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    Weathering the Storm. 9F Heavy Freight, 23rd June 2015
Great Central Railway, Loughborough, LE11 1RW

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Weathering the Storm. 9F Heavy Freight, 23rd June 2015

Commemorating those through heavy mainline freights trains of the 1960's with '9F' Class 2-10-0 No.92212 on the Great Central Railway, Leicestershire. Day one will using a Mixed Freight.

£70.00

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The second pair of events we are running commemorating fifty years since the end of through freight train workings over the Great Central route, it gives great pleasure to offer, with grateful thanks to the Great Central Railway and the locomotive's private owner, two days of 'weathered' heavy freight action at the GCR featuring '9F' Class No.92212 during her short visit to the line. In addition and to bring further authenticity to our days we are seeking permission to re-number the loco to 92178, this was the first 9F with the larger (BRIF) Tender to be fitted with a double chimney. She was also an Eastern Region loco so very likely to have strayed on to the Great Central mainline on many occasion.

A charter event originally scheduled for early Summer 2014, we are sure that a wait of twelve months won't in any way have diminished the keenness with which the prospect of recreating the sight of a ‘weathered’ British Railways Standard 2-10-0 on a double track main line at the head of a lengthy rake of authentic wagons is anticipated.

Our charters will feature the locomotive facing south on both days, hauling a mixed freight on the first day (this day) and the Railway's windcutter rake on the second. Each day will start at Swithland Sidings at 05.00 and run until 09.30 with a break during service train operations, then again from 17.00 until sunset which will be quite late at this time of the year, giving some very lengthy days of photographic opportunity.

We look forward to seeing many of you at the Great Central Railway in June to help us commemorate another notable anniversary, fifty years on from the cessation of through freight train workings over the Great Central main line.

Event cost £70.00 per person. 

A discount of £5.00 is available to anyone that had booked on our original 9F Events during May 2014. 

 


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