Great sight seeing the train pull into Uxbridge Station - albeit late - filling the entire station with smoke and steam!!! But they didn't wait long before returning to Harrow. Met Locomotive No 1 was the star. But behind it was Sarah Siddons. And the station staff were very obliging in allowing free access to the platforms. Not that there were lot of folk there on what was a nice sunny Sunday afternoon. The ex-BR Mark 1 carriages were a bit naff though with the vinyl Met. timber-look-alike transfers. Metropolitan Railway ‘Jubilee’ carriage No. 353 looked immaculate though. CJB.

CJB wrote:
Great sight seeing the train pull into Uxbridge Station - albeit late -
filling the entire station with smoke and steam!!! But they didn't wait
long before returning to Harrow. Met Locomotive No 1 was the star. But
behind it was Sarah Siddons. And the station staff were very obliging in
allowing free access to the platforms. Not that there were lot of folk
there on what was a nice sunny Sunday afternoon. The ex-BR Mark 1
carriages were a bit naff though with the vinyl Met. timber-look-alike
transfers. Metropolitan Railway ‘Jubilee’ carriage No. 353 looked immaculate though. CJB.

Ah, I hadn't even realised it was on. Any pics?

On Sun, 8 Dec 2013 14:48:04 -0800 (PST), CJB
wrote:

Great sight seeing the train pull into Uxbridge Station - albeit late -
filling the entire station with smoke and steam!!! But they didn't
wait long before returning to Harrow. Met Locomotive No 1 was the
star. But behind it was Sarah Siddons. And the station staff were very
obliging in allowing free access to the platforms. Not that there were
lot of folk there on what was a nice sunny Sunday afternoon. The ex-BR
Mark 1 carriages were a bit naff though with the vinyl Met.
timber-look-alike transfers. Metropolitan Railway ‘Jubilee’ carriage
No. 353 looked immaculate though. CJB.

Thank you for sharing. One wishes one could have been there. It
sounds like a very atmospheric occasion. :-)

Are the BR Mk1s, the 4TC set?
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http://www.991fmtalk.com/ The DMZ in Reno

On Sunday, December 8, 2013 10:48:04 PM UTC, CJB wrote:
Great sight seeing the train pull into Uxbridge Station - albeit late - filling the entire station with smoke and steam!!! But they didn't wait long before returning to Harrow. Met Locomotive No 1 was the star. But behind it was Sarah Siddons. And the station staff were very obliging in allowing free access to the platforms. Not that there were lot of folk there on what was a nice sunny Sunday afternoon. The ex-BR Mark 1 carriages were a bit naff though with the vinyl Met. timber-look-alike transfers. Metropolitan Railway ‘Jubilee’ carriage No. 353 looked immaculate though. CJB.

Err... Are you sure you were there, because Met No. 1 wasn't! It failed the previous night and was replaced by the Prairie tank in Met livery with bogus number L150. A good day all round despite a bit of late running, and a glorious sunset to boot.

On Mon, 09 Dec 2013 17:52:06 +0000, David Randles
wrote:

On Sun, 08 Dec 2013 16:59:38 -0800, Aurora wrote:

On Sun, 8 Dec 2013 14:48:04 -0800 (PST), CJB
wrote:

Great sight seeing the train pull into Uxbridge Station - albeit late -
filling the entire station with smoke and steam!!! But they didn't
wait long before returning to Harrow. Met Locomotive No 1 was the
star. But behind it was Sarah Siddons. And the station staff were very
obliging in allowing free access to the platforms. Not that there were
lot of folk there on what was a nice sunny Sunday afternoon. The ex-BR
Mark 1 carriages were a bit naff though with the vinyl Met.
timber-look-alike transfers. Metropolitan Railway ‘Jubilee’ carriage
No. 353 looked immaculate though. CJB.

Thank you for sharing. One wishes one could have been there. It
sounds like a very atmospheric occasion. :-)

Are the BR Mk1s, the 4TC set?

Met No 1 was not there. It was GWR prarie no 5521 masquerading as a
fictitious L150

It would still have been good to see steam at Uxbridge. AFIK neither
the Met. nor LT ever utilizer prairie tanks. A pannier tank would
have been a better substitute.
--

http://www.991fmtalk.com/ The DMZ in Reno

wrote:
On Sunday, December 8, 2013 10:48:04 PM UTC, CJB wrote:
Great sight seeing the train pull into Uxbridge Station - albeit late -
filling the entire station with smoke and steam!!! But they didn't wait
long before returning to Harrow. Met Locomotive No 1 was the star. But
behind it was Sarah Siddons. And the station staff were very obliging in
allowing free access to the platforms. Not that there were lot of folk
there on what was a nice sunny Sunday afternoon. The ex-BR Mark 1
carriages were a bit naff though with the vinyl Met. timber-look-alike
transfers. Metropolitan Railway ‘Jubilee’ carriage No. 353 looked immaculate though. CJB.

Err... Are you sure you were there, because Met No. 1 wasn't! It failed
the previous night and was replaced by the Prairie tank in Met livery
with bogus number L150. A good day all round despite a bit of late
running, and a glorious sunset to boot.

In the absence of any pics from Uxbridge, here's some pics I took of some
of the same stock at an LU150 event on the EOR earlier this year:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/recline...7634447093514/

On Monday, 9 December 2013 13:54:30 UTC, wrote:
On Sunday, December 8, 2013 10:48:04 PM UTC, CJB wrote:

Great sight seeing the train pull into Uxbridge Station - albeit late - filling the entire station with smoke and steam!!! But they didn't wait long before returning to Harrow. Met Locomotive No 1 was the star. But behind it was Sarah Siddons. And the station staff were very obliging in allowing free access to the platforms. Not that there were lot of folk there on what was a nice sunny Sunday afternoon. The ex-BR Mark 1 carriages were a bit naff though with the vinyl Met. timber-look-alike transfers. Metropolitan Railway ‘Jubilee’ carriage No. 353 looked immaculate though. CJB.



Err... Are you sure you were there, because Met No. 1 wasn't! It failed the previous night and was replaced by the Prairie tank in Met livery with bogus number L150. A good day all round despite a bit of late running, and a glorious sunset to boot.

Correct it was L150 - but it looked authentic and made all the right smells and sounds CJB

In article ,
(CJB) wrote:

On Monday, 9 December 2013 13:54:30 UTC,
wrote:
On Sunday, December 8, 2013 10:48:04 PM UTC, CJB wrote:

Great sight seeing the train pull into Uxbridge Station - albeit
late - filling the entire station with smoke and steam!!! But they
didn't wait long before returning to Harrow. Met Locomotive No 1 was
the star. But behind it was Sarah Siddons. And the station staff were
very obliging in allowing free access to the platforms. Not that
there were lot of folk there on what was a nice sunny Sunday
afternoon. The ex-BR Mark 1 carriages were a bit naff though with the
vinyl Met. timber-look-alike transfers. Metropolitan Railway
_Jubilee_ carriage No. 353 looked immaculate though. CJB.

Err... Are you sure you were there, because Met No. 1 wasn't! It
failed the previous night and was replaced by the Prairie tank in
Met livery with bogus number L150. A good day all round despite a
bit of late running, and a glorious sunset to boot.

Correct it was L150 - but it looked authentic and made all the right
smells and sounds CJB

First outing with cut-down cab for tunnel working for L150, according to the
Christmas edition of Railway Magazine.

--
Colin Rosenstiel