From the RSG website, another chance to see D9000 in action.
Cheltenham Spa Platform 1 Arr. 09.04, Dep. 09.06
Bristol Parkway Platform 2 Arr. 09.46, Dep. 09.50
Bath Spa Platform 2 Pass 10.17
Westbury Arr. 10.43, Dep. 10.55
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Robin Summerhill
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And besides, is it just me?jules wrote:Much as I love Deltics, I can't help thinking they sound "two stroke tinny".
Can't beat a good Maybach for diesel music!
You should find Deltics working between Kings Cross and Edinburgh - thats their "home turf." You saw exactly the same number of Deltics in Bristol in the 60s as you saw SNCF 141Rs round the Marsh
I know that "unusual" enines were often used on railtours - Mallard to Bristol in 1963 and Beattie Well Tanks running around their old LSW London suburban haunts in 1962, but seeing a Deltic at BTM does very little for me.
Perhaps it is just me
Says the bloke who took a day trip to York some years ago to see 60532, and also saw it at Kemble. But York was better!!!
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A fair point but let's not forget the 1948 exchanges. Locomotives from other parts of the UK used on normal service trains to compare power outputs and characteristics. <BJ>Robin Summerhill wrote:You should find Deltics working between Kings Cross and Edinburgh - thats their "home turf." You saw exactly the same number of Deltics in Bristol in the 60s as you saw SNCF 141Rs round the Marsh
I know that "unusual" enines were often used on railtours - Mallard to Bristol in 1963 and Beattie Well Tanks running around their old LSW London suburban haunts in 1962, but seeing a Deltic at BTM does very little for me.
I agree. I do like Deltics and used to enjoy visiting them at Kings X, but to me they still to this day look out of place in the West Country.seeing a Deltic at BTM does very little for me.
Apart from which is the noise. I could never understand a locomotive that makes more noise when it is ticking over than when it is on load. Apparently something to do with the ETH - they provide wildly varying output for train heating so I am told.
Probably my most loathed arrival in Bristol was the Class 50s though. I rode one back from Bishops Lydeard to Taunton a while back and almost perished from the fumes that entered the cab!
Can't say I'm a big fan of the products of the "Evil Empire"
And some people - it has to be said - just take Deltic admiration too far:
loco all over the place
How about the City of Wells on the turn table at Wells East Somerset. 
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Yours and probably the entire Workshop staff at Bath Roadjules wrote: Probably my most loathed arrival in Bristol was the Class 50s though.
At the time of their transfer from the LMR, the shop staff were on what was known as "non availability bonus" which was a backwards way of saying the more engines that were available for traffic, the more bonus they got.
It would not be uncharitable to say that the condition the 50s were in when the WR got them left something to be desired and this, no doubt coupled with a lack of exprience of the fitters and electricians in working on them, meant that locomotive availbility for traffic dropped like a stone.
As did the bonus payments .....
Their arrival therefore caused a three week strike amongst the Shop staff at Bath Road
PS - that car would look better in two-tone green with a number more commensurate with the livery
the class50
Just to put the book right the 50"s were great when they were finally put right I loved them
I'll agree with that. Once all the overcomplicated electronics were stripped off, they did some very good workJust to put the book right the 50"s were great when they were finally put right I loved them
A lot of the electronics was quite a bit before its time I think. It might have worked perfectly well in the lab, but it wasn't much up to working for very long in the hostile environment of a locomotive engine room!