Interesting to read about those community train services, maybe my joke post wasn't such a joke after all - I'll get Vic onto it if he eventually gets to one of our parish council meetings!
Here's another one of those dirty old two strokes - I was standing 10 feet in front of it when it started up, that was fun. It's pulling 12 British Pullman carriages from Southampton docks to Victoria instead of the mail trains it was built for.