European Railroad Discussion > A little fall of snow

The southern half of Wales enjoyed its first real snowfall of 2019 last night. Not as much as forecast, but enough to tempt me out for the 4V20 coal empties from Fiddler's Ferry power station.

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Sleek & fast, nice catch!

Someone from North America had to make this comment, so it will be me: Clown horn. 
Seriously, it's a neat change to see zippy little trains. Thanks for posting.

Nice. Thanks. Wow! Only 21 empty freight wagons.  Its no secret, on this side of the pond, such trains would be 5 times as long.

Milepost_130 Wrote:
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> Nice. Thanks. Wow! Only 21 empty freight wagons. 
> Its no secret, on this side of the pond, such
> trains would be 5 times as long.

Considering that they're using hook and link couplings and buffers, 21 large coal wagons is pretty good.
If they had "normal" knuckle type couplers then yes, a much longer train would be possible.

So tagging is prevelant in Wales too . .  geesh . .  one small reason to hate the internet "have you seen my 'artwork', please let me know!!"

Craig
mcmrailvideos.com

Very nice Nick.He's getting along at a good clip.
Regards,DK

spdaylight Wrote:
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> So tagging is prevelant in Wales too . .  geesh .
> .  one small reason to hate the internet "have
> you seen my 'artwork', please let me know!!"
>
> Craig
> mcmrailvideos.com

These days it's pretty much a world wide thing...

PHall Wrote:
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> Milepost_130 Wrote:
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> > Nice. Thanks. Wow! Only 21 empty freight
> wagons. 
> > Its no secret, on this side of the pond, such
> > trains would be 5 times as long.
>
> Considering that they're using hook and link
> couplings and buffers, 21 large coal wagons is
> pretty good.
> If they had "normal" knuckle type couplers then
> yes, a much longer train would be possible.

The heaviest trains in the UK with screw couplings are routinely approx 3000 tonnes. Loaded a train of 21 of these HHA coal hoppers weighs about 1800 tonnes (including locomotive). Two of these trains run five days a week carrying imported coal from Portbury, near Bristol in SW England to Fiddlers Ferry power station on Merseyside. The loaded train are timed at 60 mph and the empties at 75 mph. They need to run fast to stay out of the way of passenger trains, with which they share all but the first and last few miles of their route.



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Yes we don't have the luxury of huge gaps in between trains as you do in USA and Canada. We have a very intense passenger network that just keeps getting busier. Finding paths for freight is quite difficult, hence so many trucks on unsuitable roads. 10,000 + trucks through Kent each day to Dover Docks for cross channel traffic, plus thousands on the Channel Tunnel Shuttle from Folkstone, plus all in local ones in the county. A nightmare.