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LE movements, ECS and test runs 2025

Discussion in 'What's Going On' started by mike1522, Dec 29, 2024.

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  1. Big Al

    Big Al Nat Pres stalwart Staff Member Moderator

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    That's probably true but I wasn't comparing one locomotive with another. My general point was that when you consider the number of Bulleids that are around, Tangmere has not been without its problems and Carnforth has had to work hard to keep it going. If you focus just on those in original condition, there are plenty of examples that look and sound good, albeit on heritage lines - NVR, Swanage etc - so they seem not to be so troublesome as poor old Tangmere.

    Anyway, this is about test runs and it looks as though the trip out the other day was successful. That's good and as I said, hopefully the Waverley outing will also go well.
     
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    Gladiator 5076 Resident of Nat Pres

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    I am sure that it is by far the highest mileage Bulleid in preservation even I have amassed 5274 miles behind it. Back in the days I was stewarding a lot (2010 -2015) the RTC (and I think a fair amount of the SD) programme was in the hands of Tangmere along with Cromwell. Then No9 became the go to heavily used loco. For all the well known reasons it has been a go to loco for WCRC in recent times as well.
    It may have had issues, and you could probably produce a nice map of banks it has stalled on over the years, but any mainline loco will suffer more than something running at 25mph between say Swanage and Norden. And whilst any loco appears to need a fair amount of "tinkering" there appears to be, at least to this uninitiated one, a lot more "tinkering" going on amongst the Bulleid members of the fleet down here compared to products not designed by OVSB
     
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