Dorset Coast Express - 2014

Thanks for that input. It just shows how unrealistic the speed limits on different loco classes really is.

 

Just a post scipt from Wednesday. How about this for athletic imagination!

 

If he slipped, and landed on that "v" in the branch some feet below. OUCH!

Wouldn't just be a black 5.

 

Possibly a LMS 2P or not 2P?

 

with a stuck drain cock.....

 

The limit is 60mph, as the lowest speed applies

Don

 

Fair amount of rain across the south today. Also much cooler. Does this mean that the next DCE will not be DL assisted?

Don

 

Very appropriate words for something going through Bournemouth.

"The lowest speed applies", music to the ears of certain Bournemouth Gnomes from the 1960s! LOL!

 

Hopefully.

Maybe there will be another West Byfleet S x x x E test by our West Byfleet fire tester first? But please don't go near Eastbourne to do it.

 

My parole is not due by then.

 

60 ? That was a bit high for a Bomo gnome.

Seriously don't forget that Bournemouth also had some very good drivers, such as Rabbetts, Hutton and Varney.

Don

 

Hope not as I'm on it. Bit of a risk booking at this time of year I know but I've got a week off and haven't been down the Weymouth line since Clan Line's epic trip in 2012.

 

Lots of rain has drenched my garden here in Dorset but the dead grass does not rehydrate it just dries out, until all that dead/dry grass gets removed or rots away the fire risk remains. If the rest of the lineside up country is like that around Weymouth much of it is dead and/or dry grass. Wish that wasn't the case but regrettably it is. I don't think they dare risk it, not sure I would in their position.

 

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  The latest news from RTC. <BJ>

• The Dorset Coast Express
• 13th August

''Please be advised we have had to cancel this tour due to the National Fire Service strike on this date, which has led to Network Rail prohibiting any
steam hauled trains from running during the hours of the strike. The Dorset Coast Express is still scheduled to run on 6th, 20th and 27th August and
3rd and 10th September and there is still availability in all classes on these dates''.

 

Sod the turntable, I would pay big money to get a steam out to Weymouth Quay on the tramway! (did it as a kid (a diesel) on the way to the BR boat service to the Channel Islands) Ok I accept there is no way on gods earth a "7" could get out there without knocking the town down, but it must be possible to squeeze a "5" down there

 

Hopefully the generator won't be needed much, weather forecast predicts heavy rain for the entire down journey. I shall be putting my towel down tonight under a known sheltered spot....

 

From the latest Railway Herald - I hope I'm not infringing any copyright/intellectual property rights here - if so, Mods please delete.

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Funny you should mention that............. When we went on the 9th July trip a local paper in Weymouth had a front page story (with a picture of 5972!) about plans for a turntable being installed on the Quay line to allow more Steam Charter trains to visit Weymouth and use only one locomotive. WCRC were behind this plan according to the report (as mentioned in the Railway Herald item above).