Good evening,
Our hobby is rather brilliant but sometimes it can be soul destroying. Last weekend Tangmere was hauling the Royal Wessex from Three Bridges to Weymouth and after seeing some of the great shots from the outward leg when I got home from work, I thought I would try to photograph her on the return leg. Arriving at my location a good 20 minutes before the train was due I made myself comfortable and chatted to some of the other enthusiasts, when we saw a 30 minute delay at Eastleigh on Real Time Trains. Hoping for the best we stayed at the location and sure enough our worse fears were confirmed 20 minutes when we saw the West Coast diesel hauling the train. I seem to be cursed this year with this the 3rd tour I went to see which ended in some form of failure.
Anyway hopefully next time will be more successful but until then,
Thanks for reading
Loco Yard 
Yes she sure has been
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To be fair to Tangmere this wasn’t her fault she had to be taken off for engineering works.
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I went to see the A4 on the Dorset Coast express a couple of weeks back and they had substituted Mayflower that morning due to gauging issues with the A4 so was partially disappointed
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Yea same here 😦 was really hoping to 60009 but Mayflower wasn’t a bad substitute … A lot better than seeing a black 5 or a diesel.
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Very true. I hope they do the Dorset again next year good publicity for mainline steam
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I don’t know, I have caught the DCE a few times each year and there is definitely getting fewer and fewer each year. So many were cancelled this yeae
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Fingers crossed there will be
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Very much so, if the rumors are true we might even get 35018 on them next year. Least there was no real steam ban this year and the tours that did run were popular so fingers crossed!
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Would be good to see 35018 out there especially after all your hard work make a change from all these LNER engines And Black 5’s!
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35018 isn’t one of our engines 😉
We can claim 35005 as ours and maybe 35006 as we invested money in her but no chance of claiming 35018. Would be nice to see her running but it’s all based on rumors and her number appearing in the rail tour brochures
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Sorry getting me numbers confused one day hopefully
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To be fair we aren’t actually short of merchants so it’s easily done 🙂
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