At last, some sunshine! A second photo stop with water also being taken on at Garsdale enabled us to get past 850 again after seeing it at Ais Gill. Passing Garsdale made us realise how popular this BR operated charter was with hundreds of cars parked around the station with even more photographers in attendance! We managed to pilot the Austin 1100 to Dent where we walked a little north of the station towards Rise Hill tunnel that is out of view in this photograph behind 850's exhaust. Lord Nelson leads the outward leg of The Cumbrian Mountain Express on the gentle downgrade to its destination trailing a uniform set of Mk. I stock. Today, this view is all but impossible due to the embankment being heavily overgrown and the fells in the background being forested. Notice Graham's Sony TC-153SD cassette deck laying in the grass to the bottom left of the photograph. This was the one that I aspired to as it had Dolby but was double the size and weight on my own new TC-525 unit. I visited exactly the same spot some seven months later in not such great weather but the motive power was pretty impressive, see.....
https://www.ontheupfast.com/p/21936chg/30022686221/x46229-cumbrian-mountain-express.
There is an audio recording of this event on my youtube channel, see...
https://youtu.be/ffyAo-w7eqE