Rolling Stock For Sale

So, I'll go ahead & assume that these two carriages will now end up scrapped ?

Which will be a real shame ... once gone, gone forever, but could be replicated.

[much as I would want to restore them, I have neither the funds nor workshop space at present to do so]

 

Whilst I understand that the GCRN want/ need a neat and tidy site, the optics of their scrapping a pair of irreplaceable relics belonging to the original GCR are... not good. It would almost certainly completely destroy any goodwill toward the organisation from those of us who are pre-grouping (and specifically pre-grouping GCR) enthusiasts.

Now, does that demographic significantly contribute to the Railway? - who knows? Would the scrap value from a pair of chassis and some metal fittings outweigh the financial support offered by the people who contribute to the Railway solely because they happen to be home to that stock? And from that point, has any Railway ever undertaken a survey of its supporters/ members as to why they support them? It seems to be a common thing with historical line societies (when I joined the GCRS there was a questionnaire as to where my particular interests lie), but I've never seen similar from the preserved lines I support.

 

(Some of you may be familiar with the Led Zeppelin version of this, but this is the c. 1927 original)

 

For those of you thinking that we judged Mr R too harshly, and we perhaps ought to have given him a chance... he even misrepresented on his Facebook page the reason for being "banned" from Nat Pres. I am afraid his grip on reality is positively Trumpian.

 

This is the bigger story than Reeder tilting at windmills. but a far harder ship to right than a superficial attempt at moving two irreplaceable carriages a place where they'll see as little work carried out.

 

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