Alasdair Eadington provided this shot of 56302 leaving Grangemouth on the above working.
Some of the committee at our AGM on July 1st mentioned that they had not seen a copy of the Class 56 Group Constitution which I wrote some time ago. Presumably some members haven’t seen it also so I have attached a copy for your delight and enjoyment!
Regards
Andrew WilsonSignedconstitution
The Class 56 Group are please to announce that an agreement has been made which will see 56 006 remain at the East Lancashire Railway following this weekends diesel gala. The locomotive will be available for use on the railway and will take part in future diesel galas and operating days. It is also expected 56006 will be used on the ELR driver experience days.
The C56G looks forward to working closely with the ELR team and providing long overdue opportunities for our members to not only travel behind 56006 but to start get involved in the maintenance , support and operation of the locomotive.
We’d like to say a big thankyou to our friends at UKRL who have helped the C56G restore 56006 to the condition she is in today.
We have some exiting new sales merchandise which will be on sale on our sales stand on the Saturday of the Gala. (If anyone is there on the Friday and wants anything please come and find me as I’ll have some stock in the boot of the car.)
West Coast Railway Company will operate the gala convoy on the above date and current timings/route are:-
0Z56 0750 Castleton Hopwood GF – Derby arr 1300 (expected to be CFPS loco 40145)
0Z57 1525 Derby – Crewe Heritage Centre – arr 1715 ( 40145+ 56006) (pass Burton 1542 / Stafford 1629)
0Z58 1810 Crewe Heritage Centre – Bury arr 2210 (40145+56006+47192+47712) (pass Warrington BQ 1947 / Manchester Victoria 2035)
WEBSITE UPDATED with picture of 56302 leaving Grangemouth with 6Y56. Photo : Alasdair Eadington
Rumours of a 56 working to Fort William continue but times have been entered for a working today.This is believed to be linked to the fuel oil taffic to Fort William which was expected to transfer to road.
Departure is 1420 from Grangemouth and arrival at Fort William yard is booked for 2134
Return working is booked for Monday 3rd July as 1331 from Fort William arriving Grangemouth at 2044 ( passing Cowlairs 1943)
56302 reported as working this train.
There are three Colas locos at Grangemouth (56302 , 60056 and 70802) but speculation is that the 56 will turn out. I guess we’ll know at 1420 this afternoon.
As always if anyone takes any pictures please feel free to drop them into us and we’ll publish them on the website or in our magazine Gridiron.
0Z06 1330 Leicester L.I.P. to Etches Park Sdgs
Runs on 2nd July 2017
- Diesel locomotive
| WTT | Realtime | Route | Allowances | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Location | Pl | Arr | Dep | Arr | Dep | Dly | Line | Path | Eng | Pth | Prf |
| Leicester L.I.P. | 1330 | 1330 | |||||||||
| Leicester [LEI] | UDS | 1333 | 1340 | 1333 | 1340 | FL | |||||
| Leicester North Jn. | pass | 1341 | pass | 1341 | |||||||
| Humberstone Rd Jn | pass | 1342 | pass | 1341 | |||||||
| Syston [SYS] | pass | 1345 | pass | 1344 | |||||||
| Syston South Jn | pass | 1345 | pass | 1345 | FL | ||||||
| Syston North Jn | pass | 1345½ | pass | 1345 | |||||||
| Sileby [SIL] | pass | 1347½ | pass | 1347 | |||||||
| Sileby Jn | pass | 1348 | pass | 1348 | FL | ||||||
| Mountsorrel Sdgs | pass | 1349 | pass | 1348 | |||||||
| Barrow upon Soar [BWS] | pass | 1349½ | pass | 1349 | |||||||
| Loughborough South Jn | pass | 1351½ | pass | 1351 | |||||||
| Loughborough [LBO] | 1 | pass | 1352 | pass | 1352 | FL | |||||
| Loughborough North Jn | pass | 1352½ | pass | 1352 | |||||||
| Kegworth | pass | 1356½ | pass | 1356 | |||||||
| East Midlands Parkway [EMD] | pass | 1358 | pass | 1358 | |||||||
| Ratcliffe Jn | pass | 1358½ | pass | 1358 | |||||||
| Trent South Jn [XTG] | pass | 1359 | pass | 1359 | |||||||
| Sheet Stores Jn | pass | 1400 | pass | 1400 | |||||||
| Long Eaton [LGE] | pass | 1400½ | pass | 1400 | |||||||
| Draycott | pass | 1402½ | pass | 1402 | |||||||
| Spondon [SPO] | pass | 1406 | pass | 1406 | |||||||
| Derby Way & Works Sidings | 1409 | 1414 | 1409 | 1414 | |||||||
| Etches Park Sdgs [XEP] | 1416 | 1416 | |||||||||
We have now created galleries for all 135 locos in the class, take a walk down memory-lane with us here
Unfortunately this tour has now been cancelled.
This one crept under our radar but 56081 & 56104 are currently at the Midland Railway Centre Butterley as part of this weekends diesel Gala.
Picture shows 56081 during a layover at the Gala yesterday (18th June 2017).
Picture from C56G member Gareth Yates
Please see text in bold for the latest news
56006 has been invited back to the Eat Lancs Diesel Gala and the Committee and Volunteers are currently working hard to ensure the tyre turning required can be completed in time for 56006 to hitch a ride on the Gala convoy which will operate a few days prior to the Gala.
More news as things develop but we are looking forward to visiting the ELR again.
As part of the preparations for the visit Danny Sladdin and Mick Palfreyman led a working day at UKRL Leicester to fit a fresh set of batteries to 56006. Shield Batteries Ltd had really pulled out all the stops to help us and turned a set of batteries round in les than a week. The fully charged set arrived at Leicester on Friday 16th June and were fitted on the Sunday 18th .
The engine governor on 56006 needed a little help starting the first time with the fuel rack being held open, but a second restart needed no intervention and the focus turned to other systems. A faulty parking brake release was traced to a faulty release button in No 1 cab. There was also no low tone on the warning horn at No 1 end and this was traced to the Electro- Pneumatic valve (EP valve) which had dried out and was sticking. This was stripped down and the seals coated with special purpose lubricant and the horn restored to full effectiveness.
56006 should have a Fitness to Run (FTR) examination in the coming week ahead of its transfer to Etches Park. After the tyre turning all 24 brake blocks will need changing and the associated brake cylinders will need adjusting. The blocks will need changing as the old blocks will have worn to match the diameter of the wheels as they are now. After turning the reduced wheel diameter would mean the current brake blocks would only make point contact which would not give the locomotive its full brake force and can cause problems with heating and gouging to the new wheel tread.