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I would say with a lot of hard work, some cash and a bit of luck and skill it’s perfectly plausible to turn things around both loco wise and generally. Plenty of examples of lines that have been in the shadows for many a year but have enjoyed a renaissance on the last few years (Embsay for example).

 

Good points. I volunteered on the Avon Valley for over 30 years, brilliant people in the engineering department, but only a few of them, and because of their skills, they'd get called onto other work, distracting from loco repairs and restoration to go and sort other things. For example a new ground frame configuration and facing point lock assembly as happened in the 1990s when I was Ops Manager there, distracting the CME from restoration work on the RSH side tank loco and running repairs to Littleton No. 5