Hi all,
Details of our steam gala are below , always plenty of photographic opportunities available with 3 visiting engines, and special photographic runpasts on both the Saturday and Sunday morning. Mt=y apologies for lack of postings in recent times and arranging things elr related. regrettably I am awaiting some surgery which keeps getting put off and have been unable to commit to anything. Hope the information below is helpfull to some.
61994 'The Great Marquess' is also due to arrive later this week and is then expected to remain on the ELR until just after Christmas.
Subject to the usual clauses etc. 46233, 1501 and 61994 will form the guest locos for next weekends gala, together with 80080, 49395, 132 and 1370 from the ELR based fleet.
In conjunction with the East Lancashire Railway, the 3P20 Parcels Group will be running the early morning mini photo-charters based at Burrs as part of the Autumn Steam Event on Saturday and Sunday 19th and 20th October.
A highlight of the event is of course Duchess of Sutherland and on Sunday she will recreate the twilight years for the Duchess class, after they had been cascaded down to humbler duties following the introduction of the English Electric Type 4s (Class 40s) on the West Coast Main Line.
An Ivo Peters photo published in The Train Now Departing showed 46230 hauling a parcels rake of 5 bogie/long wheel base vans and 4 box vans, therefore we will use the 4 No 3P20 bogie/long wheel base vans and 5 No box vans from the Std 4 Wagon Group to recreate this scenario. I accept that there is a livery discrepancy in that Sutherland carries the pre 56 crest (which in her case disappeared around 1960) and parcels workings with Duchesses happened in 1963, however if the sun is out, the back-lighting will largely "burn out" the matter. This is also a bit of a personal indulgence as this was the photo which inspired the whole parcel van project!
On Saturday, the same consist will be hauled by Standard 4 tank 80080.
The train is booked to depart Bury at 07.45 and must leave Burrs by 08.45. Please be in position by 07.30. As in previous years, members of 3P20 will be in attendance at the Burrs footpath crossing to collect the requested donation of £10.00 each day, which will be rewarded with a sticker. You may have read elsewhere that the footpath closure notices, to divert the footpath as part of the Burrs Halt project, have been posted and that we are within the anticipated programme for the works in the Expressions of Interest invitation, however, as of today, no works have commenced.
Details of our steam gala are below , always plenty of photographic opportunities available with 3 visiting engines, and special photographic runpasts on both the Saturday and Sunday morning. Mt=y apologies for lack of postings in recent times and arranging things elr related. regrettably I am awaiting some surgery which keeps getting put off and have been unable to commit to anything. Hope the information below is helpfull to some.
61994 'The Great Marquess' is also due to arrive later this week and is then expected to remain on the ELR until just after Christmas.
Subject to the usual clauses etc. 46233, 1501 and 61994 will form the guest locos for next weekends gala, together with 80080, 49395, 132 and 1370 from the ELR based fleet.
In conjunction with the East Lancashire Railway, the 3P20 Parcels Group will be running the early morning mini photo-charters based at Burrs as part of the Autumn Steam Event on Saturday and Sunday 19th and 20th October.
A highlight of the event is of course Duchess of Sutherland and on Sunday she will recreate the twilight years for the Duchess class, after they had been cascaded down to humbler duties following the introduction of the English Electric Type 4s (Class 40s) on the West Coast Main Line.
An Ivo Peters photo published in The Train Now Departing showed 46230 hauling a parcels rake of 5 bogie/long wheel base vans and 4 box vans, therefore we will use the 4 No 3P20 bogie/long wheel base vans and 5 No box vans from the Std 4 Wagon Group to recreate this scenario. I accept that there is a livery discrepancy in that Sutherland carries the pre 56 crest (which in her case disappeared around 1960) and parcels workings with Duchesses happened in 1963, however if the sun is out, the back-lighting will largely "burn out" the matter. This is also a bit of a personal indulgence as this was the photo which inspired the whole parcel van project!
On Saturday, the same consist will be hauled by Standard 4 tank 80080.
The train is booked to depart Bury at 07.45 and must leave Burrs by 08.45. Please be in position by 07.30. As in previous years, members of 3P20 will be in attendance at the Burrs footpath crossing to collect the requested donation of £10.00 each day, which will be rewarded with a sticker. You may have read elsewhere that the footpath closure notices, to divert the footpath as part of the Burrs Halt project, have been posted and that we are within the anticipated programme for the works in the Expressions of Interest invitation, however, as of today, no works have commenced.