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I to love a diesel, prefer the 33 to the 73 though. My favourite will always be the 55 Deltic, love those! (I do have a soft spot for ECML locomotives.) I'm sure the Bluebell is used to diesel now considering they had a 66 running up and down the line whilst clearing Imberhorne cutting.

......any jobs going? :wave:

Is it? I thought it was more a case that he Government are thinking of cutting subsidies and getting National Museums to charge an entrance fee.

Pretty. SECR D-Class 4-4-0. Very nice. :bowdown:

The Great Gathering .....anyone going? National Rail Museum at York between 3-17 July when all six surviving A4's will be on display in the Great Hall. Will be the last chance as 'Dwight D. Eisenhower' and' Dominion of Canada' will soon be returning to America.

Who was the best / made the best locomotives? LNER, LMS, GWR or SR? Let the binfest begin!! :lol:

This will do!

Was it not rolling down a hill at the time? and a fairly steep one at that?

Yes, 105mph and also after the BR rebuild which funnily enough removed the aero covering off the boiler. How about the LMS Princess Coronation Class streamlined? Hit 114mph in her day.

Mmm, interesting. Tornado is a new build so possible but the A1/A3's were designed to hit 100mph which Flying Scotsman did achieve. Bittern only had a mainline license to go 90mph so was restricted on her test run. The SR Battle of Britain classes were lighter but had issues and were not as...

..........breaking the official heritage era steam speed record. Everyone loves a steam train right? Well on May 29th Bittern hit 91.5 mph on the Great Western Mainline when it set the new official record speed record for the preserved steam era. Not quite the 126.1 mph 'Mallard' hit in...