Aberdeen Station to Waterloo Yard aboard 66116 (Real Time)
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- Опубликовано: 8 янв 2012
- Up front on 66116 working 6A32 Mossend to Aberdeen with the OMYA empties. This video covers the short trip from Aberdeen Station to Kittybrewster, propelling move into No.2 Kittybrewster Loop, runround via No.1 Loop, then hauling the tanks down the Waterloo Branch to Waterloo Yard. Pity about the low winter sun in places...
All rendered in real time, full HD with the exception of the propelling move into Kittybrewster Loop (2.37gb as it is, way over 4gb before the propelling move was speeded up -- still looking at 17 hours+ to upload! 1016 minutes remaining after 10 minutes!!)
Filmed using the absolutely brilliant Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-HX5V 
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Great Video. I was a secondman at Kittybrewster in the middle 60's and worked over the branch a number of times. There was a daily Waterloo Docks diagram.
It was nice to see the Kittybrewster area and the harbour branch as it is today, from the cab of a Class 66. Only Class 8 shunting locos used the branch line when I worked there. There are many stories of run-a-way wagons down the branch. As well as taking care on the down grade the fireman/secondman often had to walk in front of the loco throwing sand/ballast dust on the track in front of the loco so that it kept it's grip.
It hasn't changed that much except that it was much tidier than it looks today. But there is a fair mix of old and newer buildings along the track side.
At 0600mns, on the right, is the tenement where my late wife was born and where we met. That brought a few memories back to me.
The habour line was originally the Aberdeen-Inverurie Canal and there were at least nine locks between the harbour basin and the summit at Kittybrewster. Where the loco turns back to get into the siding and back onto the train was the site of the wharf where passengers could get onto the barges as well as exchange of goods. The buildings were at the north (east side) of the over bridge where the stop bock on the Ex Up Main line is today.
The original Kittybrewster station was were the up & down goods is today. The new station being built to the left of this when the lie down the Denburn to Aberdeen Joint station was built. Waterloo (Harbour) station was the terminal of the GNSR line from Inverness to Aberdeen. Passengers had to walk along the harbour to catch a train south from the then terminal N.B.R. & Caladonian Railway station at Ferryhill.
The only remaining part of the old canal is the overbridge on Great Northern Road at Woodside. This is still called Station Road as it led to Woodside station. There is a playground between the main toad and the railway where I used to play and would run up to the railway fence to watch the trains that would either run past and/or stop at the intermediate stop signal on the Up line at that point. The railway was built at a lower level than the canal from Woodside to Dyce.
Thanks, nice to know you enjoyed the video. The branch hasn't changed much since I first started going down there in the mid-eighties. There's a few new buildings and as you've already spotted, there's a lot more litter these days. It was Class 8's we used back then too, although we did have a Class 9 for a while which was a little faster but couldn't pull so much. Walking ahead of the loco with a bag of sand isn't entirely a thing of the past though, even with the 66's we occasionally have to sand the rails by hand to get the train up the hill to Kittybrewster... :-)
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Thanks for your reply. I treated class 8 & 9's as the same, except of course for knowing the differences. My favourite locos were the 47's and 60's. Hated the 66's. Their only saving grace was that they were new and had good reliability. But noise and vibration was terrible and no air-conditioning for Summer heat.
From new the 47's were fantastic for their time, especially having replaced steam locos. It was like jumping straight from a stagecoach to a Concord. I was impressed with the 60's from the very first one I drove. They have been very much underated. I hope DB Schenklar have done a good job of their latest refurbishing.
I also liked the NBL Type 2's (Diesel Electric), for their riding comfort. Sadly they were very unreliable. Carried out my very first 'full' line protection (Rule 55) because of one failing between Kennethmont and Gartley in 1964. My very first handling of a train was with one between Aberdeen and Banchory on a goods train.
I have many train photos on my Flickr Account as Albafearloon, which includes a 67 at Waterloo.
www.flickr.com/photos/31261872@N07/sets/72157636466369114/
swipewrite There can't be many that didn't like the 47's. We also had a couple of Class 20's at Aberdeen for a while, I was a shunter at the time and really liked them because they were a whole lot quicker, got us finished earlier on some of the shifts. There were 56's on the go for a while too. We only ever had one Class 60 based here for any length of time as far as I can remember and that was fairly recently. Oddly enough, it was the snow plough standby and only one of the Aberdeen drivers signed them! I got the job of starting them up twice a day and letting them run for 15 minutes or so to stop them freezing up. Thanks for the link, I'll have a look through the photos a little later :-)
Thanks for the kind words, glad you enjoyed the video. The branch us used on a regular basis, Wed to Sat. The product is Calcium Carbonate slurry, essentially chalk in suspension and is taken from OMYA UK,s tank farm at Waterloo yard to the paper mills at Irvine and Workington. Wed & Fri, loco only for turnover shunt, goes into branch around 10am, back out around noon. Thu, empties in around 10am, loads out around 2pm. Sat, empties in around 2pm, loads out between 5 & 6pm. Happy hunting! :p
As a Aberdonian you wonder when you are going about
the city when you see the tracks and you wonder where
they lead to your upload is great and a insight how the
goods train arrived at waterloo quay
@DeeDon90 Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for the comment. I think this has to be the first comment from a fellow Aberdonian in the 15 months or so the channle's been live. There are a few more rail related videos here, some at the new(ish) terminal at dyce (trains 'n cranes), some taken North of Inverness en route to Lairg, as well as some as far North as Georgmas, 6 miles South of Thurso. Most are filmed from ground level, but quite a few are filmed from up front like this one.
Hey amazing video im a trainspotter around aberdeen and north east I think your extremely lucky enough to get a cab ride along the branch line. I've always seen the views from the bridges but spectacular view. I always had an interest in the suburban line and ex suburban stations that served aberdeen. Should bring them back. Keep up the good work.
Thanks, good to hear you enjoyed the video and yes, I agree, bring back the smaller outlying stations. It might not solve the traffic congestion issues on it's own but I'm pretty sure it would get a few cars off the road.
.nice video
Thanks, nice to know you enjoyed it.
I live in the North West of England and sadly so many freight branch lines around here have closed down, so It's nice to see that this one is still in use. I did wonder though how did they deal with the wagon that was blocking the loop at the end of video?
Great video, interesting to see the line from this view. I lived next to this short line down to Aberdeen Waterloo while I was at university and became curious how often it was used and what state the rails were in. It always surprised me to see a loco pass when it appeared so overgrown and disused. Any idea how often the tanks are picked up/dropped off? Thanks
+JonnyBLtd Nice to know you enjoyed the video, thanks. The Omya tank farm at Waterloo Yard is serviced three times a week; empties in and loads out on a Wednesday for Workington, more empties in on Friday, loco stays there until late Saturday afternoon, coming out with loads for Irvine.
jesus id love to know how tight the clearance is for some of those bridges,looks like a lick of paint!!
It's tight, but not that tight! You don't want to be sticking your head out of the window though... :p
Are you the driver?