Cotton Mill Express 14th Feb or is it?

Hi All

Is the Cotton Mill running on the 14th Feb?, as it has been removed from Past Times website
http://www.past-timerail.co.uk/index.ph ... press.html

Neil

 

It's cancelled.... too many peeps taking photos of it rather than travelling on it....

 

Or a lack of romance in the air :-k

I was hoping to travel on this, I would be suprised if a Valentines day run would be underbooked?

Neil.

 

I know potential 4 (ooooooooooooooooooooooooh!) that were interested in travelling. It's early light for the tour yet...

 

Perhaps lack of variety of motive power!

 

So what do Mancunians do on Valentine's Day instead? :smt058

Richard

 

Nora banishes her fella to the basement for daring to have naughty thoughts 8-[

 

and neither is Holmfirth \/ \/

 

That's freed up a Saturday for me. I take it there weren't that many bookings?

 

What a shame!
I suppose we should all have booked!

 

Maybe some enthusiasts didn't want to travel on this particular date due to it been the K&WVR Winter Gala the same weekend with 70013 and with it only been around the corner :-k .

 

This train was to run only two weeks after the previous one [31 Jan]. I am not convinced there is a market for one every two weeks, monthly perhaps, fornightly doubtful, especially at a time when money is tight. The same happened in December when PTR tried to run 3 in 3 weeks, the last one on 20 December had to be cancelled. I think, indeed hope, once the CME's go monthly from March onwards the loadings will return, if indeed low bookings was the reason for the cancellation of February's train.

 

I do find that the enforced wait between Bolton and Victoria a bit tedious when from the enthusiasts point of view the trip is as good as over after Entwistle summit.

 

What's a "peep" ? (I've not heard THAT one before!)

OH, it's just come to me ...... perhaps you mean those who can't afford to travel on it every time that it runs?

 

peeps - been around a long long time, dates back to at least the 1980s with Harry Enfield

 

Shame the trip is cancelled. I was looking forward to it.

 

If it was KWVR's gala why not run it to there instead ?

It's about time there was a Rawtenstall to Oxenhope railtour..