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antnee wrote:Hello I hope this is the right section for this post, also that no one has bought this subject up before ( I have searched)

Reading an item in a well known steam mag, we are promised two consuls (8F's) here in the UK by Christmas, due to be docked at Portbury this month.
One to go up to the G&W railway and the other to be sold on the someone else? Apparently these locos have been away since 1942/43.
Does anyone here have any idea when the ship docks? Though this may have already happened? Meanwhile I will take this chance to thank all for a most interesting website. Regards to all Antnee

Hi antnee. I just noticed this :-

http://railways.national-preservation.c ... H-DELIGHTS

That site has told me more than perhaps I ever want to know about them !
But good to know that it will be not long now before they are back here.
Cheers all Antnee

antnee wrote:That site has told me more than perhaps I ever want to know about them !
But good to know that it will be not long now before they are back here.
Cheers all Antnee

I have it on good authority that the 8F's are due in to Portbury either Christmas Day or Boxing Day.

Sodbury Box wrote:

antnee wrote:That site has told me more than perhaps I ever want to know about them !
But good to know that it will be not long now before they are back here.
Cheers all Antnee

I have it on good authority that the 8F's are due in to Portbury either Christmas Day or Boxing Day.

Oh, to be living back home in Bristol...

Shipping manifest has Grande Scandanavia carring the loco's due in Brissy on 20th December.
Kelvin

Hello all yes well its going to be getting way to see it though the docks is closed to the public anyway.
Forgive my general non knowledge of the sea and its ways. I did just think that we could find out when they will come out the dock (hoping for a picture) All will be revealed in time I suppose, other than that I suspect we will have to go to the Gloucester and Warkwickshire railway to see them?

Depends where they are Unloaded but is there not a footpath that runs along the coal line and virtually right into the docks to near the Grain silos?

Hello I hope that this is the path you mean located at on the OS map at ST51196 77421 as it seem a likely view point.
Regards Antnee

Yes thats the path at the end it sort of goes left and right then stops right opposite the end of the silos, alongside which are the deep water berths where the big car boats come in, I used to work there and remember the path from driving around the docks, seeing all the 220 units bare shells coming off the boats, and watching the new car terminal pads being built.

To get to it you have to go up the side of the coal yard and lafarges place then follow it around its a fair hike and a bit Rough!

It looks as if Grande Scandiavia is in the Med.at the moment.

http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/shipde ... =247018700

tonyperks wrote:Yes thats the path at the end it sort of goes left and right then stops right opposite the end of the silos, alongside which are the deep water berths where the big car boats come in, I used to work there and remember the path from driving around the docks, seeing all the 220 units bare shells coming off the boats, and watching the new car terminal pads being built.

To get to it you have to go up the side of the coal yard and lafarges place then follow it around its a fair hike and a bit Rough!

So Mountian bike then? Though have to get from WSM first! And perhaps if there was some way of knowing the loading date as presume it would be on low loaders vehicle? Or does the coal line join to the main line so the locos could be towed up to the G & W railway, still I can't really remember as its been so long since Ive been up there.

antnee wrote: So Mountian bike then? Though have to get from WSM first!

Bike on train to Avonmouth perhaps? There is a footpath/ cycle track over the M5 Avonmouth bridge - I've used it myself quite a few times

antnee wrote: And perhaps if there was some way of knowing the loading date as presume it would be on low loaders vehicle? Or does the coal line join to the main line so the locos could be towed up to the G & W railway, still I can't really remember as its been so long since Ive been up there.

There is no rail connection from the G&W to the national network, so a low loader will have to be used

Thanks Robin, I will investigate the times of the trains now.

Grande Scandinavia now docked at Alexandria.