Killingworth
Established Member
There is a good feature on LSL's operations in May's edition of Rail Today although it can't cover everything.
They started relatively recently and are building a fleet of well restored and mostly already compliant rolling stock.
West Coast have much deeper roots and have accumulated a lot of Mk 1 non compliant carriages. The 2 rakes used for the Jacobite are the ones that have sparked this off but it's the knock on effect on all the others that gives them the financial killer blow. Preventing their use very severely lmits the number of special services that will be able to run anywhere in the UK, steam hauled or diesel.
The high figures they have quoted to achieve compliance needs to be set aside all the coaches they'd need to work on.
They started relatively recently and are building a fleet of well restored and mostly already compliant rolling stock.
West Coast have much deeper roots and have accumulated a lot of Mk 1 non compliant carriages. The 2 rakes used for the Jacobite are the ones that have sparked this off but it's the knock on effect on all the others that gives them the financial killer blow. Preventing their use very severely lmits the number of special services that will be able to run anywhere in the UK, steam hauled or diesel.
The high figures they have quoted to achieve compliance needs to be set aside all the coaches they'd need to work on.