Lindum Fayre - 9/12/17

Couldn't they run Royal Scot light from York to Norwich ? Too much extra cost I expect .......

 

Maybe be slightly off the topic heading but continuing the discussion and there seems to be no Yuletide Express forum. I assume what claude hamilton means that the Scot could do Norwich-York-Peterborough?

I perceive a number of issues with that

Support crew availability for the LE move
Lack of time to turn and service the loco at York (the one place where even if you have 5 hours it never seems long enough)
Exceeds the (approx.) 200 mile a day limit for steam operation by one loco by quite an amount.
Support crew hours for a tour leaving Norwich at 0810 and back to Peterborough at 2030. Add to that prep and disposal time and you are in to one seriously long day.
Plus of course as mentioned cost and WCRC crew availability.

 

One assumes 60009 would have had to move from somewhere to Norwich for this run so one can but wonder why 46100 won't do likewise.

 

I'm not quite sure where all this doom-laden mis-information about the Norwich - York is coming from.

Repairs have been completed on No.9 and I have just distributed timings to move it from ELR to Norwich, in order to take up its remaining roster for RTC until Christmas. This of course is subject, as always, to satisfactory running at The Lancs this weekend on their 'Santas'.

I hope that might give some cheer to one or two.

JS

 

I guess because the Duchess was doing the return leg, not No 9. I also expect that No 9 which if the plan happened, would be at Southall now after the Poole-Bristol yesterday would not move LE but as an ECS move as Oliver Cromwell did to Bristol last week.

 

Looks like our posts crossed in the ether James, good news which I heard alluded to yesterday during the Bristol trip but did not want to mention.

 

Cheers me up as a morning off work to see 60009 go through is part of my birthday treat to myself.

 

Out of interest are RTC offering a part refund to those on the train to compensate for the fact the steam mileage is around half of what was originally advertised and promoted?

 

Because they product they have delivered is not what was advertised, having around half the steam mileage.

This is exactly why I only go on UK Railtours/ DBC charters.

 

How do you work that out? Kings X/Lincoln/Newark/Kings X is around 267 miles and just the the Kings X/Peterborough sector of 76 miles is diesel not steam? That is not "around half".

 

Originally advertised as Steam Kings Cross- Lincoln- Kings Cross steam. Sorry, just realized that steam does return to Kings Cross this evening. Still 25% less steam than originally promoted though.