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East Midlands Railway Trust/GCR (Nottingham)

Discussion in 'Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK' started by Flying Phil, Jan 25, 2021.

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  1. Bikermike

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    And if you do know so much, you must either be helping the RAIB with their enquiries (in which case you are significantly breaching your duties to the investigation); or you should be and are withholding information from the RAIB. Neither of which are terribly clever.
     
    Bikermike, Sep 27, 2026
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    RWJP,

    So to be clear then you are saying that you know nothing at all about the incident, the location or the railway?

    If so then it seems to me that youre the one making comments and assertions on the basis of no supporting evidence.
     
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    Ahh yes, exactly the response I was expecting, and very telling. Avoid the question, divert and throw accusations back at the person questioning.

    I have made no assertions whatsoever. I haven't commented on the derailment or the issues surrounding it because I am wise enough to know I don't have enough information to hand to make a call on that. Instead, I have simply asked you to provide evidence to back up your claim that the GCRN has no safety measures in place that could have avoided the derailment that occurred. You have repeatedly failed to do so.

    The ball remains in your court. If you have the evidence to back up your claims, share that evidence with us.
     
    RWJP, Sep 27, 2026
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    Moderator Message

    This is primarily directed at the exchanges triggered after the post by 'DCSA'.

    It is common practice on here not to comment on main line and heritage railway incidents that may require investigation until an official response has been given by the relevant authority. The statement by the GCRN at #553 should be sufficient to make clear what happened without the need to go further at this stage.

    Can those who would like to talk about it further do so away from this Forum.
     
    Big Al, Sep 27, 2026
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    Latest YT update.....

     
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    More importantly, 37009 had a succesful test run yesterday

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    EDIT: I have been informed that at some point when 8F 8274 was operational on the railway (so between late 2014 and 2017) the loco was in No 5 for winter maintenance which involved removal and remetalling of the connecting rods and crossheads. It's up to you whether you think that counts more than this as the first usage of No 5 as a running shed
    We think a little bit of history was made yesterday (albeit, about 20 years late!)
    After the service was finished, visiting Austerity Wimblebury, instead of being put to bed over the inspection pit, was placed in No. 5 shed just beyond the pit to keep the pit free for work to be done on the Class 20 wheels over the week. No. 5 shed was built in the mid 2000s (I believe), intended to be a steam loco running shed, but for various reasons including a lack of inspection pit and the need for undercover storage for other vehicles, to my knowledge and the knowledge of the rest of yesterday's crew, it has only been used as a storage and carriage workshop, and has never been used for undercover storage of an operational steam loco. Until now. (Unless somebody else knows something we don't!)
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    ruddingtonrsh56, Oct 25, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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