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    Faults and paintwork leave Steam Dreams short

    Oct 15, 2018 3 minutes
    By Cedric Johns
    DAVID RODGERS

    RECENT weeks have seen disruption to Steam Dreams’operations because of the non-availability of selected steam power booked for‘Cathedrals Express’trips, including the planned West Country double-header with Flying Scotsman.

    Twenty-four hours before its scheduled Sunday, September 23, working, A4 No. 60009 Union of South Africa failed its fitness-to-run exam at Southall, resulting in the King’s Cross-Cambridge-Norwich ‘Cathedrals Express’running diesel-hauled throughout its trip.

    By late September, it was was unavailable to take part as planned in the sell-out Plymouth-Penzance trip, double-heading with on October 6, LMS‘Black Five’No. 44871 substituting for David Buck’s engine (Headline News pages 6 and 7). The Bluebell Railway was also forced to withdraw from the roster for its October 12-14 Giants of Steam event, where it was booked to join No. 60009.

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