Hi Learner driver here!
 

I'm completely new to the latest practice in locomotive freight timetables and their respective reporting codes, having just returned to train photography after a gap of 25 years. I'm very familiar with Steam Loco practice which is my first area of interest.
I'm looking for info on train timings and reporting codes to and from Scotland, particularly freight trains from Killoch Washery in South Ayrshire hauled by DBS class 66 locos going through Gatehead, Barassie Troon Prestwick and Ayr. I'm not sure of the final destination but it could be Ayr. This may be a completely niave request so please bear with me! I've tried various Scottish websites [e.g. scot-rail] but so far no success. Can anyone help me?:confused::o

As an enthusiast they are available from http://freightmaster.net/ for a price of £93 for the year with books included

I'm still trying to get my wife to agree to pay it out LOL

Welcome to the Railway Forum KB71000,

Can't help with your request but I'm sure someone here may be able to help

Regards

Welcome KB71000, hope you find lots to interest you here !

Wow, that's alot of money. :eek:

Perhaps if several people were interested they could chip in and split the cost ?

That's why I'm having problems justifying with the wife to pay out the money
From now until March next year including 2 issues of the associated magazine is still £40
I WOULD subscribe if it were cheaper but not at these prices

Welcome to the Forum KB71000. Look forward to your posts.

Best wishes,

John H-T.

Hello KB71000 and welcome to the Railway Forum. I bet someone on this forum will be able to assist you with your enquiry, unfortunately I'm not able to .

Welcome to the forum.
 

Hello and welcome to the forum :)

Thanks for the welcome!
 

I have the ELR as a target for future visit probably in 2011. Looking forward to it as I've seen many videos posted on YouTube. Are you a long time member of ELR?

Hello and welcome to the forum, enjoy and all the best.

hello KB71000 welcome to the forum :)

Freight timetables
 

Wow what a price! I've had some replies from a local website one of which has offered to send me daily schedules for a week to give me a flavour of typical train movements. Trouble is there may be several trains booked for passing a certain point at a certain time but only one or maybe none may run. It's apparently all down to demand but there have a booked path just in case they do run. Well well you're always learning. I think the motto is be prepared for anything and keep your camera handy at all times! Thanks for welcome to everyone it's good to be a part of this website. Cheers. Ken:)

You may well find this useful:-

http://www.trainspots.co.uk/listing-gen.php
http://www.trainspots.co.uk/index4ge...group=6&type=2

It's two pages of the same website (the second is for ScotRail); by joining one or more of the groups (follow the links), you can recieve emails with a great deal of freight info, including loco numbers, headcodes, and routing, sometimes with timings. There are groups covering the whole country, and most are free to join, although UK Rail costs around £10 per year - to be honest, you're better off without that group, as there's an unbelievable amount of emails involved - in one day, I recieved over 400 from this group alone!
Hope this helps, Dave. :):)