Route to be made please

[Neptune50006]

Anyone planning to do it could always pop an email their way, you may even find out they are extending it as we speak.

Stop teasing us

[richard43]

nice picture I wonder why first great western got rid of there valenta's anyway I wonder what great Malvern will be like

[TractorBasher]

And on the original subject of the Cotswolds, I was curious to see how the Malverns looked:

Ok, so you've done Great Malvern, and you've done Worcester. How much of the in between have you done? Does it go any further? To Hereford perhaps?

I like that big hill in the background.

[Will]

nice picture I wonder why first great western got rid of there valenta's anyway I wonder what great Malvern will be like

Cause they were awful, un-efficent, constantly borken and just rubbish. I spent 2 and a half years driving one on the GWML, and it was awful. Nice sound, but so unreliable, and so much noise and clag, just to depart a station! I'm so glad First Great Western re-engined thier PC's to MTU, it's so much nicer to drive them now, I actually feel as if I can drive it withouth polluting the earth every time i put some power on. The sound may've been nice, but I wont miss the blunder and awfulness of the engine itself.Thanks to the germans for that marvellous MTU invention.

Going back onto topic, the route is looking good, or all the part's you've posted anyway

[Kariban]

Cause they were awful, un-efficent, constantly borken and just rubbish.

A slight derailment again, I suspect they were a bit better ooh, 30 years ago when they weren't all totally worn out although they've always been that noisy, that I can remember. I'm just about old enough that I probably got on something behind a D1000 at some point but I can't actually remember doing it... after a few years of EE and Sulzers I very definitely remember the pain of the first HST I ever ran into.

I guess the GWML couldn't stay away from Maybachs forever!