These trains seem to run on a number of weekends down the Brum-Stratford line and we have also seen them running down to Warwick alongside Hatton.
--- On Mon, 30/3/09, Brian on Harnser <[email protected]> wrote: From: Brian on Harnser <[email protected]> Subject: [canals-list] Re: Harnser Trip Report To: [email protected] Date: Monday, 30 March, 2009, 9:31 PM Baz Juniper laid this down on his screen : > On 30 Mar 2009, at 19:53, Brian wrote: > >> As we were about to leave Hardwick Lock I spotted a steam >> locomotive sitting stationary on the lines just by the bridge and >> she was making steam, I took a couple of photos hoping to get one >> of her steaming by as we moved up the canal, when did she decide to >> go by, just as I entered Bourton Lock, I scrambled up but the >> bushes ruined the shot, a few minutes earlier and it would have >> been open track. > > Big green engine with brassy bits? Probably Castle Class 5043 making > passage from Didcot to Tyseley: > > http://www.uksteam.info/tours/lem09.htm#twk > > Baz > [Just back from a fine couple of days pottering on the K&A] > There was one doing Birmingham-Bristol return that broke down and didn't come back yesterday, I thought it might have been that. Loads of people with cameras waiting at Aynho at 1801 yesterday and nothing turned up. ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
