[modeleng] Re: Mainline steam services ???
- From: "Alan Stepney" <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:34:59 -0000
I see on the news (BBC) that Tornado has completed the last of three trial
runs.
Therefore, whatever you have heard, obviously isnt that.
Must admit, I'd be tempted to sit beside the track with sarnies and a flask
of coffee and see what came along!
Failing that, or any other replies, I suspect it is preserved locos making
their way from one line to another,
Alan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Wells" <oaksfield@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 9:49 AM
Subject: [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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