37025 1Q82 @ Barrow 25/03/2021
I have absolutely no idea how I ended up with this shot but I can't complain with another split-box tractor.
I had only set out expecting a moving shot through platform 1 as was usual, a shot which I'd already got before with 37025. RTT was throwing a bit of a wobbly and showing it still at Ulverston, and with no movement after the two units either way, I wasn't even hopeful that'd it'd turn up. However after about half an hour past it's booked time, we heard a few toots from the carriage sidings, but of course assuming it was a unit as we were expecting the 37s coming up northbound. Anyway, it rounded the corner into platform 2 and I absolutely sh*t myself when I saw it was the 37s as I thought they'd just go straight back southbound non-stop. I dashed to the front thinking 116 was going to lead off, but when the driver turned the lights off and got out it was a mad panic and dash down the other end to see if 37025 was going to lead off to Askam as planned. Thankfully, it stopped for just about long enough to rig the pod up and fire a few shots off before he got the green-light. God only knows how it got to the carriage sidings unbeknownst to even RTT data and RailCam maps.
I did wait for it coming back, but that was going up for nearly 11pm by that point and I'd been locked inside the station and as it didn't stop anyway on the return, I hopped the fence and came home, albeit a very happy chappy.
Anyway, here is 37025 about to lead off to Askam with the monthly 1Q82 Carlisle HW-Bpool North test train with 37116 on the rear. By this point it was running about 31 late, only getting later as the journey continued.
37025 1Q82 @ Barrow 25/03/2021
I have absolutely no idea how I ended up with this shot but I can't complain with another split-box tractor.
I had only set out expecting a moving shot through platform 1 as was usual, a shot which I'd already got before with 37025. RTT was throwing a bit of a wobbly and showing it still at Ulverston, and with no movement after the two units either way, I wasn't even hopeful that'd it'd turn up. However after about half an hour past it's booked time, we heard a few toots from the carriage sidings, but of course assuming it was a unit as we were expecting the 37s coming up northbound. Anyway, it rounded the corner into platform 2 and I absolutely sh*t myself when I saw it was the 37s as I thought they'd just go straight back southbound non-stop. I dashed to the front thinking 116 was going to lead off, but when the driver turned the lights off and got out it was a mad panic and dash down the other end to see if 37025 was going to lead off to Askam as planned. Thankfully, it stopped for just about long enough to rig the pod up and fire a few shots off before he got the green-light. God only knows how it got to the carriage sidings unbeknownst to even RTT data and RailCam maps.
I did wait for it coming back, but that was going up for nearly 11pm by that point and I'd been locked inside the station and as it didn't stop anyway on the return, I hopped the fence and came home, albeit a very happy chappy.
Anyway, here is 37025 about to lead off to Askam with the monthly 1Q82 Carlisle HW-Bpool North test train with 37116 on the rear. By this point it was running about 31 late, only getting later as the journey continued.