7820 'Dinmore Manor' on the Glos & Warks...

[Rugd1022]

 Some shots of 7820 on the G&W yesterday...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Davexoc]

On 23/06/2023 at 11:36, Rugd1022 said:

 

I see what you've done there, substitute bus for lorry, but it's about time you plonked some little people on the platform....

 

A couple of my photos, one in Greet tunnel travelling tender first taken from the brake van, the other at the end of a Mince Pie special day when the fog descended. We travelled back from Winchcombe in the DMU that evening, and seeing or rather not seeing where you are going, showed how important route knowledge is....

 

 

[Rugd1022]

Some of the best runs I've had on preserved railways have been in darkness - December 2007 when the G&W had 47 105 with steam heating full on and the headcode panel glowing just like the old days, and D821 on the SVR doing the last round trip of the night on both engines in October 2012, with all of the carriage windows and droplights opened it sounded like we were going up Dainton bank in 1971!

 

47 105 almost swimming in its own boiler output at Cheltenham...

 

 

D821 waiting to leave Kidderminster on the last trip of the night...

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 25, 2023 by Rugd1022

[Davexoc]

Some views of Dinmore Manor you don't get to see, including raking the ashpan....

 

 

 

 

As for running in the dark, the overnighter on the SVR provided sister loco Bradley Manor, and the timetable had gone to pot by the afternoon. Some spirited running through the night though soon had the timetable back on track for the following day. The sound of hammering up and down the valley was awesome at night, and talk in the cafe at breakfast was who clocked what speed, because it wasn't 25mph....