Hi brings back pleasant memories.my grandad worked for British railways all his life.an had many contacts.to cut a long story short he managed to get us on the footplate of her for about a 30 mile run.a day I will always cherish.good to see her back.cheers mick.

Hi yep me sure was lucky.never happen today to much red tape.an health an safety not but there nose into everything.my grandad being a steam enthusiast all his life.an working in Scotland all his life.an the big wigs in London kinda left Scotland to run its own railways back then.so this sort of thing was possible. Talking 1970s here.grandad was also a keen photographer. And had amounted a collection of 250000 slides of steam in Scotland. A collection seemed so important to After his passing became part of the national archive of Scotland. Happy and very fond memories. Cheers mick.