East Lancashire Railway January Steam Gala - 21st/22nd January 2012

Line up announced on ELR website as: Super D 49395, 850 Lord Nelson, 45231 The Sherwood Forester, 44871, 45407 The Lancashire Fusilier

Also states that 'Other locos are also possibly set to appear'

 

Will be nice to see Nelson again at ELR, only seen it twice in recent years at MHR but unfortunetly facing the wrong way.

 

Sounding great, hoping to make this my first ELR visit. Would be nice to see 80080 out too.

 

I believe the Duke is also there - missed off the list

 

71000 was missed off the list (on the ELR website) in error and shall also be running!!!

 

May have a trip up to make up for my no-one show in October. Last time Lord Nelson was there I didn't get a chance to ride behind it.

 

Deleted what I just said about the Duke not being in action. Boy was I wrong.

 

71000 has been added to the list, but 850 has been dropped on the ELR event page. Is this a mistake or is 850 now not coming?

 

ELR Events 2011 – 2012 | The East Lancashire Railway

Showing 850 / 49395 / 44871 / 45231 / 45407 / 71000

 

will 80080 have left by then ?
What about 47324 / 45337 will they have come back ?

 

80080 will still be at the ELR. 6 locos running with 80080 as reserve. Not often there is a standby loco at an ELR steam gala.

 

I would add all highly appropriate as well..
There is no halloween event the week later, so hopefully the volunteers have time to prepare the stock...

regardless the colour of the stock, every locomotive could be matched with an accurate train.. the 5's with Blue and Greys... even 850 on the blue greys would look 1970s north west.. hopefully the 080 on the freight ray2:, the duke with any passenger stock... and maybe a bit of snow...
I'm tempted to visit this one, if another green pacific was maybe tempted out of the works then i'd be sold.

The GCR is turning out 10 locomotives a week later interesting to compare the fares / rosters of the 2 galas, which will probably swing it one way or the other.

 

I hope locos get to swap between rakes to be honest, 850 on blue/grey is appealing but people wouldn't be happy if that was the case all weekend or even for a day.

 

Timetable now available. Any idea when diagrams will be too? Have heard 49395 is to work the morning freight.
http://www.eastlancsrailway.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Jan-Steam-Event-2012-No-Loco.pdf

Coming over Saturday for one of the lads birthday. Looking like there could be 5/6 of us again this year.

 

To be honest, if you're taking a photo of 850 in Southern Green it's going to look stupid on any Mk1 you stock you put it on? Unless as said you're trying to replicate a photo of it being on the mainline in the 70s/80s...

 

I agree with the above - 850 in blue/greys is the most authentic combination possible with what the ELR has available...

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Diagrams now available on the ELR site

 

http://www.eastlancsrailway.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Jan-Steam-Event-2012-V1.0.pdf

Disappointed 850 doesn't even get 1 full line trip on her own. The Riley pair seem to get more solo runs than the rest. Oh well still looking forward to it, lets hope the weathers good.

 

Which way does each loco face? I am not familiar with the ELR and this will be my first visit so please could you say Rawtenstall or Heywood rather than other places such as Manchester/up/down/north etc.

 

Sounds good!