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Thank you all for the amount of info and links / video's.
a bit of a short reply but I really can't add anything to all the replies. thank you much appreciated !
Going to do a bit of research browsing the internet ^^

I am pretty sure there was a period of triple headed 37's in the Welsh valleys before the 56's got up to strength.
Long time ago, but I think thats right!
Paul

I've seen pictures of at least (!) 3 class 25s struggling up the Lickey as well, although that particular gradient is of course something of an anomaly in Britain's railway network

RSPaul wrote:I am pretty sure there was a period of triple headed 37's in the Welsh valleys before the 56's got up to strength.
Long time ago, but I think thats right!
Paul

Yep that happened at Mossend too, 3x 37/3s(37/0s with CP7 bogeys and steam heat boiler isolated). But that was back in the day when the MTDR didn't exist and you could shove a freight loco on a passenger working if the passenger loco failed, and all locos and units had buffers and draw hooks....

I was offline for a couple of days.
I'm not sure its proper etiquette to do so, but I like to thank everybody again for their additional info out of their own experience or otherwise.

I do read every single reply, but sometimes I'm not sure how to respond, simply I don't have much knowledge about this.

But thanks to you all I'm beginning to really appreciate and understand British / UK / Scottish / Irish railways and railway services. The latter two also because they are also in my interest and I like to lookup as much info as I can.
Or Australian railway services, which I find fascinating as well. And the American railway of course.. well actually, any railway in any part of the world is very interesting. But I'm concentrating myself for the most part on the UK / US railways.

I am from The Netherlands myself and, as a newcomer, also with not much real life experience regarding railway or railstock, it is however sometimes a bit more difficult to fully understand or to fully emerse into the British / UK railway experience.
But I'm willing to learn and try to fully appreciate this wonderful history of the British / UK railway services or the railstock itself.

Thanks to the community of UKTrainSim and also RSC I am able to better understand the history of various routes/stock.
Thank you all very much for all of your info and I read all posts from beginning to end.

In addition I've found a nice video of the newly available class 33.
This video is from a real life class 33.
double headed, so it fits the subject I started with.
The video is not by me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zumLdexwV4

Torque55 wrote:I was offline for a couple of days.
I'm not sure its proper etiquette to do so, but I like to thank everybody again for their additional info out of their own experience or otherwise.

I do read every single reply, but sometimes I'm not sure how to respond, simply I don't have much knowledge about this.

But thanks to you all I'm beginning to really appreciate and understand British / UK / Scottish / Irish railways and railway services. The latter two also because they are also in my interest and I like to lookup as much info as I can.
Or Australian railway services, which I find fascinating as well. And the American railway of course.. well actually, any railway in any part of the world is very interesting. But I'm concentrating myself for the most part on the UK / US railways.

I am from The Netherlands myself and, as a newcomer, also with not much real life experience regarding railway or railstock, it is however sometimes a bit more difficult to fully understand or to fully emerse into the British / UK railway experience.
But I'm willing to learn and try to fully appreciate this wonderful history of the British / UK railway services or the railstock itself.

Thanks to the community of UKTrainSim and also RSC I am able to better understand the history of various routes/stock.
Thank you all very much for all of your info and I read all posts from beginning to end.

Fantastic post, and make sure you feel under no pressure to make an individual reply to each post.

I'm with you on this issue of variety, the more the better! I do feel sorry for people whose interest has become so blinkered in one area that they forget to look around at the huge variety of interesting different railway practices around the world and enjoy the different contributions each area brings.

transadelaide wrote: I'm with you on this issue of variety, the more the better! I do feel sorry for people whose interest has become so blinkered in one area that they forget to look around at the huge variety of interesting different railway practices around the world and enjoy the different contributions each area brings.

Indeed! I took a consist over the Cajon Pass for the first time at the weekend, and rather enjoyed the sound of the SD40 (why did the Class 59 have to be so heavily silenced? ) as well as balancing it on the dynamic brakes on the way down.

I also felt it leap forwards as I took Notch 1 and wondered why I'd been given 12000 hp for 17 wagons... then the climb started!

All an interesting contrast to a rainy Oxford-Padd (or even a pair of Napiers in a tunnel on the ELR, in real life ).

RSPaul wrote:I am pretty sure there was a period of triple headed 37's in the Welsh valleys before the 56's got up to strength.
Long time ago, but I think thats right!
Paul

Yep I have a couple of pics from my fathers collection....

Lovely shot of very work worn 37s, amazing that two of them were still in BR Green. Thanks for sharing those photos Keith.

Something a little more upto date. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdz49Fg0 ... ploademail http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBZSB9RB ... re=related