Latest industry snippets:
- More empty JVC wagons moved from Westbury to Knobsworth by GBHrail. Possibly a new flow for Supreme Glass or possibly the shunter omitted to detach them from the engine at Shitesworth Up Yard.
- Port of Samson has announced 1,500 new quayside microcranes. Each crane can lift equal to 17 bags of sugar (empty) and consumes barely a tenth of the palm oil of normal craneage. Source: Vladimir Smith, Scumbly-on-Sea
- A fleet of 13 Autonomous quad bikes are being converted into bi-mode next generation shunting locos by Cunslet Disengineering at Stoke on Fire. Aimed at the as yet non-existent last-mile short-haul market, their padded leather buffers can double as pantograph reducers when required. Source: Rail People; locomotion supplement, July.
And in represervation news, this from the Weymouth & Grangemouth Light Railway shunter’s’ cabin log:
- We put 4 up number 3 and kept on pushing til they found them. Bang!!!!!!!!!!!!
- No.6 Road is clipped out UFN, gauge spread and worm in the chair putty; the rake of CNT wagons at the top end will be stuck until we can stroke them out by hand with a pinch bar.
- No.17 is back in following a month of repairs including new ferrules, screws, bobbins and scrote pins on every fourth sleeper until Wednesday week
- The rake of Knuntfish that had been defiling No.1 Reception were finally collected on the Saturdays-only Freshbury to Stalesnatch trip working
- Cabin mess room heater finally gave out Thursday week; fitter attended and found sixteen crispy copies of Mynge Mag Supreme from the mid-70’s jammed in the thermostat housing shield