Winter CCE with Scots Guardsman 28th January

Ah Steve Shep not getting nasty again is he lol

 

I agree with your sentiment entirely and if it were down to me i'd limit all mainline steam to max load 10. Having studied the pics from today i'm sure today's train was ten coaches ....

 

Great filming.Thanks for posting!

 

What speeds up Grayrigg / Shap?
Haven't booked RTC for a while due to shoveage, but if this sets the pattern I'll be back.

 

Nice picture. I'm looking forward to 4th March run.

John

 

Thx for the report. Sounds like a good tour. Any chance of a repeat?!

 

I'm more concerned to the ones that pay for a service "the passenger" or do you not care about them? High speed railways need high speed fencing, you really need to get a hold of yourself. As a regular user of the WCML I appreciate the resilience in that proper fencing provides, and as they appear to want a much higher 8ft(?) fence than the existing rickety walls and fences that also have a long life and are economic, what would you provide?

As for efforts of the photographers, if they can't find a suitable position that the fence is in their shot then they are not trying hard enough, besides it's not 1968 it's 2017 and those fences are now part of a modern railway along with colour light signals, CWR, electrification, M6.etc etc. sometimes you do have to co-operate with the inevitable. Now I do like to see others efforts but it's not the end of the world as Shap is less than 10 miles from were I live and I can easily pop up and see for myself (and quite often do) although the antics of some of those gricers is off putting sometimes especially on the roads not built for speed.

 

One never has to; there's always a choice.

 

Thanks for all the kind comments about my video from yesterday as they are much appreciated and no palisade fencing was hurt in the making of my video

 

It's great that one can sometimes take a photograph of steam on the main line that could have been taken 60 years ago, but what we're mainly enjoying is riding behind, and seeing pics and videos of, steam on today's main line, with all the modern features mentioned in post #125. Let's celebrate the presence of steam locomotives pulling trains under the wires with modern rolling stock passing in the other direction. I do agree that NR could make a bit more effort to choose less visually obtrusive fencing, if only a duller colour, but that's for the sake of the scenery in general, not just for photographs of trains.

 

Wow!! That's how a steam loco should be worked . Fantastic. Should have been on it but had a prior engagement. Were the drain cocks stuck open?

 

I thought the new load limits were in place. For Shap this means 10 for 46115 and therefore no DL and for a Jub its 9 therefore a DL on 21st January

 

From which it can be deduced that the 21st January train was planned a a 9 coach train from the stage the additional 5MT was stood down by RTC, in November according to Ian Riley posting on Nat Pres.
Was there an unexpected late surge in demand necessitating two additional coaches?

 

This throws up an interesting bit of commercial judgement. There is the income from two additional coaches (not hard to calculate) minus the cost of providing the diesel (about which I haven't a clue). One assumes that the balance comes out on the right side but arguably at the unknown reputational cost of having 10 coaches of disgruntled passengers against 8 coaches of happy passengers.

 

Thanks for the comment and I assume the drain cocks were stuck open but I could be wrong .