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dunoon
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June 2006
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Driver Experience Recommendation
Posted by
dunoon
on Saturday, June 24, 2006 3:52 PM
I'm planning to come over to the UK in the next couple years and do a drivers experience. I would like to know if anyone would recommended which one to do. Where would I likely find to best overall value relating to cost, lenght of trip,true hands not just hop on for a ride with your hand on the throttle and hop off. I would like to do the whole thiong from the firing up in the morning to shutting down at night. I have some steam engine experience, I've had a couple small stationary engines and I've helped a friend with his traction engine. So any advise would be most helpful. Thanks.
Rich Davis
Virginia, USA
PS. Yes, Glasgow was bombed pretty heavy during the war especially Clydebank they were after John Brown shipyards They missed the yards but flattened the town.
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Hugh Jampton
Member since
September 2003
From: Southern Region now, UK
820 posts
Posted by
Hugh Jampton
on Saturday, June 24, 2006 8:30 PM
Here's a list of preserved railways in the UK,, take yer pick, most of them do some sort of driver experience.
http://www.railart.co.uk/links_railway.html
I think the North Yorkshire Moors Railway would probably be the best, they offer an all day thing they called a footplate awarenes course.
http://www.northyorkshiremoorsrailway.com/
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