I have though, also taken the opportunity to email the railway centre I went to in October to introduce myself, and ask about what the pathway is for getting on the footplate of their engines. They seem like a nice bunch and their little industrial steam locos seem much more my style than this big stupid American thing. #SteamRailway

Well, I just sent an email back to the railway saying I'm not available for these dates. It might look a bit odd given the timeframe is March until the start of May but oh well. #SteamRailway

Meanwhile, the S160 burns 2.5 tonnes of it in a day, and that’s doing 3-4 round trips of 6 miles #SteamRailway

In fairness to our S160, it has a coal capacity in the tender of 9 tonnes of coal, so I think you’d probably get a few years of home heating, more like! #SteamRailway