Recent content by Olankenny

Perhaps the WCRC 37s would succumb to the same issues, but surely it's better to have more available? Short of installing water towers at every other station and borrowing some steam shunters from a Heritage line (L&HR have quite a few and people are always moaning the Fairburns don't get to...

Well a large part of the problems raised previously seem to imply there aren't enough locos. WCRC stock seems fairly well maintained (excluding the rusting hulks used for spare parts). Lend one or two to DRS/Northern as a stopgap while the new trains are built over in the Czech Republic.

I do wonder why nobody seems to have asked WCRC for assistance. Plenty of locos sitting idle at Carnforth. When was the last time one of their diesels broke down? Lend a couple to Northern and everything could be sorted? Only this morning both 37s running late due to "an obstruction" between...