DRS reliability

salopiangrowler · Post by **salopiangrowler** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:08 pm

They do have good reliability, its just the 37's are starting to fail here there and everywhere. Well ok not that often but im speak on terms of 37038 just released from loughborough a month or so ago and failing on DRS's tour.

605 failed on the ECS move back to crewe.

i think 259 failed on an intermodal last week.

Modification's to improve locomotive reliability, yeah right, dont make me laugh, Loughborough bodged D9016 up when it went pink n purple.

phat2003uk · Post by **phat2003uk** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 9:11 pm

You just seem to have a thing against them changing the look of the front. I admit they look better with the original splitbox fronts but we can't have it all. Would you rather no 37s at all?

rwaceyw · Post by **rwaceyw** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 9:15 pm

Salopian, a personal request. Can you stop posting 'facts' that have little basis in truth, basically to 'bad mouth' an operating company?

salopiangrowler · Post by **salopiangrowler** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 9:38 pm

no they have been dropping like flies this last month or so.

no im sniping at Brush Loughborough this time dave not DRS. it seems any loco they touch or modify since they built the 60's has had a bad time.

staticxfreak · Post by **staticxfreak** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 11:18 am

How have the fastline 56's been coping?

carlwestwood · Post by **carlwestwood** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 7:06 pm

as far as i know, they have been doing fine. i havent heard of the breaking down or anything like that yet.

anyone else?

salopiangrowler · Post by **salopiangrowler** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 9:59 pm

staticxfreak wrote:How have the fastline 56's been coping?

I do believe 56303 is back up an running although i assume the 47 will still on hire to them for insurances this week.

Back on the DRS track, they havent had a rosy railtour part really. reliability wise Pathfinder hiring 2 20's a few years back over the Hexham line on load 12, mmm it was hellfire coming back from newcastle that day with 31452 thrashing aswell. Also DRS are hiring Riviera loco's for the RHTT trains, so much for trusting there own loco's

Back on the Loughborough stand. Wheres the NMT HST huh!.

rwaceyw · Post by **rwaceyw** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 10:28 pm

they havent had a rosy railtour part really. reliability wise Pathfinder hiring 2 20's a few years back over the Hexham line on load 12

Why is that DRS's fault, as you suggest? The fact Pathfinder hired 2 x 20 is nothing to do with their reliability......

Also DRS are hiring Riviera loco's for the RHTT trains, so much for trusting there own loco's

Nothing to do with that - I beleive they don't actually have enough locos, hence they're hiring Riviera's spoons.
David

salopiangrowler · Post by **salopiangrowler** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 10:53 pm

rwaceyw wrote:
they havent had a rosy railtour part really. reliability wise Pathfinder hiring 2 20's a few years back over the Hexham line on load 12
Why is that DRS's fault, as you suggest? The fact Pathfinder hired 2 x 20 is nothing to do with their reliability......

Also DRS are hiring Riviera loco's for the RHTT trains, so much for trusting there own loco's
Nothing to do with that - I beleive they don't actually have enough locos, hence they're hiring Riviera's spoons.
David

I was actually mooting Pathfinders reliability for time keeping having hired 2 20's should really have had at least some knowledge of the loco's on load 12.

RHTT trains last year ran allright and they still had spares at kingsmoor, whats this year a 50% rise in freight traffic overnight.

joea1 · Post by **joea1** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:12 am

If you don't like the DRS fronts, seek solace in the fact that there are still remnants of the old ones e.g

http://rjhamilton.fotopic.net/p32283415.html
http://rjhamilton.fotopic.net/p31213432.html

phat2003uk · Post by **phat2003uk** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:17 am

salopiangrowler wrote:
rwaceyw wrote:
they havent had a rosy railtour part really. reliability wise Pathfinder hiring 2 20's a few years back over the Hexham line on load 12
Why is that DRS's fault, as you suggest? The fact Pathfinder hired 2 x 20 is nothing to do with their reliability......

Also DRS are hiring Riviera loco's for the RHTT trains, so much for trusting there own loco's
Nothing to do with that - I beleive they don't actually have enough locos, hence they're hiring Riviera's spoons.
David
I was actually mooting Pathfinders reliability for time keeping having hired 2 20's should really have had at least some knowledge of the loco's on load 12.

RHTT trains last year ran allright and they still had spares at kingsmoor, whats this year a 50% rise in freight traffic overnight.

Has it ever passed your mind that DRS are operating mote RHTT working.

salopiangrowler · Post by **salopiangrowler** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:02 pm

joea1 wrote:If you don't like the DRS fronts, seek solace in the fact that there are still remnants of the old ones e.g

http://rjhamilton.fotopic.net/p32283415.html
http://rjhamilton.fotopic.net/p31213432.html

Did i mention the front ends in this thread

joea1 · Post by **joea1** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:03 pm

It would appear not.

salopiangrowler · Post by **salopiangrowler** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:03 pm

phat2003uk wrote:
salopiangrowler wrote:
rwaceyw wrote: Why is that DRS's fault, as you suggest? The fact Pathfinder hired 2 x 20 is nothing to do with their reliability......

Nothing to do with that - I beleive they don't actually have enough locos, hence they're hiring Riviera's spoons.
David
I was actually mooting Pathfinders reliability for time keeping having hired 2 20's should really have had at least some knowledge of the loco's on load 12.

RHTT trains last year ran allright and they still had spares at kingsmoor, whats this year a 50% rise in freight traffic overnight.
Has it ever passed your mind that DRS are operating mote RHTT working.

More RHTT trains didnt they have enough last year i certainly think they did.