Tony Davis

This was on the Facebook page today;

We can now inform you that during an examination prior to last Saturday's planned tour to Holyhead it was discovered that the Duchess has a cracked large flue. During the past week our engineers, along with our volunteers, have removed the motion and on Monday of next week the locomotive will be towed back to the West Shed. The planned winter maintenance programme will commence almost immediately which will include the fitting of new elements. The...

Thanks, hadn't spotted that, I was looking at the PRCLT website. I've been supporting the PRCLT since 1998, a very worthy cause!!

There was more to the post but the comments section must have a character limit. It was the Christmas Rose trip I was hoping to behind it on.