr i live Tks Man
*Wow. Great video mate. Well done..*
Cheers mate, much appreciated 👍
A delightful rail-fanning location! (subscription added👍)
Thanks a lot John, fantastic to have you 👍
Great video as ever Luke 😊 I’m following the 60 railtour up next Saturday so I’ll see how close I get to donny and if I can I’ll come and keep u company for a bit 👍🏻
Im hoping to see that to at Wigan as there are no trains here, but i hope GBRf find a good working 60 as they always conk out
Cheers mate, yeah that would be great! I’ll be there from noon till noon, Friday/Saturday. Gutted I’ll be on the wrong mainline to catch that one.
What a treat this video is.Great scenery,all sorts of weather, good variety of traction.Shame the wires will spoil the view, but that's progress I reckon.Even liked the "Peaky Blinders" cap and shades! Very cool.10/10. Looking forward to part 2 already.CHEERS.
Cheers Paul, glad you enjoyed it!
Yes Paul, the wires WILL spoil the view. As with cars, the future is hydrogen created when there is spare electricity from green resources at night and on Sunday mornings. No cables to sag in hot weather and get ripped down by pantographs because there wouldn't be any cables and pylons. I spend my Winters in deepest Slovakia. (Electricity is only 9 pence per kilowatt). I'm here now. There is a lot of electrification here but the cables and pylons are much lighter and less obtrusive than in Britain. We travel on trains from time to time because it costs about 7 pence per mile. Pensioners travel free. The problem is that the only one that has been on time is on a single track branch line in the fairy-tale pretty Rimavica valley where the two carriage diesel train runs a shuttle service, the round trip every two hours. Mainline trains are up to 50 minutes late ..... still, you can stay at home and finish the washing up because the progress of each train is available on the internet. The problem with that is that during our 3 mile drive to our nearest station (just the same as hospitals here, parking is free at railway stations for days at a time if you want) the train may have lost another 10 minutes. In Bratislava, there is the classic platforms with pedestrian underpass but everywhere else I have been, you walk across the tracks to the appropriate platform. Platforms are about 4 feet wide and only inches above the track requiring mountaineering equipment to get up into the carriages. The carriages are built like brick shit-houses and are very comfortable, arm rests, fold out tables, mirrors so that ladies can adjust their hair just before their destination. You can book a seat if you want ...... can be advisable at busy times out of Bratislava but most people don't. There is no casino charging here. Booked or walk-on, everyone pays the same just as in the golden days of British Rail ....... in the 1970s, King's Langley or Watford to and from Euston, cheap day-return 25 pence. I used it frequently. Today ..... I hate to think ! I haven't travelled on trains in Britain for years and years through fear that the bastard sitting next to me may have paid less than me for the same journey. Všetko najlepšie.
I saw 37401 at Doncaster (Wabtec) on the 1/3. Anyway what a great assortment of trains, thanks very much indeed.
She’s a beauty eh John. Thanks for the support, glad you enjoyed it!
Bit tongue in cheek this, but have you ever seen a clean Colas rail locomotive in the course of your filming, excellent as always keep up the good work
Haha I haven’t and I was just saying that to a mate the other day. Cheers Allan 👍
Good action there at Donny but have to say that the best action is at your end! Hope your ok today, enjoyed cheers Nick.
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Thanks a lot Nick! I’m hoping that even if it’s a quiet day at Donny, I’ll be there so long there should be plenty of clips by the end of it haha.
Cracking video! Nice to see some shots in Marsden, might bump into you in Donny this Friday too.
Nice one Dylan, I keep saying I need to get over to the other side of the tunnel more, some great shots over there. I’ll no doubt have my cap on so if you see me make sure to come say hi haha 👍🏻
Theres a fair sized hole somewhere for that amount of Ballast and Spoil wagons.
Cracking bit of Tractor Thrash . 👍👍😎😎
Haha yeah and it’s been going on for days! Cheers Ian 👍🏻
Great bit of filming If that was the UK, it would have been cordoned off in double quick time!!
Think I might be in the one bit of Britain without giant fences along the railway haha.
Bloody enjoyed this video ,maybe a trip to a area where they are erecting the masts and pile driving the supports ?
