Great catches, Leslie! I am curious about the Structure Gauging train early on. Nice mix of some clean freight cars, too! Sad about the 325. Take care!
Aye, sore to see the 325's being pulled from Royal Mail duties. The train with the replacement rail sections looks promising for somewhere! Was the Trans-Pennine maybe on a Route-Learning run? A great turn-out of traffic and thanks for catching it Leslie. All the best, sir. Cheers!
A Last farewell for the mail train, now Royal Snail will have plenty of excuses for late deliveries. It beggars belief that the dmu to Barrow was allowed to run so low on fuel, and i thought BR was bad in the early 70's !
Even at that, locos and units used to be fuelled once a day, minimum, basically every time they returned to a depot/fuel point. Have working practices slipped that much? I never heard of anything running that low on fuel in my footplate days.
@@marshallman7608 Neither have i, BR was not in great shape when i joined after leaving school but it at least had the sense to keep the fuel tanks topped up.
@@BarbaraPape-y4g coast line units are fuelled at Heaton so get swapped onto the Tyne valley service as necessary to work there and get replaced with something from Heaton
Let's hope Varamis competes for this traffic and wins it vs. road.
@@mikeuk4130 would be good
Great catches, Leslie! I am curious about the Structure Gauging train early on. Nice mix of some clean freight cars, too! Sad about the 325. Take care!
@@ModelTrainOutsider they use some sort of radar to check nothing is coming within the loading gauge - an arch starting to fall, trees too close etc
nice video Les some great footage there as usual young man some excellent zooming as well super Les thanks for sharing take care a t b Syd👍
It was good to see such a pristine rake of wagons around the 5 minute mark.
@@johnmay2786 thanks
Another fantastic video les nice one
@@JordanHunter-98 thanks
There was a pair of 325s again today in Carlisle albeit hauled by a 66
@@TRAlNVlDEOS shame I missed it, but there again the steam I've been seeing far outclassed that!
Aye, sore to see the 325's being pulled from Royal Mail duties. The train with the replacement rail sections looks promising for somewhere! Was the Trans-Pennine maybe on a Route-Learning run? A great turn-out of traffic and thanks for catching it Leslie. All the best, sir. Cheers!
@@Flymochairman1 turned out the TPE working was to test newly installed wires
Lovely mix as always Les, i wonder if those 325's might end up with varamis?
@@jameseldershaw7194 thanks that's my thought
A Last farewell for the mail train, now Royal Snail will have plenty of excuses for late deliveries.
It beggars belief that the dmu to Barrow was allowed to run so low on fuel, and i thought BR was
bad in the early 70's !
@@BarbaraPape-y4g someone at Workington must have assumed that services were only running south to Sllafield still.
Even at that, locos and units used to be fuelled once a day, minimum, basically every time they returned to a depot/fuel point. Have working practices slipped that much?
I never heard of anything running that low on fuel in my footplate days.
@@marshallman7608 Neither have i, BR was not in great shape when i joined after leaving school
but it at least had the sense to keep the fuel tanks topped up.
Sellafield?
@@BarbaraPape-y4g coast line units are fuelled at Heaton so get swapped onto the Tyne valley service as necessary to work there and get replaced with something from Heaton
Took a 143 from Carlisle to Newcastle in 2005, what a terrible puddle- jumper they were!
No doubt - they weren't good riders on jointed rail, especially has that line also has tight curves
Les 7 15 tonight on channel 4 don't miss
@@rodgertaylor2387 I'll have to catch-up later next week
@@LeslieGilpinRailways okay les 👍
Avanti really are a mess
@@melissasmith5109 true