Het Groot Belgisch Treinen Forum

Dus: Ik denk dat we vanaf volgend jaar veel treinen met HLE13+I11Bdx en HLE13+M6Bx gaan zien... Er zijn trouwens I11 Bdx met hopen, daarvan er enkele vinden is geen probleem. Misschien worden het wel samenstellingen met M6 met daarachter een I11Bdx :) Heel fijn maar dan ben ik enorm benieuwd waar z...

It does look as if 186 001 to 186 012 will be allocated to work Benelux services with 2802 to 2813 in Sandwich Mode [Top & Tail]. It looks as if a common pool is being formed of 24 locomotives.

Iain

weet iemand waarom er zo vele werken zijn tussen Roosendaal en Rotterdam waardoor Benelux vaak via Breda gaat of tot Rotterdam ? 4 & 5 november Essen-Roosendaal gestremd vervangbus iemand enig idee welke werken daar op lijn 12 ? Am75 zou rijden tot Essen dan vervangbus tot Roosendaal, Benelux z...

Sorry for posting in English but my Nederlands is not good enough. Firstly - does France not have a more restricted loading gauge - the envelope in which the train runs than the Belgian one? We in the UK have a very restrictive loading gauge, then the French one and then Germany, Austria, Switzerlan...

Dat zal eerder bij NMBS zijn dat er vectrons komen. Afwachten of men die bestelling effectief plaatst. Dan is het zeker game over voor reeks 21/27. It is any way as the T21/27s are not getting ETCS and will not be able to operate after 2023. [off topic but further explaination] The new M7 stock wil...

The last two HLE 18 & 19 have entered service this week. 1902 was seen in operation on 19th January and 1901 was seen in operation on 20th January 2017.

Iain

A British enthusiast group reported 222 being at Schaarbeek on 4th November 2016. No mention of 207.

Iain

Railpool owned 186 293 D/A/B/NL arrived on Saturday 10th December. From reports, it's first working for B-Logistics was on Friday 16th December when it worked an ecs to Watergraafsmeer, with three carriages, and then ran that evenings Rail Panorama Restaurant train from Amsterdam. 186 252, 254 and 2...

B-Transport Kinkempois Allocated HLD 77, 7747, 7748, 7764, 7765 and 7766 have extra thick buffer beams for banking duties at Liège. I do not know if these 700mm buffer beams are to absorb the extra stress of pushing or they are there to add weight to the locomotive to aid adhesion. In more recent ti...

The B-Transport fleet going into 2017 is to comprise of fourteen locomotives which are expected to be 2802 to 2813 and 2861 & 2863. For this to happen there needs to be a swap with 2804, 2805, 2807, 2808, 2810 and 2811 moving from B-Logistics to B-Transport and 2815, 2821, 2832, 2833 and 2835 mo...

1901 and 1902 returned to Kinkempois on Thursday 13th October and are being made ready to enter service, perhaps as soon as this week.

Postscript - Neither 1901 or 1902 have left Kinkempois since arriving in October and both were still there last weekend [19th/20th November 2016].

Iain

Reports are that 1861 entered passenger service yesterday on P7444 06:20 Visé - Brussel Zuid and 1877 will enter service in the near future.

Iain

Are 1861 and 1877 being made ready to enter passenger service?

They have been test locomotives for a long time and have never worked for NMBS.

Iain

All the HLE 11s [except 1187 which now belongs to the Museum], moved back inside at Stockem for safe storage. With the way that 1203 was gutted and rebuilt, I would not be surprised if the HLE 11s also do not find their way out East.

Iain

They were all outside on Sunday 6th March 2016 but I have seen a report from someone else who went past on Tuesday 29th March and the HLE 11s were not there.

Iain