A Sad Day For The Tidal Gronks...

Today was the first day that I can ever recall when all the original Tidal gronks were stopped.

08466 Toytown - main generator?
08752 Tidal - mechanical and electrical repairs
08854 Margam - stored
08951 Toytown - wheelsets

latter one's

08782 Toytown - main generator?
08921 Springs Branch.....allocated an A xam at Canton Depot on 01/03. Believe it should read Cardiff Tidal.

At least the three at Tidal now are having fun, more than can be said about the gronks that have loose heads

billy basher wrote:At least the three at Tidal now are having fun, more than can be said about the gronks that have loose heads

Too much time on your hands to come up with cliches like this.

706 and 605 have been working very hard the last few days.706 had a few niggley faults that have now been sorted out.
Been very busy on getting the sheds back in service today.
Everything Tickerteboo in the East wales area for now.
As long as we can keep the engines away from toytown,we have a fighting chance.

billy basher wrote:706 and 605 have been working very hard the last few days.706 had a few niggley faults that have now been sorted out.
Been very busy on getting the sheds back in service today.
Everything Tickerteboo in the East wales area for now.
As long as we can keep the engines away from toytown,we have a fighting chance.

Tickerteboo, err not quite, you havn't got Pongo working.

Pongo should be leaving Tidal in the next few weeks.Just need toytown to pull their finger out and get another one ready for work

billy basher wrote:Pongo should be leaving Tidal in the next few weeks.Just need toytown to pull their finger out and get another one ready for work

All I can see replacing Pongo is 08752 Lenny. Hope you can arrange for FRED plates to be fitted to it.

Tidal Gronks are working hard this week,705 has developed a buckeye fault on the front end.Been busy on the mainliners this week,even worked on 59202 !!!

billy

send that back to westbury and get a tug instead they never fail

billy basher wrote:Tidal Gronks are working hard this week,705 has developed a buckeye fault on the front end.Been busy on the mainliners this week,even worked on 59202 !!!

Lol. Tidal have probably doubled your recommended maximum loading of 8 x MBA's.

Class 20's fitted with remote may be sent to Tidal to replace the 08's Dream over.
Another manic night in South Wales will lots to do between Aberthaw and Llanwern.
Finished the night with a spad at Newport.!!!!

billy basher wrote:Class 20's fitted with remote may be sent to Tidal to replace the 08's Dream over.
Another manic night in South Wales will lots to do between Aberthaw and Llanwern.
Finished the night with a spad at Newport.!!!!

20's is the answer, but no fitters to maintain them in south wales. Toton have lots of 20 fitters though.


I bet Billy Basher doesn't remember the 20's allocated to Canton Depot for trials?!

Oh yes I do,worked on them as well.Easy to work on those 1000hp V8's.

billy basher wrote:Oh yes I do,worked on them as well.Easy to work on those 1000hp V8's.

They weren't successful though, were they.

You should have been with me last night,it was a mad mad shift that kicked off at 0300

billy basher wrote:You should have been with me last night,it was a mad mad shift that kicked off at 0300

What happened.

Are you still in Ponty over the weekend? It'll be so wet that you'll need the D4 to spread chippings out of the car park. Can I post the picture I took of you with face blanked out at Pencoed many years ago?

The 20's were ok but they were not what BR realy wanted at the time.If I remember right.They decided to base a 47 there,47377.fitted with ssc.The trial lasted for a short while then the 20's were sent back.I remember working on them on 13 rd at Canton main shed.I could never see the point for the trial as Canton had a few 47 /3's there at the time.These days a class 66 can discharge its train in 20/30 mins as I saw last night.I had the loco off the ONLLWYN working to sort out.Later, after the 20's and 47's they had the 37 refurbished and used them on MGR from the grange to Llanwern.We used that run to test 37's off a big exam.

Give me a ring and I will tell you.

billy basher wrote:The 20's were ok but they were not what BR realy wanted at the time.If I remember right.They decided to base a 47 there,47377.fitted with ssc.The trial lasted for a short while then the 20's were sent back.I remember working on them on 13 rd at Canton main shed.I could never see the point for the trial as Canton had a few 47 /3's there at the time.These days a class 66 can discharge its train in 20/30 mins as I saw last night.I had the loco off the ONLLWYN working to sort out.Later, after the 20's and 47's they had the 37 refurbished and used them on MGR from the grange to Llanwern.We used that run to test 37's off a big exam.

Wasn't the plan to use 20's on Cwmbargoed coals?

Back to the madhouse on Monday,dread to think whats instore for me . Manic Mondays Hope to get up to Donny this month for a P up with the "tractor police"

08 888 playing up again in remote,706 working hard from one end only and a rough 09022 on standby.Been busy playing with sheds today even got a trial run in on one.
66048 on the Westbury brightened up the day though.

All Tidal pilots working well,will Pongo return to replace 08706,we will know in two weeks.

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billy basher wrote:All Tidal pilots working well,will Pongo return to replace 08706,we will know in two weeks.

You laid on a top night of pictures together with the rail visit to Celsa Melt and Rod Mill. Ta to the Treorchy Tafia as well, not forgetting BTP that thought they'd notched up three arrests.

I'll send you some pictures tomorrow. I had problems after all with focusing on 706, but Treorchy Taf's picture came out good, handhelp for 1/2s f5.6 at 6400asa and so did the 888 and the moon. 09022's picture will never set the world on fire.

Glad you had good pictures.Had a right runneround last night.Nearly ended up on the RHTT but ran out of time,just in time.Aberthaw was a bit spooky. It pelted down with rain at 0130.