We had a good day (took my little lad for a day out) on the whole very enjoyable, sadly had to bail early as little one was nearly asleep on the run back to Duffield and asked to go home so we were back on the EMT service by 3pm.
My only observation of the day was a lack of kids, and possibly the reason why is a few of the "enthusiasts" weren't exactly sympathetic to kids happily standing right in front of my 4 year old who was just trying to see the trains coming and going etc with out even noticing he was there, and generally a few just had to get that photo. I didn't really dampen the day as my little one didn't really notice but it would make me think twice about another diesel gala day which is a shame as diesels are my little lads favourites.
The run up the incline was good too, we had a front row seat with the 33 giving it the beans, and generally just nice to hear and smell some classics big block oil burners for a change,