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Abraman 28th Congress in Savlador Brazil was held September 23-26, 2013
Abraman 28th Congress in Savlador Brazil was held September 23-26, 2013
Abraman 28th Congress was held in Salvador Brazil September 23-26, 2013
Once again, apologies for the poor quality of the record phot - I was using my crappy first digital camera 🙏
Stored Grid 56111 awaiting its fate at Thornaby.
56111 was built at BREL Doncaster Works and delivered to BR on 24 October 1982.
Under privatisation it moved to the Loadhaul sector which was then bought in 1995 by EWS – English, Welsh & Scottish Railway.
Unpopular with EWS because of their high maintenance costs and low reliability, the introduction of 250 Class 66 sheds in 1999 & 2000 caused their rapid decline as major overhauls were ruled out.
The following info is supplied with my thanks on Ian Furness’ excellent WNXX web group.
56111 first went into storage at Immingham with wheel set defects in early December 1999 (after only 17 years of work). Repairs were authorised on 10 December, but nothing happened and it was stored WNXX on 19 January 2000.
On 18 September 2000, it was assigned for a bogie exchange & flagged for reinstatement to cover for Class 37s on Sandite duties. Rather ironical for 20 year old locos to be reactivated as cover for ones almost twice their age.
By 3 October 2000, stored demic 56022 had donated its bogies. 56111 was reactivated the next day into the WGAN pool for the Immingham MGR coal wagons circuit.
Just over a month later, 56111 was again stopped with wheelset defects at Gobowen on a freight and assigned to Crewe (CD) for assessment.
It arrived at Crewe Diesel depot on 22 October and had numerous expected OK dates until finally being fixed on 22 January 2011 for use on the Fiddlers ferry drawbacks that day.
By June 2002, many Class 56’s were on high engine hours (allowed up to 13,000 before full overhaul).
56111, now in the WGAI pool back at Immingham was about top third on the loco list (11,301 hours at 20 June 2002).
A number of grids headed to store that week and others, including 56111, were assigned special tests to see if they were fit for further use.
It survived these tests until early April 2003. With 12,742 engine hours noted as at 18:30 on 23 March 2003, 56111 had the highest hours of any working Grid.
The end for 56111 became a bit of a farce:
-31 March 2003: Assigned N ON, to be stopped at Thornaby. (11 Grids flagged for store the same day);
-2 April 2003: Reprieved when EWS changed their minds and removed the N ONE notice;
-6 April 2003: Stopped at Thornaby (with engine hours on arrival of 12,823), and assigned N ONE again.
Workings that day were:
0F69 Thornaby to Middlesborough Goods yard,
0F69 Middlesborough Goods yard to Boulby,
6F74 Boulby to Tees Dock,
6F75 Tees Dock to Boulby,
6F80 Boulby to Tees Dock, and
0N10 Tees Dock to Thornaby.
-7 April 2003: Noted as “available, booked 0F75 then 6F75”;
-8 April 2003: Still working on the Boulby - Tees Dock circuit, but transferred to the WNTR storage pool;
-9 April 2003: Still working on the Boulby - Tees Dock circuit until the afternoon when it was finally stored;
-29 April 2003: Along with 3 other stored Grids, 56111 engine was noted running;
-1 May 2003: Taken into the shed with the other 3 (All four were fuelled and prepared for possible use);
-4 May 2003: Back outside. The shed visit was part of keeping them in an operational state involving starting them periodically and testing the air systems. “Just in case” scenario;
-21 June 2003: 56111 moved back inside the shed by itself, for inspection & assessment with a view to it returning to service;
-24 June 2003: Back outside again and logged as “Stored OK”;
-10 September 2003: Assessed again for possible return to use, but no action taken.
56111 remained dumped at Thornaby for the next 7 years (hopefully giving up spares to the Fertis contract “Le Grids” from 2005).
On 19 April 2010, Deutsche Bahn (who now owned EWS) put their stored Grids up for sale. On 1 July 2010 it was announced that the EMR Group scrappers had bought them.
Having so many to scrap at once, the usual EMR Kingsbury location would be full. So some, including 56111, went by road to EMR Hartlepool instead.
56111 made the one-way trip on 29 July 2010 and was scrapped mid-January 2011 after a working life of only 20 years