First Post, so hopefully I won't offend anybody. Really happy the summer 'loco-hauled' has returned again this year, happy and surprised !!! Happy; because the tedium of seeing 'just another unit' in sleepy
Somerset has been broken (even if they turn up in all sorts of liveries), and surprised; because after last year's abortive attempt to run locos through the summer, I thought we would never see their like again.

I travelled behind the locos on Saturday evening (quite impressed, noise etc). Having tried to obtain a ticket at Yeovil Pen Mill (office closed),  I asked one the EWS^▸ (English Welsh & Scottish Railway Ltd, now known as DB Schenker Rail (UK^▸ (United Kingdom))) staff for a ticket on the train. Imagine my surprise when he told me that FGW^▸ (First Great Western) had failed to provide 'revenue-collecting' staff for this service (apparently for the second week running) and I would have to travel for free. Let me say here and now that I'm not a 'fare-dodger' and although I enjoyed my journey, I was left bewildered. I really want to see this service succeed, but if FGW are unable to collect fares and advertise this service properly, then I fear for the future of it.