Dorset Coast Expresses 2015

Bored box driver?
No doubt all the do-gooders on here will severely disagree with that comment, totally different to Tangmere's situation at the weekend.
By do-gooders I mean those people who pretend to be steam enthusiasts, but obviously are not.

 

Was there a lineside fire on the way down? Where was that? I am surprised with all the recent rain.

 

Worgret Junction, as I understand it.

 

Diesel was just ticking over when the train reached Esher just a few minutes later.

 

Just received RTC email as below. A4 60009 Victoria - Weymouth next Wednesday:

Special Offer Late Availability on Dorset Coast Express Wednesday 12th August

We are emailing to offer you a special discount of £10 off per person in any class on Wednesday's Dorset Coast Express tour from London Victoria, Staines, Woking and Basingstoke to Bournemouth or Weymouth and return.

The train will now be steam hauled on Wednesday by 60009 Union of South Africa.

To claim your discount please quote code BLY when placing your booking.

For full details of the tour or to place a booking please use the link below:

http://www.railwaytouring.net/uk-day-trips/the-dorset-coast-express-4

 

UoSA? is doing the DCE? Really?

 

Looks like it, LE move from Crewe to Southall on Monday.

 

Fixed to the top of an A380 I guess

 

Well she will be on the front of the train but that unusual looking "carriage" at the rear of the train will be making a noise

 

Looking forward to UoSA next week, that'll be 3 different locos on this service in 3 weeks.

A couple from this week, both from Clapham Junction again:

Thompson B1 - 61306 Mayflower by Tim White, on Flickr


Thompson B1 - 61306 Mayflower by Tim White, on Flickr

 

Pfft thats nothing, I will have had four different classes of loco past my local station in three weeks.

Tangmere, Mayflower, Tornado and next week UoSA.

 

All what recent rain?

 

I agree, what is that stuff? A new word in the English dictionary?

 

Well it wasn't paint that fell from the sky and turned my brown lawn green.

 

You must have your own private rain supply then! The only significant rain around here (Reading) in the last few months was on Friday 24th of July.
Other from that only a bit of drizzle or light showers.
My lawn is still brown.

 

Portland has had almost no consistent rain either just the one downpour day. It is the regular weather (wet or dry) that makes the difference and recently it has been consistently dry. I've not been onto the heath around Winfrith recently but would bet on it being tinder dry.

 

Our lawns are beautifully green.