NicTheBeard

I'm pleased to say that 'they' did tell us the proposals by email today. 

 

I'll be conferring with my fellow members of the Support Group to see what we think of them. 

We suggested they could sell viewing tickets to watch the shunting operations, but they seemed to think it would be better to just close the whole site for a couple of days. Talk about missing opportunities!

I've waited decades to see this view, and to start with I thought it would be impossible as we believed that HSFV1 had been scrapped.

 

Today it's alongside its 'son', APT-E, at Shildon. 

 

We were delighted to see it on Friday. Also very pleased to discover that they are planning to move everything out later in the year and re-arrange the displays in a more sensible layout. Hopefully that means that APT-E can be put in the right order! We also noticed that each end only has one windscreen wiper - has the second one on PC1 been missing for a long time, or is that recent?

Great day at Crewe today seeing the apt-p ,wish it had a longer life in service.

Snap! First visit to Crewe yesterday, mainly to see the APT-P, but had a great time also in the Exeter West signalbox watching the guys responding to tricky scenarios thrown at them by the railway simulator.

In the last couple of years we've now been inside an APT-P, the prototype Deltic, and a Vulcan; and stood next to the APT-E (OK, one of those is an aeroplane not a train, but all great British engineering marvels!)