Saltley

2009 Timetable Notes

Passenger services in 2009

Passenger services are operated by numerous companies through the signalling area:

Cross Country handle traffic from North to South& VV using Voyagers (With the odd HST thrown in for good measure) which also run ECS between Barton Under Needwood Depot and Birmingham New Street as well as using Class 170s based at Tyseley for East/West traffic such as Cardiff – Nottingham and New St –Leicester/East Anglia services.
Chiltern Trains operate Class 165 & 168 units on Marylebone – Snow Hill & Stratford Upon Avon services with the odd peak train to Stratford upon Avon & Kidderminster.
London Midland operate the intense cross city service between Redditch/Longbridge and Lichfield using Class 323 EMUs as well as operating local DMU services through the Snow Hill Corridor to/from Dorridge, Shirley and Stratford Upon Avon as well as the slightly longer New Street - Shrewsbury/Worcester & Hereford.
Virgin West Coast also operate a couple of diverted loco hauled Pendolino services overnight.
Finally there are also the daily, short-lived
Wrexham & Shropshire Trains services using top & tailed Class 67s.

Freight services in 2009

Freight services through the area are operated by a number of companies (DB, Colas, Freightliner, Fastline & GBRf) with this being a core route for North <-> South workings.

There is a variety of yards & depots around the area as follows:-

Kingsbury Deals with Freightliner, oil and steel trains and is served by numerous operators.
Daw Mill Colliery Sends out coal trains to various power stations hauled by Fastline, DBS & Freightliner.
Hams Hall National Distribution Park Deals with freightliners to and from numerous ports. GBRf is the main haulier but other operators do run the odd service in.
Castle Bromwich The sidings deal with car trains (Transporting Jaguars) and the occasional oil train to the Esso terminal.
Washwood Heath RMC These sidings deal aggregates trains for the Ready Mix Concrete scene.
Washwood Heath Up Sidings This DBS yard is used as a staging post for some North - South services, or by services from the North that require to run round an head back North.
Saltley LIP & Dunns Sidings This complex is now mostly out of use, but does have the odd loco stabled there between banking duties on the Lickey Incline as well as a dealing with scrap metals train to and from Cardiff.
Lawley Street Freightliner terminal is probably the busiest yard on the sim with a regular flow of trains arriving, and then being shunted for loading & unloading. 99% of the traffic here is hauled by Freightliner who also stable locos and run them to and from other sites as required.
Small Heath (Caledonian Yard) This small yard deals with the odd aggregates train to & from Mountsorrel.
Longbridge Rover does exactly what the name supplies, providing car trains for the Rover plant.

Nearby off area is Bescot Yard which provides a large amount of traffic via Ryecroft Jn and also Coopers Metals near Birmingham Snow Hill.

Landor Street Jn is a crew relieving point for DBS so many of their trains stop here specifically to change crews that are based at Saltley.

Other depots in 2009

Tyseley TMD Tyseley is the main DMU depot in the Birmingham Area (EMU's being dealt with at Soho EMD) and is used by numerous operators to maintain, stable and service a variety of DMU Classes. With stock running ECS to both Birmingham New Street and Snow Hill as well as other locations on the Snow Hill Corridor.

Kings Norton OTPD Kings Norton is an On Track Plant Depot which had an allocation of MPV's (Multi-purpose Vehicles) allocated there for sandite services during the autumn period of 2009.

Washwood Heath No 1 Run rounds

Several trains are booked to run round at Washwood Heath No 1, arriving from the South (Water Orton). These trains need to be brought to a stand on SY212 signal on the Down Goods. The loco will then detach and needs to run forward to the Up & Down Camphill Through sidings where it reverses and crosses to the Up & Down Goods line, stopping behind SY214 signal ready to be signalled back onto the rear of the train. It is possible you will get more than one train to run round at the same time, so careful regulating is required to ensure you don't block the main lines.

Whitacre Jn Run Round

In the evening there is one train booked out of Daw Mill Colliery that runs round at Whitacre Jn. This needs to be done in the Down Goods Loop (DGL) so keep your eye out for it.

Lawley Street Shunts

There are numerous shunts that take place at Lawley Street FLT to get the train checked, nloaded and then a loco on the right end for departure, these can be done using the Lawley Street Through Siding or the Up Goods.

Tyseley Depot

Some of the trains that come onto Tyseley Depot run through the depot and into the Carriage washer located on the Down Neck, prior to shunting in to the stabling sidings, however, one or two attach & split in the Down Neck as well so carefull record needs to be made of the shunts you are doing.

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