Watercress Line Timetable Help

Not to sure but most likely will be 5524 and 34007 but you never know 850 could be out. 60019 is on the main line this coming weekend

 

Bryan
You need to slow down with the sarcastic ripostes and actually read what is written. You are obviously one of those in the category I've highlighted, but I suspect there aren't too many others as I've stated.

 

Sorry Chessie.

I'll do as you suggest in future.

These threads can wind you up sometimes. And I have rather let this one do that to me!

 

No need to apologise, you're dead right about getting wound up about it all. At least we're passionate about it \/

 

It has fxxck all to do with the attitude of UK Preservation movement.

It is the selfish attitude, including yourself, of some photographers who when they cant get what they want they throw a tantrum like a spoilt child.

Rather than come on here slagging off the MHR about them not caring about photographers why dont you contact them direct.
If you would like a loco round a certain way why not ask them.

 

How much to hire in one of the heavy haulers to turn the engine and tender? ....Im sure if the photographers KentYeti ( but not just him but others as well) want to turn Lord Nelson , im sure there ( the MHR Management) would be happy to take your money to hire them in to turn it.

 

I not familiar enough with the MHR to know if they still have the facility for turning locos with a low loader? It is something I have considered contacting the MFR about. But as I have indicated above I would much rather help fund projects that are of a capital nature with a tangible long term benefit, rather than spending money on day to day revenue matters where the money goes outside of the preservation movement.

I guess I'll wait and see what happens with the use of 850 over the next year or so, and then make a decision about generating the finance needed to fund a turn of the loco, if that is an option. And whilst I love that loco it isn't on my list, (yet!), of long term projects I would like to be involved in. Maybe by then I would have gotten involved in one of the three projects that attract me most. The extension to East Grinstead, the Brighton Atlantic and the overhaul of 34105 being a sort of short list. With "Swanage" perhaps coming out on top. That would take me back to the year I spent working on 34023 after the end of seam, before other interests and other countries took my attention.

And there are still issues about certain views within the UK preservation movement that I have to understand better before I commit myself to significant spending. I have supported some railway preservation projects quiet successfully before, but I have also had my fingers burned. Like everyone on this planet I didn't like seeing my money going down into what became a bottomless back hole in the ground, with no benefit coming from it. So I don't want to start writing cheques for a cause that becomes untenable for me to remain in. Because of what sometimes seems to me to be the classification of photographers and their views as second class individuals who are not allowed to comment freely, (albeit sometimes a bit sharply of which I am guilty from time to time), without being subjected to a barrage of insults etc. I will take the insults 24/7. But I won't provide funding for a movement if they are a root and branch part of it.

I'm probably going to move on from posting on this thread now. For me it has run it's course and left me with a lot to think about before deciding the direction I want to go over the next years.

But for those who want to continue with the slings, arrows and insults. Please carry on. If posting them helps you get through the day and maybe helps relieve some of the tension this high powered world we live in generates, then my time has not been totally wasted. I'll even promise to come back here and read them, so you will know they have reached me even if I don't respond.

 

Given the queue of work on the MHR I reckon that you and me will be pushing up daisies before that happens......

 

Just have to hope my daisy is facing in the right direction! :shock:

 

Well I understand there is sone kind of" Queue jumping" once the U-Class, the 9F and the black five are completed.

Regards
Chris

 

I just stumbled across this topic when looking for something else but I found myself slightly bemused by some of what KentYeti has to say. I'm wondering why you consider the German steam scene so much more enthusiast-friendly than that of the UK? As enthusiasts, photographers and whatever else, we Brits are pretty lucky. I can't think of many preserved lines in Germany or wider Europe which operate anywhere near as intensively as the NYMR or SVR for example. Most on the continent don't operate daily even in Summer and rarely operate a service that relies on more than one steam engine in a day. Don't get me wrong, I'm fascinated by European steam, especially in Germany and Saxony, but the railways of the UK are so much tailored towards enthusiasts than practically anywhere else in the world. It's not worth moaning about one engine being the wrong way round for the ideal photograph (especially since it's not a particularly pretty loco). And with that I'm going to leave this thread so I don't receive a Southern onslaught!

 

You'd lose your wager I'm afraid.

 

sorry, but someone mentioned there is now a roster on their website, where is it? i cant find it.

Plus, what is ahppening with 5224, why is it still at the MHR? and where is 30075?

this has little to do with this thread, but this is why i dislike Tim Beere as webmaster, u never find anything out.

 

Have you thought of ringing him during office hours and telling him exactly what you think of him?

Regards

 

Hi LN850 30075 is at Cheddleton and will be back for the freight weekend.

 

A bit off topic.
Anyone seen the new down load page that is being constructed on the MHR web site.
Screen savers, Ring tones, Wall paper and Leaflets/Adverts
http://www.watercressline.co.uk/mhralp/Watercress_Line/2010_Downloads_Menu.html

 

Seen them but still in early stages last time I looked... But would be good to get some decent stuff on it and the MHR get some money from it - I'm thinking Bulleid Beats and Whistle for download etc...

 

cheddleton???? not quite sure which railway that is part of.
Also, is there actually now a roster on the website??

 

Churnet Valley Railway

 

Chessie you're way off the mark I'm afraid. Of course, some railways make it easier for photographers to contribute than others.

It's totally unquantifiable in terms of ££'s, how do you put a price on the free publicity that pics in a magazine generate?