Wycombe branch pick-up coal task. Maidenhead to Oxford Pickup Goods service
This working was split in two. A crew worked a loco from Oxford as far as Princes Risborough
and another started at Maidenhead.
They met at Princes Risborough, exchanged trains and worked back to their respective depots.
There was rarely an traffic to hand over.
This Maidenhead working is only dealing with coal wagons, collecting empties from yards along the branch to High Wycombe and leaving them for collection at Princes Risborough. Exchange locos there with the Up crew from Oxford. Collect full coal wagons from a siding north of the station and distribute them along the Wycombe branch on the way back to Maidenhead.
Today however Princes Risborough has requested an empty Horsebox which you must deliver there.
You will be doing a lot of shunting, best save your progress frequently.
Select the 56xx and build your train with 1 Horsebox and a Brakevan then propel them into the Bay Platform and change the points for the Branch.
The line should be set all the way to Princes Risborough however the game may put you very briefly onto the Up line at Loudwater and sets the through line at PR.
Your task is:
Collect empty 16T coal wagons from:
Cookham
Bourne End Down Siding2 (from Marlow)
Bourne End Up South Siding 3
Wooburn Green
Loudwater
Arrive at Princes Risborough on the Down Platform line.
Leave the empties with the others in the Down Refuge Siding, south of the station, and the Horsebox in the adjacent Watl/Oxf goods Siding.
Stop behind the station opposite the service from Oxford and exchange locos.
Reverse north along the main line, over the road bridge and collect the loaded coal wagons from the up siding.
Drive back to High Wycombe. Stop at the signals at the end of the up platform and set the points into the branch.
Drop off the loaded wagons along the branch back to Maidenhead.