46115 Scots Guardsman

Shame there's no video yet!

 

You may well be right in your opinion,BUt i would rather see a tatty mallard bursting out of a tunnell than a highly glossed dead mallard,do you disagree with that?
The reason a steam engine apeals is that in my opinion it activates all the senses not just sight,Any steam engine would have had several liveries in it's life and i guess that none were suitable to all onlookers all of the time,The paint is a today thing and can be changed at anytime.You cant see the paint job before you see the engine but you can hear it,smell it sometimes,old photographs and loco liveries only do one thing,that is jolt your memory into action.but an engine in good form thundering past you pulling 12 or more makes you live for today not yesterday,as i said i don't give a toss so long as the engineering is sound.
The melter

 

There are a lot of locos running in less authentic liveries than 6115's! (Flying Scotsman and City of Truro for a start), but surely the point of the overhaul is to see the loco run again, if the people overhauling the loco want to paint it pink, I'm all for it!

 

"For all I care they can paint it pink with blue spots."

What we say when we're absolutely sure there's not a chance of it happening. ;-)

 

This whole "guess the colour of the Scot" thing reminds me of being a kid and discovering in November what Father Christmas was going to bring in December !! Of course i was delighted with my gift, but terribly disapointed when the realisation of the fact that the suprise had been ruined sank in !!

What ever colour Mr Smith paints his machine, lets embrace the fact that we can see a Scot where it should be, doing what it was designed to do.

Kind regards,

Matt Curtis.

 

From Uksteam.info - loco movements

Fri 11-Jul TBA: Carnforth-Hellifield-Preston-Carnforth (Provisional) (08/07)

Could this be a scots guardsman move?

 

Maybe even 5690 Leander?

 

so who's going to be stood on hellifield platform waiting for this mystery loco

 

70013 is pencilled-in for Th 17th, and various comments suggest that getting her ready by then will more than enough work for the Loughborough team.

5690 is quite likely, I suppose. (I hope the rumours are wrong and she's still in LMS red!)

Has 48151 had an after-dark run to check the spark arresters yet?

But we're all hoping it's SG, aren't we?

BTW Any date for 6100 to move to Bressingham yet?

 

rough shunter,if you leave the daft message off your posts they would look so much better.
the one at the end.drivers and fireman wear them for a reason.

 

From TRUST the following is found for 11/07/08
5Z47

11522 CARNFORTH 08:41
11525 CARNFORTH 09:11 09:13 0
11526 CRNFTHNJN PASS 09:14 2
11519 CRNFTU&DG 09:16 10:00 0
11526 CRNFTHNJN PASS 10:03 2
11525 CARNFORTH PASS 10:04 2
09523 SETTLE JN PASS 11:08 2
09526 HELFD GLS 11:14 12:20 0
09527 HELLIFLD PASS 12:21 2
29139 HORRKFD J PASS 12:56 2
29143 CLITHEROE PASS 12:57 2
29148 DAISYFLDJ PASS 13:20 2
29150 BLACKBURN 13:23 14:18 0
29162 CHERRYTRE 14:22 14:42
30139 LOSTOKHJN PASS 14:54
30150 FRNGTNCJN PASS 14:59
30120 PRESTON 15:06 15:50
11720 LANCASTER PASS 16:22
11718 MORCM SJN PASS 16:26
11519 CRNFTU&DG 16:33 17:01
11526 CRNFTHNJN PASS 17:04
11525 CARNFORTH 17:06 17:08
11522 CARNFORTH 18:08


This running under sector 50, which i believe is WC Railways so this may be the trial for one of their locos. I m not saying it is 6115 but WC appear to be planning to run a ECS move on this day, so may be of some interest to you all. There is no consist in TRUST as yet.

 

I might go - but there is a very nice cafe on the station now so not much standing

Very strange - my original post is now missing from UKsteam.info

 

Now removed from UK Steam loco movements. The plot thickens!!!

 

In view of the above i will keep my eyes on TRUST to see if the path gets cancelled!

 

So you mean if the path is still there on the morning of the run, then it's a good possibility of it running? :-k If so let us know, I know someone who lives in the Blackburn area who would go and get some pictures.....

 

Yes i will keep my eyes open on Friday morning. However i note on 1 line up that can come from TRUST, (head code enquiry), the service does not show cancelled as yet. My gut feeling is that something will run on Friday.

I will keep you posted.