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D1015 "Western Champion" Trial Run & Fish Train - 22 August

Discussie in 'What's Going On' gestart door Ben Vintage-Trains, 3 aug 2013.

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  1. Ben Vintage-Trains

    Ben Vintage-Trains Member

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    I know I am posting about a box, but in the world of boxes, it is one of the more acceptable ones.

    Trial run - Thursday eve 22nd August.

    Maybe we should put steam on the back just to upset the diesel fans!

    http://www.tyseleylocoworks.co.uk/tours/tr_2013_0822.htm
     
    Ben Vintage-Trains, 3 aug 2013
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    free2grice Part of the furniture Friend

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    Let's hope all goes to plan. More news regarding the maintenance of Western Champion. <BJ>

    1st August 2013. Maintenance is now complete on D1015 but the loco is still at Old Oak Common awaiting a bogie inspection and the annual safety exam. Once these are passed and the paperwork issued a Light Diesel movement can be arranged back to Tyseley. A loaded test run is currently being arranged from Tyseley and on successful completion the loco will be fit to work Pathfinder's Weymouth tour on the 7th of September. The loco has now been out of traffic for 3 years so fingers crossed all the above goes to plan and we can once again enjoy D1015 on the main line.
     
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    free2grice Part of the furniture Friend

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    D1015 arrived at Tyseley this afternoon. <BJ>
    http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/O10876/2013/08/20/advanced
     
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    Reading General Part of the furniture

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    delighted to see D1015 on OOC on sunday as I passed....about the only recognisable thing from the "old days"
     
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    +1 to that about the old days. Saw it there a couple of weeks ago but not visible last Friday on the way back from the GBBF so I assumed it had left.
     
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    Loaded test run this evening from Tyseley to Leicester hauled by D1015 ran to time. <BJ>
     
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    The Western at Whitacre and Stenson
     
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    That sounds fantastic!
     
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    What a world we live in... even a Western had to have a box on the back ! :oops:
     
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    Reading General Part of the furniture

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    i used to lie in bed listening to that sound every night...and I was a good 2 miles or more away!
    (nothing wrong with a 47 btw either!)
     
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    Yes it should really have had at least a Hall as backup....:rolleyes:
     
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    presumably filthy, leaking steam, with no plates and it's number chalked on the cabside....(before my time, but I read Adrian Vaughan
     
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    Exactly as I remember things, the Reading Station pilots (& others) always rescuing conked out hydraulics.
     
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    Reading General Part of the furniture

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    can't argue with history, but still love them....my first meeting with them was at a GWS open day in Taplow...yes, I loved Pendennis 3205 and 6106 but what really thrilled me was screaming Warships and Westerns just feet away
     
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    Fantastic!
     
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    0Z55 Old Oak Common T.M.D to Tyseley Steam Trust at Olton :


    1Z52 Tyseley Steam Trust to Leicester at Coleshill Parkway:

     
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    The one where 7808 brought a tour in from somewhere around 1966? I was also there & have some pictures stored around.
     
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    that one and the one after! more like 68 probably....love to see the pics!
     
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    Not many Halls approved for 90MPH, fun as it would be.
     
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