Crawley Ben's Recent Activity
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Crawley Ben liked AMP's post in the thread WSR SSG 2024 May 3rd to 6th.
You will need a long lens as 60007 will be more than 100 miles away. It is due to be 34046 this weekend. Andrew
Apr 30, 2024 at 2:05 PM -
Crawley Ben liked Groks212's post in the thread RTC 2024.
One thing you seem to have forgotten is that the blue grey rake is also used by other tour operators, UKR and Pathfinder for example, and may not be available every weekend for RTC to use. Dave B
Apr 28, 2024 at 9:49 PM -
Crawley Ben liked Gladiator 5076's post in the thread RTC 2024.
So assuming RTC even wanted to run diesel tours why would it interest Freightliner? I can find no tour this year using Freightliner. Do they even have drivers with a passenger licence? And if as you suggest Heritage diesels would they even have a...
Apr 28, 2024 at 9:46 PM -
Crawley Ben liked alts1985's post in the thread Epping Ongar Railway- Festival of Steam - 27th-28th April & 4th-6th and 11th-12th May 2024.
Enjoyable day yesterday, trains seemed resonably full and the threatned rain didn't really appear. Had a full line round trip behind the Hall & Saint and a run up to Epping from North Weald behind the Class 20. The Hall & Saint were worked nicely...
Apr 28, 2024 at 9:37 PM -
Crawley Ben liked gricerdon's post in the thread Mid Hants Spring Steam Gala: 26th-28th April 2024.
Great day today and no rain by the time we left at 1530. Good time keeping and 29 even put in an appearance on the 1535 ex Alresford though with D8188 on the back as insurance as far as Ropley though it sounded nice when worked hard. 45690 and...
Apr 28, 2024 at 1:43 PM -
Crawley Ben liked Gladiator 5076's post in the thread Mid Hants Spring Steam Gala: 26th-28th April 2024.
A good day yesterday and would echo others comments about Leander, certainly the audible and performance star of the day. Of course appearance wise Manston won hands down, and now has an even more 60's in service look than when it departed...
Apr 28, 2024 at 1:43 PM
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Crawley Ben liked Hampshire Unit's post in the thread Mid Hants Spring Steam Gala: 26th-28th April 2024.
[img]506 on the freight by Stephen Morley, on Flickr 506 on fine form today
Apr 28, 2024 at 1:42 PM -
Crawley Ben liked green five's post in the thread Mid Hants Spring Steam Gala: 26th-28th April 2024.
A very enjoyable day in the Hampshire Alps despite it not getting off to a great start when I found out that the SWR services to Alton had gone to pot due to overrunning engineering work. So I switched to the car option and got caught in the...
Apr 28, 2024 at 1:41 PM
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Crawley Ben liked 6026 King John's post in the thread Mid Hants Spring Steam Gala: 26th-28th April 2024.
Shame about the Lambton tank being taken out of service. I was getting to rather like it having also seen it on the Severn Valley last week. Everything else seemed to go fine today with all trains running to time or very close. Star of the...
Apr 26, 2024 at 8:17 PM
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Crawley Ben liked Duty Druid's post in the thread Mid Hants Spring Steam Gala: 26th-28th April 2024.
Rides in the QMB are pay on the day on the QMB itself, you hand over your fiver to one on the wagon group members who will look after you on the journey, to ake sure the guard can do his job unhindered. It really is the best way to travel ay the...
Apr 26, 2024 at 8:16 PM -
Crawley Ben liked Deepgreen's post in the thread LE movements, ECS and test runs 2024.
A still from the 8K video: [ATTACH]
Apr 25, 2024 at 5:11 PM
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Crawley Ben liked ragl's post in the thread Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway.
"Zillerthal" and "The Earl" were the rostered locos for Bank Holiday Monday's services: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Cheerz, Alan
Apr 23, 2024
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Crawley Ben liked Swiss Toni's post in the thread Saphos 2024.
A very dull Horbury cutting. [IMG] "Braunton", 17/04/24. A little brighter at Gauxholme. [img] "Braunton", 17/04/24.
Apr 23, 2024
