6J16 Scunthorpe - Trent Sidings

[Railwaycat]

Can anyone explain this?

Realtime Trains | 6J16 0907 Scunthorpe Frodingham (Gr) to Trent Sidings | 06/03/2026

Real-time train running information for 6J16 0907 departure from Scunthorpe Frodingham (Gr) to Trent Sidings on 06/03/2026. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.

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It gets to Loughborough, and then appears to go back the way it came in a very short space of time (and it wasn't top and tailed) - how did that happen?

 

[Ian Hardy]

Can anyone explain this?

Realtime Trains | 6J16 0907 Scunthorpe Frodingham (Gr) to Trent Sidings | 06/03/2026

Real-time train running information for 6J16 0907 departure from Scunthorpe Frodingham (Gr) to Trent Sidings on 06/03/2026. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.

www.realtimetrains.co.uk

It gets to Loughborough, and then appears to go back the way it came in a very short space of time (and it wasn't top and tailed) - how did that happen?

Because you can only get into Trent Sidings from the south and reversing at Loughborough is probably the most suitable location for the driver to swap ends without causing delays to other services.

 

[Railwaycat]

Because you can only get into Trent Sidings from the south and reversing at Loughborough is probably the most suitable location for the driver to swap ends without causing delays to other services.

2 minutes to run round? That's a very slick operation - it's a freight train, not a DMU.

 

[hexagon789]

2 minutes to run round? That's a very slick operation - it's a freight train, not a DMU.

Propelled perhaps?

 

[Adrian Barr]

"Pathed as diesel locomotive" is a bit misleading, the train service code is for VOLKER RAIL OWNED YELLOW PLANT and TOPS consist shows DR 75404

The origin location is the on-track-plant depot at Scunthorpe Frodingham rather than the yard or steelworks

This webpage is useful for identifying typical track machine headcodes: https://www.ontrackplant.com/headcodes

 

[Shwam3]

It will have been a track machine, the schedule is for 'Volker Rail owned yellow plant' and 6J16 is usually DR75405: https://www.ontrackplant.com/otp/75405

 

[Railwaycat]

It will have been a track machine, the schedule is for 'Volker Rail owned yellow plant' and 6J16 is usually DR75405: https://www.ontrackplant.com/otp/75405

Problem solved - it was a track machine, what I saw as I got off 1Y14 at Alfreton was 6M01 running 10 min early. Sorry about that, it was the description 600 ton that confused me.

 

[WTT Gremlin]

the description 600 ton that confused me.

Timing Load =/= What is actually running

The rolling stock used has to be able to achieve the SRTs (or TRTs) of the relevant Timing Load, though operating stock which is too much faster than the Timing Load is also an issue.

Timing Loads are in large part only of relevance for the creation of the timetable.