DOUBLE-HEADED DELIGHT AT CRANMORE: A week after it resumed operations, the East Somerset Railway held a spring gala over the weekend of April 24/25. Ivatt 2-6-0 No. 46447 and GWR 2-6-2T No. 4555, recently returned from boiler work at Tyseley, were in operation on a four-coach passenger train. Barclay 0-4-0ST Lady Nan was used on the ‘local’four-wagon demonstration goods service between the locomotive shed and the tanker sidings by the station. The mogul and prairie, which is in the middle of a three-year hire period from the Dartmouth Steam Railway, took their turns on the goods during the day. Coupled back-to-back, the pair double headed the last train of the day at 4pm to Mendip Vale on April 25.
PETER NICHOLSON
THE ORR (Office of Rail and Road), the safety and economic regulator for Britain’s railways, has launched a risk management model tailored for heritage railways to help control health and safety risks.