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  1. jsm8b liked 5098's post in the thread VT Cathedrals Express to Newcastle - 12/06/26.

    Ackworth on the return: [ATTACH] https://richardstevens.smugmug.com/

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  2. jsm8b liked 5098's post in the thread VT Cathedrals Express to Newcastle - 12/06/26.

    Monk Fryston: [ATTACH]

    upload_2026-6-12_11-37-59.jpeg Jun 12, 2026 at 12:29 PM
  3. jsm8b liked ficksberglion's post in the thread VT Cathedrals Express to Newcastle - 12/06/26.

    An impressive start away through the weeds at Burton.[ATTACH]

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  4. jsm8b liked ficksberglion's post in the thread VT Cathedrals Express to Newcastle - 12/06/26.

    Same location 62 years earlier !! [ATTACH]

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  5. jsm8b attached a file to the thread LE movements, ECS and test runs 2026.

    Crossing the Trent and Mersey canal, by Colwich lock No 21, Mallards by request (sort of). Canals are no better than railways for the encroachment of the canalside trees. The movement of the A4 was 86 minutes late, a check on the disruptions...

    _26Z3456 60007 Colwich 100626.jpg Jun 10, 2026 at 2:04 PM
  6. jsm8b liked Oswald T Wistle's post in the thread Saphos Trains 2026.

    The heavy overnight rain (hopefully meant no fire risk?! - but who knows) petered out by mid-morning and the afternoon became sunny. I was unable to watch the morning train head north on the WCML so watching the return was essential. The easy...

    Jun 9, 2026 at 12:05 PM
  7. jsm8b liked iancawthorne's post in the thread Saphos Trains 2026.

    Cowperthwaite, near Lowgill with today's private charter, [img] Blue Peter at Cowperthwaite

    Jun 9, 2026 at 7:40 AM
  8. jsm8b liked Shep Woolley's post in the thread Saphos Trains 2026.

    [ATTACH] LNER Peppercorn A2 class No. 60532 'Blue Peter' works a private chater 1Z33 through Greenholme towards Shap summit and on to Penrith [ATTACH] No. 60532 'Blue Peter' working the return LSL private charter from Langwathby towards...

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  9. jsm8b attached a file to the thread Saphos Trains 2026.

    Me too !. I wish the light we had a few minutes before the train arrived had lasted. [ATTACH]

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  10. jsm8b liked 45698Mars's post in the thread Saphos Trains 2026.

    Sadly, I was elsewhere than Cumbria/North Yorkshire today, but I did manage to grab a couple of shots of the private charter at Helsby this evening as it was returning to Chester....

    Jun 9, 2026 at 7:38 AM
  11. jsm8b replied to the thread 76079.

    76079 went first to Fort William in 2004 for a private charter over the late May Bank Holiday and then ran a public train the day after. As John says it was then at Fort William in 2008 during the photo charter. On both visits it masqueraded as...

    Jun 7, 2026
  12. jsm8b liked Johnb's post in the thread 76079.

    76079 did go up to the WHL in 2008, renumbered as Fort William’s 76001 it took part in the photo charters. It wasn’t a lot of use on the Jacobite as it was restricted to hauling six coaches on the Mallaig Road [ATTACH]

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