70013 - Oliver Cromwell

[VC10]

Guildford this morning

[cstorey]

What a lovely beast! it is strange, but for me they seem to have a majesty that in aviation terms is only matched by the large piston airliners - the jets have never had the same presence . I'm obviousl;y a Luddite at heart

[John]

Ha ha! I've just seen her go through Havant.... looked fantastic against the blue sky!

Kind regards

John

[VC10]

What a lovely beast! it is strange, but for me they seem to have a majesty that in aviation terms is only matched by the large piston airliners - the jets have never had the same presence . I'm obviousl;y a Luddite at heart

I know what you mean, but I would say the early jets were OK. I've only lost interest in modern airliners since they all started looking the same - either a Boeing or Airbus 'house' fwd fuse and two engines

Ha ha! I've just seen her go through Havant.... looked fantastic against the blue sky!

John

Unfortunately no blue sky at Guildford :-(

[Garry Russell]

It must be great to he it in the flesh.....warts an' all

Garry

[VC10]

It must be great to he it in the flesh.....warts an' all

Garry

It's great to see them pulling real trains in the 'wild' instead of the the small trains of the preservation lines. Not that there is anything wrong with those lines, without them we wouldn't have the engines available for main line work. But there is something about seeing and hearing them starting and pulling a train of a weight they were designed for.

Clan Line, the locomotive I posted a few photo's of a month or so ago sounds great on the Guildford - Dorking - Redhill line, it's up-hill all the way to Dorking so she is working hard.

[hobby]

Really excellent photos which do convey that 'work is being done here.' Many thanks for posting.

With regard to short trains on preserved lines - The West Somserset Railway (Bishop's Lydeard to Minehead 23.5 miles) has just sold an o-6-0 tank engine No.6412 as too small for the present requirements of that preserved line. I have travelled on nine and twelve coach trains on that line within the last year behind steam engines which certainly have to work hard on some quite steep gradients. The WSR has been growing well since being re-opened in stages from Minehead towards Taunton from 1971 onwards. Long may it continue to do so.

[VEGAS]

Lovely photo's. What a fantastic looking machine. I wonder how much time, effort and money its takes to keep that operational. :think:

[forthbridge]

Nice shots. I was having a read about this steam engine on wikipedia... apparently only built in 1951, so quite 'modern' in terms of steam???

I must admit, a few years back I was in the railway museum at York. To stand near these huge engines in quite impressive. I'ts easy to see why so many people fell under their spell back in the days of steam - I could quite easily imagine me being out with a notebook had I been around in those days!

A lot of the 'Names' on the engines seem evocative of something too. Whereas to me trains look the same these days wherever you happen to be.

[petermcleland]

What absolutely lovely picures...Wonderful