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Title: Whatever happened to authenticity? Post by: PhilWakely on July 08, 2016, 13:18:09 I suppose this question could be asked of many of the mainline steam railtours these days, but specifically the "The End of Southern Steam" tour being run by The Railway Touring Company and West Coast Railways this weekend (9th July) from London Victoria to Weymouth.
The tour is supposed to commemorate the last day of Southern steam to Weymouth on 9th July 1967. You would expect one or more Bulleid Pacifics to be rostered for this tour. What has WCRC come up with - ex-LMS 45699 Galatea! >:( :o ::) Title: Re: Whatever happened to authenticity? Post by: Chris from Nailsea on July 08, 2016, 15:23:32 Could have been worse: it could have been the Hogwarts Express! ;) :D ;D
Title: Re: Whatever happened to authenticity? Post by: trainer on July 08, 2016, 18:54:15 There may be even less authenticity if/when Network Rail get their (laudable) way in insisting that all passenger stock on its track is equipped with toilet retention tanks. WCR are telling them that that cannot bear the cost, so the company that the loco at the front originally belonged to may become merely a discussion point of what might have been. (Today's Railways UK 176 p18).
Another piece of preservation reality down the pan. ::) Title: Re: Whatever happened to authenticity? Post by: Chris125 on July 16, 2016, 23:32:27 I suppose this question could be asked of many of the mainline steam railtours these days, but specifically the "The End of Southern Steam" tour being run by The Railway Touring Company and West Coast Railways this weekend (9th July) from London Victoria to Weymouth. The tour is supposed to commemorate the last day of Southern steam to Weymouth on 9th July 1967. You would expect one or more Bulleid Pacifics to be rostered for this tour. What has WCRC come up with - ex-LMS 45699 Galatea! >:( :o ::) There wasn't much alternative to be fair. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |