'The Royal Duchy' 2013

Indeed! Although it was pretty hard to tell what was smoking more, the black 5 or the 47!

 

And I prefer the Diesel on the back. For some as yet unexplained syndrome, the sight of a blanked off door, the letters C1, and a single blinking light irks the hell out of me.

 

I logged onto this forum to check on the progress of the Royal Duchy tour today and was saddened to see yet another thread has degenerated into a mud slinging contest. I have recently joined a couple of other forums, and it has been refreshing to read through thread after thread with little if any of this. Yes there are arguments and disagreements, but they are dealt with in an sensible adult fashion, but sadly not so with Nat Pres.

 

So did it carry on on its own, or did NR insist on another shed to pilot?
Re fire risk, just shows how exceptionally dry it has been. 7827 has set fire to the same stretch of the PDSR at Broadsands twice this week and that was after some days of thunderstorms and torrential rain too

 

Sad news about todays events although it sounds as though it was the right call to send out a diesel with it if there were issues on Friday.

Question, surely some fire cement could have been found/purchased and placed onto the ashpan doors by the support crew if it was indeed an ashpan problem and not a spark arrester issue? Forward thinking and all prevention methods taken into account, just a thought.

Anyways, hopefully the passengers are somewhere near Bristol now as ETA is 22:25 going by UKSteam.

 

Story elsewhere is that it ran out of fuel. Only saying what I heard, don't shoot the messenger!

 

All is happy in the land of Nat Pres I see.

For once I have nothing to do with it

44932 sounded less than in fine health blasting through Tiverton tonight,something I won't forget in a hurry,truly like an end of steam scenario,will post the vid later.

Cheers,
Mark

 

That's correct Buseng afaik

70013 gave me a fantastic run to Par so I am going to be positive!!

golden Arrow regalia is being prepared for the English part of the Golden Arrow to Paris now that 231K8 is ok to run from Calais to Paris and back. So lets all wish 70013 well on the Weymouth and keep our fingers crossed for a memorable run to Par next week.....!!

 

Hey Mark, how are you, young man. I miss you guys on the steam tours and winding up the punters as you know.

Mind you, winding up the punters works on here too, although I have to add that when I wish to state a serious point, I make it and hope the message gets through.

If not, never mind as some folk take it all too seriously.

Hope to see you and your dad out on a tour some time soon.

Nick

 

I'm good mate,trust you and your family are??

Feel free to reply by PM ......

It aint the same on the trains these days,not much of the old gang remains,still in single figures for tours i've done this year myself.....

You booked on any?

Be good to see you about at some point,been a while....still laugh at the "Who are you sleeping with tonight" incident in the pub at Exeter that time....oh and John Wayne!! Haha good times.


In train related news.


It appears 44932 has virtually made it to Bristol as at 22:55

Cheers,
Mark

 

Just found the following video on youtube of 44932 leaving Exeter.... ouch. That is one seriously sick sounding loco.



Chris

 

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I've done a B&W version of yesterday's shot:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/neilscottuk/9652697172

 

Thats a different sounding loco for sure, but don't know how sick it is, its pulled that lot away ok with no diesel support.

 

It's about time you all grew up a bit. Making silly remarks and insulting each other ........it's unnecessary from you all. You all have opinions, there's a right and a wrong way to put your point over.

 

Thank you kindly. I must learn a bit more English as I continue to write my Owl book.

No hurry though as the young lady I gave the first chapter to for checking grammar and punctuation etc won't be able to do much more for me for a while.

But the consultant and therapist say she is now responding to medication and therapy, and once she gets past the nightmares she will go to a re hab centre.

And I've signed a legally binding document to stop using any apostrophes and brackets in the book draft................


Now back to topic. Anyone care to say why the Blackie was sounding so dreadful? To me it sounded a bit like a compound loco with 1 high pressure and 3 low pressure cylinders !

But my engineering knowledge is on a par with my knowledge of the use of English. ) .

 

Here is my video of it blasting (or something) through Tiverton Parkway last night.

I thought for a minute the Super D had been given a mainline ticket.....


Enjoy...



Cheers,
Mark

 

Fantastic soundtrack. It may not sound right, but it certainly sounds.

 

Hmm... The exhaust sounds very uneven to begin with, with one very loud beat and the next-but-one (i.e. from the same cylinder as the loud beat) almost non-existant. At first I wondered if a piston ring was blowing by - but if that were the case, the steam would be going straight up the chimney without doing much on both strokes (think of 61994 on the Kyle line on GB3). The beat evens out a bit as the train gets moving, and the cut-off is reduced. The rate of acceleration seems to be pretty good, so whatever is wrong, it's obviously not sapping too much power...

Mark/Alberta's video, though, shows that the exhaust didn't even-out very much. One beat is very much louder than the other three. Makes it sound like she's going a quarter of the speed she really is. More work for Carnforth's fitters...