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Further cab repainting took place thIs week and the attached image shows the standard of work and has a nice retro feel about it.
28th September 2019
A nice image of 56006 pulling away after the stop at Burrs Contry Park during the third round trip of the day. Danny had ridden the loco on the first two trips and after I took over on this trip Danny took the oportunity to go lineside capture this nice shot.
28th September 2019
56006 ran some driver experience trips on the 19th September.
The class 24 had been booked to operate all day but as there were no customers after 1pm it was decided to give the 56 a run out if we could find anyone wanting to drive a 56.
Due to the late notice we only found one customer (via the WNXX Railway forum ) and unusually he requested the trips as light engine runs rather than with the rake of mk1 coaches.
A headboad was provided and the loco performed without problem. 56006 was accompanied by Danny Sladdin from or technical team and Danny provided the attached photograph taken during the reversal at Heywood.
Further footplate experience trips with 56006 are planned for the 11th October 2019 and into 2020 and hopefully 56006 will take part again. Anyone interested can contact via C56G or direct with ELR via their website.
28th September 2019
56006 is out on the 11th October on a Driver experience day. The 56 is replacing unavailable 40145. All 8 places had been booked but while I’m not aware of anyone dropping out after being informed of the traction change there is a possibility so there might be some availability. Please contact the Est Lancs Railway to check availability.
13th September 2019
As has become traditional this years Class 56 hauled Christmas railtour takes place on the above date.
The C56G are expected to have a small sales presence on the train- usually in the buffet car. We also hope to hold the usual C56G Raffle which always proves to be very popular.
Details on the Pathfinder website at the link below.
https://www.pathfindertours.co.uk/events/the-grotto-grid/
Photo (Courtesy John Powell /C56G collection) shows 56118 ,56121 and 56105 at Tinsley on 19th October 1986Â . 56105 was only 4 years old when the pictre was taken. The other two 56s were 3 years old! 56105 is still in service with Colas almost 33 years later.
8th September 2019
56098 has just propelled a rake back into the sidings while 56081 sits on the sand road ready for action.
Photo by C56G Chairman , and left uncropped to demonstrate view possible from the adjacent public roads.
8th September 2019
Frther to recent posts details on the trains operated by 56006 can be found on the following link.
http://www.elrdiesel.info/locomotive-roster.php
The Blue timetable is in operation and 56006 is booked to operate the diesel turn commencing with the 09:15 Bury- Heywood (all services headed D are booked for 56006 )
Please spport the group and the railway if you can. If you do travel please come and say hello to one of several C56G committee members who will either be on the train, loco, platform or buffet!
After all the hard work to get the loco fully operational this running day represents the third of three days the loco needed to work to assure the railway we’ve got it reliable.
Keith
8th September 2019
Sunday 8/9/19
By way of update , and demonstrating the truth of our post of almost a year ago, 56128 now resides at Longport and although initilally lined up as a standby in case any of the other 56’s dropped out of the program, it is understood the loco could now form part of the project .
Similar things happened with the class 57/0 project when a locomotive was found to have been suffering from a collision many years previously. The damage rled the loco out of becoming a 57/0 and anothe rclass 47 took its place.
If 56128 were to become a class 69 it would be one of a handful of surviving Crewe built locos. Crewe BREL built 56116-56135 to allow Doncaster to switch over to class 58 production . The srvivors being:-
56117- Floyd- Hngary – stored as source of spares.
56124- as 56302 – in service with Colas
56125 – as 56303 – collision damaged at Wembley.
56128- Longport- standby for Class 69 repower project.
By way of comparisson the ‘ poor quality’ Romanian batch seem to have faired slightly better in terms of number of locos surviving:-
56003-running as 56312- operational
56006- preserved-operational
56007- part of Class 69 repower project
56009- as 56007
56018 as 56007
Monday 10/09/18.
Further to the recent reports on the road movement of 56128, we received the above image from Phillip Betesta.
There was a time when any photograph of a loco heading to a scrapyard could be confidently captioned with the phrase ‘final journey’. However, recent times seem to have proved this to be incorrect, as several locos have reappeared again. Let’s hope the future is brighter for 56128 this time around?
Interestingly, the loco carries round OLEO buffers at both ends. As a Crewe built loco, 56128 would have had oval buffers fitted throughout its working life. The only known exception being 56125 which carried a set of round OLEOs at one end only for a period.
8th September 2019
56006 is booked to operate three round trips on the above date.
The locomotive will operate the booked diesel turn starting with the 09:15 departure to Heywood.
In addition the locomotive is booked to operate driver experience trips on the following dates
19th September (56 to operate in the afternoon only – depending on demand)
11th October ( replacing booked loco 40145)
4th September 2019
56301 is awaiting replacement wheelsets at Leicester.
The C56G hope to be in a position to make an annoncement soon on the plans for our mainline registered locomotive.
4th September 2019