OK being as I can see the MG6 thread getting derailed (pun intended)...tell us more abou Sir Nigel Gresley and how you got behind the controls!!!!

I must now look up about Nigel Gresley.

I remember that the Great Western's loco designer Churchward went out onto the main line when he had retired to check a piece of rail and was then hit by a train.

I've only done short footplate rides at Bressingham. I remember doing them as a kid then elf n safety stopped it..but they have found a way to bring it back..so that's great fun.

So Mr Dynamo - how did you get on the footplate?

http://www.sirnigelgresley.org.uk/

Cool thread title bro - now I'm humming "Acapulco"

I never knew that Sir Nigel was raised in South Derbyshire!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Gresley

Looks like numbers like 4472, 4468 are LNER but 60103 etc is BR...

I have a signed Cuneo print of Mallard:

Oops. Sorry. Didn't see this thread before. I guess its aimed at me lol.

Well for starters, I work as a volunteer at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway that runs between Whitby and Pickering in North Yorkshire. I started going there when I was 16 years old and continued until I was about 23. When I was 18, I got a job on what was then British Rail and I worked my way up to becoming a train driver of diesels on there. One of the reasons why I stopped going to the NYMR when I was 23 though was because I was getting fed up with doing railways virtually every day of my life, even though I was working on steam at the NYMR and diesel on BR. It still became much of a muchness.

Anyway, the pic you see of me on Sir Nigel was me working with my current employer which was formally BR. I had to conduct a driver over a route he wasn't familiar with. Thanks to that and a few other things that happened, I got the bug for working on steam loco's again so I've been using my spare time to work on the NYMR once again.

Thanks for the info!

Been on NYMR a few times and Wensleydale a few more times than that. I've only taken the controls of some diesel thingy.

I volunteer on Mid Norfolk Railway and King Edward II has just landed...there was a volunteers special last night..I wasn't able to go...

Here's someone photos of the train http://www.flickr.com/photos/geoffsangliaphotos

richardk wrote:Thanks for the info!

Been on NYMR a few times and Wensleydale a few more times than that. I've only taken the controls of some diesel thingy.

I volunteer on Mid Norfolk Railway and King Edward II has just landed...there was a volunteers special last night..I wasn't able to go...

Here's someone photos of the train http://www.flickr.com/photos/geoffsangliaphotos

Wow, that is bright paintwork



Hasn't it always been green?

When it was at Barry it was sort of green (I lived next door to it for a year and walked through the scrapyard to get to work):

I saw a loco with number beginning 601 at Taunton yesterday - as it had "Tornado" on a big plate at the front, I presume that's what it was...