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Strathspey Railway

Discussion in 'Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK' started by steam_mad, Oct 30, 2015.

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  1. Paul Grant

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    No but it was hired in 20 odd years ago and its performance was loved by the Strathspey and Bo'ness crews. Pocket rockets indeed.
     
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    80105 is currently at Aviemore, arrived last week, for boiler repairs.
     
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    Nothing beats a Std tank on a heritage line for ease of footplate crew, fireman especially. Driver too if the 'bacon slicer' isn't too stiff!
     
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    Good to see the Strathspey gang have the capacity to help out. If there are some running turns for it, I would be inclined to pop up for a run behind it.
     
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    Strathspey seems to be building quite a fleet for the future. The 2 Ivatt Moguls, 5025, 92219 and now 76079, that's without 828 at the Spa Valley.
     
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    And Austerity No.9 is under active restoration. A long time since it ran and it was a real pillar of steam services through the 90s.
     
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    Does make me wonder what the future holds for 828, it's been at the Spa quite a few years now- with 76079 at Strathspey will it spend more time as a roving ambassador?

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    Mentioned in passing elsewhere was the million pound donation from October was even more generous at 2 million! : https://archive.is/2j8v8.

    Certainly gives the railway the leg room to invest in a strong locomotive for the future. I probably vocalised earlier in the thread that the railway could do with at least another tender locomotive when it was just 5025, 828 and 46512. This was before 46464 came home and 92219 came north. And now a third is making 60B its home.

    My outside view is that its seeing a second retirement at the Spa Valley. Not that it was incapable of the daily Strathspey trains but it but it is by a wide margin the oldest locomotive of the Strathspey fleet and deserves a somewhat more charmed life that the Spa Valley offers. Comments over on FB suggest the hire period ends at the end of the year. Im sure Keith or Jonathan or Jonnie can speak more to the circumstances.
     
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    It's great that it's been able to holiday at the Spa, it would be nice if it toured at bit before it eventually makes it's way home- it's been a long time since I have seen it!

    I lived in Kinloch Laggan for a couple of years and used to really enjoy seeing her fairly regularly when I went through to Aviemore for shopping/an evening out.

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    I have increasingly vague memories of its first stint in preservation including its centenary celebration but I do remember its last couple of years in BR black.
     
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