45690 Leander and its future mainline operations

[Dave S 56F]

Hi I couldn't help but seeing this about Stanier Jubilee 45690 Leander.

I know it started it's preservation life at the Dinting railway centre after being bought by its first owner, Severn Valley Railway, from Barry scrapyard in 1972.

In 1994 it was bought by Chris Beet, the son of Dr Peter Beet and both had a significant role in heritage steam traction preservation and over West coast railways base at Carnforth and the lakeside and Haverthwaite railway.

However the question I ask is that according to Wikipedia, 45690 Leander mainline registered loco has a ten year boiler ticket and a 7 year mainline ticket and a 3 year extension to their mainline ticket.

If the loco is found to be in good working mechanical order after 7 years through its boiler certificate, so 45690 Leanders boiler ticket expires in 2024.

However its 7 year mainline ticket ran out in 2021 and according to Wikipedia, Chris Beet won't grant 45690 a further 3 years, whether this is due to how expensive it is getting for him perhaps to keep it on the mainline including overhaul costs certification costs, which may have put him off continuing to run 45690 on the mainline.

But it still has 2 and a half years on the boiler ticket so could this be seen out on the East Lancs line to run its boiler ticket out where 45690 Leander was kept a bit over years previously and then the inevitable plinth as a static exhibit somewhere after 2024.

Would anyone here able to shed more light on the future of 45690, after all it is/was a famous mainline performer.

Dave S 56F

 

[adsteamfan]

Just because someone 'thinks' they know things and writes it in Wiki doesn't mean it's true. I would expect her to be back out performing what she does best next season.

 

[thejuggler]

I wouldn't trust Wiki. Wait and see what happens.

If you want a Jubilee fix Bahamas should be out and about on mainline duties next summer

 

[Dave S 56F]

Yes but the worrying thing is the statement has been quoted by Chris Beet himself that he dosent want it to have a further mainline ticket the overhaul in 2020 would be its last 10 years with chris Beet been 66 in 2030 unless a 3rd party group came along and gave him a offer for a repair to run agreement E.G. like in 2030 if a group could afford to overhaul 45690 he would insist they can but I dont know what he means by it wont get a mainline ticket for 2022 season onwards it also says the same statement on preserved british stream locomotives web site which covers all details of English Welsh Scottish and Irish kettles on wheels. (Steam loco,s)
Dave S 56F

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Odd thing is as well its boiler had a retube while out of traffic in 2020 that's what I dont understand and a repaint but like I says in my 1st post mainline standard overhauls are hundreds of thousands of £££ these days and the loco owners like john Cameron who owed 60009 U.o.S.A. Gresley A4 get too old to be able to drive or do some of the maintenance work themselves, and another odd thing I thought of is if 45690 was pulled from service in 2020 and the U.K. spent nearly half of 2020 locked down and under severe restrictions came autumn winter 2020 how could 45690 have been stripped down and rebuilt so quick.

 

[30907]

Could you perhaps give us links to your sources?

 

[alexl92]

I think what you’ve said is that Chris Beet is unwilling to renew its mainline certification unless a third party is willing to sponsor it. In which case, I would imagine WCRC would be keen to add it to their pool. They already have extensive experience with it and a Jub is perfect for their operations. Just an educated guess though.

 

[yorkie]

Yes but the worrying thing is the statement has been quoted by Chris Beet himself....

Can you please edit your post to include a link to, and quote from, the source you are referring to please? Many thanks in advance

 

[Dave S 56F]

The source of the info I found about 45690 I cant provide a link cos I'm only using a Samsung J330 anadroid phone but the 1 of 2 websites I saw the info on is at preserved British steam locomotives and then go into the part of the webpage that describes the history of the stanier Jubilee class and the preserved ones as well and the other site I got the info off was wikipedia the 5X6P stanier jubilees.