Amersham Heritage Day - Sarah Siddons & 1938 stock

and heres my photos

www.flickr.com/photos/metromotion/2843612836/

There are several problems with this idea. Firstly, I'm not one of those people who wants to play "secret squirrel" and keep everything under my hat so to speak, so that only I, or a choice few, get to hear about odd workings.

I'm sure a number of people here get to see the Special Trains Notices where moves of this kind are shown. However they are internal documents and I would not like to be accused of abusing my inclusion on the distribution list by routinely posting these on-line in some format. OK, stuff to do with the Amersham event is enthusiast fair-game but, say, post-7/7 repaired C Stock transfers were a little more sensitive.

Also many of the STNs detail events which frankly look nothing unusual, where normal stock run empty for test purposes and would not be of interest. The Amersham event *has* produced a flurry of strange workings but this is most unusual, in general the Weedkilling and Track Recording trains are the only regular daytime operations. Yes there are battery loco moves but these seem to be arranged on an ad-hoc basis, so for example the "Train 500" which preceded the 38TS yesterday was a welcome, but totally unexpected, surprise to me.

Bear in mind also that many of the moves get cancelled or run early - for example forgoing the "lunch" meal relief for a quick return trip back on the principle of "job & finish".

If someone wants to precis the STNs and post details here that would be fine, after all the LU enthusiast world is small enough not to encourage hundreds of people to turn up just to look at a battery loco (I think!).

seemed ok today. but i wont be happy until MET1 is on the other end though

Met1, Four Chesham (wooden carriages) and Sarah Siddons!

Thanks to all involved - I really enjoyed it on the first trip from Harrow (which I only just made!) Managed to get a (poor) photo of the Watford Triangle, although I thought it would be bigger than it actually was.

Anyhow, my Flickr stream for the day is here: www.flickr.com/photos/9112609@N02/sets/72157607287801898/

and there'll be some random reflections about the day on my blog: (londonstuff.blogspot.com) in a day or so.

It was nice to see so many people there, including ones that had just turned up at random stations to get passing shots - I even saw one man waiting in his garden (at least I hope it was his garden) just by Amersham to get a few shots. We even got good weather

Let's hope that there's more trips like this one to come. I did hear a whisper months ago about a proposed trip cutting across the Jubillee/Bakerloo crossover?

Are there going to be any more movements to get Sarah Siddons back to her storage location?

Let's hope there can be "Northfields - Acton", or "Northfields - West Kensington" event using Sarah and the 38TS at some point.

Nothing wrong with that! You even got your favourate unit!

Good pics.

It used to be towed, or was the tractor as the case may be. I can imagine that either loco is 'live' i.e. ticking-over in the diesel loco, for braking purposes.

On one tour years ago Sarah was gapped when running-round in Uxbridge Sidings. That was extremely interesting to see as the crew got out and used the emergency jumper cable. Now they'd just use the diesel to push I suppose!

I have only cabbed Sarah once with the Brake Block test guys. Running light engine it was just like being in a classic tramcar...and the equipment was a wonder to behold. I do though wonder how much of John Hampden is in Sarah? They used to 'exchange' parts!

Whilst I know nothing about this locomotive, I'd suggest that 'tube' gauge tunnels are an obvious bar to it ;D ;D ;D ;D

Why doesn't 20 189 have its original number, because they were renumbered from D8xxx to 20 xxx after they were painted blue?

Here are my photos from the day
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