Indeed - that came to light after my post (for me at least). Not so long ago, the 9th July commemorative run commanded a fast main line run all...
'End of Southern Steam' on 9 July cancelled owing to there being no steam loco available, but would it have been allowed to run with steam anyway,...
If I am reading post 143 correctly - we in the bulk of England are Amber?! There has been almost no rain for ages over very large swathes of the...
Interesting to know - I have long been an amateur meteorologist. Yes, there has been a series of shower/storm events recently where the chance of...
Moving back to fire risk issues - as I predicted I am sorry to say that the Swanage trip this week is now diesel-hauled.
So predictable, which is the shame of it. We all want steam to run, but it does more harm than good when it does so in the obviously wrong...
Which calls into question the usefulness/point of a blanket banner like that, when conditions were obviously inappropriate for steam over quite a...
Indeed so - I will be surprised if steam is even present, given the scorching weather.
I foresee a blanket ban in most of the south soon - no sign of rain anywhere for two weeks or more, with very high temperatures and very strong...
Does it use that stock?
I think the train crashing with passengers on board would be worse, and I can think of still worse ones.
However, the actual charter has been completely cancelled.
As a finale perhaps to this - after the test runs the entire 'Britannic' tour appears to be have been cancelled! Perhaps a problem was...
Indeed, it just annoys me that so much modern stock is moved by road when it would seem to be perfectly able to go by rail, given, as you say,...
Wow - I had certainly missed this previously.
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