Off to See the Steam Trains tomorrow
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DJWCFC
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Enjoy yourself Terry tomorrow, i assume your into trains in a big way then?
I do enjoy seeing Steam though I do not often go out of my way to see them, but as all 6 are together in the UK for a short time, 2 go back abroad early next year one to the USA one to Canada,then it is a rare chance to see the only six remaining all in one place
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DJWCFC
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That's good you enjoy your steam trains, always good to have hobbies isn't it. if there all in one place that all of them are at a distance where you can get to then best to go if you want to. seeing you know your trains Terry you ever heard the name Richard Foster in that world?
No I have not Darren
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DJWCFC
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I just wondered Terry cause he is a family friend and very big in the world of trains, so was thinking of worlds colliding sort of thing 
No it is not these are big loco's compared to the one the lads drove,though oddly enough one of them did appear in a Dad's army episode, it was supposed to be the train carrying the King
barmpot
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Terry
did you manage to get any pictures?
I was there on Monday but of course not really possible to get any good pictures due to the large crowds. God to see the work done on the American and Canadian visitors.
I was actually thinking it would probably have been only on a Sunday, when there were fewer express trains, that six or more would be on shed simultaneously. As there were only 35 (34 after 1942 when one was destroyed in an air raid) the allocation to Kings Cross and Gateshead would have been about 14 each and 7 for Edinburgh. So six in one place is quite a rarity anyway!
did you manage to get any pictures?
I was there on Monday but of course not really possible to get any good pictures due to the large crowds. God to see the work done on the American and Canadian visitors.
I was actually thinking it would probably have been only on a Sunday, when there were fewer express trains, that six or more would be on shed simultaneously. As there were only 35 (34 after 1942 when one was destroyed in an air raid) the allocation to Kings Cross and Gateshead would have been about 14 each and 7 for Edinburgh. So six in one place is quite a rarity anyway!
Hi Rod
I was lucky enough to get 2 of limited early morning tickets,so only about 40 people in the hall between 8am and 10pm,I will sort through and mail you some tomorrow,Terry
Had a think about this and checked one of my books. Not sure how representative 1959 was but that year allocation was 19 to Top Shed, 8 to Gateshead and 7 to Haymarket.
barmpot
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I would not dispute those numbers although with some being on other sheds for a variety of reasons, some in works and out in traffic I guess the number actually on shed at any one time would have been relatively few, so six would have been feasible on a Sunday and possibly a lot more on Saturday after midnight.
From my own spotting days I knew of a class of 17 allocated to just two sheds - 9 and 8 - I never found more than three or four actually on shed at any one time; I lived the other side of the tracks to the shed but less than ten minutes away so regularly called in. My grandfather was a platelayer foreman and my father had been a signalman - thus the interest was always there.
However it looked a magnificent bunch: although not the most numerous class of preserved locomotive. There is one which had 75% of its class preserved and apart from classes of one I am not sure if there were any that survived in such quantity.
I would not dispute those numbers although with some being on other sheds for a variety of reasons, some in works and out in traffic I guess the number actually on shed at any one time would have been relatively few, so six would have been feasible on a Sunday and possibly a lot more on Saturday after midnight.
From my own spotting days I knew of a class of 17 allocated to just two sheds - 9 and 8 - I never found more than three or four actually on shed at any one time; I lived the other side of the tracks to the shed but less than ten minutes away so regularly called in. My grandfather was a platelayer foreman and my father had been a signalman - thus the interest was always there.
However it looked a magnificent bunch: although not the most numerous class of preserved locomotive. There is one which had 75% of its class preserved and apart from classes of one I am not sure if there were any that survived in such quantity.
Intrigued - what is the 75% class?