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The Nigel Dobbing Memorial Train 17th March 2019

Discussion in 'What's Going On' started by noelist, Mar 11, 2019.

  1. henrywinskill

    henrywinskill Well-Known Member

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    Thats a cracker Simon,
     
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    Many thanks Henry appreciate your comment. Great to see the Bullied down here looked fabulous last night and today.
     
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    ECS move Kings Lynn-Carnforth

    taken from the foot crossing in the village of Muston near Grantham in some lovely afternoon sunshine

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    Outward ECS and main charter seen at 9 different locations!
     
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    Thanks for sharing, some great shots there.
     
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    Enjoyed that plenty of action,no time spent waiting for the train to appear and disappear.well done
     
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    I was very pleased there was no diesels involved at all with the memorial train workings. Nigel hated diesels, I remember the February 2000 tour of Ukraine when we had TE6115 a re gauged Kriegslok over the mountains to Chertkow on a very heavy train, sleeping cars, dining cars, 600tons at least. It was a overnighter, to cut a long story short ,when we arrived at Chertkow we had three diesels on the front as well as the 52. I pointed this out to Nigel, (he was never a very early riser) The train company's manager was found, a woman, I forget her name, It's not good enough he said to her, I was promised no diesels.
    When he went into steam tours later on, I often wonder what he thought of diesels on the back for complete days.
    A nice touch on Saturdays train was the reporting number 1Z66, Nigel's age when he died was 66.
     
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    On GB X when Scotland was dry and WCRC took precautions over diesel assists, we returned into England with, very sadly, a Duchess under gentle power and with a Cl 47 pushing. On the following day Galatea retained its diesel helper after Carnforth having started at Grange. But by Crewe, Nigel had had enough, and so had Mick Kelly tbh. The diesel was detached and we had a great run down the Marches line to Bristol. So you are right, Nigel didn't like diesels on steam trains.
     

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