Thanks for your interest again. A locomotive pushing (or "propelling") a whole train backwards is not an acceptable method of operation. The driver would have no way of seeing the line ahead of his train with 4 or 5 coaches between him and what would be the front. Where you might have seen something like this happening is in a push-pull operation but then there are special controls in the rear (or front) coach so that the loco can in effect be "driven" from that cab in the coach.
At present the Spa Valley Railway do not have run-round loop at Eridge. The method of operation therefore is either to Top and Tail our trains, or more recently to use shunt release with the Diesel or Steam locos taking turns to wait in the Bay platform. Please visit us to see it in operation.
Thanks for your interest again. A locomotive pushing (or "propelling") a whole train backwards is not an acceptable method of operation. The driver would have no way of seeing the line ahead of his train with 4 or 5 coaches between him and what would be the front. Where you might have seen something like this happening is in a push-pull operation but then there are special controls in the rear (or front) coach so that the loco can in effect be "driven" from that cab in the coach.
At present the Spa Valley Railway do not have run-round loop at Eridge. The method of operation therefore is either to Top and Tail our trains, or more recently to use shunt release with the Diesel or Steam locos taking turns to wait in the Bay platform.
Please visit us to see it in operation.
why doesn't the steam engine just reverse [i.e. push the train backwards instead] of relying on the diesel to tow it back instead ?
at the end of the video why is the steam train towing a diesel loco ?
WANKING
2:27 Grom valley?