I’ll definitely be getting down to Stalybridge before they’re finished to try and get some footage. Difficult to get a good view over there but I’ll see what I can do! Thanks a lot mate, glad you enjoyed it.
I'm sure |I've seen that crane rig and associated trucks working on The Blyth and Tyne in Northumberland recently. It was being used to lift and remove sections of track for complete replacement.
You could be bang on, it did come down from Tyne Yard 👍
Mary did sound good, here's me sounding old again back in the day one of my favourite stamping grounds was Clay Cross Junction and every week day the Lackenby to Corby tubeliner would come through with two Thornaby 37/5s slogging their guts out crossing from the slow lines to the main Derby line, plus there was quite a lot of Peak district stone trains with Buxton 37/5's heading towards the West Midlands slogging just as hard. Back in either 2004 or 5 northern trains ran 37/4's tnt on a Saturday Leeds-Carlisle so I dragged my missus and my 7 and 4 year old out for a trip to Carlisle. They couldn't understand what was so special about that train but the kids was happy when they saw bright orange sheep in Cumbria
Wow I can only imagine how they sounded. If that didn’t convert the little-uns then nothing would haha. Thanks for the comment Stephen.
"bright orange sheep in Cumbria"
Yay, Sellafield! 😉🤣
Rail Crane wow Gt
Cheers for the comments, glad you enjoyed the vid!
Have you seen we have a 68 and MKV set as a stopper now , I’m in Marsden and it stops here about 18.00 but ask calls at Greenfield :)
I have mate yeah, I think they started doing it with the timetable change, there’s an early morning stopper too around half 7. Need to get on it one of these days!
Another great mix, and look forward to webcam sound…get up that ladder😂
Love the slow running and 66 start up!👍👍
Haha cheers Andy, cam is finally up! Pity the line is closed so there’s nothing to really see at the mo.
You gotta find out where that beast crane is going and film it in action. That would be stellar!
It left this morning heading over to Doncaster...in the same train as TWO others! I didn't manage to get out to film it but caught it and recorded it from the cam so you should see it in the next ep!
Just suscribed to your site and very much enjoyed. All well captured and narrated thanks!. That crane must have a SWL of something like 200tons !!
@@spuds4t Thanks a lot Henry, very much appreciate it. Yeah you must be right, it was one hell of a bit of kit.
Fantastic video! Still not a clue how they’re going to get the overheads wires through standedge…
The drone shots were excellent aswell!
Thanks a lot mate. I presume from what others have said they’re going to hang them directly from the roof rather than with catenary but it’s still gonna be ultra close.
Ahh that makes more sense, the pantographs will practically be flat lol it’s looking like 66 haven
It may be done like Severn tunnel with metal strips conducting the electrics
The pantograph easily follows the catenary wires as they drop lower, Being sprung 'up to tension' to meet the catenary is the norm for a pantograph.
Of course, the biggest mistake that has been made is not electrifying the route with a Live Third Rail rather than 25kV Overhead. Overhead is far costlier and requires expensive structural alterations. All Third Rail requires is additional sub-stations for the DC power supply.
Third Rail is more environmentally attractive than ugly masts and wires.....
There would be a phenomenal saving if Third Rail were installed, freeing up more money for other works elsewhere, and of course, eco-diesel is more environmentally friendly and cheaper than electrification.
James Hennighan
Yorkshire, England
they have to lower the tunnel floor, approx £450m last time i looked. OLE will be rigid OCS.
Great video ... good to hear the knitting is going up in more places, some of those bridges are going to need to get raised I imagine. When is the line expected to be electrified ? and this is going to join up to York from Manchester in effect ?
the civils for the OLE will cost 10 times more than the OLE itself, dozens of bridges to be replaced or raised and yes, will connect ECML with WCML in effect. Completion some time the end of this decade.
@@barcooter8248 just hope you end up with OLE more in keeping with the WCML and ECML rather than the ugly structures of the GWML
Cheers mate! Effectively yeah it will do eventually, they’re kind of going from each end inward so this area will be the last to go up. Estimate timings keep getting pushed further and further back - probably because of most units here being DMU or bimodes, they won’t need it all the way.
