Great Central Railway Loughborough 15th May 2005

Great Central Railway. Time for tea but watch that steam pressure gauge, it's close to the "red line". Probably time to get the injector on before the driver of British Railways Standard 2 78019 closes the regulator by the last underbridge before Quorn station.

The vacuum gauge, top left, shows a good 21" of mercury &, as it's 15th May, no need for steam heat so the small gauge is on zero psi - the steam valve (brass knob to the right projecting through the front window) is shut. Firing BR Standard 2 78019 on a service train en route to Leicester.