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hdgvhicvtoday at 8:22 AM3 repliesview on HN

There’s loads of standard gauge steam in the UK with regular service, but it seems that these are excluded because

1) flying Scotsman as it’s not regular service with integrated tickets but runs on public railways and stations

2) festiniog has integrated tickets and runs to normal station but is narrow guage

3) north yorks, swanage, bluebell, svr, Dartmouth etc are regular service to real stations but arent integrated. Dartmouth (kingswear) is certainly used for non tourist purposes.


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pm215today at 8:48 AM

The Severn Valley railway is about to start a trial where you can buy a standard railway network ticket to Bewdley which is then valid on the SVR on special purpose trains for the Kidderminster to Bewdley section; some of those will be steam. I think if that trial becomes a permanent operation it would count.

https://svr.co.uk/news/heritage-trains-to-carry-commuters-as...

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adfmtoday at 8:44 AM

Just took steam out to Holt on Monday. The conductor mentioned it was the first run in weeks due to the drought.

apples_orangestoday at 8:35 AM

I also think there must be more