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RTC to Mossend 2x37s Test Train at Sheffield Midland - 6295/6301+6305/6306
Continuing on in the vein of cold, grey weather, now at Sheffield Midland station, and an early morning turn-out for a move of a Test Train from the Derby RTC (Railway Technical Centre) on its seven hour jaunt, just about on time all day, until north of Berwick-on-Tweed, when it lost about half an hour to arrive Mossend Down Yard (around 10km east of Glasgow) at 17:00; this is the 1Q03 working. Listed as being operated by DB Infrastructure Monitoring, I guess this set uses on-board measuring equipment to asses the state of the lines it travels over, timed to run at 75mph. With the centre roads at Sheffield station full with parked up Northern Rail and Transpennine DMUs, the only roads available were through the platforms and here in this 1st pair of images, at top, the DRS class 37, 37601 is _slowly_ coming north along platform 2 whilst also slowly moving along south, over the junction between up main and through road to access platform 1A, is a Northern Rail class 144 DMU, 144019 which will terminate here from Huddersfield, the 2B37 service. Not sure what the paraphernalia is in the right corner between the platform down line and down through, it has a stop valve on the top and may well be either water or oil for the DMus, but looks to have been out of use for some time! In the lower panoramic picture across the north-end of the station with platform 1 on the far right and 7 on the far left, 37601, a named 37, 'Class 37-Fifty', the red nameplate just visible to the rear of the cab door, glides slowly along the down line platform towards the camera, making the picture taking easy, unlike the weather, which was making it uncomfortable... On the centre roads over between platform 5 & 6 on the left are parked up Northern Rail units and a Transpennine class 185, 185148, awaiting the next call of duty... and not that many folk about though I guess most of them were holed up in the warmth of the cafe off to the rear of the approaching test train on the left...
RTC to Mossend 2x37s Test Train at Sheffield Midland - 6295/6301+6305/6306
Continuing on in the vein of cold, grey weather, now at Sheffield Midland station, and an early morning turn-out for a move of a Test Train from the Derby RTC (Railway Technical Centre) on its seven hour jaunt, just about on time all day, until north of Berwick-on-Tweed, when it lost about half an hour to arrive Mossend Down Yard (around 10km east of Glasgow) at 17:00; this is the 1Q03 working. Listed as being operated by DB Infrastructure Monitoring, I guess this set uses on-board measuring equipment to asses the state of the lines it travels over, timed to run at 75mph. With the centre roads at Sheffield station full with parked up Northern Rail and Transpennine DMUs, the only roads available were through the platforms and here in this 1st pair of images, at top, the DRS class 37, 37601 is _slowly_ coming north along platform 2 whilst also slowly moving along south, over the junction between up main and through road to access platform 1A, is a Northern Rail class 144 DMU, 144019 which will terminate here from Huddersfield, the 2B37 service. Not sure what the paraphernalia is in the right corner between the platform down line and down through, it has a stop valve on the top and may well be either water or oil for the DMus, but looks to have been out of use for some time! In the lower panoramic picture across the north-end of the station with platform 1 on the far right and 7 on the far left, 37601, a named 37, 'Class 37-Fifty', the red nameplate just visible to the rear of the cab door, glides slowly along the down line platform towards the camera, making the picture taking easy, unlike the weather, which was making it uncomfortable... On the centre roads over between platform 5 & 6 on the left are parked up Northern Rail units and a Transpennine class 185, 185148, awaiting the next call of duty... and not that many folk about though I guess most of them were holed up in the warmth of the cafe off to the rear of the approaching test train on the left...