Recent content by ryan125hst

There's a YouTube video showing numerous services during the Sunday and it looked very quiet on the plaforms and trains. Presumably it's a combination of the football on the Saturday night, heatwave across the weekend and the nearby Rempstone Steam Rally that hindered numbers. I also noticed...

I've just seen this on the Great Central Railway's Facebook Page: I wasn't aware of the upcoming retirement of the set and so I started looking for further information. I then found this on the Diesel Railcar Day page: Is this a recent change of plan or has it long been on the cards?

Hopefully they've been designed in a way to reduce this after the issue with the Voyagers!

That makes sense. How long would a tank normally be venting for? It was still noticable when we got to Retford. On a related note, I noticed there was a set of green LED's and another set of amber LED's under train as I got got on, I believe where the CET tank is (I was looking as I wondered if...

When boarding an Azuma (800206) to travel from Doncaster to Retford after attending the event at Wabtec Doncaster on Saturday, the smell from the CET tanks was noticeable while standing on the platform at the toilet end of coach C. The smell was also present inside the carriage, not quite as...

No the website doesn't show this on standard operating days sadly. There will be one steam loco used for the passenger services and the second loco will work the footplate experience or goods experience and then drop onto the 1pm first class dining service.

Thanks all, I also posted my question on the GCR Facebook group and the general consensus is it's a Snifter Valve: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snifting_valve It seems many steam locos have them but on some locos they are located close to the cylinders. I'm surprised I've not spotted it...

What is this venting steam just behind Flying Scotsman's chimney? I noticed the same thing on Tornado's boiler. The safety valve is at the cab end of the boiler, and it's not a whistle. Does anyone know what it is?

It's a shame they haven't chosen to keep publishing to the site for public information/interest. It used to be linked from the Locomotive Roster page, as be be seen using the Web Archive:

The Operations website still hasn't been updated.

Let's hope they update it again at some point.

Have the Severn Valley Railway discontinued their Operations site? https://www.svrlive.com/operations It used to be updated weekly, giving traffic notices and working timetables for each day available as a PDF as well as displaying locomotive allocations. It hasn't been updated since the end of...

They have now provided more detail on their website: https://www.gcrailway.co.uk/news/ellis-tea-room-closure-visitor-information/

I'm surprised to see that Ellis Tea Rooms at Rothley are being permanently closed next month. https://www.facebook.com/gcrofficial While I've only been in on a couple of occasions, it seemed to be a nice cafe and there are numerous benches outside that are normally filled with people watching...

At least this means that should a decision to bring back a trolley service is ever made it would be easy to do.