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Romsey replied to the thread RTC 2025.
Starting from Victoria Eastern and running via Tulse Hill and Crystal Palace probably adds 15 minutes to the Victoria - Haywards Heath journey time. Then there is 10 minutes at Balcombe Tunnel Jn waiting for a path on the two track section....
Nov 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM -
Romsey liked I. Cooper's post in the thread The Royal Scot, Thursday 6/11/25.
Blatent plug for my footage from 3 years ago starting around Coleham dept. At the start the locos are fairly clean, but later on you can see they're getting a bit plastered in muck - it being fairly obvious why the 'trailing' loco gets filthy....
Nov 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM -
Romsey liked Victor's post in the thread The Royal Scot, Thursday 6/11/25.
I enjoyed that,, thanks for posting it, a bit of everything in the daily life of Carlisle. It looks as though the Colas Loco. Wash is out of action, the filth on their locos is a disgrace. If the shiny bits are filthy it begs the...
Nov 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM -
Romsey liked osprey's post in the thread The Royal Scot, Thursday 6/11/25.
Absolutely brilliant... knees tell me about them...other parts available...
Nov 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM -
Romsey replied to the thread RTC 2025.
Victoria - Eastbourne is 65m57ch plus 5 miles for ECS into VIC and shunting at Eastbourne. Clan Line has been known to do Waterloo - Salisbury 83m43ch without a water stop. I would suggest that a water stop isn't needed going to Eastbourne. ( I...
Nov 9, 2025 at 9:23 PM -
Romsey replied to the thread RTC 2025.
The timings will be revised. It's not possible to easily take water at Haywards Heath due to no tanker access and needing to take a siding possession. The same happened last year and was revised close to operating date. Cheers, Neil Looking back...
Nov 8, 2025 at 10:41 AM
