LE Movements, ECS and Test Runs 2018

The 8F left York after its second Whitby trip in April and has not been back since then.

Peter

 

So essentially after all the feverish speculation, the loco situation is utterly unchanged? Glad we cleared that up!

 

I was looking on RTT for Saphos' ECS move(s) to Bristol for next weekend's tour to Kingwear. Nothing's online yet, but I spotted this path next week - http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U54981/2018/06/22/advanced

After a bit of Googling, Royal Scot is due to visit the KWVR at the end of the month, so I'm guessing this is its move? By process of elimination that'll put Braunton on (at least) the first Kingswear train, I'd wager.

 

37669 & 57316 on a three coach run to Windermere and back from Oxenholme.

 

Why was this running today, is it replacing Northern

 

Probably just reminding the locals what a train looks like !!!!!!

 

If West Coast are operating crew training then either they are looking at making use of the route as others have said, adding Windermere as an option on some tours, or who knows maybe if Northern cant operate a service, perhaps someone in NR/ Dft has asked, cant someone else operate it ?

 

RTT has timings for 6 round trips tomorrow plus ecs workings to / from Oxenholme; current thinking is that this will operate for this week at least

 

Local MP Tim Farron was at Oxenholme yesterday in the cab of 37669 so something to do with him maybe as he started a petition to get Northern chopped.

 

Like that Scott but they would probably have worked it out in the end lol

 

It's just nice to see a bit of common sense, and maybe enterprise, being applied on the railway for a change for the benefit of the rail traveller, even if it does mean a change at Oxenholme.
Now if only BR hadn't been so shortsighted as to reduce the branch to nothing more than a long siding who knows what may have been possible.

 

With that positive view I strongly suggest that you keep away from the thread on the topic on WNXX......

 

It's no place for the faint hearted - makes spats on here about, inter alia, "Bigchufferitis", seem quite tame...

 

Haven't seen the discussion elsewhere but sounds quite heated. Is it any coincidence that the subject matter involves a certain Lancashire based TOC given the debates on NP which get most fractious seem to have that in common?

 

An extra large tub of popcorn and refrain from posting anything - you have an evening of pure entertainment.

 

Enough of Windermere what about some Worth Valley ;-)
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/O10359/2018/06/19/advanced
45212

 

A mention on the Beeb.....https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-44518052

 

46100 Royal scot - from Crewe to K&WVR - 22/06 /2018 friday - http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U54981/2018/06/22/advanced

 

You're not kidding! Thread drift override over there at the moment

 

Crewe-Bristol ECS for Saphos' Kingswear trains on Friday: http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U10696/2018/06/22/advanced