Re: Pendennis Castle

["Les Gilpin" <l.gilpin@btinternet.com>]

Tony Polson wrote in message ...
>On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:36:00 GMT, lbrown2@bigpond.com (Brown Family)
>wrote:
>
>> Now that Pendennis Castle should have been in the U.K. for a month by
>> now. Can someone please tell us where it is, the condition it's in
>> and when can we expect to see this magnificent loco back in service
>> hauling a load of Mk I's?
>
>It's at Didcot Railway Centre in Oxfordshire, adjacent to the Great
>Western main line from London Paddington to Swindon and Bristol.  I've
>seen photos in rail magazines that showed it in apparently good cosmetic
>condition but with a covering of (brown?) dust from the mining area it
>came from.
>

Looked pretty clean when I saw it in august - still no connecting rods then
tho - good consition otherwise

Les G
Cardiff