ZL exile
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For anyone that is interested, 3170 from Embsay, has been working the trains shown as railcar at the Great Central Winter steam gala today, not sure about tomorrow’s trains.
a great bonus as far as I was concerned!It's an amazing machine but I'm surprised that it's operating at a steam gala, given it's powered by an internal combustion engine!
It's an amazing machine but I'm surprised that it's operating at a steam gala, given it's powered by an internal combustion engine!
All seats taken when I got on, so stood between stations but then some folk got off and it thinned out a little bit so I had a seat then.It was running instead of a dmu, which usually runs alongside the steam locos at their steam galas, helps give an even more intensive timetable.
It certainly was an interesting sight though nice to see it preserved and running, was gonna have a ride but decided it looked way too busy and cramped also not sure if there actually was but it looked like there wasn't much leg room.
All seats taken when I got on, so stood between stations but then some folk got off and it thinned out a little bit so I had a seat then.
Superb restoration (towards £1m by looks of it from website...) and a very interesting vehicle.
Yes, tram style!I was able to get a seat and there was plenty of legroom.....as I didn't even consider it! It was also nice to see the seat backs on a pivot so reversable as travel direction changes.
Mine was on the last run on Sunday afternoon - very heavy rain so numbers had prob thinned out a bit. Lots of interesting info on their website which I have been perusing - full back numbers of their journal in pdf to look through for example. Nice to see lottery fund supporting a project like this - good for them!I could see it was full with people standing when it pulled into the station, and on the platform there were more people waiting to get on it than there would've been space in there, decided to wait for the steam service behind it.
But yeah it looked very well restored and a very interesting vehicle, certainly something different.
Isn’t the steam railcar at Didcot? Would be nice to see the two side by side.Believe it's due to work at Didcot on a railcar gala coming up soon
Believe they are all working No22 Steam Railcar NERIsn’t the steam railcar at Didcot? Would be nice to see the two side by side.