WCRC Openday 26th July, 2008

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26th July 2008

The West Coast Railway Company held an open day over the weekend 25-27 July 2008 at their Carnforth base, the old Steamtown Railway museum.

After stumping up Ł30 per ticket for an "advance entry photography" ticket, my collegues and I all thought a little agreived (polite speak for ripped off!!). The advance ticket was supposed to allow entrance from 08:00. We arrived before this time and joined the queue awaiting access. After following the signs for "prepaid tickests only" we were still made to queue again (and had our tickets checked twice - why??) and did not manage to get out of the car till 08:30. Also the general public were not supposed to be allowed access till 10:00 and they were actually allowed in at 09:00, allowing us only 30 mins before being mobbed by the "I have paid my money i'll stand where I like I don't care if you are taking photos brigade". Not exactly fair when you have actually paid double what they did. (though admittadly this was not their fault)

Memories of the NRM Railfest gig of a few years ago. Add this to some questionable positioning of locos making photography almost pointless- Why leave five visiting DRS locos all coupled together in a line for one example? (The reason given for this was to protect the public from the pits - only two of the five locos were actually positiojned over a pit!) - one cannot be left feeling at the very least the event could have been organised a little better.

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