Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 7:26 pm Post subject: 08605/665/685 but not 615!!!
Help me with this one as the same shunter... or is it four... has/have been seen on the same low loader...or is that four as well,going North,South,East and West on the M18...or is that the M1
As I'm planning a trip to Sheerness next Thursday to eyeball 08578,will go via Hoo to see if 08605 has landed there...rest are a bit far North for me and as I have just got back from my twice-annual jaunt north of Derby,I'll leave that to you guys.
Might pop into Bounds Green to see 08615 if get time....or is that still North of the border
Regards Martin _________________ Why do farmers put gates at the muddiest part of the field ?
It indeed does. It in fact, could be at Toton, but as i've yet to recieve any sightings of it being there, i'll pass judgement on TOPS.
Personally, i can't see the reason why it would be dropped off at Toton, given that 08405 is very much active in and around the yard. 08480 seems to be used as the depot pilot aswell, so that's both areas covered.
Hoo Junction on the other hand, is where i think it is currently based. 08804 is the only active shunter down there, due to 09005 being stored since the beginning of July. I would imagine that, if 08605 has arrived, 09005 would be removed to either Toton or Doncaster Carr, but i've not had any reports of this being seen on the motorway or anywhere else for that matter
08665 is finally on the move lads, being tripped to Ferrybridge behind 66250. This happened on wednesday ( 15th ).
Why to Ferrybridge though, is a bit strange. According to WNXX, 08665 has now been de-registered from TOPS, so it will meet its owners at some point. Why take it to Ferrybridge, when it can be removed by road from Horbury. I suppose it could be cut up on site, but i would imagine that could be done at Horbury also.
Hoo Junction on the other hand, is where i think it is currently based. 08804 is the only active shunter down there, due to 09005 being stored since the beginning of July. I would imagine that, if 08605 has arrived, 09005 would be removed to either Toton or Doncaster Carr, but i've not had any reports of this being seen on the motorway or anywhere else for that matter
Have I missed a move there, I thought 08804 was still at TO
This was on the "Latest News" page of WNXX, so 605 is at Donny not Toton;
Shunter notes...
08665, still at Healey Mills? has been de-registered from WNSO. This indicates that its movement to Booths, Rotherham may be in progress or have taken place already. DBS have reinstated seen Class 08s, 08605 08664 and 08711 at Doncaster Carr, 08701 and 08804 at Toton, 08886 at Bescot and 08921 at Wigan, from variously WNTR or WNTS to WFMU.
First it was 08615 that was seen. That turned out to be fibs. We worked it out that it could've been 08605. Although WNXX could be wrong, it looks like this is still at Doncaster.
So, working out the 086x5 numbers, 08685 is the only one that i can come up with, as this was stored at Immingham. If it was, that would've been dropped off at Toton, as it was seen on the M1 near Chesterfield. I've yet to have any sightings of it being at Toton, or anywhere else, so i'm getting a bit perplexed with it all.
Alternatively, it could've been 08695 from Barrow Hill. This was positively seen, still at Barrow Hill on the 12th / 13th September, so it couldn't have been this one, as the original sighting of 086x5 was the 9th Sep.
Re 08605
According to TOPS - Origin: Doncaster, Last Location: Toton. Subject to the magic box being correct this was the Cl.08 seen on the move on 9/9. Suspect that the present TOPS location was updated when 08605 was transferred from WNTS to WFMU a day or so ago.
NJH
Mystery solved re 08605-sighting by brian h on locoscene at Soho...or could that be 08805
I'm leaning towards its still tucked up in the shed at Donny as Martyn Nevatt has a full listing and photo's on his site 29/8.
Add to that in the week in question three 08's arrived at Toton and were all off-loaded at the Balfour Beatty sidings and easily recorded,it seems unlikely 08605 would have slipped under the radar.
Hoo knows
Martin _________________ Why do farmers put gates at the muddiest part of the field ?
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