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£75 from a certain auction site. Missing two bogie side frames, but class 47 ones fit and I had some spares.

323206 was also out toda (30/11/2024) on the Crewe- Manchester route

ELR dropped the requirement to be a member of the railway earlier this year.

Is that straight from the C56G website?

The Crown Plaza at Newcastle has some rooms with views if either the Southern end of the Central Station or some either views of the QE ( Metro train) bridge

Hi there , great to hear your interested in volunteering at the ELR. Where there particular areas of the railway which you were interested in ( Station, p-way, rolling stock maintenance or the operational side)? Also would you be looking to volunteer time mainly at weekends or weekdays?

56006 is at Bury on the ELR.

I didn't see those exact words......

Are you suggesting we shouldn't order any more new rolling stock because we don't have a suitable slot in our Platform 5 books?

Sorry. Just saw this. I'll have a look if I can find the photos.

I went out to photograph this. I think it did several round trips as I have photos of it at Wylam, Prudhoe and Hexham. There was some locos on display in the yard at Hexham ( 56076 Blyth Power and one of the 47401- 47420 batch).

In addition to the accident report I also found it well covered in a book by Adrian Vaughan called Tracks to Disaster. The accident report itself goes into quite some detail about the erosion effect of the river and how it could rise from a stream meandering down the wide river bed to a full...

Have you read the accident report? It goes into some detail as you'd expect.

Happened to be in York today and saw this in the Monk Bar Model shop window. Apparently it had been put in the window display a few minutes before I saw it. It ran beautifully in the shop so off to test it on the big railway..... 1644693023 A better image

Eastfield's pet?. What was the connection , were any class 40's ever allocated to ED.?