47798

[KODIAK BEAR]

this class 47 has a cable on the outside under the drivers window.

http://trainsferriesbuses.co.uk/leaving.jpg

does anyone know what it is for please????

[swisstrains]

Originally Posted by KODIAK BEAR

this class 47 has a cable on the outside under the drivers window.

http://trainsferriesbuses.co.uk/leaving.jpg

does anyone know what it is for please????

It's a telecommunication cable between the locos (47798 and 799) and the royal train. I suppose it's to allow the Queen to speak to the driver.

[KODIAK BEAR]

Why would betty want to chat to the driver ? lol

[swisstrains]

Originally Posted by KODIAK BEAR

Why would betty want to chat to the driver ? lol

To tell him to give it plenty of thrash and not to worry about the clag.

[KODIAK BEAR]

lmao

can you imagine betty and phil hanging out the windows with snow goggles on getting lung fulls diesel fumes and her saying "would one mind putting one's foot down please"?

lmfao

[chapelon]

Do you think the royals would start bellowing at some sulzer thrash????

[swisstrains]

Originally Posted by chapelon

Do you think the royals would start bellowing at some sulzer thrash????

Maybe you know the answer to that one Chapelon?
Working for EWS have you ever had any involvement with the royal train? (if you have I assume that you can't say too much)

[chapelon]

I havent in recent years but in BR days Charlie boy visited Bradford and I was the shunter on duty at the time so best overalls that day, however a ballast train arrived at the same time that was over-length and the signaller put it in the adjacent platform so it was unable to run round (Bradford Interchange is a dead end station for those not familliar) so in Charles absence we used his ex-works 47 to take 5 or 6 of the rudd wagons off the rear of the train and put them in the wall side siding and then release the ballast loco by moving the remainder of the rudds into the far platform, not a very glamourous duty for a royal loco.

[swisstrains]

Originally Posted by chapelon

............... so in Charles absence we used his ex-works 47 to take 5 or 6 of the rudd wagons off the rear of the train ......................not a very glamourous duty for a royal loco.

Nice one
It's always good to see one of the present royal 67's on lowly duties. I saw "Queens Messenger" at Warrington the other day on coal wagons.

[chapelon]

That one was at scunthorpe on goole scunthorpe steel tripper last year, i have a pic somewhere I also have a pic of myself at the controls of 67029 in scunthorpe anchor sidings .