MrGloverman
3rd April 2011
60049 arrives from Eastleigh via the Wilton Junction worksite with one of six ballast trains .This one 6N10 prepares to run round in the loop before returning to Westbury via Yeovil Pen Mill. Class 60s are banned between Yeovil Pen Mill and Castle Cary due to there route availability and after many phone calls and confabs the train was allowed to travel at 15mph being diverted through the downside platform at Pen Mill rather than risk the very narrow and twisty upside. The only other visit of a Class 60 to Yeovil was in February 1992 when I myself took 60027 to Yeovil Pen Mill on a Monday morning. I was going light to Exeter to pick up a freight and the line was closed west of Cary. Control turned me around at Pen Mill as they realised I shouldn't have been there.I went back to Cary at walking pace over every under bridge. Bit like slamming the stable door after the horse has bolted .
3rd April 2011
60049 arrives from Eastleigh via the Wilton Junction worksite with one of six ballast trains .This one 6N10 prepares to run round in the loop before returning to Westbury via Yeovil Pen Mill. Class 60s are banned between Yeovil Pen Mill and Castle Cary due to there route availability and after many phone calls and confabs the train was allowed to travel at 15mph being diverted through the downside platform at Pen Mill rather than risk the very narrow and twisty upside. The only other visit of a Class 60 to Yeovil was in February 1992 when I myself took 60027 to Yeovil Pen Mill on a Monday morning. I was going light to Exeter to pick up a freight and the line was closed west of Cary. Control turned me around at Pen Mill as they realised I shouldn't have been there.I went back to Cary at walking pace over every under bridge. Bit like slamming the stable door after the horse has bolted .