26D_M's Recent Activity
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26D_M odgovara u temi RTC: Tynesider - 4/7/26.
Quite, I don't think the pair of 'choppers' used yesterday have silencers, the passengers will have been assailed. Regardless of the fire risk, my understanding is if a diesel is directly behind a steam loco it has to provide the traction so the...
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26D_M odgovara u temi RTC: Tynesider - 4/7/26.
"Asthmatic figurehead" is cruel but also perfectly accurate. In defence of WC, I dont think they've ever succumbed to using 3 diesels to assist one steam loco on a charter like Saphos LSL did yesterday ....
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26D_M liked henrywinskill's post in the thread RTC: Tynesider - 4/7/26.
Isnt it strange that the 10 year olds seem to respond to the posts though.
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26D_M liked Sheff's post in the thread RTC: Tynesider - 4/7/26.
I have every sympathy with @Big Al’s views, I wouldn’t want to be shoved around in a coffin by a diesel with an asthmatic figurehead up front. However, my solution is simple - I save my money and no longer book any tour that involves WCRC.
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26D_M odgovara u temi RTC: Tynesider - 4/7/26.
There is definitely an element of network issues I'm sure John, that's part of the "hassle greater than reward" I was alluding to. It must be tough to retain an appetite for success when the challenges grow ever greater. Essentially the business...
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26D_M odgovara u temi RTC: Tynesider - 4/7/26.
It betrays a very peculiar mindset to suggest somebody goes to the trouble and expense of travelling with the aim of being disappointed in order to criticise the operator! On the broader points about 'performance', it seems to me that the heart...
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26D_M liked Big Al's post in the thread RTC: Tynesider - 4/7/26.
I do it just to annoy you two who seem to think WCR can do no wrong. ;) And to prove it why not swallow this one. Today's itinerary was good and it seems that despite the weather up north, we may have been operating under fire risk regs. That...
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26D_M liked Oswald T Wistle's post in the thread Saphos Trains 2026.
If last week was "El Scorchio" then today was "El Gloomio"! The weather was dull and dreary; one forecast was for sunshine and showers, the other for dull, more dull and duller still with an increasing risk of rain. There had been overnight...
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26D_M liked Will RL's post in the thread Saphos Trains 2026.
It’s been almost a year since I’ve been “out of the game”, so unless things have changed in the meantime the case would be: Green: steam ok Amber: consider use of diesel Red: diesel assisted steam Black: no steam Regional managers would...
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26D_M odgovara u temi Saphos Trains 2026.
Presumably the same reason they were left on when the train went into Upperby LSL? It's their business obviously but 4 locos on one train with only the 3 diesels providing the traction, whilst the rain persistently fell, was somewhat comical....
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26D_M liked iancawthorne's post in the thread Saphos Trains 2026.
It has been explained to me that the 20's were present to get 60532 and support coach to Preston under the current fire risk. Timings were not available for the necessary shunt moves to extract the 20's from the consist, so they stayed on for the...
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26D_M liked steam_mad's post in the thread No 246 Morayshire.
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Re-wheeled this week at Bo’ness; boiler now in the final stages at LMS too!
4. Srpanj 2026. u 21:35
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26D_M liked 45698Mars's post in the thread Saphos Trains 2026.
I think that leaving the 20's behind the tender just made the logistics easier at the loco changes. For most of Cumbria and North Yorkshire today, I doubt you could have started a lineside fire with anything short of a flamethrower. 60532 et al...
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