Jonathan Lee

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Spa Valley Railway Diesel Gala 11th & 12th March 2017

The Spa Valley Railway diesel gala saw 31289’s return to traffic for the 2017 season. Having watched the live start-up courtesy of someone’s Facebook Live post, all looked good when we got there and the cloud of white ‘289 had spluttered out had dissipated. Locos in use of the weekend were: D3489, D9537, 31289, 33063 Read the Rest…

Weardale Railway 11th February 2017

Outings for anything at the Weardale Railway, other than on their festive Polar Express trains, are quite rare; yet in February 2017 the Weardale Railway advertised two running days, one involved T&T 47’s but the other involved the first workings of Harry Needle Railroad Co. (HNRC) 31465 since it had been bought it from Network Read the Rest…

Great Central Railway (GCR) 15th July 2016

On the back of their successful “mileage” running days in 2015 the Great Central Railway (GCR) organised a series of running days for certain locos during the 2016 season and it was the turn of 31563 on Friday 15th July. Like the previous year the GCR would run 6 round trips but unlike the previous Read the Rest…

East Lancs Railway (ELR) Diesel Gala July 8th & 9th 2016

The East Lancs Railway (ELR) Summer Diesel Gala was held over the weekend of 8th to 10th July 2016. The list of locos attending and timetable produced can be found below: I planned to attend on Friday & Saturday and my time there on Friday was rather brief really as after 31162 had done its Read the Rest…

Severn Valley Railway Diesel Gala 19th to 21st May 2016

The Severn Valley Railway (SVR) had basically one of the grandest diesel galas in years planned for the 19th to 21st May 2016; which included 6 main line visiting locos and a whole host of other preserved visitors from all around the country, which would ultimately include 20 different locos in total. However due to Read the Rest…

Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway 1st May 2016

31203 had been one of those class 31’s that had spent a long time in preservation and yet was about as elusive as they came! Unfortunately its initial return to service was cut short by an AVR problem on its first running weekend and then it looked as though it could have ended up meeting Read the Rest…

Avon Valley Railway 30th April 2016

I hadn’t planned to travel down to the Avon Valley Railway specifically on this particular day but when 31203 was advertised to work its first trains at the Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway on Sunday 1st May I needed something to make the journey worth while and I was very grateful for 31101 having a day Read the Rest…

A bit of Class 68 bashing 27th & 28th April 2016

Wednesday 27th April 2016 Having had a couple of 68’s in Scotland almost a year ago I was hoping for a better bash when I got round to having a day out on them again. Having never done the Chiltern’s 68’s I had an appointment in London on Thursday 28th May so decided to head Read the Rest…

East Lancashire Railway 23rd April 2016

31466 had seen quite a lot of use already during 2016 at the East Lancs Railway, generally when I was away on holiday! Thankfully I’d been keeping an eye on the Bury Diesels Loco Roster and was pleased when 31466 had to stand in for 37418; again! The weekend previous to this had seen it Read the Rest…

Nene Valley Railway Diesel Gala 9th April 2016

This was my first venture to a preserved railway during the 2016 season and the place was absolutely packed on Saturday 9th April 2016! The gala line-up had the following present: NVR Home Fleet – D9520, D9529 & 31271 Visitors – DCR 31452, Prototype Powercar 41001, 47192, 47712, 50008, 56006, 56098, DB Cargo 60066 & Read the Rest…

Eurotunnel 9th November 2015

Having almost not made it back into the UK on our last attempt to do some Eurotunnel locos, this trip couldn’t have gone anymore straight froward. We turned up a little later than we had done on our previous trip and breezed through the ticket gates; having got straight onto the 0649 departure from Cheriton Read the Rest…

Mangapps Railway Museum 31st August 2015

Mangapps Railway Museum currently houses probably the biggest celebrity of the class 31 world; 31430! While not much of  a line to be sampling class 31’s on, an opportunity arose to go an have a look at what goes on down there and with 31430 having been recently painted into BR Blue it would have Read the Rest…

Strathspey Railway 23rd August 2015

For the first year in a good 10 the Strathspey Railway attempted to make use of their diesel fleet during the Summer of 2015 with the 27 and 31327 alternating each weekend, working two round trips on a Sunday to allow the steam loco to operate the afternoon dinex. It’s long way to go to Read the Rest…

Great Central Railway (GCR) 21st August 2015

The Great Central Railway did something on 21st August 2015, that hadn’t been done by them in a good 10 years; put 31563 out for 6 round trips! While back in the early 2000’s, mainly due to lack of steam, it was quite common that 31563 would do 6 round trips a day, it actually Read the Rest…

Wensleydale Railway Diesel Gala July 2015

An eagerly awaited gala that unfortunately suffered the same fate as most other galas had during 2015; a loco failure prior to the start of the weekend. The original line-up had involved 33108 which had been pulled from the line-up well in advance due to it not being ready in time but 26007 was en-route Read the Rest…