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Post by orienteer on Mar 12, 2023 21:17:24 GMT
Passing Ruislip siding on the Met, I can see a long train of yellow wagons, each with a cab structure at one end. Can anyone enlighten me as to the purpose of these?
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Post by spsmiler on Mar 13, 2023 17:08:06 GMT
Perhaps it looked like this train seen passing Liverpool Street which was carrying ballast for use during track maintenance.
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Post by d7666 on Mar 13, 2023 20:02:28 GMT
Passing Ruislip siding on the Met, I can see a long train of yellow wagons, each with a cab structure at one end. Can anyone enlighten me as to the purpose of these? Long welded rail train ? They have a yellow structure at each end over the end rail chutes that resembles a cab from a distance.
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Post by orienteer on Mar 14, 2023 13:31:07 GMT
I'm familiar with the long battery locos.
After googling images it seems they are Clayton shunters, but could be diesel, battery or hybrid. As they are all coupled together in a long siding, maybe not yet in service.
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Post by towerman on Mar 14, 2023 17:38:40 GMT
They’re not the old JLE diesel locos?
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Post by d7666 on Mar 14, 2023 20:24:43 GMT
I'm familiar with the long battery locos. After googling images it seems they are Clayton shunters, but could be diesel, battery or hybrid. As they are all coupled together in a long siding, maybe not yet in service. ahhh I see; I read it as yelloe train with cab at ends, not a line of yellow vehicles each with a cab; yes those are the Clayton battery conversions of the Schoema diesel shunters; the 4 remaining unconverted diesels are AFAIK not in the line up
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Post by 75069 on Mar 28, 2023 11:59:42 GMT
Can anyone help please I've seen a report that 12 out of the 14 Schoma locomotives are on a siding by the Met with numbers 3 & 9 missing Also can I ask if anyone has seen battery loco number 30 recently Thank you
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Post by grid56068 on Mar 25, 2024 22:01:13 GMT
I passed Ruislip depot on Saturday hoping to see some of the Schoma/Clayton locos and I was disappointed that I didn't see a single one. Can any member of the forum advise if they have been moved elsewhere and if so if they can be seen from a public place. I only manage to get down to London on a handful of times a year so any help with this will be much appreciated.
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Post by metrofan on Mar 27, 2024 8:27:57 GMT
As for viewing the Schoma /Clayton locos, these are parked on the siding that goes from Ruislip Depot to the Metropolitan line. I recall that almost all the numbers are visible from a train going between Ruislip and Ickenham
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Post by grid56068 on Mar 27, 2024 20:20:18 GMT
Thanks metrofan, your reply is very much appreciated.
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Post by gefw on Mar 29, 2024 18:52:31 GMT
I am not sure if you have any attachment to them but be warned that have been "parked up" for a good number of years (since the Battery loco refurb?) Also you will only get a fleeting glance of part of the "conger" from the met line train moving at line speed.
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Post by grumpycat on May 23, 2024 19:13:48 GMT
Was looking about the CRRC wagons and apparently they have been scrapped and the project abandoned is this for certain?
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Post by Dstock7080 on May 23, 2024 20:16:42 GMT
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Post by Chris M on May 23, 2024 23:55:26 GMT
Are there plans for a replacement project or has it just been decided to live with what they currently have?
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Post by brigham on May 24, 2024 7:40:08 GMT
Replacement project? How much of the previous £11.5 million sent to China was wasted?
I don't think you will be getting any pudding after that!
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Post by jimbo on May 24, 2024 7:48:59 GMT
I doubt that much was wasted. Only 5 of 71 wagons arrived, and failed to meet specification standards. Do we know why they failed to suit TfL? CRRC supplies huge numbers of wagons to other operators.
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Post by grumpycat on May 24, 2024 10:19:36 GMT
CRRC supplies huge numbers of wagons to other operators. CRRC has been known to have shoddy quality esp in the US so its probably one of those cases
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Post by spsmiler on May 24, 2024 11:16:11 GMT
Maybe its a case of 'buy cheap, buy twice' and 'bye bye' to the first company you bought from.
I just hope that the quality of workmanship from a UK supplier (if any still exist) would be sufficient to justify the (likely) higher headline price.
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Post by d7666 on May 24, 2024 15:19:46 GMT
Are there plans for a replacement project or has it just been decided to live with what they currently have? Plans yes. Money no. Like quite a lot of other things. Live with what they have. Like quite a lot of other things. EDIT tidied up.
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Post by gefw on May 25, 2024 13:45:46 GMT
Interesting reading the Engineering trains element of the rolling stock plan as per TfL Programmes and Investment Committee meeting on 8 March 2017: content.tfl.gov.uk/06-lu-rolling-stock.pdfSome items such as the KIROW cranes & Battery loco refurb have made it but others have suffered the wish list financial cull.
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Post by grumpycat on Jun 1, 2024 23:21:13 GMT
Forgot to mention aswell but was it true that the CRRC wagons arrived bent or something like that?
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