Yeah, we really mutton do this or the mods will spring into action…
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Keep it going, I dare you 
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Wouldn’t ewe know I posted here that just because most people don’t take their lamb to the pub it doesn’t mean that ewe shouldn’t… But I can’t find the post now? I hope a crook, or staff, haven’t removed it?!
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Many people at the station this lunchtime, as they appeared to be a train of a Class 50 loco pulling a Class 46, another Class 50 and this
(which looked tiny compared to the main line locos).
Yep, all off to the Greatest Gathering at Derby works Friday-Sunday. Only 40k or so tickets and sold out very quickly, would be going otherwise.
Although the very last Old Oak Common Open day in Sept 2017 had plenty of 50’s but no 46.
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Are any of the Deltics still running? I used to see them on the East Coast Main Line as a nipper, still have an unreasonable affection for them 
Oh yes quite a few. Also have an unreasonable affection for them, it’s both their physical design and the sound of the pair of Napier Deltic engines that does it for me.
6 preserved, I think two, perhaps three mainline certified or soon to be. The engines though are the biggest challenge, immensely complex and perhaps two firms who can rebuild them.
Royal Scot Grey D9000 out on a test last week.
And more on the engine.
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Hovertrain:
Hope they’ve got the brakes on
Where’s your sense of fun ?
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Brakes? Brakes? Who needs Brakes?
https://watercressline.co.uk/heritage-train-first-for-the-watercress-line/
Proof that some people have drunk way too much of the preservation bong water.
Similar comments made when Leyland Nationals started to enter preservation!
Back then, the counter argument was that generations of younger enthusiasts remembered these in service.
I have to say it was weird seeing a bus I remember when brand new- at a Detling bus festival in preservation!
Probably the same thing going on here. Also, coal is becoming expensive and less easy to source! 
The Bala narrow-gauge (~2 feet) railway does a few evening BBQ events through the summer, took the kids on the last one, and had a rather lovely chat with the folks running the engine for the evening. We were on “Alice”:
They have a whole load of different units there, all I think either owned by private individuals or co-owned by a group of enthusiasts. All seemed like quite a fun group.
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That is such a cute little engine! 
In a similar vein the prep school I went to has its own light railway.
I see now that it is much feted and it’s all smiley faces
When I was there it was universally loathed - never actually used, just gangs of little boys in boiler suits doing seemingly pointless manual labour.
I see from Wikipedia (!) that the most recent locomotive is named after the individual responsible at the time. What a horrible excuse for a human being he was.
If I was being uncharitable (which is of course a slightly interesting choice of words for the sector) it has a hint of “On Saturday Tarquin can cosplay as a working class manual labourer”.
You are entirely wrong.