Great video, thank you, I’ve subscribed. Re GWR overhead lines, the huge gantries erected around where I live in Yate, South Glos have ruined pretty much all the overhead views, mores the pity. I don’t know why they used such over-engineered structures, you could moor a battleship to them.
Haha yeah fingers crossed for a lighter touch up along here. I’m glad I’ve managed to at least get a good few months of filming without them. Hopefully it takes them a good while to make it up here.
@@DiggleJunction it will be UKMS range so slightly easier on the eye than the Series 1 used on GWML but only just. Special measures are being taken on Hudds viaduct due to it being listed.
Thanks for sharing with us. But sad that so many lines are being electrified, destroying the look of the beautiful countryside.
Thanks mate, I agree it will be a shame, hopefully it’s at least done sympathetically rather than the huge mainline catenary.
Excellent; really well filmed and I appreciated the opening explanation of events. Good luck with future projects.
Thanks a lot for that mate.
Are you going to do Peterborough
Peterborough is definitely on my list, I’d like to see some of the south end of the ECML and get some of the capital traffic.
Hi Luke, thanks again. Just one observation: at 24.18 I see a class 66 waiting for the tunnel, however, as I see it the signal there is out. Am I right here?
I think the camera just hasn’t picked it up but it looks red. They have been running reds through the possession from what I’ve seen but can’t remember if this one did. Thanks for watching mate.
Whenever I've passed through the area at ungodly hours of the morning, biofuel trains are standing or running to restrictions on that stretch. Do you know when Diggle Junction box was switched out? Presumably it hadn't been a junction for many years and simply ran the block. On the topic, surely Diggle would benefit from a station given commuting numbers into Manc?
Thanks for the comment mate. You’re right on the drax trains, they’re usually running so slow simply due to the hill. Diggle box is still 24 hours manned but like you say it nowadays only controls the blocks, crossover and loop this side of the tunnel. With the upgrade I fear it’s time may be running out. Diggle had a station right at the tunnel mouth up until the 60’s when it was closed, local groups are trying to drum up support but the line from those in power is that Greenfield is sufficiently close to not warrant it. Would be very handy for me ha.
@@DiggleJunction Cheers for that, I assumed Diggle Junction box was dead for some reason.
@@borderlands6606 To be fair at the rate they're closing/have closed, you were probably right to assume.
Interesting video as always. I wonder if the shot from the bridge will be a pain once the wires go up, WCML seems to be okay, GWML on the other hand, the wires ruins the shot.
Cheers Paul, I’m worried about that in all honesty. Just hoping it’s not full catenary. I’ll have to expand my line side locations if it’s bad.
@@DiggleJunction You're welcome. That's partly the reason I don't go to places like Cholsey on the GWML. The bridge shot is just not good. Whereas a lot of the bridges on the WCML I find are better for getting shots as the catenary isn't as busy.
@@HSTPaul yeah I know what you mean. The bridges down from Acton Bridge on the West Coast aren’t too bad because it’s so open and straight.
@@DiggleJunction Yeah they're quite good
I still can't get used to an express passenger running as a class 9, it was always a Local Traffic Engine/Mineral man to me
Still strange to me too, growing up they were reserved for Eurostars when I was a kid.
@@DiggleJunction Now I am feeling old!
that crane could be the same that was on acarlisle ny to tyne yard on les gilpen on you tube his latest video take a look at it as trains are terminating at carlisle cos of carstairs remodeling
I saw this on Les’ video. It is the same crane (DRK 81613), it must have come down through Carlisle to Tyne yard before it came down here.
i read online diggle signal box was to be closed is it true
Sadly I believe so mate but don’t have a definite timeframe. Still trying to get in there to film before it closes!
A similar crane can be seen in action on th-cam.com/video/P3I82E6VoCQ/w-d-xo.html (in Dutch). It shows the works for making Heerlen - Landgraaf (junction station) double track. (That is in the deep South of the Netherlands, near the German border.)
Thanks for that Chris, I didn't understand the commentary but was a very interesting watch nonetheless. That crane looks very similar indeed, I do love European railways!
@@DiggleJunction You're welcome! :-)
I'll elaborate a bit for you:
Heerlen is where the Intercity trains of NS (the main Dutch passenger train operator) terminate if they don't terminate at Maastricht, capital of the province of Limburg (the Dutch province of Limburg; the Belgian province of Limburg borders it to the West). All other trains (and bus services) in Limburg are run by Arriva, a British subsidiary of German operator DB.
