70013 "Oliver Cromwell" visits Swanage Railway

Awfully sorry Forevagrey, and anyone else wanting to see 70013 on our 50ft turntable....... BUT -
It's tender first out of Swanage around 0830-ish tomorrow (Friday) morning hauling its support coach to Eastleigh. Depot loop being used to turn as mentioned in previous post.
Loco coaled and prepped this pm.
Hopefully we'll be able to borrow it in the future and give our passengers the benefit of being hauled by it. It looks a lovely loco and sounds wonderful too.
Memo to self - Stop Gushing :smt038 :smt055 :smt039

 

Cromwell was on mainline today, got sent a good video of her and i just missed seeing her just west of dean coming from salisbury. Heard her though and its nice to hear a two cylinder beat again!

 

yeah saw it go as we came back from Co op with breakfast nice engine and Mel looked hapyy on it

 

Did Oliver Cromwell return to the Swanage Railway after yesterday's railtour to Bristol? <BJ>

 

I dont know for sure but I think its staying at Eastleigh as its working the same railtour again next weekend, it'd make no sense for it to travel back to swanage?

 

Went back to Eastleigh on rear of train set which was pulled by 47245 - up through Parkstone at 2203 on Saturday evening

DH

 

as far as im aware its not

 

Shown on uk steam as working the same trip on Saturday 6th June 2009 - previous booking for Welsh Marches Express has been cancelled a strain is not now running - so unless anything changes in meantime expected to be leading out of Poole again on Saturday morning. Uk Steam shows also as working the return trip so assume will stable at Eastleigh again before heading across to Westbury for the Dartmouth express on 13th June

DH

 

Thanks for all the replies. I wonder if the weather will be as good as yesterday for the second run to Bristol. <BJ>

 

At the moment the metcheck website shows 88% cloud cover and some rain for Bristol on Saturday.