Class 31 D5814 departs Wirksworth for Barrow Hill on Monday 1st February 2016. D5814 or 31414 had been a long term resident of the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway and had a staring role in the drama Mobile. Its new owners are the A1A Group.
I must admit I do admire these fellas that load and transport these big heavy loads. I like to see them on the UK road network when I’m out and about. When I watch the Americans and the Australians do the same line of work (heavy haul) I’m also amazed at their efforts. Have to say though that due to the narrow and tight roads here in the UK in general and the loading locations it takes a very professional and safe driver indeed. Well done to all you heavy hauliers out there in the UK and beyond. 👍👍
Massive tongue weight on this trailer. You can see the I beam frame flex when the driver picks up the front. Not so sure if the train should be set back farther.
I can remember when Heanor heavy haulage tried to modanise thire old SCAMMAL FLEET OF HEAVY MOVERS BY fitting Volvo F 88 sieeper cabs on them, the days when British trucks like SCAMMAL SOLD ALL OVER THE WORLD a lot as changed ,
Would have been interesting to see how they got the train to where they picked it up. Pushed it there? looks like marks in the gravel but hard to tell if they are rails or just imprints from the train wheels as it was pushed to where it was needed to load it onto the truck. Interesting video, doubt they would do anything like that in Canada, then again Canada is quite different with greater distances involved with more remote locations.
+Peorhum Looks like rails to me. I cannot think of any other reasonable way to do it. Put it on a siding that's easy to get road traffic to and line things up very carefully. As for doing this is elsewhere. This sort of transport is even done in Australia where locomotives on the mining railways in the NW need to have stuff done that cannot be done there. That does mean they can be trucked for many hundreds of kilometres.
Peorhum I'm sure it's doable. However for something the weight of a locomotive you're going to put some massive stress onto the wheel flanges. So you might get away with it for unloaded flat cars, but not really for locomotives.
+French Steam Hi, we have some former Gatwick Express coaches at the Railway where the brake pipes are at a higher level than normal. The Class 31 was modified to work with these vehicles.
Ross Charlie that always with jong ppl even thy never seen truck like this in real live. Thy stil know beter then ppl who get pay for to do this every day al year long
Hi Scott - unfortunately the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway has no rail connection to the national network so all rail vehicles are moved to and from the Railway by road
www.google.fr/maps/@53.0820862,-1.5694286,3a,75y,263.21h,81.09t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sByUwwfaQqFqtMq_7LiDB_w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1?hl=en Here's the Google street view of the location. Getting on to the loader was the easy bit, I reckon. Driving it through the village would have been more of a challenge, given the narrow streets.
That would be a horrible load to carry,narrow long trailer and relatively high centre of gravity. I am guessing the trailer must be self levelling? Any change in the camber of the road would not be very nice at all!
Hi Andrew - the configuration you see is used daily all over the UK with little difficulty. The ability to rear steer the trailer means that they can negotiate the impossible!
They're not solid rubber at all. There is 24 wheels on the trailer and the load is spread out, there is not much more weight on each tyre than there is on regular trucks when they are loaded.
Not very smart to post when you know nothing about tires or how that style of trailer distributes weight. People who aren't mechanics should STFU and enjoy the show. Those who liked your post should also cure their ignorance with information instead of speculation.
How many days w/o injuries at this company??? During this pix i see at least 6 extremely dangerous situations. This personal is far from trained experts. It's for shure no art of heavy haulage . Its true horror to look at this clumsy and dangerous work performance. I did this kind of haulage for more than 15 years, and i know what i'm talking about.
Heanor Haulage is a very well respected company that has been operating in the UK, Europe and the Middle East for over 80 years, to infer that they are amateurs who don't know what they are doing is ridiculess
