Scarborough Steam Special - 17 May

Hi,

Does anyone have a hunch on what may be pulling the Skegness - Scarborough special on 17th May?

WCRC is the operator..

Thanks

 

Anyone know what will be on the front of this one? Odd that its not listed five days before?

 

Private WCR charter? If so, it's likely that there will be no info until it runs.

 

It's a public WCRC tour..


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Its advertised on the WCR web site - http://www.westcoastrailways.co.uk/trips/scarborough-steam-trip-special.html

 

Cheers guys. I'd read the OP as more of a query than it warranted

 

UK Steam lists it as a quadruple header now, should be fun! 44932/45699/46115/61994

 

That means perm one of four !

David at www.uksteam.info

 

45699 apparently.

 

45699 moving tomorrow from Carnforth for Saturday's tour , class 47 , stock, pob and 45699 on rear . The times hear from realtime
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U53104/2014/05/16/advanced
These look like the times for the tour on Saturday from Skegness .http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U53105/2014/05/17/advanced

 

Thanks for tip off

 

45699 on her way

 

On a very warm Saturday morning 45699 accelerates away from Sleaford North junction in fine LMS style

https://www.flickr.com/photos/10257146@N05/14017326130/

then after the water stop at Metheringham we see the Jubilee on the 1-200 gradient towards Lincoln

https://www.flickr.com/photos/10257146@N05/14180894836/

Great to see steam along this section of line very rare.


https://www.flickr.com/photos/10257146@N05/

 

It appears 45699 had a mishap with it's smokebox door handles as they were missing when it reached York and wire appears to be holding it shut.

 

Is that safe?

 

Only to reach a suitable point for a proper repair. Probably into NRM for a set!
Not conducive to good steaming either as it's unlikely to be very air tight.

 

I would hope that, provided the fit is good enough to allow some smokebox vacuum, the vacuum itself would then hold the door tightly shut.

But I would still expect the proper handles to be replaced ASAP, and I look forward to hearing, in due course, what on earth happened to the ones she set off with.

 

Having been on the train the water stop at Milford Loop seemed to take overly long. From the carriages we could see people either side of the loco doing something but we weren't sure what. This is possibly where the dart was removed and the wire added.

The wire was still in place when we left Scarborough. After being detached at York, Galatea made a hasty exit back to Carnforth where I expect a proper repair is to be undertaken.

 

Lovely day for it today although it did rather put the tin hat on any exhaust displays.

Three from the day.......LINK

 

Nice power station shot. Which one is it?