[modeleng] Mainline steam services ???

Having just seen an item about the Tornado's ongoing steam trials, I thought 
that I would ask the experts on such things here in the group about some steam 
trains that we have been hearing regularly for some time now. I live south east 
of Leeds, near Methley Junction, part of which is used by the Leeds to Goole 
train service. The third leg goes off towards Wakefield to pick up the main 
Leeds-Wakefield-London service, so we are not on that route, by the way.
At first we thought that as it was so late at night, and usually over the 
weekend, when we used to have Railway Possessions when I worked on the 
motorways (for trackside road construction such as bridgeworks), it could be 
when steamers were going up to the National Railway Museum at York or up to the 
North York Moors Railway at Pickering by such as the A4's for the recent 
celebrations there, but it is is much too regular for this. Having seen a 
number of video clips where locos are hauled by road, rather than steamed to 
their final destinations, is there therefore still much private steam traffic 
on the rail network, bearing in mind that the leg to Leeds also has a link off 
to the Middleton Railway via the yards at Stourton where they also run steam 
services, or have we just heard locos being moved around the country by the 
Museum and the Preservation Societies?

TonyW.

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