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| I spent the best part of the day at Boat of Garten, which is why I missed seeing what happened to the Royal Scotsman's train. However, it's no use crying over spilt milk or missed video clips when I actually got so many of the City of Truro. The engine still appears to be owned by the National Rail Museum at York and is listed as 'on tour' in stock list. Click the link to check out the museum at York. A place I will visit in March 2007, and I'm sure the visit will provide the materials for another set of web pages! | |||||
| After all the running around in the yard the 'City' finally sets off with the first train of the day for Aviemore. Mind you, she looked a bit reluctant to start! No doubt it was the thought of having to return to England! | With the sound of a whistle the 'City' arrives at Broomhill with the first train of the day from Aviemore. On the departure of the train to Broomhill 31327 gets ready to take the Royal Scotsman train coaches to Aviemore and more on that can be seen on the 'Royal Scotsman' pagesText 2 | ||||
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First train of the day from
Broomhill (aka Glen Bogle) arrives tender first on a glorious September Sunday.
Makes it all worthwhile! My comment "Note the conflicting semaphore signals in the
background! Very worrying for those on the train!" has been kindly
answered by Grant Ritchie who gave me a full explantion as below:- "I am one of the signalmen at the Strathspey so I can perhaps shed some light. When we are running "one train in steam" the signal boxes are switched out as they aren't required. We still need to give the drivers clear signals though so when we switch out, we set the points through the station then we clear the signals in both directions to allow the train to run up and down whenever it likes, this also locks the points. The train has all the section tokens in the cab so there is no possibility of another train on the line. The North box is close to the station so you can see the signals for both directions from the station". |
Shortly thereafter the train departs
for Aviemore. This clip clearly shows the sanding gear only works in the
forward direction. The engine also had brass work on it where more modern
engines didn't even have parts to put the brass on. Have a look at the
front bogie as it passes! The Strathspey Railway pages have produced more feedback than any other pages, for which I am very grateful. Thanks again all the good folk working on the railway I hope the railway has a happy and prosperous future |
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