'Then & Now'; a special 2-day piece on Masbrough Station & the N.R. Line Possession - 3200+237

            * Masbrough Station
Looking north in this pair of pictures, Saturday's 'Then' scene shows the N.M.T. having drawn up at the Masbrough north signal, S0425 and shortly after both drivers got out of the cab for a 'breather' and a look at the wild flowers and vegetation on the platform; still no shears! The N.M.T. is going to be here for around 20 minutes whilst passenger stock has the road north and south and on the left, a Cross Country Trains 'Voyager' flashes past on the down main towards Doncaster on the 1E79, Guildford(06:09) to Newcastle(11:51) with similar colour end panels to the class 43; a vestige of a safety feature, introduced many years ago. The N.M.T. is a Colas Rail operated Test Train set with 5 coaches and 43013 at the front and 43062, 'John Armitt on the rear and halted at Masbrough north on the Derby R.T.C. to Heaton T&RSMD, 1Q28, 'Flying Banana' working; starting out just over an hour ago and nine minutes late at 08:44 this morning, it will arrive at Heaton 14 minutes early at 13:22. The new rails lying between the old ones on the down line, underneath 43062, speak of impending work to be undertaken, as it turned out, that was to be tomorrow. On the right the following day and one and a half hours later, the Network Rail gang are dealing with the ballast and drains after which new rail will be laid, though looking at these pictures now and noting the time, together with the lack of any rail-handling gear I wonder if this was done on the Sunday; maybe the necessary train-borne rail-handling equipment came in later in the evening. A Plasser & Theurer, EUROMAT08-4X4/4S, On Track Machine, DR73946 sits on the down fast line awaiting call to duty once the cleaned/new ballast has been laid along the track on the down slow. Two Network Rail personnel are 'adjusting' or positioning what looks like a piece of optical equipment, the lens or source pointing northwards up the line to the north end of the work. 
   

Taken on: June 24, 2017

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Masbrough Station

Volker Rail

On Track Machine

RailVac 99709515002-2

RailCare-Sweden

RAUK-1 RailVac

On-Track BVES Finishing Machine

Ballast Vacuum Extraction System

New Measurement Train

Colas Rail

High Speed Train

Class 43

43013

43062

John Armitt

1Q28

Derby RTC to Heaton T&RSMD

Flying Banana

Coach 975984

Coach 977994

Coach 977993

Coach 975814

Coach 977984

DBC

DB Shenker Cargo

Class 60

60001

Class 66

66087

66013

0D01

Masbrough F.D. to Belmont Down Yard

66129

6T51

Toton North Yard to Masbrough Jn.

66150

6T50

Belmont Down Yard to Masbrough Jn.

Masbrough South Jn. to Toton North Yard

WCRC

West Coast Railway Company

Statesman Railtours

Class 57

57316

57313

1Z62

Cambridge to Scarborough

1Z64

Scarborough to Cambridge

The Yorkshire Coast Statesman

Cross Country Trains

Voyager

Class 220/221

1E79

Guildford to Newcastle

TPE

Transpennine Express

Class 185

185109

1B71

Cleethorpes to Manchester Airport

Network Rail Line Possession

Old Road

Midland Main Line

Signal S0423

Signal S0425

Templeborough Biomass Plant

JNA Wagons

Paxman Valenta

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