Jacobite 2024

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Tom

 

Hardly a definitive answer is it?

 

Not if you're just guessing!...

 

Not yet - and time will tell. But when one of the major diesel tour operators couldn't run a planned weekend event due to stock unavailability, curiosity about the impact is inevitable.

 

Mind said that will be £1100, for a new denture that currently I can only wear if I do not eat. Still improvement on when it was delivered and it even hurt to drink.

 

Could it be anything other than 45212 with the current "large pool" being used on the GB at the same time?
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U09822/2024-04-14/detailed

 

If I’d been a betting man it would definitely have been a king size one but you can’t get them anymore

 

Completely off topic (can you still get those btw? ) but I manage to pick up a king size Lion bar at our Post Office earlier. Very much something from my Childhood

 

Sadly, no. Dropped in 2021.

I really liked them too.

 

That is a long read but in there is a comment from the transport ministers office that they can't get involved. And now WCRC has got coaching stock to run the Jacobite. Just accept that you must get your stock fitted with CDL to ensure the safety of your passengers and move forward.

 

My take is that to do what WCR were doing last year they needed the NB rake, a rake based at Southall, a rake based at Carnforth and two half rakes at Fort William. At the moment they can run the NB, the morning Jacobite and one English train, using a pool of four locos with air braking, only one of which they own. So as it stands today, WCR's peak season capacity has probably been reduced by a third. Assuming no further exemption is granted, the next crunch will come in the summer when we find out whether the aircon on the Mk2s is really reliable enough for warm (25 degrees outside) weather.

 

There is no chaos caused by the passengers on the train, they don’t have the time to leave the station. The chaos is from those wanting to see it cross the viaduct, in high season if you aren’t there by 09.00 there will be nowhere to park the car despite the new community car park opened a few years ago.

 

Does the local authority/ community charge for parking?

 

Sorry where did I say rail passengers were causing the chaos?
Although at a stretch you could argue if they did not want to travel then the train would not need to operate, so maybe a very tenuous link to them being responsible now you have made me think about it. On which basis we could blame JKR as well

 

You didn’t but the resident of Glenfinnan did

 

47245 leading 45212 through Oxenholme working 5Z12 1050 Carnforth Steamtown to Crianlarich 13/04/24