EWS From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 1, posted (5 years 7 months 1 week 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 1414 times:
Sean,
Such a small world Ill be on that train from York, Adwick, Bently, Doncaster, Retford, Newark North Gate, Grantham and I finish at Peterborough.. Its unsure yet as to whether the locomotive will be a 67 or a double headed 66 due to the maintenance schedules being a little messed up.. Ill know in a few days time if the 67 is available.
If anyone wants to come along and have a nosey round the cab (whilst stopped!!) please feel free to come make yourselves known.
777236ER From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2001, 12959 posts, RR: 55 Reply 2, posted (5 years 7 months 1 week 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 1394 times:
How are EWS allowed to conduct passenger operations? I would think GNER would have something to say about another operator operating their franchised route, unless this is a charter by GNER or something?
EWS From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 3, posted (5 years 7 months 1 week 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 1395 times:
Quoting 777236ER (Reply 2): How are EWS allowed to conduct passenger operations? I would think GNER would have something to say about another operator operating their franchised route, unless this is a charter by GNER or something?
Its a contracted run through Kingfisher, Similar to chartering a aircraft.. We can easily keep up with GNER line speeds so we dont effect them at all.
The route is the east coast mainline, which most of the route has 4 lines, two outer slow lines for mainly frieght and slower DMU's and the 2 inners are "fast lanes" for GNER, or other faster loco's.
777236ER From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2001, 12959 posts, RR: 55 Reply 5, posted (5 years 7 months 1 week 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 1382 times:
Quoting EWS (Reply 3): Its a contracted run through Kingfisher, Similar to chartering a aircraft.. We can easily keep up with GNER line speeds so we dont effect them at all.
Yeah, but what I meant was, GNER bid and paid for the east coast mainline contract. Despite that, can anyone run services on GNER's routes?
EWS From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 6, posted (5 years 7 months 1 week 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 1374 times:
Quoting 777236ER (Reply 5): Yeah, but what I meant was, GNER bid and paid for the east coast mainline contract. Despite that, can anyone run services on GNER's routes?
Yes EWS are totally seperate to GNER, we use ECML on a daily basis.. This is a charter and is still classed with GNER as one of our trains, even though its station handeled by GNER Staff. This is a one off charter, GNER have no say in what runs on any railway anywhere in the country.. you could charter a steam loco and send it down the ECML at 30mph, GNER have no say in that what so ever.
EWS From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 12, posted (5 years 7 months 1 week 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 1335 times:
Quoting 777236ER (Reply 8): Considering they pay for the franchise, I'd have expected that they'd have exclusive use of some routes.
They have priority over anything else on the routes, apart from a medical train or the queens messenger. When i'm down grantham way the lines runs back into 2, and i usually get a red signal until one or two GNER's pass and the line is clear, as were slower (with the typical 66/60 loco's) so coming off the slow line onto the fast line may cause problems and delays for GNER or any other high speed operators on the ECML, so we usually have to wait until there's a suitable slot in the system for us to continue.
I say there is nothing wrong with steam trains, bring them back!!,but the idiots who protect the air and land would be hoping mad if all steam trains came back into service.
ThePRGuy From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 18, posted (5 years 7 months 1 week 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 1318 times:
Quoting Skidmarks (Reply 17): 43's are the old GWR diesels aren't they?
You know the old HST 125s
Loud bastards
First Great Western love them so much that they have been re-engined
We'll be seeing them for many years yet
Thanks
Alex
Andz From South Africa, joined Feb 2004, 8247 posts, RR: 13 Reply 24, posted (5 years 7 months 1 week 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 1280 times:
Chrismas huh? Is that the new politically correct Labour Party-approved spelling?
River-born? Is that some kind of water birth? And... it is King's Cross not Kings Cross! Let's not even start on the shocking use (or lack of) of capitals!
Fire the proof-readers!
After Monday and Tuesday even the calendar says WTF...
25 Skidmarks: Actually, thinking about it, I could fly to NCL on my free Eastern tickets, stay the night, catch the train in the morning, do the trip and return to
26 EWS: Sorry to inform you but the mk2 coaches we are using do not have any wheelchair access. Maybe next time eh? Lew
27 ThePRGuy: Yeah, big difference from the steam travel that took you around thru most of your adulthood! Actually I think thats skiddy? When was this taken, mid-
28 Skidmarks: You may jest, spotty youths, but I DO remember steam trains. I used to live right next to the main London-Brighton railway line at Horley, in Surrey,
29 EWS: So when one of our coal trains crashes, bet your fire wwas burning for months! Now i know the real reason behind your free T3 tickets Lew
30 Skidmarks: Yep, we had a coal fire then. If I'd been a bit older I guess I would have been wishing for something like that but hey, at 7 or so, Cornflakes were
31 PlymSpotter: I think some of the MML and Virgin machines were done as well. They did the work at DML in Plymouth, of all the stupidities they would get the trains
32 ThePRGuy: Was that as it was being built? Thanks Alex
33 Skidmarks: No, cretin, it was not. And I'll thank you to mind your manners young man!! Andy
34 PlymSpotter: Do they still use steam trains on the Isle of Man Andy, I seem to remember seeing some pictures of them in a magazine a whale back? Dan
