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The Royal Scots Grey (All 3 days)

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  1. Alberta 45562

    Alberta 45562 Part of the furniture

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    Hi all,

    Collection of 42 shots from Spitfire's "The Royal Scots Grey" plus the two positioning runs are now on my site. 55022 ran like a treat,a true credit to its owner Martin Walker and all the lads who help to keep 22 running. A really top notch performance on all three days. Thanks to all involved with the succesfull running of the tours.

    http://mark-walker.fotopic.net/c1949871.html

    Cheers,
    Mark
     
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    Thanks for posting those Mark looks like you had 3 great days..
     
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    Yes Ralph,was excellent,apart from me doing something to my foot and making it so I can no longer walk more than 100 yards!
     
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    Thinking about the weekend, another option would have been RSG down to London on the Friday, The Salopian and 71000 Saturday and RSG home on Sunday.
     
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    Yeah well those were the original plans,but we decided to go with what we like most and went for an all day service in The Church of Napier!
     
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    Great shots as usual Mark. makes me jealous that things conspired against me meaning I didn't get to Finsbury Park to see RSG go through,although as you said, it went slow line and I was going to set up thinking it was on the fast!!
    Doing all three days would have been great,its a good idea using the stock positioning move as a fare paying train,don't know how many were on it but it must have covered costs I would think.
     
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    Some great shots there Mark from your weekend mate.

    As you will have seen already, Mark has kindly added my shot at Ansty as a guest shot. I have never gone out to phot a diesel railtour before, but with the great weather on the day, a day out linesiding couldnt be turned down. As an active steam follower, i have to admit that 22 was turned out very nicely. Preservation is a great sucsess story, no matter what traction it is!!

    Please see link to image,

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/oli_g_15/5507071036/sizes/l/in/photostream/

    Cheers
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    Cheers guys,you will be going on a Deltic tour in a few months Oli,not that me and dad are trying to convert you or owt! :D

    As for amount of pax,there were around 300 on Friday and a similar number on Sunday,certainly was much better been able to go on the ECS. Lets hope Spitfire continue this tradition they have started. Would be nice to do a Carnforth-Bristol for the 37s at the end of March but obviously its too late for that.....
     
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    Hmmm, take one pic and look what happens......

    Glad u like it, and will wait to see what happens post July. Should be a fun day out ay!!!
     
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    The problem as I understand it is that if you move the stock empty, then NR charge a certain fee for the track use, but put passengers in, however few, and the charge increases quite a bit as it's now a revenue earning run. So there needs to be a fair number of passengers to make it viable. Also of course it then means you have to have extra staff/stewards on the train to look after door locking etc.
     
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    I gathered that would be a bit of a stumbling block,hopefully for Spitfire it has been a success.
     
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