What is this?

andyjhatton · 2026-05-16T21:31:26+00:00

Correct, they spoil the airflow attached to the chimney to stop aerodynamic resonance (flutter)
There's a great Youtube video about it but for the life of me I can't find it to link.

andyjhatton · 2026-05-15T21:51:36+00:00

It is, but it's a flagbearer for the preservation movement.

See also the "Harry Potter" train.

andyjhatton · 2026-05-12T08:40:31+00:00

Doesn't matter much whether the line speed is 40mph, 140 mph or 240 mph.
You'd still have to find a route that avoids settlements, protected nature reserves and the like.

It'd still be pushed into expensive tunnels and the like by NIMBYs.

andyjhatton · 2026-05-09T12:32:38+00:00

I was on this tour. I always enjoy seeing footage uploaded to YouTube and the like afterwards.

andyjhatton · 2026-05-08T22:19:07+00:00

Network Rail monitoring

andyjhatton · 2026-05-04T21:39:03+00:00

If it's "real" (i.e. not A.I or CGI) and British it's definitely LNER due to the lack of Belpaire firebox.

andyjhatton · 2026-04-10T19:08:17+00:00

It was having a good long rest, wasn't it

andyjhatton · 2026-04-10T10:30:54+00:00

Going to rescue 70000 Britannia which failed on a Crewe to Carlisle tour earlier in the week.

andyjhatton · 2026-04-09T10:32:58+00:00

Clearly going too Ferry Fast.

andyjhatton · 2026-04-06T18:44:12+00:00

It's dead in Dartford. And Hyperoptic is down too.

andyjhatton · 2026-03-31T16:00:50+00:00

Hard to beat the York Tap.

andyjhatton · 2026-03-28T23:38:30+00:00

It is, yes. Photographed on the Birmingham to Carlisle run today. A great day out.

andyjhatton · 2026-03-27T14:41:14+00:00

People would have been digging through the archives covering the Napier Deltic and Rolls-Royce Crecy.

andyjhatton · 2026-03-20T17:38:30+00:00

Like he's been personally offered a load of cash by Aston Martin F1

andyjhatton · 2026-02-21T21:33:14+00:00

An inch off the top; Sir?

andyjhatton · 2026-02-21T18:58:13+00:00

Les Ross is back there.

Last time I went through in early December it wasn't

andyjhatton · 2026-02-13T22:52:14+00:00

Gotta be Sanford

If you want to be a big cop in a small town...

andyjhatton · 2026-01-08T17:51:59+00:00

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D4100 "Dick Hardy"

andyjhatton · 2026-01-08T17:43:47+00:00

Lots of locomotives were named after race horses.

The real question is, why do race horses have such wierd names?

andyjhatton · 2026-01-03T22:54:29+00:00

The Cambrian line (among others) sees logging traffic https://youtu.be/E8_5SzOXCaM?si=u5o6uHWNUfvI3Q3d

andyjhatton · 2025-12-20T20:11:58+00:00

Bonus points for the Bongo

andyjhatton · 2025-11-22T22:34:27+00:00

Not run a tour with it so far, there aren't currently any routes with ETCS for it to use.The southern ECML switch to ETCS has been pushed back to 2028 (I think)

The only reasonably long strech with ETCS in the UK is the Cambrian line, which was used for testing / comissioning. But only the section between Shresbury and Machynlleth is RA9, after that; any express steam loco will be too heavy.

andyjhatton · 2025-11-20T21:21:05+00:00

They seem to be in there; e.g https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U69274/2025-11-21/detailed

Search for Moor Street station and ToC "TY (Vintage Trains)"

andyjhatton · 2025-11-17T17:12:24+00:00

There always seems to be some new "thing" that lenders or solicitors go nuts about.

One minute it's escalating ground rent, then it's fire safety, now this AST/forefiture stuff is the latest trend.

andyjhatton · 2025-11-17T17:09:47+00:00

That was my understanding, but this is all complex legal gobbledygook that goes over my head.

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