The South Devon Railway Thread

In the interests of fairness, I must advise that Councillor Hodgson has replied! She has stated that she made no such comments to the press, and these comments must have been taken from a meeting that she attended. She did, however, state that she was unable to find the article on DevonLive that quoted her, and that without a link to it, she would be unable to comment further.

I have provided her with the link, together with the link to the report of the subsequent theft......

 

Any date for 1369's return to working order or is it still "work in progress"?

 

5526 now off on its holidays to Chinnor to replace the failed pannier

 

According to the South Devon loco roster it's their duty loco on the 7th of June and for most of the month! How many working locos does this leave the SDR with?

 

Just the 64xx IIRC

 

that doesn't give much of a choice then!

 

Now it`s under steam again! Congratulations and thumbs up to all involved!

https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2019/09/steam-locomotive-1369-returns-to-steam.html

Knut

 

Lovely to see. I know the loco spent much of its previous boiler ticket on hire to the Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway, any idea whether that's likely to be the case this time around?

 

GWR pannier tank 1369 on driver experience trips today. An approx 1 mile run from Buckfastleigh for £11.11 (today only). A bargain at that price.

All in aid of the Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal. Good luck to them. <BJ>

 

Steam gala 14 & 15 March
Locos are:

• 4555 from Dartmouth Steam Railway
• 1369
• 5542
• 6412

https://www.southdevonrailway.co.uk/events/spring-steam-gala-2020/

5521 will be at the East Anglian Railway Museum that weekend for their gala.

Anybody got an idea where L92 will be?

 

Chinnor or Battlefield Line, perhaps? SDR have a habit of hiring their locos to those lines in particular.

 

I read that 6412 was going to Chinnor according to their FB page.

regards

Matt

 

Well this answers the L92 question - off to Gwili for a bit https://twitter.com/GwiliRailway/status/1223166975754604544?s=09

 

So the SDR this year will be ran by 1369, 5526 & 5542?

 

It's reported in SR that 5526 will spend the summer at the Battlefield Line. I don't think it would be unprecedented for the SDR to cope with 2 locomotives available.

 

Presumably with L92 back for the summer based on the dates on the link above, which would make sense and give a little cover

 

Usual practice is to retain two engines for the one train timetable increasing to three for the two engine timetable. It cannot be commercially justified to retain all five engines for the season.

 

One of the smaller lines that also need your financial help.
https://www.southdevonrailway.co.uk/

 

I see on Facebook the Polar Express will operate at the SDR this winter.