Sheerness Branch ??

[AndyUK]

..If you look on RealTime Trains you will find more than one or two freights depending where on the route you look.
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/ ... &order=wtt
On this day 16 freight services ran thru Gravesend..

..... but Gravesend isn't on the Sheerness branch unless the storm last week did more damage than I've seen reported!

Looking at RTT for locations on the Sheerness branch shows a few engineers trains, possibly RHTT, but no 'proper' freight. There used to be fairly regular trains carrying scrap to Sheerness Steel Works but AFAIK they've not run for some time now.

Andy

[749006]

..If you look on RealTime Trains you will find more than one or two freights depending where on the route you look.
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/ ... &order=wtt
On this day 16 freight services ran thru Gravesend..

..... but Gravesend isn't on the Sheerness branch unless the storm last week did more damage than I've seen reported!

Looking at RTT for locations on the Sheerness branch shows a few engineers trains, possibly RHTT, but no 'proper' freight. There used to be fairly regular trains carrying scrap to Sheerness Steel Works but AFAIK they've not run for some time now.

Andy

You see but you do not observe - if you had read the question posted

Good morning,
I have some quetions , and it is only for my personnal acknowledge , on the Sheerness Branch ,
-1-is there only passenger's trains , or could we find some trafic freight ?
-2-Is it impossible to find a class 92 between Ebbsfleet and Faversham or Sheerness ?
Many thanks in advance for your eventually answers
regards
jean-pierre

You would know what my answer referred to.
And, before someone corrects me, I know those trains at the moment are not 92 hauled there is nothing to say they could not be.

Peter

[AndyUK]

You only replied to the first question as far as I could see, and in so doing quoted someone else's reply which also addressed the first one, and didn't address the second. I can only observe what's there .

Andy L

[AndyUK]

Good morning,
I have some quetions , and it is only for my personnal acknowledge , on the Sheerness Branch ,
-1-is there only passenger's trains , or could we find some trafic freight ?
-2-Is it impossible to find a class 92 between Ebbsfleet and Faversham or Sheerness ?
Many thanks in advance for your eventually answers
regards
jean-pierre

I've already answered the first question but as far as the use of Class 92 via the places you mention goes, and despite what someone has already said, the answer is that there wouldn't be any as they aren't cleared to operate over that route.

Andy L

[Palletman]

As someone has already mentioned we used to have a number of freight movements going into and out of the steel mill. Scrap was brought in for smelting and both coiled steel and iron beams were taken out. This traffic ended about 3 years ago and now all we get are basically maintenance trains. Up to 2006/7 there were car transporters going into the dockyard (GEFCO). Unfortunatly the route doesn't have the 2 sidings that are inside the dockyard. Cars were also delivered to the sidings at Queenborough (not the 2 at the station) where they were unloaded and driven into the distribution centres in Queenborough.
Just after the bridge at Queenborough on the right (as you head away from Sheerness) there was a rolling mill (closed last year). They had 3 Hunsletts for moving beams loaded on flat cars. There is a section of line that goes out to a quayside on the Swale.
Most of the freight around 2001 and onward usually had a EWS class 66 hauling it. Sheerness steel had 2 shunting locos called Bill and Ben (not sure if class 8 or 11s).
During the summer months Sheerness gets a visit from a steam hauled charter for The Shepherd Neame Brewery based at Faversham.
So Sheerness did see a fair amount of freight up until around 2006/7 then it disappeared with the mills closing. As for seeing a 92 on the branch. I can't see them ever clearing one of those to work the line, as you have to have some work for it to do in the first place. Personally I loved to see one of those in Sheerness. I would be able to sit and watch it come and go from the window behind me.

[ll22012]

Good Morning,
Thanks a lot , Palletman , for your excellent explanations
have a good day , and many thanks again for all others who try to answer me
see you soon
jean-pierre