UK - Record year for main line steam
Posted: 18 Feb 2008, 21:13
Record year for main line specials
The Main Line Steam Locomotive Owners Association has released statistics for last year's main line steam programme - and in mileage terms, they are a record.
Excluding the timetabled Whitby services run by the North Yorkshire Moors Railway over NR metals, there were 414 steam-hauled passenger services, using 25 engines, covering 58,955 miles.
There were also just seven failures - or one every 9,074 miles. That makes steam statistically more reliable than 17 types of everyday main line diesel!
From The Railway Magazine, March 2008, p66
The Main Line Steam Locomotive Owners Association has released statistics for last year's main line steam programme - and in mileage terms, they are a record.
Excluding the timetabled Whitby services run by the North Yorkshire Moors Railway over NR metals, there were 414 steam-hauled passenger services, using 25 engines, covering 58,955 miles.
There were also just seven failures - or one every 9,074 miles. That makes steam statistically more reliable than 17 types of everyday main line diesel!
From The Railway Magazine, March 2008, p66