M'yes, quite so, but back then the idea of building complete new main line locomotives wasn't exactly mainstream, so using what was to hand, as a...
Bad news for the 76077 gang, for sure - but I'm sure that we'll eventually see 76077 running. ISTR that at one time there were suggestions to use...
I'm just glad that I rode the Jacobite (and saw the morning train crossing the Caledonian Canal) when you could still enjoy the Mark 1s... Mark
Don't forget, too, that for the gents, it's "A loo with a view" :D Mark
Ooh, some raw meat for the 9/11 & moon landing conspiracy theorists! :D Mark
ISTR that the late Jimmy Young used the word, albeit slightly abbreviated, every day on his Radio 2 show - the "antipenult" Mark
That's SERIOUSLY not good news. Mark
I would be surprised if they did - it's a bit curvy for Pacifics between Grosmont & Whitby. I still think that a trick has been missed though -...
I was on the return service - LCGB's "Fells & Dales" trip, that day. 92220 & Hardwicke from Carnforth to Leeds, Leeds-Harrogate-York with 4472,...
Didn't she also do the last Hull-York via Stamford Bridge steam hauled service, a couple of years earlier?
May 1982. Elland Road, Leeds. Heart Teardrop Explodes Joan Jett & the Blackhearts Queen Cost? Six pounds :cool: Mark
I wonder, then, if BP will be left at Carlisle for tonight? What a damn shame for all concerned Mark
Water top up for the A2, I think, before she takes the train back, presumably via Shap.
Great news indeed - thanks for the update :) Mark
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