From Heerlen to Landgraaf, the Arriva service between Sittard and Kerkrade crosses its service between Aachen (D) and Maastricht, to be extended at last to Liège (B). Having that section made double-track (actually twice single-track, I think), there'll be room for more trains between Aachen and Heerlen.
From December 2023 on, there'll be these semi-fast trains joining three countries, three languages, three catenary voltages, three safety systems.
There's a 2021 cab view from Heerlen to Aachen and back with comments spoken in Dutch: th-cam.com/video/bdLpec9UNWk/w-d-xo.html. I seem to remember, that outside footage is included to show lowering one pantograph and raising the other on the fly (alongside the small yard at Eygelshoven). The EMUs used are of type Flirt by Stadler.
If you should be fascinated by such changes, have a look at the "locomotive ballet" with comments spoken in German: th-cam.com/video/QocfvOlBdPQ/w-d-xo.html. It is about changing single-voltage locomotives hauling the Intercity trains between Amsterdam (NL) and Berlin (D) at the German border town of Bad Bentheim. The catenary voltage can be switched between German 15kV~ and Dutch 1.5kV=. - In December 2023 multi-voltage locos will take over. I'd assume the station to be adapted soon afterwards. (Even the multi-voltage freight train locos must currently halt here due to the catenary switching.)
The yellow locos are Dutch, the red ones German.
@@chrislaarman7532 Thanks for this mate, a very interesting read! I'd have liked to have seen the "ballet".
manchester leeds being electrified for the second time
And this time it just had to be my side! Hopefully it at least Leeds to more variety.
Does anybody know what the completion date will be
Should be all done and dusted on April 5th 👍
@@DiggleJunction cheers
Great video! Used to see the old breakdown cranes occasionally but they are long consigned to the history books.
Coming up soon on my channel is some video taken at Marsden station, the signal box was still there and 158's were the new thing in express livery.
youtube.com/@Sowerbylads
Thanks a lot mate, I’ve just subbed to your channel I look forward to that. Really enjoy old footage from the local area.
@@DiggleJunction do you remember the rats or class 25?
Final loco on the mainline was Holbecks training loco, Tamworth Castle which has been preserved.
Filmed at Giggleswick, Marsden, Hellifield and Sowerby Bridge on its final tours.
Withdrawn finally after last tour 30th March 1991.
@@Sowerbylads Sadly not mate, I wasn't born until '90 so they're a bit before my time. In all honesty I don't remember a time before units on this line or the Calder (I was born in Littleborough). I was lucky enough to see the 24, 25 & 26 at least years East Lancs Autumn diesel gala though which was great!
@@Sowerbylads Sadly they were a bit before my time, I wasn't born until '90. To be honest I don't remember a time before units were on this line or the Calder (I was born in Littleborough). Managed to see the 24, 25 & 26 at least years East Lancs Autumn diesel gala though which was fantastic!
@@DiggleJunction some treats to come then! Hope you enjoy the material.
do you live in diggle
Sure do Edwin 👍🏻
I'm sorry. I've ran out of accolades 😅.
Haha many thanks Ken, very much appreciate the support as always.
why so short trains what no power to pull more wagons??
They’re usually limited by our signalling sections but the hills around Diggle often means anything really long wouldn’t make it up the inclines.
Cracking footage the one engine looked like maintenance what's its purpose??..sorry trying to get back into railways been away a long time not jail mind it's just I have enough saved by to have myself build a cracking layout and I've got addicted again??..just subbed..genuine question what was that that was on the end of the freight train that stopped at station looked like some kind of crane??..ffs I've been away too long??..brilliant footage thanks alot!!!..xo you also cover other than freight passenger lines???
Thanks a lot mate, glad to hear your getting back into it! The single loco was apparently doing snowplough tests but it looks to me like it was checking the line because of the weather. You’re bang on with the crane, it was being used down the line for completely remodelling the track and raising electrification catenary 👍🏻
Great clips, great scenery......keep it up.....cheers....Mal, Perth, Australia 🇦🇺