The SVR wiki page for 7802 says that it was last used on the main line in 2007 ‘before OTMR became compulsory’, so presumably it would have been TPWS-fitted, with that system predating OTMR. The TPWS kit may well have been removed at some point since it was withdrawn from the mainline, especially as it's currently receiving it’s second major overhaul since then.
Definitely removed during the overhaul that saw it back in service for 2015.
My bad, I was thinking about 6990 Witherslack Hall.
That’s not ran on the mainline at all.
The timetable will be confirmed at a later date however the ticketing is as follows:
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Back in time for the Winter Steam gala I've read somewhere recently
Thank you both, I missed the spring steam gala and when I visited the WSR it was having maintenance done so I didn't even get it for haulage then.
Looking back through this thread the last figure to emerge was £415,000, as at 31st August. Add what has been raised since, and that received for the sale of 45110, and it will still be some way short of the £1.5m target!
Only £1,030,000 to go then. And the easiest part to raise is in the first few weeks. But, given that the West Somerset said last year that a similar amount was required " or we go bust etc", and they are still running with the appeal quietly shunted to one side, how close to reality is the SVR appeal? Swanage has in a similar fashion just asked for £450,000 to keep going. Is this sort of money floating around from heritage railway supporters? If the financial situation of these companies is this dire then failures , a la Llangollen, are inevitable. I wonder if the company boards feel a wee bit responsible for getting this deep into the mire?
I'm sure they are having a few sleepless nights but how many well run companies correctly predicted Coronavirus and that Putin would invade Ukraine increasing UK electricity prices by 200%?
I've had 2 spells as a director of a heritage railway, it ends up being an almost full time equivalent unpaid job. In my case I've only retired when the paid job required me to live overseas and it became impractical. Of course director of a heritage railway is fairly unusual in that it requires you to seek periodic re-election to the post.
