Northern Belle 2021

Looks like Lizzie is out on these Thursday and Saturday this week. Carnforth - Carlisle - Hellifield - Preston.

 

Isn't it more when you have an air braked train you use an air braked loco? (is there anything else at Carnforth that could pull such a train with air brakes?)

 

Any one of the 37’s, 47’s and 57’s based at 10A

 

I do beg your pardon

 

It has hauled the VSOE as it was then, several times in 2004/5/and 6 so more posh I would say.

 

Beauty in the eye of the beholder I guess. My answer would be yes, although it may be no if you were talking about a Duchess.

 

Tangmere?
She’s a scruffy, pig ugly, smelly, smokey, clanking beast...but I love her to bits - which she is often in, or flinging them around the Network.

 

In full Golden Arrow regalia, yes, absolutely ;-)

 

Like this:-

 

So do you think Princess Elizabeth will be going down to London for the Bournemouth Belle Ralph?

 

Because if a special loco is needed for a special train, what are the options for the Bournemouth Belle as an air braked train?

I think the Golden Arrow regalia was of its time and looked better on 70004/14, although I don't think they carried the big arrow, they had a smaller one on the smoke deflectors. But my question wasn't about that.

 

Is spam out of a can not posh nosh in posh eating establishments these days ?

 

Glad it is a 6201 day

 

Don't get me wrong. I have a soft spot for Lizzie. Like Clan Line, she's one of those locos that's "always been there" since the earliest days of my train enthusiasm. The association with The Northern Belle is potentially the best thing that's happened to her in recent years and I'm looking forward to seeing pictures from today's trip and, hopefully, getting up to see her myself later in the year.