Gbrf 66769 Arriving And Shunting Castle Cement Clitheroe. This Train Takes Fifty Trucks Off The Road

[@Uktrainspotter_123]

Good video

[@Ashworth-Media]

Thanks, just film the DMU gala on the east Lancashire Railway, just had a HST come through.

[@Ashworth-Media]

I was at Ramsbottom where was you

[@Shelfandtabletoplayouts00gauge]

Lovely bit of shunting, enjoyed this video, long May these cement workings continue 👍

[@Ashworth-Media]

I hope so too

[@simontay4851]

6:07 Love the sound of the class 66. Ring ring ring ring....

[@Ashworth-Media]

Each class have there own sound

[@LisbonRailProductionsandF1]

Magnificent catches of the train coming by and pass at the crossing backwards, I like it 5 stars. Thumbs up. Keep up the perfect work, my friend, I just liked and subscribed your channel, Greetings from Portugal to the UK.

[@Ashworth-Media]

@@LisbonRailProductionsandF1 thanks

[@LisbonRailProductionsandF1]

@Ashworth-Media no problem.

[@Ashworth-Media]

@@LisbonRailProductionsandF1 thanks

[@LisbonRailProductionsandF1]

@@Ashworth-Media the British trains are amazing.

[@LisbonRailProductionsandF1]

@@Ashworth-Media it would be nice to have you as my new subscriber.

[@nickwilson8853]

Wow, such a great sght ! One day...hopefully soon, traffic logistics planners will realise HOW MUCH more efficient bulk rail ttransportation is overroad haulage...heigh ho...but in the meantime great video !!!

[@Ashworth-Media]

Rail will always win with bulk, we may get Amazon trains next

[@JShipley323]

The Mirrored Mac Address logo is wild...

[@Ashworth-Media]

I am getting to much hassle over the logo an have now gone back to the pre 2020 version, although Mac Address logo is not copyrighted and mine was AM and not MA

[@geoffcurrie5508]

And yet at Fina Preston they are putting trucks on the road after scrapping there rail deliveries!!!

[@geoffcurrie5508]

Sorry, their!!!

[@Ashworth-Media]

@@geoffcurrie5508 Yeap they are putting around 30 trucks back on the road and cause 6 times the emissions.

[@screwdriver5181]

Our track access charges are too high. To the tocs and focs customers appear to be considered a nuisance

[@Ashworth-Media]

@screwdriver5181 Northern trains where complaining that the freight trains where causing them problems, but most of the time it’s the track causing problems

[@Shelfandtabletoplayouts00gauge]

@@Ashworth-Mediadid not know this It’s possible I caught the last train out then. Only 5 tanks. Hope it’s not the end!

[@Shelfandtabletoplayouts00gauge]

Well, 25 truck loads of cement to Avonmouth would indeed cost a lot more in time and fuel than this one working from Clitheroe, no brainier.

[@Ashworth-Media]

Very true

[@gerryfranklindriver]

nice to see a 66 earning

[@Ashworth-Media]

@@gerryfranklindriver I do see plenty of then working away

[@22pcirish]

Can’t get enough of them. Ours are busy, busy, busy!

[@josephinebennington7247]

Why you say this?When are 66s not earning? YT vids have them pulling revenue-earning loads.

[@kalpat5753]

Presumably that is why Royal Mail has ditched its trains and put the mail/parcels onto the roads ????????

[@Ashworth-Media]

😂that’s sounds plausible and definitely a case of Yin and Yang. Everything in balance. There were 5 people at Clitheroe directly involved in this and probably plenty more on it’s route up so the numbers may not be that much different.

[@Foxymorris9236]

1:18 aw a class 66 also nicknamed the shad, I've driven this type of locomotive before in Train Sim World 1-5 and as a American it's alright just odd break system unlike American break system

[@Ashworth-Media]

They are nicknamed 'Sheds' due to the angle of the roof, which is due t the very restricted loading gauge.

[@Foxymorris9236]

@@Ashworth-Media yeah I was close to the right spelled word but that makes sense as its as tall as an SD45-2 maybe not 100% sure

[@Ashworth-Media]

@Foxymorris9236 what is a SD452?

[@Foxymorris9236]

@Ashworth-Media it's an common American diesel locomotive where I'm from

[@Ashworth-Media]

That explains it the English class 66’s and class 70 are basically American EDM sunk down to fit our very small loading gauge

[@samwilliamson6749]

That first shunt seems a colossal waste of time? Is the turnout from the Down Main onto the branch too tight? Surely the S&C could be improved to save hours and hours cumulatively.

[@Ashworth-Media]

I has been that way for years, also DMU's terminating at Clitheroe used that crossover to switch tracks.

[@samshunt5715]

Ex Midland Railway Track, NO facing points on a main line, worked this job for years

[@Grid56]

Odd placement of points making the reverse necessary. Pulling the crossover back and replacing the diamond with a left hand point would save time and clear line quicker.

[@Ashworth-Media]

@@Grid56 I am not too sure if it was built like this originally but it’s been like that for nearly 40 years that I know of.

[@catonthekbd]

Possibly done like this as curve radius would be too tight if turning left from the other track ?

[@paulsheward3325]

Facing points off main lines to sidings never happened

[@peterlane354]

How about a double slip rather than so much engineering

[@Ashworth-Media]

@paulsheward3325 technically this is a branch line, but the same principles apply.

[@markjordan899]

can the train be sent up the righthand track further back,and then cross straight into the branch line???.

[@Ashworth-Media]

@@markjordan899 as far as I know it can’t as the nearest cross over is some distance away and this would cause problems with the regular passenger trains

[@abloogywoogywoo]

All the more reason to bring brakevans back!

