Image Archive 2
DRS Civil Engineering train & GBRf L.E. 73 move at Kilnhurst - 2075
This working is a bit unusual, went into the timetable as Activated at 10:33 as a Civil Engineers train coming up from Toton to Doncaster and operated by Network Rail. With a timing load of 2020 tonnes it didn't seem likely it was a Track Machine type vehicle and the origin appeared to prelude this or any other form of on-track device anyway... The timetable indicated it was coming up through MAsbrough but then taken the cross-over onto the GC line at Aldwarke to pass along the line through Thrybergh, Kilnhurst and east of Swinton and back on to Midland metals just west of Mexborough. Two hours after it was activated, there was a change in the train's classification from a class 7 to a class 6, the class 7 being timed to run at only 45mph, the class 6 at 60mph. As the lines appeared busy around the time of its passage it seemed obvious it would take the GC route along the Sheffield & South Yorkshire Canal at Kilnhurst, to get to Mexborough, it didn't do that however. Keeping a close watch on the signal diagram as soon as it left Aldwarke, where it should have turned right onto GC metals, it carried on straight through on the Midland line, heading for Swinton. A look at the time-table later on revealed this-
19/04/2017 12:28
Now running as a Class 6
19/04/2017 14:03
UNSCHEDULED report received at SWINTON (S.YORKS)
and I heard it rumbling away behind the just passed north-bound Cross Country service, 1E36, from Southampton Central to Newcastle, the DRS 66 being just a few minutes behind. Without any possibility of changing to a better venue by that time, I took what I thought to be the best option and managed to grab this shot as the DRS 66, 66426 crossed the old railway bridge over the road into what used to be the Don Chemical Works, Kilnhurst Collieries and Kilnhurst Forge alongside the canal; now its the Carlisle Park housing development site, many of the houses now already having been taken up. The DRS was hauling a longish consist of various bright-yellow, so Network Rail, types of Engineering wagons of one sort or another and its just a shame that the view here is so restricted by the lineside tree growth as otherwise the shot would have been much better. This is DRS 66426 on the ex7X20, now 6X20, Toton North Yard to Doncaster Up Decoy working and in the foreground, more environmentally friendly transport in the form of a boys-powered scooter and skate-board and they looks like they were waiting for the photograph to happen. Over on the left, a possible vantage point I thought, a pile of rubble alongside the line and this marks the site of another large, still vacant, area alongside the canal over behind the camera and I guess it wont be too long before the site is cleared, of its buried toxic mess as well, and another raft of houses will be built in this rather nice location, twixt GC, Canal and Midland metals.
DRS Civil Engineering train & GBRf L.E. 73 move at Kilnhurst - 2075
This working is a bit unusual, went into the timetable as Activated at 10:33 as a Civil Engineers train coming up from Toton to Doncaster and operated by Network Rail. With a timing load of 2020 tonnes it didn't seem likely it was a Track Machine type vehicle and the origin appeared to prelude this or any other form of on-track device anyway... The timetable indicated it was coming up through MAsbrough but then taken the cross-over onto the GC line at Aldwarke to pass along the line through Thrybergh, Kilnhurst and east of Swinton and back on to Midland metals just west of Mexborough. Two hours after it was activated, there was a change in the train's classification from a class 7 to a class 6, the class 7 being timed to run at only 45mph, the class 6 at 60mph. As the lines appeared busy around the time of its passage it seemed obvious it would take the GC route along the Sheffield & South Yorkshire Canal at Kilnhurst, to get to Mexborough, it didn't do that however. Keeping a close watch on the signal diagram as soon as it left Aldwarke, where it should have turned right onto GC metals, it carried on straight through on the Midland line, heading for Swinton. A look at the time-table later on revealed this-
19/04/2017 12:28
Now running as a Class 6
19/04/2017 14:03
UNSCHEDULED report received at SWINTON (S.YORKS)
and I heard it rumbling away behind the just passed north-bound Cross Country service, 1E36, from Southampton Central to Newcastle, the DRS 66 being just a few minutes behind. Without any possibility of changing to a better venue by that time, I took what I thought to be the best option and managed to grab this shot as the DRS 66, 66426 crossed the old railway bridge over the road into what used to be the Don Chemical Works, Kilnhurst Collieries and Kilnhurst Forge alongside the canal; now its the Carlisle Park housing development site, many of the houses now already having been taken up. The DRS was hauling a longish consist of various bright-yellow, so Network Rail, types of Engineering wagons of one sort or another and its just a shame that the view here is so restricted by the lineside tree growth as otherwise the shot would have been much better. This is DRS 66426 on the ex7X20, now 6X20, Toton North Yard to Doncaster Up Decoy working and in the foreground, more environmentally friendly transport in the form of a boys-powered scooter and skate-board and they looks like they were waiting for the photograph to happen. Over on the left, a possible vantage point I thought, a pile of rubble alongside the line and this marks the site of another large, still vacant, area alongside the canal over behind the camera and I guess it wont be too long before the site is cleared, of its buried toxic mess as well, and another raft of houses will be built in this rather nice location, twixt GC, Canal and Midland metals.