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MRC Butterley - Works non-event

Discussion in 'Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK' started by crantock, Aug 30, 2010.

  1. crantock

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    I visited Butterley today and it was a somewhat mixed experience. The advertising was (their website):

    Midland Railway - Butterley Heritage Open Weekend
    A special weekend re-creating the Works Open Days that were popular in the 1950s.
    There will be a wide range of steam and diesel traction operating to an intensive timetable.
    August 28th to 30th

    The reality was somewhat short of that. The haulage was a DMU (Nice but wow so slow) and a bright blue Jinty clearly a de-copyrighted "Thomas". It was nice to see the stationary pwer displays working and a few buses. Fork lift truck display is now complete but a little "specialist". There are some great facilities - PRCLT in particular and a lot of locos.

    But works open day? No way. There was nothing special. Perhaps expecting access to workshops (and there are a lot of them) was too much but some of the diesels in the yard could have been started up. Societies could have had stands etc etc.

    I am not sure if something went wrong or if centres are trying too hard to have an event every weekend.
     
    crantock, Aug 30, 2010
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