[@Ashworth-Media]

No need to know with through piped air brakes

[@abloogywoogywoo]

@@Ashworth-Media no I mean reserving shunting like this is dangerous, the driver can’t see, and the poor Network Rail guy has to run around everywhere to tell the driver what’s happening.

[@Ashworth-Media]

@abloogywoogywoo the shunting technicians are in there own words kept very busy with this working. On this occasion they were making sure that they did everything correctly as there boss was keeping an eye on them and I would not be surprised if he watches this video. Have a look at a video I took at the ELR.

[@abloogywoogywoo]

@@Ashworth-Media I still think them hopping abroad a van, and can slam on the brakes in an emergency is safer.

[@davidfloyd3766]

What is the alarm sounding when reversing

[@Ashworth-Media]

@@davidfloyd3766 the alarm is not from the train but if you look at the fence next to the track on the crossing you will see a small box, the alarm is sounding because there are no crossing gates at this location

[@fastlinegrid]

The beeping you can hear when the train is reversing at horrocksford and before the crossing is turned on is the ‘confidence tone’ on the Shunter’s radio, it saves them having to call the train back verbally and if the sound stops the train driver (ie me in this video) will come to a stop as it could mean the shunter has fallen or I’ve lost communication with him

[@Grid56]

Did the 66 run round on the branch or is there another zig zag manoeuvre before setting back into the depot ? I've been here only once and remember that the depot is quite small.

[@Ashworth-Media]

It ran around it’s train off camera

[@cookric555]

strange couldnt it just go into the junction without the hassle of changing tracks

[@Ashworth-Media]

Nope it’s due to the layout of the track and the need for DMU’s to switch tracks.

[@johnbarham7718]

Facing points are dangerous.

[@meneertjehetheertje]

First you film the fence. Then you film a sign right in front of your nose. Wtf dude!! Why did yt push this video up in the list!!!

[@Ashworth-Media]

Sorry but I was unable to move the fence or the sign and only had a small area to film from, KZbin’s algorithm pushed this up the list not me.

[@brickleyyard4966]

Take 50 people out of work too

[@Ashworth-Media]

@@brickleyyard4966 Very true but the reduction in road tanker movements out of castle cement is very noticeable.

[@brickleyyard4966]

@Ashworth-Media I rather see people in work wich would be more likely to get the uk back on its feet Instead of finding ways to reduce the number of people to have to pay or worring about Road traffic with enough people back in a job there would be the means and the justification for the road networks to be improved like thay are doing with the cornwall a30

[@Ashworth-Media]

@brickleyyard4966 Rail transport for this application is a no brainier for efficiency and reducing emissions. For this application they were five people involved in this movement withe the driver, the signal man, the two shunting technicians and a supervisor. There would been many people who would have interacted with this train on its journey north . I have always favoured the A30 to get down to Cornwall.

[@markgoddard2560]

This has to be the most boring of all youtube offerings. Fascinating to watch - a type of self harming punishment for not having the will to get up and do something constructive. The point changing was the highlight. The way that little disc turned was the highlight, and then, out of nowhere, the orange man appears unannounced, as though he had been hiding in the bushes waiting to jump out on the driver and scare him to death. But that was not all: !! There, written in the sign by the crossing to nowhere, was the postcode of the points. Brilliant. Even the grid reference. A nod to the past before the first satellite was sent skyward to map the world. Then, the coup de grace, the reminder stamped on the train about prostate cancer so that the exhilaration of the train shunting, was tempered with our mortality and big pharma’s daily doom laden reminder to contribute to their multibillion pound donation system to keep them in luxury. Well done. I’m going to download this for posterity.

[@Ashworth-Media]

Sorry for you not liking it, a lot of people did, if you want I will do a recording of paint drying

[@stewartroberts2983]

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[@Ashworth-Media]

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[@stewartroberts2983]

@@Ashworth-Media White of course 😁

[@alanf7395]

Very nice @Ashworth-Media. From South Carolina, US

[@chrisroscoe8024]

Let the trucks be on the road

[@Ashworth-Media]

yeap

[@geoffcapper769]

Sorry to offend but this video is to slow and to me amounts to being boring

[@Ashworth-Media]

@@geoffcapper769 A lot of people liked it, this type of video of shunting is always going to be slow as it’s not a top flight express train zooming down the line. I have not forced you to watch it and you are allowed to speak your mind.

[@martinsmusic2223]

@geoffcapper769 Not sorry to offend, what did you expect, a freshly imported Bullet Train to be shunting wagons over a remote countryside level crossing? On reflection, your time could have been better spent researching the correct use of the words to and too. Myself, I found it a very interesting video, albeit some of the camera angles over signage and those too close to the train at times, could be dramatically improved. Thanks to AM.

[@BIGV710]

that train might take 50 thucks of the road but its them 50 trucks that have to deliver the cement to customers so it does not take them off the roads

[@Ashworth-Media]

I am saying that it takes the bulk tankers off the road, as before they switched to rail there was a lot of bulk road tankers coming and going from castle cement.

[@abloogywoogywoo]

It all helps to keep our motorways less dangerous and congested.

[@Grid56]

Did the 66 run round on the branch or is there another zig zag manoeuvre before setting back into the depot ? I've been here only once and remember that the depot is quite tight.

[@jamesknowles550]

There is a loop before the single track across the road + into the cement works -- yes the 66 will have run round the tanks -- he could have filmed that off a footbridge ..

[@Ashworth-Media]

@jamesknowles550 at the time of filming this was not an option