RTC 2024

just booked on Whitby Flyer, great that you can board at York, 2 steam locos £125, nearly 8 hours of steam, cant be bad

 

What’s locos would pass the gauging tests to go to Whitby?

 

Black 5s, possibly the 5X, not sure if the Scot is passed

 

Sir Nigel has been as far as Grosmont recently

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but not allowed to Whitby

possibly the 2 Riley Black 5’s? Not sure when Jacobite starts, or 45212/44932

 

Jacobite starts 28th March.

 

It looks like two Swanage Belles are proposed for next year - Wednesdays 26th June and 11th September.
I hope they both run with Swanage needing to maximise it's income.

 

I see this has appeared on the list of tours

https://www.railwaytouring.net/the-bath-and-bristol-steam-express---15-06-24

 

Can't see announcement anywhere else -
Yesterday: https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2024/01/orr-revoke-west-coast-railways-exemption.html
Today's response: https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2024/0...llowing-orr-decision-to-revoke-exemption.html

EDIT
Apologies for duplication. It's all on a separate thread: https://www.national-preservation.com/threads/orr-and-wcrc.1423255/page-18

 

On 10th February, RYTC have two charters in operation, one of which will consist of the West Coast maroon mk.2s. I take it that the other will probably be the blue and grey Riviera set? <BJ>

 

Have the WCR MK2 maroons been CDL fitted?

 

West Coast have a number of CDL fitted Mk2's. If you look up some photos of the coaches used on the Windermere branch in 2018 when they stepped in for Northern, it is these that are being discussed.

 

Be fun and games at Euston tomorrow if they haven’t .

 

WCR Mk. 2 air-cons have always been CDL-fitted in WCR ownership.

 

What a stupid comment .

 

10th Feb’s Bath & Gloucester Steam Express has been postponed to April 27th due to operational difficulties

 

Just received final invoice for GB16. I am really nervous about this, it's an awful lot of money. I had hoped for an update on the situation regarding how the WCR would affect this trip. Or am I worrying unnecessarily. Any thoughts out there would be gratefully received please. Neil

 

I would speak to RTC, they after all are the company you are contracting with.

 

I did do but the reply was a link to the website "explaining when steam will be used on this journey" which I can't see any obvious difference from the original plan. Which will be fine but How?

 

Weren't all MK2 Air Con carriages fitted with CDL in service in the mid 1990s? Don't think WCR had to fit any, just a matter of keeping them operational.