Steam Back on the Met - May 25th - 27th

Could it be... a backdoors pilot for the return of 'Steam on the Met'? Ahh, we can but dream!

I have a question: I have to make the decision wether I should spend about 500 £ to fly to London, book a hotel, etc. in order to attend this event quite soon. Could you please offer me your opinions and guesses about whether there will be more "Steam on the Met" or other events involving trains hauled by Metropolitan №1 in the coming years? Unfortunately I am rather tight on money at the moment, so I'd only like to really do this in the case that this is probably the last such occasion in the foreseeable future.

Thank you and greetings from Austria!
benkda01

Timetable & tickets now available www.ltmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/events/vehicles-on-the-move

Believe the events will continue into next year

Is there any further update on if/when Mr A will make a guest appearance?

There will be three locos each day with the changes happening in the siding at Amersham (that's public on the museum website, if a bit buried).

Hello. Yes, they are. They cost £1, and are available from the ticket office, or from the ticket machines under "Extensions and Other Tickets*"

*If they are not displayed, ask the member of staff on the gateline to turn on child tickets for you, and explain you're looking for platform tickets. With child tickets switched on platform tickets also appear!

Unfortunatley I left it too late to purchase a ticket behind Met1, but I still plan to take my camera with me into London and photograph it as it passes at some point on the route. Which station along the route would be best for this, e.g won't be too crowded, and a good site to photograph the passing train from

So fancy dress is the name of the game for ‘Steam on the Met’ 2013, so have you got your outfit designed ready to join the locos which have had a ‘makeunder’? Remember Metropolitan and LUL colours only.

Can someone please inform me when 20 227 with its giant UNDERGROUND roundel is actually going to travel underground (Harrow and Wembley flyunders excluded).

I pity visitors wanting to photograph a full length steam train finding this ostentatious diesel tailing.

What next? Smiling faces on the smoke box doors?

Can anyone here elaborate on the reason for having both a Class 20 and Sarah on each run, when in the past only the one was needed at t'other end?

Chris

From Heritage Railway Magazine's Facebook Page:



There are other Steam on the Met photos on the page as well (you don't need a Facebook account to access the images).

Hi does anyone have any suggestions for a good station along the route to take some photos? Any help much appreciated.

The place that seemed to have the best view for photos today was the car park of Waitrose in Rickmansworth. Amersham was something of a zoo, though I got some decent shots with a bit of patience and an eye to cropping out the massed hordes.

Both consists left Ruislip depot on time this morning - No.1 absent, of course