Steam On The Met 7 & 8 September

Great news.

Does anyone know if there is an 11.32 or 13.32 on Saturday that's maybe for VIP's or local schools? Seems odd to me to send the train to Amersham for 11am and then sit in a siding for 4 hours.

Ah excellent, many thanks

If it wasn't dragging the 20's it probably would have made it.

JT 82 would've been at danger, and the train tends to stop some distance away. It helps with signal sighting once the train is on the move again and the engine starts steaming. If it'll engulf a bridge in smoke, we don't want that at the critical time when we are passing signals! Always a nightmare stopping there as you say because of the gradient – even if A 970 (the signal previous to JT 82) is showing a caution aspect, they seem to keep going round until just before the fog repeater for JT 82, just to make it as far up as they can on the curve and the gradient, slow it down and then hopefully a check of the fog repeater will show it's clear and we can all push up the hill again, otherwise being in a braking motion, with the gradient and the weight, there's enough time to stop.

(With 20227 on the south end on Sunday however, we struggled to pull away! Almost painfully!)

Some snapshots taken on sunday here

Is there any reason why Sarah Siddons wasn't used this time round, and two Class 20s instead? Also I heard Met 1 failed again on the Saturday - any ideas why?

Jack