Treated yourself to some decent weather at last!!!😂😂😂 563 seems to chuck out a load of clag but with Eddy on the back the sparks were really flying. Cheers Matthew👍👍👍
Finally got lucky 😅 Still very much a clag machine, but audibly a much more solid locomotive than when it was launched. A real credit to the team behind it.
Straight away, even before 563 came into sight, it sounded WAY more businesslike than it's first steamings, last year. Bit claggy with the loudest pedal open, perhaps....but no worse than the T9 when I saw it on the Mid Hants, or the K&ESR's gorgeous old 0-6-0st 'Charwelton' attacking Tenterden Bank. A dyed in the wool southerner, I've got a definite soft spot for the Cromptons. 🙂
While I appreciate the humour in NRM-bashing, it is worth remembering that the SR would never have been given the T3 had the NRM not been agreeable about the whole project, and patient while the plans were laid for its transfer to Dorset.
563 seems to be actually throwing sparks hauling a slightly dormant Eddystone in the last sequence...may be it's developed a bit a of a blow on the cylinder rod glands as there there seems to be a lot of leakage both front and rear of the cylinders ...good to see it doing some work...
Wonder if Dapol or Rapido will model the LSWR T3 in 00? Would make a wonderful sight on any layout hauling a Steam Special if produced to the same standard as the Dapol SECR D Class.