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Your planner has missed one out, Jim: Minehead!

 

56302 has been there today for the WSR Diesel Gala and has been named "Peco"

 

http://cgibin.wsr.org.uk/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?h=Snapshot&p=2016/06/117

That name'll confuse some of the non-modelling Neds.......

 

Cheers,

Mick

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actually im on it thursday, carnforth to blackpool via the world

 

friday is a different train longsight to longsight via nelson, colne etc!

 Do you pick it up in the loop at Carnforth or the station? I may pop down if I can stay awake!!!

 

Ian

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Just seen 37254 in the distance tonight. I may get nearer tomorrow............

 

cheers

Mick

 

shame i'm not about tomorrow 

 

i take it it's lost its name plates on this trip into barrow hill, not seen it for a while and im sure it was still named last time?

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Every picture or clip I have seen of a class 350 on that TV and Crewe flyer has featured only one unit.

 

That maybe adequate for north of Rugby but south thereof includes a stop at Milton Keynes, just one unit in the peak stopping there sounds like a recipe for trouble.

 

LM's Birmingham trains take on extra units at Northampton, even in the off-peak (and lose them in the opposite direction), but those Crewe trains are routed over the fast lines south of Rugby and don't stop at Northampton, indeed just the one stop at MK, with presumably no opportunity for strengthening.

 

I wonder how they cope.

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shame i'm not about tomorrow 

 

i take it it's lost its name plates on this trip into barrow hill, not seen it for a while and im sure it was still named last time?

No plates on it today. I was that close to it I could count the boltholes...

Cheers

Mick

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Plates are off it now, it's off to WWH for them to have a play with it to see if they can get it right, and will return 'ala 116'... In other words Helmet'd!

 

Nice pics Jim!

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couple of days worth of pics this time, too tired yesterday to put them up, slept most of the day!

 

thursday was carnforth to blackpool north via windermere, manchester victoria, miles platting, blackpool south and preston!

 

first up carnforth where fellow rmwebber 11B was waiting to see my train arrive, hopefully he may put some pics up too

 

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and away to oxenholme

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and windermere

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and back to oxenholme

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then away to manchester and back to blackpool south

 

the light on "mentor" is a right pain for taking pictures!

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then it was back to preston

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and back to blackpool north this time and done

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london bound voyager (that i caught to wigan to collect a van)

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Blackpool semaphore signals by jim scott, on Flickr

 

this last night was a longsight to hebden bridge UTU, should have done Colne but neither myself or the route conductor sign it so we had to miss it

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a very wet Oxford road

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and back to longsight 

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and that was that

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Hi Jim and all,

 

It was nice to meet you, photos already on here

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/82181-railway-photos-around-north-lancashire-south-cumbria/?p=2341674

 

So here we have the man him self departing Carnforth

 

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Not the best photo's I've ever taken, I should have taken my big camera and tripod.... Instead I took my wife's compact (camera that is)

You seemed to have made good time to Blackpool

 

Kind regards

 

Ian

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Jim

 

Hope you don't mind me posting this as 37025 has featured a few times in your posts I am not a member of SRPS and don't have any connection with them some of the people may wish to go on or photograph this tour.

 

We are delighted to announce that on Saturday 16 July 2016, 37025 has been booked to haul the ‘Golden Stag’ railtour from Linlithgow to Aviemore and Inverness. This will be 37025’s debut railtour and has been organised as a joint venture between the Group and the SRPS with GB Railfreight operating the train on the day.

In order to book onto these railtours you need to either:

• Book via the SRPS Railtour’s online-booking service on www.srpsrailtours.com; or

• Call the SRPS’s railtour hotline on 0131 202 1033.

Booking will be available from Friday 13th May 2016.

Return Fares (including seat reservations):

• Standard class = £72

• First class = £109

Approximate times

We are expected to depart Linlithgow at about 0830, Inverkeithing at 0855 and Perth at 1000 on the way north, arriving in Aviemore at 1215 and Inverness at 1300. Departure from Inverness will be at 1800 and Aviemore at 1850 with arrivals in Perth at 2045, Inverkeithing at 2205 and Linlithgow at 2225. Final timings and tickets will be sent one week before tour.

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