Hi,
Over the previous weeks I have being pondering the question in my head; Is It really Preservation? Just Dumping engines and Rolling Stock in a Siding on a Preservation Railway, just left to rot.
My personal opinion is no. True Preservation in my, and many other's eyes is of a Railway line with restored & working engines, with all their carridges working, being restored or displayed. Unfortunately, this is not a thing you can see on most railways these days. With carridges going out from the Mainline, the Preservation World has been over run with Mk1's & Mk2's. Most of these owners have no real funds though. When the coach has been moved to the line it is thenm left in the sidings until the owner decides what to do, and sometimes that decision is to just leave it on the railway premises, and just dissappear.
What do you think? Should they be allowed to dump stock on lines without the lines deciding what to do after a few years deriliction? Or just leave it to muck-up Britain's beautiful Countryside.
Over the previous weeks I have being pondering the question in my head; Is It really Preservation? Just Dumping engines and Rolling Stock in a Siding on a Preservation Railway, just left to rot.
My personal opinion is no. True Preservation in my, and many other's eyes is of a Railway line with restored & working engines, with all their carridges working, being restored or displayed. Unfortunately, this is not a thing you can see on most railways these days. With carridges going out from the Mainline, the Preservation World has been over run with Mk1's & Mk2's. Most of these owners have no real funds though. When the coach has been moved to the line it is thenm left in the sidings until the owner decides what to do, and sometimes that decision is to just leave it on the railway premises, and just dissappear.
What do you think? Should they be allowed to dump stock on lines without the lines deciding what to do after a few years deriliction? Or just leave it to muck-up Britain's beautiful Countryside.
