East Midlands Railway Trust/GCR (Nottingham)

The salvation of the 2 Taylor Hubbard 10-ton cranes on the Mid Hants was the sale by the railway to the owners of DS1580. There was no way that the railway could have stood the year-on-year costs - private owners take a different view, of course.
Pat

 

From waht I have seen, no effort or advert at all despite the prtestations of some noisy GCRN people. I get the impression it was a financailly driven dispoals, not driven by the deisre to see it prederved anywhere. Sorry for the poor typing, I get a bit wound up and it doesnt always come otu right

 

Rest assured that your meaning is very clear and your frustration and passion unmistakable.

 

North update video.......

 

Steam returns to Ruddington!!! Crossing Asher Lane this morning, reasonable passenger numbers (and no diesel on the back!)

 

Ruddington update on YT....

 

What's the ID of the Sentinel diesel which appears towards the end of the video? I don't recall seeing that on site previously.

 

That’s a well-produced video.

One thing that surprised me about the pit was that it appeared to have been produced as a standalone casting, and was then lowered complete into the waiting hole. (As opposed to, say, being cast in situ). Is that the normal way to produce such a structure?

Tom

 

The pit looks a steel fabrication to me: Weld it up in the dry somewhere, hiab into hole and pour the concrete round it. Lorry inspection pits are done the same way.

 

Probably Rolls Royce 10262
https://www.heritage-railways.com/locosdb/locosdb2.php?RefNo=4270
(Which has not been scrapped, despite what has been reported elsewhere)

 

It is, stainless steel tub, supplied by Premier Pits

 

Flying Scotsman to visit May 2026.

Flying Scotsman hauled trains operate 23-25 & 30-31 May. More info https://www.foxandedwards.com/events/view/flying-scotsman-legendary-journeys-nottinghamshire

 

I may have missed it somewhere but do GCR (Nottingham) now have a usable mainline connection or are there still any bridge or other repairs required?

 

The main line connection is useable and the whole line is open.
What I'm unsure of is to what extent the bridge repairs 'up the line' are proper repairs, or 'keep it going a while longer' repairs. Or whether there are any remaining TSRs or weight restrictions due to same.
Someone will know, I'm sure.

 

The TSRs were still in place over the viaduct (no check rails, the sleepers were fitted years ago but, the rails never installed), over the bridge by the gypsum works (it will need replacement at some point in the same way the A60 bridge did), and over embankment north of the tunnel (this has been talked about being removed for the fifteen years I have been going down)

 

Thanks Mark. For the viaduct, do you mean guard rails? There shouldn't be any need for check rails there, it's straight.

 

I can't speak for this specific location but many railway bridges have an extra set of rails mounted in the 4ft over bridges, presumably for resilience - could that be what Mark's referring to?

 

A safety measure in the event of a derailment on the bridge.
Ray.

 

Exactly, so a closing V on the outer side of the rails on approach to the viaduct and then a set of rails within the 4ft whilst on the viaduct.

As mentioned, the sleepers were installed a decade ago (the hard bit) and the rails are in the 4 foot (and have been for a similar length of time), you can probably see it on google maps sat view

 

Drivers eye view video recently posted by Railcar Restorers, up to and including the A60 bridge: