The new news 24 thread

[davidfowler2000]

No.

11 mins down at Port Glasgow. Got the call to say they'd move me round to the last signal before the single line
15.5 mins down at Whinhill
12 mins down arr at Wemyss Bay
8 mins down dep The Bay
4 mins down at Port Glasgow
2 mins down at Paisley Gilmour St
1 min down at Central

I just horsed it's arse all the way. Brakes on it were outstanding. Was hitting platforms at 35 - 40mph and stopping no bother.

[Spurious]

47 minutes ago, davidfowler2000 said:

Last train to Wemyss Bay tonight - 2236 off Glasgow. The joys*
Inverclyde young team were out in force but thankfully not on my train. Got held at Port Glasgow 'cos the train coming off the single line was 27 minutes down after needing police assistance at inverkip.

Ended up 15 mins down at the worst. By the time I got to the bay, changed ends and pedalled the utter fuck out this poor bastard, I was only only 1 minute late back to Glasgow...

Arrived in central at 0028. Full shut down with walk through, dumped back in my locker and changed shoes, hire bike most of the way home. I was in the flat for 0048 and on my second gin by 0100

You need your own thread on this, 10/10 would subscribe. 

[paulplom]

+1

[Split_Pin]

7 hours ago, davidfowler2000 said:

No.

11 mins down at Port Glasgow. Got the call to say they'd move me round to the last signal before the single line
15.5 mins down at Whinhill
12 mins down arr at Wemyss Bay
8 mins down dep The Bay
4 mins down at Port Glasgow
2 mins down at Paisley Gilmour St
1 min down at Central

I just horsed it's arse all the way. Brakes on it were outstanding. Was hitting platforms at 35 - 40mph and stopping no bother.

Having got the train to work for the last 20 years, this is the kind of journey I like.

Would also subscribe.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

7 hours ago, Spurious said:

You need your own thread on this, 10/10 would subscribe. 

For the train driver in all of us.

[juular]

Count me in. Was this a 320 or one of the chopped 321s?

I remember the days when the 320s were new on the north Clyde, before TPWS was a thing and they were getting properly driven. 

Didn't realise they were on the inverclydes now.

[davidfowler2000]

All the 320/4s are the ex-321s. Been using them on Inverclyde for 2 years or so now

[High Jetter]

Confessions of a train driver thread please.

[holbeck]

5 hours ago, davidfowler2000 said:

All the 320/4s are the ex-321s. Been using them on Inverclyde for 2 years or so now

Does that mean they can't be called 'dusty bins' any longer?

[stuboy]

Stuboy junior car tyres are not the best, and few days ago I spotted a corsa wheel with new tyre for £20, well he moaned about spending money.. and did nothing about it , I couldn't miss this bargain so went got it myself..  bloody kids

[dean36014]

So I collected shonky the bx yesterday from the garage he was stored in for a year. Put away with a suspected head gasket failure. So today I used a sniffer test, left it in for half an hour and it stayed blue.

Pressure tested the coolant system to and pressure held. Ran it for an hour with the rads fans cutting in and out every couple of minutes (been on a drive prior to get him up to temp) and no blowing out the overflow on the expansion bottle. I've a horrible feeling I was over filling the expansion bottle causing it to blow out. Rad cap and thermostat were replaced when I laid him up. So I'm going to run him commuting for a week and see what happens. On the plus side the parking out front of my house looks good, and yes I know I need to sweep the stones up.

 

[somewhatfoolish]

6 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Confessions of a train driver thread please.

There is a general railshite thread in the non-car section.

[busmansholiday]

Saw my first "new" Land Rover Defender today.

"How fooooking much", it looks like Postman Pat's van on steroids.

[Zelandeth]

Ah, that's much more how I'd have preferred my commute.  I used the bus for about a year and a half before nearly losing my sanity when they changed the timetable.  After that the driver had to boot it through town in rush hour...then pootle along the next 15 miles of open country dual carriageway at about 25mph as there was massively too much time in the timetable there.

Was far nicer prior to that, especially when they still had the old Olympians on the run... nothing like getting to sit in the back a foot away from a Gardner absolutely gunning it down the A96...

[Daviemck2006]

Ah, that's much more how I'd have preferred my commute.  I used the bus for about a year and a half before nearly losing my sanity when they changed the timetable.  After that the driver had to boot it through town in rush hour...then pootle along the next 15 miles of open country dual carriageway at about 25mph as there was massively too much time in the timetable there.
Was far nicer prior to that, especially when they still had the old Olympians on the run... nothing like getting to sit in the back a foot away from a Gardner absolutely gunning it down the A96...

We had the same timetable problems on the 305. At busy times it was impossible to get to Dyce in the allotted 25 minutes, it was more like an hour and then the whole journey was late, but when Aberdeen was quiet and we did get to Dyce on time then it was about 35 mph all the way to Macduff.

Sent from my SM-T585 using Tapatalk

[wuvvum]

1 hour ago, Zelandeth said:

Was far nicer prior to that, especially when they still had the old Olympians on the run... nothing like getting to sit in the back a foot away from a Gardner absolutely gunning it down the A96...

Much of the bus service in north Norfolk is contracted out to Sanders Coach Services, and back in the day they had a proper eclectic collection of old heaps, including two multi-coloured Olympians.  I used to breathe a sigh of relief when the one with the 5-speed 'box would turn up - the four-speeder ran out of revs at 43 which made for a very tedious run in to Norwich, with the 6LXB sounding like it would put a rod through the block at any moment.  The 5-speeder would wind up to about 53 before wind resistance got the better of it, and the soundtrack was more pleasant as the engine was working hard but not sitting on the limiter.

They also had a Van Hool-bodied Bedford 53-seater with a 500 non-turbo engine, so it looked pretty modern (this was back in the early 2000s) but wouldn't pull 6th gear into a headwind.  The last bus back in the evening was always a Plaxton-bodied 609D with a manual 'box, which must have been a right chore to drive down the little back lanes.

Sanders still do have a varied fleet, although with a few exceptions they're all painted one colour now.  They have a massive tri-axle double decker, another double decker which is just as long but only has two axles, and a variety of single deckers including an 03-plate Scania which sounds like it's going to fall apart every time it hits a bump but absolutely bloody flies.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

This afternoon I have mostly been discovering another CX living near Tring, a 1985 Series 1 Pallas IE which has been living in a secluded garage in the middle of nowhere. It's off the road with - titter ye not - starting problems. Also has quite a bit of rust developing along the sills and in the driver's foot well.

Its owner was after a twin-sensor AEI injection ECU, which I happened to have in my little shed of CX spares. No cash changed hands, as he gave me a single-sensor AEI in return. He also owns a Volvo Amazon and other assorted modern shite.

Think I'll be going back up there if I  can find a starter motor in the next few days......

[SiC]

Crikey

 

[Jazoli]

13 minutes ago, SiC said:

Crikey

 

2 massive crashes yesterday, God had his hand over Rossi yesterday that is for sure, huge crash in moto2 also 

 

[Supernaut]

On 15/08/2020 at 23:23, brownnova said:

Went for a drive this evening to settle the baby... rare thing happened on Rhos on Sea prom...

I found another 9000

[stuboy]

Had pleasure to drive this to return to a sick employee, felt heavy to drive, gears stiff and smelt oily headgaskety...but moved when required 

[richardmorris]

1945 according to the numberplate.

[barefoot]

Anyone remember me driving my T2 back under my carport with the pop roof still up on August 12th - last year?

Most of it was repaired quite quickly, but Dormobile ripped the headlining while fitting a new roof cap, and Corvid has led to further delays which has meant that the headlining has not been repaired until now! I retrieved it from the trimmer at lunchtime, but because my drive has had to be completely dug up at the moment, I've driven it down to store at a local VW repairer for a day or two. And it was raining, and I forgot my camera, but it looks bloody nice.  Pictures in a day or three when it comes back again...

[Out Run]

3 hours ago, richardmorris said:

1945 according to the numberplate.

[barefoot]

And when I took the T2 down, I saw one of these in the unit next door.

It looked really twatty - I'll take a real picture when I pick the van up.

[Christine]

On 8/16/2020 at 6:12 PM, stuboy said:

Stuboy junior car tyres are not the best, and few days ago I spotted a corsa wheel with new tyre for £20, well he moaned about spending money.. and did nothing about it , I couldn't miss this bargain so went got it myself..  bloody kids

Its 15 years old ...? 25 05 

[HillmanImp]

Yo, hows it hanging chaps? 

At my mums in Sussex and am looking through some old photos and found this one. 

Whats the blue car that looks like a Bond Bug but with a cloth hood. 

Also where the fook is this? We're not sure. 

Here's a bonus picture of me working on my car in Gretna, in the very early 80s.

[High Jetter]

You rolled it? (Sorry, have no answer to your questions)

[Mr_Bo11ox]

the blue thing is a motorbike sidecar is it not

 

[Out Run]

1 minute ago, Mr_Bo11ox said:

the blue thing is a motorbike sidecar is it not

 

I’d say so. Given there is a motorbike attached!