I'm surprised by the paucity of pictures and videos on here, with the tour now in Day 6.
Haven't we all? Or are there some clever buggers who never do it?
There's an interesting sentence in the begging leaflet about the valves and valve gear. This suggests that they are thinking of the Tornado...
I suppose because the only alternative would have been to cancel the trip.
One puzzle (of many) is why Mr Smith declared that they would not run aircon coaches in the summer because without power they would be too hot,...
(Apologies for continuing thread drift) I wasn't told that. What they told me was that only one toilet on each coach had been fitted with a...
As an EA shareholder I received them by email but with an instruction to ignore if (like me) one is not also a Trust member.
The loco appears to have been in at least light steam. That would make sense for lubrication if one piston was still in business, but why if both...
There has just been a test run (from Paddington to Birmingham) with passengers aboard but that was with very different rolling stock from the...
Discussed at length on the last several pages of this thread.
Presumably the New Mills landslip. While other routes through the Manchester area to get to the Hope Valley are possible, paths are in short supply.
And does not destroy interest for many others. You still get a ride with steam from A to B (and usually back, though not on the Horsham trip)....
WD40 is wonderful stuff for many situations, but I have never heard of that use before.
A railtour train sometimes has a long stop (for example for a steam loco to take water) at a short platform. In that situation some doors remain...
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