[rod2102]

Hi, can someone please clarify for me,on the NVR on Sunday 12th September
a demonstration unfitted goods train ran with a single brake van mustered next to the loco. I note that there is already a clip of this on u tube.Is this acceptable practice? I would have thought that there was potential for a mishap if a wagon, for whatever reason, broke away and a passenger train, which in this instance was already delayed, followed on. I grew up in the steam era and cannot ever remember seeing such an incident, sometimes if there was more than one brake van one would indeed be next to the loco but there was still always the one at the end of the train. I am of course just a casual observer with a keen interest in railways so just because I never saw it does not meen it never happened, so please enlighten me, acceptable or not?