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Saw Colas livered Class 56 on Down Train pulling empty steel wagons Yesterday afternoon, did any one get a photo?

I was in the garden Feeding the fish when i heard a Thumping coming down the line Thinks thats not a 66 hop up to the fence to see her go by, and not too smokey either.

56.094 returns today, 20/09/2012. <BJ>

Newton Abbot 15:06 15:26
Worle Junction 16:56
Parson Street 17:11
Bristol West Junction 17:14 17:32
Bristol Temple Meads 17:34
Bristol East Junction 17:35
Dr Days Junction 17:36
Narroways Hill 17:38
Filton Abbey Wood 17:43
Patchway 17:49
Pilning 17:58
Abergaveny 19:49
Hereford 20:20 20:22
Crewe 22:34 22:36
Wrexham General 23:33
Chirk Kronospan Colas Rail 23:57

Thanks to 'Driff47844'

on time....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/byjr/8006989767/

Saw this flying up Filton Bank. Very impressive!

But not as impressive as the 66 doing an emergency stop going down the hill a couple of minutes earlier! My wife said she heard the squealing brakes from our house on Landseer Ave! Don't know what was going on, but if it was trying to stop before the signal it didn't, overshot it by quite some way. (the signal was on a single orange though, not a red).

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Emergency Stop by weirdoldhattie, on Flickr

As an Edit to my post my mate round the corner corrected me in that its a wood train not steel!, Good Pics chaps.

What type of wagons are those in the "emergency stop" train?

AndyK wrote:What type of wagons are those in the "emergency stop" train?

18 Nacco china clay wagons. 6Z39 Alexander Dock (Newport) to St Blazey. <BJ>

56.094 ran again today but from Newton Abbot to Gloucester yard. It passed Long Ashton at 15:40. <BJ>

I guess it really does show just how much we've lost when a 56 working is newsworthy and of interest ....

The topic is entitled 'Class 56 on steel train'. May I suggest that if you have no interest in the subject that you don't click onto it. Similarly I have no interest in sport. Therefore I don't delve into the back pages of a newspaper. It's as simple as that.

I must leave it at that. I'm off now to see Tangmere on a railtour from London to Minehead. <BJ>

free2grice wrote:The topic is entitled 'Class 56 on steel train'. May I suggest that if you have no interest in the subject that you don't click onto it. Similarly I have no interest in sport. Therefore I don't delve into the back pages of a newspaper. It's as simple as that.

I must leave it at that. I'm off now to see Tangmere on a railtour from London to Minehead. <BJ>

I dont think there was anything negative about the post, I think the point being made was that had this topic arisen 20years ago then it wouldn't have been news. What would have been the mundane, is now of interest.

I dont think there was anything negative about the post, I think the point being made was that had this topic arisen 20years ago then it wouldn't have been news. What would have been the mundane, is now of interest.

Absolutely - no negativity or offense was intended!

May I suggest that if you have no interest in the subject that you don't click onto it.

I was actually saying it *was* interesting, but as Rich commented, had a loco hauled freight (that wasn't a 66!) appeared 20 years ago then it wouldn't have been that noteworthy.

The point I was trying to make was that so many classes of loco have been lost over the years and that was all

Even 20 years ago it would have been news worthy as from memory(probably wrong tho) we didnt get that many 56's using the line, we may have got the odd one up tp tytherington, or on a coal diversion.