An evening out with an 80 ton vacuum cleaner.
There are currently six Swedish built Railvac machines working in the UK and they are not unidirectional so have to be delivered to work sites the correct way round. Occasionally they turn up at the Network Rail LDC's (Local Distribution Centres) the wrong way round. So before they can be marshalled into the engineers train they will be working with they need turning round. This is generally achieved with a local turning trip routing the train around a triangular layout near the yard, in this case the freight bypass lines south of Carlisle station.
Here Railvac machine BVES-6 (99006) is seen sandwiched between 66 044 and 66 164 working turning trip 6X22 19.30 Kingmoor Yard - Currock Jn (rev) - Carlisle London Road Yard (rev) - Kingmoor Yard, an 8 mile outing to achieve the correct direction of travel for the machine.
I don't know about arriving in London Road Yard with a vacuum cleaner I think it should have been the weed sprayer !
An evening out with an 80 ton vacuum cleaner.
There are currently six Swedish built Railvac machines working in the UK and they are not unidirectional so have to be delivered to work sites the correct way round. Occasionally they turn up at the Network Rail LDC's (Local Distribution Centres) the wrong way round. So before they can be marshalled into the engineers train they will be working with they need turning round. This is generally achieved with a local turning trip routing the train around a triangular layout near the yard, in this case the freight bypass lines south of Carlisle station.
Here Railvac machine BVES-6 (99006) is seen sandwiched between 66 044 and 66 164 working turning trip 6X22 19.30 Kingmoor Yard - Currock Jn (rev) - Carlisle London Road Yard (rev) - Kingmoor Yard, an 8 mile outing to achieve the correct direction of travel for the machine.
I don't know about arriving in London Road Yard with a vacuum cleaner I think it should have been the weed sprayer !