Swanage Railway General Discussion

You don’t need a high capacity tender on a 5mile railway, but there are ambitions for Wadebridge to run on the mainline so a larger tender than the one it has had for some time would be useful I imagine. It’s not a question of anyone losing out.

 

What are you on about?
34070 has a 4,500 gallon tender.
The only Bulleid tender smaller than that is the Q1 version.

 

I was under the impression it was 257 Squadron which would receive the new tender, not Manston.

SLL receive a brand new tender for their engine running on heritage railways which does not need a high water capacity, and Mid Hants/Wadebridge Loco Group receive a tender with a high water capacity which they need for the mainline. Sounds like a good deal to me?

 

What a massive over-reaction.

 

Proving I do not check my images too well, I only noticed at the weekend when I took this from a departing service "the skull" was sitting on the coal dock.
Driver experience today, and it seems we had a gricing Navy crew (in what I think is a Merlin not being too up on modern navy choppers) have a a quick fly by to get a look at the T3

 

Day 2 of the T3 driver experience, and some got better weather than others.

 

I was guard, bloody hell that was low. Lads having fun from Poole

 

Thought Yeovilton was the nearest military air base but perhaps the SBS want a new target ?!

I believe the SBS have to cadge a lift all the way to RAF Brize Norton when on exercise being dropped into Studland Bay from a circling Hercules or the larger Airbus A400M Atlas.

Military Flyers generally seem to like 'buzzing' the Swanage Railway from time to time. When the Red Arrows display at the annual Carnival and Regatta, they normally form up over the line and announce their presence by overflying the town (at CAA minimum flight altitude it seems) and across the bay out to sea.
After taking off from Bournemouth International Airport they have been known to formate near Wareham and come in to Swanage from there. 2025's workings were different it seems as I was told they went to somewhere in the Weymouth area before travelling back east to intersect the railway close to Harmans Cross and then the three mile sprint to Swanage. Clouds forced a low-level display this year - impressive nonetheless.

Apologies for thread drift.

 

Keep giving out that info Pete regarding Heliops

 

Never realised that "the lads from Poole" was so secret.
If I was aware of some of their doings - then countless others will know a lot more about it than me.
Also, I suspect that our country's 'enemies' have gleaned a lot more information from MoD laptops being left behind, eavesdropping, general spying, financial bribery, etc., etc.
I think you can remain safely tucked up in bed tonight - well, as much as anyone can in this crazy world of ours.

 

Unusual sign for a railway that has no car parks of its own.

 

Aquatic version of the lads from Hereford.

 

Really good news about the winter warm up.

5 loco running - 2 services going ‘over the road’ with a mixed passenger and freight corfe shuttle

Guessing it’s the same timetable as the diesel
gala but…. The clock face repeats every 60 mins never works and normally things are 1-2hours late by the end of the day

 

Or the same service as the steam gala that ran to time every day barring the odd hiccup where lost time was regained.

 

But that was only 1 going over the road which was the 3rd service with the main two Swanage - Nordon

Sounds like the 3rd service is the corfe shuttle (Swanage-Corfe) with the 2 main services going over the road which?

 

Obviously someone with knowledge of SR galas so please give us the facts to back up your claims

 

Well when they have done a ‘Corfe shuttle’ before it’s been swanage-Corfe stopper acting as the 3rd service plus two normal services (60 mins frequency) running the entire line fast between Swanage and Corfe.

Historically when it first opened the normal 2 services did the swanage to Nordon stopper (45 mins frequency like a standard yellow timetable pretty much) with the 3rd service being extended to the river non stop swanage to Corfe.



Every time they did the first timetable above services couldn’t run to time and often ran up to an hour or so late by the end of play.

If you read their post they are going over the road and running a Corfe shuttle

 

Oh did they?
Funny how you now claim "upto an hour or so late" rather than your original claim of "normally things are 1-2hours late by the end of the day".
Think you best check your facts

 

It’s not the same timetable as the diesel gala.

 

Don't forget that for running "over the road " That requires Topping and tailing, hence I suspect why there will be
a fifth Loco involved!