2. Railways

2010 Swanage Railway Diesel Gala. rd

The weekend after the May Bank Holiday is the weekend of the legendary Swanage Diesel Gala which has the Dorset Beer Festival tied in with it. So once again the pilgrimage from Fife to my native Dorset is made and to the railway I call "mine". I was there on the very first day in 1976 and I was loco crew on the first train in August 1979. It holds a special place in my heart.
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    The 1430 off Norden, 2S15, has the road past the inner home gantry running some 65 minutes late. 56101 leads 73119 as the motive power.
    The type 5 would have been doing all the work with the ED translating the 56's airbrake into vacuum for the stock. 73119 is now running normally and whatever the issue was is now resolved. It was the reason for the timetable slippage.
    50135 comes out of the loop and will back down onto the stock sitting in platform 2.