I had to chuckle at the "team shed" posts after they "fixed" the visiting class 37. Which clown hired in a loco without working vacuum brakes for...
Don't under estimate yourself, or put yourselves down! A lot of the so called premier league railways are in the their own eyes, but not so much...
Until the railway gets a grip of the wage bill it will only make loss after loss. No company can survive with a wage bill that is nearly 50% of...
Sods law the weather was nice in March!
Sums up the arrogance of the certain members, they might have got more support (both people and financial) over the years and had a working loco...
Any ideas where it is heading to? I remember when it was first put up for sale the condition was that Tyseley were contracted to overhaul it which...
Is 80080 still based at the railway? I can't remember seeing it running recently.
Awaiting repairs after being bashed into or by a steam loco
It depends on what you class as a "leading line", I don't class a line that is hemorrhaging money, in the region of £500,000 every year as...
Is it 45407 that they are painting red for use in Harry Potter trains for PnP Events? Might be why they have been swapped for the event?
Given the copper and steel are not connected together on the fire hole ring it won't have been hydraulic tested yet let alone steamed
One would assume Betton Grange will be running?
Not if the diesel is dual braked...........
With all the talk about non air braked steam locos, it does make you wonder why WCR don't just tuck a diesel loco in between one of their steam...
In short no, they don't have any mainline operations or preserved line operations as far as i am aware
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