Not knowing the layout at all, but from your description, why can't you simply re-engine the train at Goathland? Yes, it needs 1 more loco in use...
34072 has actually gone to the GCR for their gala, alongside the 9F.
OK, so as I suspected, what you are describing are 'guard rails' not 'check rails'. A commonly misunderstood term!
It would be considerably cheaper to move the Welsh border east a bit. After all, it's only a line on a map...
Wasn't that based on bypassing the Gwili section, including quite a bit of tunnelling, though?
You don't have DMUs in Sussex, do you? It isn't necessary to double your steam loco / carriage costs overnight just by going from 5 to say 6 or 7...
Thanks Mark. For the viaduct, do you mean guard rails? There shouldn't be any need for check rails there, it's straight.
Interesting. 16 years ago I was in Praha between Christmas and New Year, but don't recall seeing any decorated trams! Although I was only passing...
I'd like them to break out of Fintown and head into the hills... but I'm absolutely certain that will never happen. It's such a sparsely populated...
This isn't a project I've followed at all, but I'm curious about the tenders. The photo appears to show three - what's the origin of the third one?
19&20: But will they ever run again? The one at Fintown is a wonderful experience (in the pouring rain, with water cascading through the cab...
Any scope for hiring 22 and running them as a pair? (Out of curiosity, I presume there's no multi-working and both would need a driver?)
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