VOLUME 35 No.10 October 2007 - Intercity Railway Society
VOLUME 35 No.10 October 2007 - Intercity Railway Society VOLUME 35 No.10 October 2007 - Intercity Railway Society
Railway Globetrotters by Martin Hall The Baltic Explorer I’m sorry there was no wagon corner in the September magazine but I was away in August on the ‘Baltic Explorer’. I left Derby for St Pancras International and on arrival saw that it was almost ready for action. It looks great and it nice that they have kept the old feel of St Pancras on the outside. I then made my way to Waterloo to catch my Eurostar, which as usual left fairly slowly until we reached the new section of line, when you could feel the acceleration. We finally arrived in Brussels-Midi where we changed trains to continue by Thalys to Cologne. From Cologne we boarded an inter-city train for Wuppertal. The next day before we left we had to have a look at the famous ‘dangle bahn’ a monorail system. From Wuppertal we boarded another inter-city train and after changing at Hamburg we arrived at the ferry port of Puttgarden an important route between Germany and Denmark. The train drove straight on to the ferry and later arrived in Copenhagen where I spent a couple of days with the railway station right next to the hotel, very convenient! The next leg was from Copenhagen to Malmo in Sweden where we joined the X2000 high-speed service to Stockholm where I spent another couple of days and surprise-surprise the hotel was next to the station again, brilliant, but my wife was getting a little suspicious. From Stockholm we boarded an overnight ferry to Finland and arrived in Helsinki the next morning and booked into the hotel not far from the railway station (what a coincidence). We spent a few days here sight seeing and spotting of course, very pleasant. Next we took a ferry to Estonia and arrived in Tallin after a very rough crossing. I noticed a change in the general feel of the country and although there were plenty of trams I nearly did not find the railway station. We returned to Helsinki on the ferry after a few days and went straight to the railway station (for a bit of spotting) and then boarded a train for Russia. As soon as we had crossed into Russia the border guards came on and took our passports away and asked us to fill in forms so we could enter the country and also eventually leave it. After a while we got our passports and forms returned. We arrived in St Petersburg our final destination. Russia was an eye-opener, there seemed to be wealth and deprivation, the traffic in the city was crazy, with traffic jams whatever time of day it was, the underground was manic and the train stations (of course) were very busy. On one day my wife went on a sight-seeing boat trip but I decided to look at the stations with another train spotter and when we arrived at the station we recorded numbers, well wrote down what we saw as they use the Cyrillic alphabet. We also wanted to take photographs so we walked off the end of the platform to get better shots, no problem, health and safety does not seem to be high on their agenda in Russia. TT 102-169 Ufhayr Railway Museum, St Petersburg 22 August 2007 Martin Hall LV 18002 Ufhayr Railway Museum, St Petersburg 22 August 2007 Martin Hall We finally left St Petersburg by plane and arrived at Heathrow only to be told that there was no one to move the disembarkation tube to the aircraft so we could get out, so we stayed there for 15-20mins before we could get off. This made us late into St Pancras for my connection to Derby, which meant we arrived home rather late. A good holiday, tired but lots of lovely numbers to sort out.
Traffic & Traction News by John Barton August 31 New Javelin 395001 was observed at stabled at Clapham Junction this morning, coupled to 67017. September 3 318254 derailed on its ecs move from SECC to Anderson today, resulting in one of its coaches ending up on its side and 2 rail staff needing hospital treatment. This was the same unit, about 10 years ago, that ran through Largs Station, which resulted in 77244 being rebuilt. 37510 has been despatched to Shields to pick up an emergency coupling to haul 318254 back to Shields Depot. 67016 + 37410 & 37417 on Avonmouth-Wembley past Brentry at 16:15 heading for Bristol Parkway September 4 1497 failed this morning, nothing to replace it, so service recommenced at 13:29 ex Brockenhurst with 73109 at the London end propelling 1497. 66708 worked the 5Z90 Laira to Derby stock move through Bristol TM 09:38 consisting of 7 HST coaches and a FGW green barrier coach at each end. September 5 67012 arrived at Oxley sidings at 15:40 with ecs comprising 1272+3120+3121+1679+3112+3140+3107+ 1863+ 5009+4927+5040+5350. DRS 37605 & 37606 seen top & tailing Serco test train at Sevington, south of Ashford. 5 September 2007 Ian Feather September 7 66708 plus 2 coaches & barriers were observed heading west through Slough at 16:24 en route to Laira. 37069 passed Water Orton at 18.30 with 37607 on the rear heading towards Derby. September 9 57601 with 47804 dead in train passed Cossington 14:50 on 5Z69 Trent Loop to Carnforth ECS. September 10 New DRS 66422/423/427 were noted passing Bushbury at 19:11 tonight. 47802 passed through Crewe taking 507003 and 507017 back to Merseyrail. September 13 Cl.442 2424 and 73204 passed through East Croydon at 13.29. 67026 top and tailed the Northern Belle with 67029 seen passing Shrewley at 12:29. September 14 Western D1015 hammered past Dog Bridge at Norton near Worcester at 14:53.
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Traffic & Traction News<br />
by John Barton<br />
August 31<br />
New Javelin 395001 was observed at stabled at Clapham Junction this morning, coupled to 67017.<br />
September 3<br />
318254 derailed on its ecs move from SECC to Anderson today, resulting in one of its coaches ending<br />
up on its side and 2 rail staff needing hospital treatment. This was the same unit, about 10 years ago,<br />
that ran through Largs Station, which resulted in 77244 being rebuilt.<br />
37510 has been despatched to Shields to pick up an emergency coupling to haul 318254 back to<br />
Shields Depot.<br />
67016 + 37410 & 37417 on Avonmouth-Wembley past Brentry at 16:15 heading for Bristol Parkway<br />
September 4<br />
1497 failed this morning, nothing to replace it, so service recommenced at 13:29 ex Brockenhurst with<br />
73109 at the London end propelling 1497.<br />
66708 worked the 5Z90 Laira to Derby stock move through Bristol TM 09:38 consisting of 7 HST<br />
coaches and a FGW green barrier coach at each end.<br />
September 5<br />
67012 arrived at Oxley sidings at 15:40 with ecs comprising 1272+3120+3121+1679+3112+3140+3107+<br />
1863+ 5009+4927+5040+5<strong>35</strong>0.<br />
DRS 37605 & 37606 seen top & tailing Serco test train at Sevington, south of Ashford.<br />
5 September <strong>2007</strong> Ian Feather<br />
September 7<br />
66708 plus 2 coaches & barriers were observed heading west through Slough at 16:24 en route to Laira.<br />
37069 passed Water Orton at 18.30 with 37607 on the rear heading towards Derby.<br />
September 9<br />
57601 with 47804 dead in train passed Cossington 14:50 on 5Z69 Trent Loop to Carnforth ECS.<br />
September 10<br />
New DRS 66422/423/427 were noted passing Bushbury at 19:11 tonight.<br />
47802 passed through Crewe taking 507003 and 507017 back to Merseyrail.<br />
September 13<br />
Cl.442 2424 and 73204 passed through East Croydon at 13.29.<br />
67026 top and tailed the Northern Belle with 67029 seen passing Shrewley at 12:29.<br />
September 14<br />
Western D1015 hammered past Dog Bridge at Norton near Worcester at 14:53.
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