SVR Autumn Steam Gala

As you've said British Railways rather than BR I'm saying 4247

Jon

 

And what happens if someone guesses correctly? Will you confirm or deny?
Seriously sunshine you can’t have it both ways.

 

Happy to dicusss your issue on a direct message if you wish. I did try to message but was unable to.

If somebody guessed correctly I would neither confirm nor deny till a contract was signed and announcement made. Thats as simple as. There are owners of locos out there who wouldn’t like that.

I’m not having it both ways as you suggest.

 

Aitch, you’ve been asked very nicely to take down a post from another member of a loco owning group at the same railway your based at and said of them of ‘leaking’ information before contracts have been signed, there’s been a hint of something else what might be showing up next month, as you say nothing wrong with a bit of guess work but then you say nobody’s ‘guessed correctly’
so how’s about biting your tongue and saying sod all until as you’ve said contracts have been signed and agreed?
Double standards very much comes to mind.

Just out of interest do SVR staff still get a Saphos discount btw?

 

I have. I don’t dispute that I’ve been asked. I do dispute whether it was leaked or not. My opinion is that it went on social media, through a non official SVR post, before a contract was signed. So to me that’s a leak. If you want to message me I’ll happily discuss further.

There is no issue in saying nobody has guessed correctly. That’s just dangling the same carrot the SVR dangled in the official post. A bit of teasing and guess work. That’s something several railways do. No harm in it, and if nobody has got it right, no harm in saying. Theres no risk in that.

I’m happy to say nothing if that will help you. But that applies accross the board so the little snippets of info people have been enjoying will also go (Something we know has proved popular by the way).

I’ve no idea where the Saphos comment comes in to this thread, but I’ve never had a discount on any of the trips I’ve done if that answers your query.

 

Back to some proper gala talk -

We seem to have pretty fixed loco directions now.
North - 35006, 75069, 4930, 813, NCB 49, 1450, 7714 and TBA visitor.
South - 73082, 7802, 13268
35006 will be turned south at some stage during the weekend, as it hauls the last train on the Sunday as a special as shown on the PTT.
75069/7714 will find themselves turned Sunday as part of Christmas prep when we have our locos south facing.

PTT as posted on the website earlier shows all trains but no locos yet. When visitor TBA is announced locos will go on. As best as possible sets and locos have been matched, but obviously it’s never straightforward.

Goods train runs in pick-up style on Thursday, and fixed formation for the weekend. Very much looking forward to seeing this one with both home and visitors alike.

 

Haha! People will be telling me off for leaking that Xmas is happening soon!

No it’s not a secret. It is indeed 2 home based engines. However there is currently some discussion as to which pair due to fire risk mitigation, so I won’t promise which pair just yet. As far as I’m aware once the last visitor is announced and some fire risk discussion has taken place we should be pretty good to announce the PTT with locos.