Pip and Apple outside the Kenninghall Red Lion
Railway Hell: A Pantograph Story, Chelmsford, Essex - 17th June 2014
It was all going so well until the pantograph on the loco hauling the 1600 Liverpool Street to Norwich was ripped off by the overhead wires, just outside Chelmsford, leaving the train to roll to a stop - no pantograph meaning no power for the loco or for the 1000V bus that runs the air conditioning. After Greater Anglia faffed around with about twenty different plans that were to be "put in to place", which went from a rescue loco to actually evacuating the train - which would have been totally cool if it had happened - the fabled resuce loco did finally turn up, once it had been de-coupled from another working set. It then proceeded to haul the carriages on towards Norwich, three hours later, whilst the loco with its missing pantograph was left behind. The next day, there's further joy as Liverpool Street station is down to five platforms from sixteen and the train is cancelled at Colchester. Before all of that, there's a Thursday BSCC ride out to Kennninghall Red Lion, The BBs are playing a gig in the confines of the Pennoyer Centre in Pulham St. Mary, and there's a trip to Norwich.
next album: A Weekend in the Camper Van, West Harling, Norfolk - 21st June 2014
previous album: Isobel's Race For Life, Chantry Park, Ipswich - 11th June 2014
A brave Blackbird
Apple looks around
A pitcure of the R34 airship
In Pulham St. Mary, the sight of a derelict pub
Max, Rob and Henry outside the Pennoyer Centre
A duck and its offspring take a walk
Peace and quiet on a briefly-empty train
An empty Mark 3 coach
An old Class 47 diesel waits at Norwich Station
A Mark 2 guard's van
Class 47 47805 at Norwich
Class 47 47805 The John Scott
Platforms at Norwich station
A large derelict warehouse or factory
Some groovy graffiti under a road bridge
The driver jumps off the train
The driver's down the other end of the train
The driver talks to the guard
Network Rail staff look for the lost pantograph
There's a discussion by the guard's van
Another Network Rail dude walks down the track
Engineers attach rescue loco 'Lord Nelson'
A ladder is hauled out, just in case
Class 90 90005 'Lord Nelson' is stuck on the front
The dead train is hauled off
The train trundles off, with the loco missing
A single Class 153 unit rumbles through Diss
500 people pile off the terminated train at Colchester
Another shot of the brake wagon at Shenfield
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Pip and Apple outside the Kenninghall Red Lion
Pip and Apple outside the Kenninghall Red Lion
A brave Blackbird
Apple looks around
A pitcure of the R34 airship
In Pulham St. Mary, the sight of a derelict pub
Max, Rob and Henry outside the Pennoyer Centre
A duck and its offspring take a walk
Peace and quiet on a briefly-empty train
An empty Mark 3 coach
An old Class 47 diesel waits at Norwich Station
A Mark 2 guard's van
Class 47 47805 at Norwich
Class 47 47805 The John Scott
Platforms at Norwich station
A large derelict warehouse or factory
Some groovy graffiti under a road bridge
The driver jumps off the train
The driver's down the other end of the train
The driver talks to the guard
Network Rail staff look for the lost pantograph
There's a discussion by the guard's van
Another Network Rail dude walks down the track
Engineers attach rescue loco 'Lord Nelson'
A ladder is hauled out, just in case
Class 90 90005 'Lord Nelson' is stuck on the front
The dead train is hauled off
The train trundles off, with the loco missing
A single Class 153 unit rumbles through Diss
500 people pile off the terminated train at Colchester
Another shot of the brake wagon at Shenfield