“Grid” Group News
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Status report : 56301
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.
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ELR Gala- 56006 AVAILABLE (was unavailable)
18/8/19 56006 sucessfully completed a test run last friday (9/8/19) and completed a running day yesterday(17/8/19). 56006 worked the 1145 Bury Heywood , with the rostered loco – 37109 inside for insurance , ran round at Heywood and then worked the 1215 and 1515 Heywood – Rawtenstall trips. If the loco had shown any problems […]
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56006 running day at East Lancashire railway Sun 16th June 2019
56006 is booked to work 3 round trips working the diesel turn on the Blue timetable. First train is 09:15 to Heywood and then 3 round trips between Heywood – Bury- Rawtenstal. 56006 has been declared fit this morning after some dedicated efforts by our technical team following the failure of the locomotive prior to […]
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Work at Bury for arrival of C56G storage container
Preparations are underway for the arrival of a 20′ container. The location has been identified and we need to add more ballast to the right hand edge of the current ballast shoulder and then site upturned concrete sleepers . The ELR guys will use their telelifter to do the heavy lifting but we’ll need a […]
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DCR 56091 lined up for ELR Gala appearance
Freshly repainted into DCR livery ,the recently returned to traffic 56091 has been announced as a visitor to the ELR Diesel Gala in July. Details on other visiting locos are available on the ELR website.
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DCR new flow-Carlisle VQ to Boston Sleaford sidings-17/5 empties stage at Chaddesden
56091/56103 should work empry rake back to Chaddesden tomorrow (Fri 17/5) Departing Boston at 1351 and running via Nottingham , arriving Chaddesden at 1744. Locos then run light to Leicester at 1904 , arriving 2003. DCR 56091 + 56103 should work upto Carlisle on Monday 13/5 with the empties from the initial runs of […]
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Brief update – 6th May 2019
56006 has several running days scheduled at the East Lancashire Railway . The loco is currently awaiting some electrical attention but it is envisaged the loco will be available for its first duty on the 31st May. This is a driver experience day and not available to the general public. 56006’s first true running day […]
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56090 set to appear at this weekends Ribble Railway Gala – Saturday ONLY
Colas should be providing 56090 to work trains on Saturday only. Saturday Visiting Engine: Colas 56090 10:30 Progress and NS663 out. NS663 return. (Demonstration Freight) 11:20 D9539 and 56090 out and return. 12:00 D9539 and 56090 out and return. 12:50 D2595 out. Progress and D2595 return. 13:50 D2595,Stanlow No.4 and 56090 out and return. 14:40 […]
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Livery query – appeal for information
Always on the look out for rare class 56 images on ebay this picture was spotted recently. Taken at Worksop in 1983 it is interesting because the electrification warning flash is located in a central position on the horn grille rather than the more normal 2 flashes one on either side of the cab front. […]
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Appeal for volunteers to work on 56006 at Bury
Due to the delays to publication of Gridiron , many members will be unaware of the regular working parties taking place on the last Sunday of each month. As a result we’ve only had two or three people attending and progress is slow. With the next scheduled work for 56006 being late June ( but […]
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