35 ThePRGuy: Oh I'm sorry old man, I will watch that in the future. Do they even have electricity in the IOM?
36 Skidmarks: We have narrow gauge steam trains here that run between April and October between Port Erin and Douglas, along with an electric system that runs from
37 ThePRGuy: Blimey, a bit ahead of the time there arent you? Crazy! Alex
38 Willo: ...and there was me thinking that EWS would be using their old parcel vans with a few deckchairs inside.
39 ThePRGuy: Yeah thats what it is Its called leased from GNER Signed, Virgin Trains
40 EWS: Haha.. might aswell be the amount of crap we have to go through just to haul those bloody things! They are leased from York Railway Museam.. Lew
41 Gkirk: Understand MYT332 has already booked his spot at the end of the platform in York.
42 Cornish: I think you'll find he now only answers to the user name Petit-Pe@rson
44 Myt332: Hush rent boy! It's Mr Petit-Pe@rson to you. Says he who thinks he's still replying to the Christmas 2005 thread. You know, I went to Barrow-In-Furne
45 PlymSpotter: Now I never thought I'd see you on a skateboard!
46 Cornish: Well if it gets you and your 206 off the road i suppose thats no bad thing Well as i'd never refer to Pe@rson as Mr, I'm certainly not going to do th
47 Myt332: I had to Google Skateboards, you big geek! Still, I was quite surprised to see this one car train pull up for the hour ride back to Lancaster. It was
48 PlymSpotter: I thought that would test your knowledge
49 Cornish: From the shock of you trying to get it into third ??
50 Skidmarks: Still, at least he knows how to google. Now, if we could only get him to learn some social skills................. Andy
52 Myt332: Actually yes, coming off the M61, t'was my dad driving. Stupid fool using engine braking. C'est la vie, he can pay. I'll take this oportunity to harp
53 Cornish: Suspect that had more to do with you not smelling of wee and less likely to have a "little accident" than that IOM pensioner. Sweaty unwashed yoofs a
54 Myt332: Well there is when it breaks your car! The 206 only has 5 gears although his car has 6 alright. Saying that he bought an Auto so unless he buts it in
55 Cornish: Autos sounds like he must be an old person then - anywhere near Skidmarks age?
56 Myt332: No, about sixty years younger than Skiddy, he's only 41. Should I tell you it's a diesel too? I know some people are allergic to them but hey, it mov
57 Skidmarks: Luck is NOT a social skill. Having a mate who works in reservations is luck! And, believe me, I was not about to spend 7 hours cooped up with you in
58 Myt332: Well it broke, so he was stupid, it's that simple. That's all I was saying old man! In any case you drive so slow gravity and friction is enough to s
68 Myt332: I have to hand it to you Lew, you truly are the master of deception! Silence Geek!
69 EWS: Yes i'm currently clearing all funds from your savings account into my swiss bank account. Transfer should be complete in T minus.. oh shit wait.. £
70 Myt332: I had £23? Coar blimey, I was rich and I didn't even know it!
72 PlymSpotter: Time to buy that new biro, and perhaps even splash out on a leather bound notebook this time
73 Shamrock_747: Gentlemen! A 175 to Barrow may be a grand day out, but it isn't a true journey without a stop at Poulton-le-Flyde [Fylde]
74 Myt332: Ahh well that is on the Blackpool North line and I couldn't risk doing that as I could get a nasty old 150 or 142 on th....what?! Shh, stop making me
75 Skidmarks: Train Spotter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Andy
76 Mhodgson: I have to ask - Barrow in Furness - why? Still, nice to see Morecambe Bay and Lancaster for the first time in over a month... I'm feeling homesick now
77 Myt332: How are things going down there? Managed to crash a plane yet? That is the aim of things your know?
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Ill be on that train from York, Adwick, Bently, Doncaster, Retford, Newark North Gate, Grantham and I finish at Peterborough.. Its unsure yet as to whether the locomotive will be a 67 or a double headed 66 due to the maintenance schedules being a little messed up.. Ill know in a few days time if the 67 is available.
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Andy, im totally lost for words with that one, i want to be nice here but its just not possible!
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