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Thank you 🙏

Always great to see, huge amount of faith in the loco to run it straight out the box without one, but one I applaud 🫡

Thank you 😎🫡

It’s pretty special it was my main goal for visiting the show :)

Thank you very much!

Many thanks :)

Many thanks Henry!

@@TheNGaugeModeller You're welcome! I had fun chasing her around West London yesterday evening.

Amazingly there is a function here in RUclips where you can mute any sound…. Maybe try it 🫡

Thank you! Cheers!

Yeah, I think they heave one of the worst reliability records on the UK preservation scene.

Helps when you’ve not long finished work, would have been rude not to have stayed 👌

@@TheNGaugeModeller Ha-Ha - Excatly!!

Requirement for LSL operated trains as they use more modern stock unlike VT & WCR.

No music please!

Agree. I for one don't want 'arty farty' wobbling and distorting pictures on the screen.

What?

I think it’s safe to say the Brit won’t be on next weeks tour

Thanks

What an utterly moronic statement. Modern EMUs, DMUs and diesels also fail and block lines. Numerous steam tours run every year with the locos often better maintained than the trains which operate on the network on a daily basis.

@@AnthonyFurnival And I make unnecessary overtime having to grab a loco to go and rescue them.

There’s always one, interesting though many don’t want a diesel on the back, proved it’s worth on this run…..

@@TheNGaugeModeller indeed - I personally think a diesel on the back is always a good option - gives more options when they need it - line blocks, failures, route alterations etc.

A Class 66 failed at Factory Junction on the 23rd and finally, with 2 more engines, got on its way 3 hours late. It happens. You may be right, but not for that reason.

Lol hopefully be doing an update on the layout soon, watch this space All the best Matt

The N gauge model would be more reliable.

@@ds1868 and we thought the 3-cylinder locomotives were less reliable........

Well spotted filmed in the car park of the former 70C depot

Sounds like Settle again.....

Plenty of pictures and video now around of the lack of connecting rod on the right side

Yeah I have seen that reported, and well spotted taken from the car park that sits on where once the 70c shed was All the best Matt

A crosshead is the slide bar where the piston rod exits the cylinder. Something very similar happened to Tangmere a few years back (and a nasty derailment was caused by the same thing on a Britannia back in BR days.)

I wouldn’t necessarily believe the story that it was a broken cross head. I don’t know the original source of this. It is a substantial piece of casting, like a sideways H, which lies behind the cylinder on the piston rod and moves back and forth along the slide bars above and below as it maintains the piston rod’s attitude to the cylinder. At its lower end it is crucially fastened via the union link to the valve gear. It thus plays a crucial role in the timing of valve events within the cylinder. But I am surprised such a large casting would fail. I think it much more likely the bush attaching its lower end to the union link failed, for example. But it could be any number of things. Suffice to say it is being hauled back in neutral gear - wheels and engine completely isolated from each other, preventing further damage.

@@AndreiTupolev with Tangmere when that happened it hit the 3rd rail.

@@Dreadtower there is a photo of the broken crosshead

Hopefully an update coming soon!

Coming soon!

@@TheNGaugeModeller looking forward to it

Did you ever find a solution to joining the peco track to this? Interested in doing the same.