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The GCR Last Hurrah 2023 event took place on Saturday and Sunday 18th and 19th November. It was billed as a home locomotives event with visiting single unit diesel railcars in support. Unfortunately, the advance weather forecasts for both days were very poor but eventually it settled to very dull but dry on Saturday and bright but very wet on Sunday. Saturday was very dull indeed and not without rain; but the precipitation was only light and intermittent. That was not the real problem that visitors encountered. What went wrong nobody knew. Either it was kept a close secret by the railway (not by any means impossible) or everybody at Loughborough was so busy working on the problem that no one could take the time to provide information. Up trains were about one hour late but the trains that ran bore very little corelation to the working timetable. In reality it was the two single car units that maintained a very limited service for over an hour through the very busy lunch-time period. It was almost dark, and time to go home, before the type of intense service we are used to at GCR Galas appeared to start. As for Sunday I looked at the weather forecast and decided it would be too wet to visit the railway. The forecast was showing 80 to 90% rain between eleven and three. Does anyone know what these apparently quantitative measures are? Probabilities, intensities or just a figure of the forecasters imagination. In reality I sat at home, sulking and watched a substantially fine day with much better light than the day before drift past my window.