Shame this working is to end. I think it was quite costly as they basically had locos doing 12 hour shifts etc. Also the failures lately have been bad 👎
When I was a boy, my parents used to take us on holiday at "Penny's Rendevous", a group of holiday bungalows at Doniford meadow. The line curved around the meadow I I remember the diesel hydraulics well, with their 4th interval horns! Splendid days!
Ah man I grew up on these videos, watching the first probably aged 9 and I’m now coming on for 22… can’t believe it’s come to an end and I missed the upload!
I didn’t finish work until the early hours of this morning so didn’t bother going out for the first trip. It’s always a nice shot at York but very busy.
The Derby Sulzers were the background music to my childhood. Listening to the 24s 25s and others been thrashed up the grade from Crewe to Kidsgrove was magic and rocked me off to sleep,