Class 68 Route Learner & class 70 Dewsbury Cement at Brightside - 1216
Just five minutes latter and with a on-time departure from the east coast resort of Cleethorpes and coming via Scunthorpe and Doncaster, another run of the Hope Valley Empty Coaching Stock/Route Learner which ran a couple of weeks or so ago on 3 days, but due to gauging issues at Masbrough on the, what is now considered, tight curve into the station, was subsequently halted. There were also light engine moves of the same class of loco, T.P.E. class 68, in that instance, 68020, 'Reliance' between the Longsight T.M.D. near Manchester and which terminated in Sheffield and although they also ran a few days, they were also halted, see this shot, taken at Bamford in the Hope Valley, on December 3rd last year-
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This time around there have been just two runs of the full diagram, from Cleethorpes to Manchester Piccadilly and back again just over an hour later, this was last week on Friday and Saturday, from Cleethorpes on 5Z18 at 09:25 and arriving in Manchester at 12:17 with the return, 5Z19, at 13:18 and arriving back on the east coast at 15:44. Passing through the old station site, with the irritating mingy blue lamp standard in front of the 'waiting shelter', ha!, at left, 'cloned out', is T.P.E. 68027 in Arriva livery, on the 5Z18, Cleethorpes via Sheffield and the Hope Valley to Manchester Piccadilly, 5-coach, E.C.S move. All looks to be in order today, but following one of the runs a couple of weeks ago, there was a weekend possession placed around Masbrough with on-track machines and civils attending to whatever the problem may have been, a gauging issue on the tight curve approaching the station from the south was the reason given..
Class 68 Route Learner & class 70 Dewsbury Cement at Brightside - 1216
Just five minutes latter and with a on-time departure from the east coast resort of Cleethorpes and coming via Scunthorpe and Doncaster, another run of the Hope Valley Empty Coaching Stock/Route Learner which ran a couple of weeks or so ago on 3 days, but due to gauging issues at Masbrough on the, what is now considered, tight curve into the station, was subsequently halted. There were also light engine moves of the same class of loco, T.P.E. class 68, in that instance, 68020, 'Reliance' between the Longsight T.M.D. near Manchester and which terminated in Sheffield and although they also ran a few days, they were also halted, see this shot, taken at Bamford in the Hope Valley, on December 3rd last year-
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This time around there have been just two runs of the full diagram, from Cleethorpes to Manchester Piccadilly and back again just over an hour later, this was last week on Friday and Saturday, from Cleethorpes on 5Z18 at 09:25 and arriving in Manchester at 12:17 with the return, 5Z19, at 13:18 and arriving back on the east coast at 15:44. Passing through the old station site, with the irritating mingy blue lamp standard in front of the 'waiting shelter', ha!, at left, 'cloned out', is T.P.E. 68027 in Arriva livery, on the 5Z18, Cleethorpes via Sheffield and the Hope Valley to Manchester Piccadilly, 5-coach, E.C.S move. All looks to be in order today, but following one of the runs a couple of weeks ago, there was a weekend possession placed around Masbrough with on-track machines and civils attending to whatever the problem may have been, a gauging issue on the tight curve approaching the station from the south was the reason given..