For the first time in almost 53 years a Brighton Belle set has taken to the mainline albeit class 20 powered as 20132 and 20118 top n tail the 4-BEL set Crewe to Chester & back today
56094 at Brighton this morning. Been a while since sent proper locos down here on an engineers. Colas 47s were down here 10 years ago on a similar job.
NSE 73128 under the semaphores at Littlehampton today working 4Z73 RHTT preparation training.
Wonder how long these old style signals have left. I saw some on the Dudding Hill line at Gladstone park last week also.
We are saddened to hear that Sir Kenneth Grange has passed away. A design legend, Sir Kenneth created the look of the iconic High Speed Train. We were honoured to name HST locomotive 43002 after him in 2016. He also joined us in 2019 as the last HST train left Paddington. RIP and thank you Sir Kenneth.
Went out for a glimpse of the Rail Adventure power cars today on a rail tour across the Chilterns. Unfortunately I don't think it achieved more than 30mph most of the way as it was constantly following units.