A not so embryonic P/way blog.

Hark! Another brief update or two! We ain't disappeared yet!
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Two more updates. One on Parkend and our efforts there, and the other from last month where we sprang to aid of DB Schenker.
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Interesting piece about the cripple there.

 

It was a very interesting morning. Just glad my day off happened to co-inside. Bit of laughter when their guy on the ground said,'Dont know what you guys were worried about, we've been over worse!'

 

Hark! Further updates ahoy!
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Greasers, pointlevers and Dogfish, 11 of the buggers! It can only by the DFR P/way blog!
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In answer to your query about the amount of Dogfish in a train.
We can't beat 11, but can say we have had 9 Coal Hoppers acting as ballast hoppers on the NYMR.
And for the future we have 5 Sealions and a Seacow plus 1 dogfish, which means a tonnage of 220t of ballast, but that will be a while away until we get them all overhauled.

 

That sounds like a pretty mean bit of tonnage! While hunting for parts I found my eyes drawn to the 2 HTV's we have lurking in our Junk-tion. Half tempted to have a crack at them in the near future....

 

And build your own Tope wagons?

 

Can never have enough ballast!

 

"Two items of news on the railway. Firstly, the P/Way Dept have finished reballasting the line to their desired 'deep ballast' standard. Secondly, in unrelated news, all our platforms are now at rail level."

 

Wow, you'll need plenty of steps to get on the carriages.

 

That should make the ballast depth 3ft or so.
That's why you need so many Dogfish then.

 

That, and its a variation of Shiny Kit Syndrome found only on Heritage Railways. Rusty Kit Syndrome!

 

That's a running joke in our house. "Look children, a huge pile of rusting crap! It must be a steam railway!"

Or should I say, a non-running joke...