Lost and found #2

This just in from the Archdeacon...

This is what happens when the engine mountings of your (German built) DMU fail when travelling at speed:




How unlike the home life of our own dear Pacers.

Anyone lost a shunter?

This strange tale from Kris Ward over at the Middleton Railway...

Volunteers turning up at the Middleton Railway on Saturday morning were surprised to find an English Electric shunter in the car park.


We're not sure where it should have been delivered (possibly Hunslet Engine Co in the Midlands) but the shunter certainly had nothing to do with us (I gather putting your headboard on it isn't a legally binding claim).

It has been mentioned on various websites now and we are hoping someone will collect it before Wednesday otherwise it will really get in the way of a big shunt of workshop projects.

Have you misplaced a shunter. Alternatively can you give one a good home? If so contact the Middleton Railway...

UPDATE: This from Kris Ward...

The shunter was on its way to Hunslet Engine Co as we had guessed.

We have our shed in Hunslet, where as theirs is near Tamworth, hence the mistake.

I am sure we would gladly take in strays again, though ideally working ones on gala weekends :-)

The disturbing case of the missing NIR

Telegrammed by 221b Baker Street
'I say, Holmes, what do you make of the disturbing case of the Pacer engine, found near Olive Mount junction?

'Watson, you will of course have noted the significance of RAIB's investigation and the detail of the event contained in the NIR.'

'But Holmes, RAIB is not investigating and there has been no NIR!'

'That, Watson, is the significance!'

UPDATE: The NIR has apparently now been published and RAIB are involved!

Lost and found #1

Found!

One Pacer engine from yesterday's 19.37 Blackpool to Liverpool service.

Discovered trackside between Broadgreen station and Wavertree Technology Park

Perhaps Northern or Angel could get in touch.