Great excitement as preparations are afoot for the railway line to get back up into gear. This week we have three Carlisle-and-back runs by High Speed Train (HST) power cars doing driver training ahead os resumption of the Staycation Express for '21.
Here's the pair racing north through Settle on Tuesday morning. They are in East Midlands livery but today we have had a first glimpse of how the trains will look when in S&C service:
Very snazzy too. The green main colour is British Racing Green which, by design or coincidence, is the same green as the Midland Railway used for their early locomotives until the 1880s when they changed to crimson lake.
The Midland dark Brunswick green was used as the background colour for water tanks too. This rather nerdish topic took me back a decade when I was having trouble convincing the planners about tank colours. Here are some reminder pictures:
Happy months, at height.
And finally some pretty ones from the Yorkshire Dales National Park:
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