A1 No 60163 TORNADO VISIT TO THE NENE VALLEY RAILWAY

Join the NVR and Celebrate Easter 2012 in Style with A1 No 60163 TORNADO
TRAVEL BEHIND A1 No 60163 TORNADO AT THE NVR

Saturday 7th to Monday 9th April 2012

• Special Fares

• Travel behind Tornado on Mk1 Coaches

• Club Car running on Monday 9th April

• Reserved tables of 4 (Parties of under 4 will be seated with other passengers)

• Afternoon tea available on the 14:30 service - No booking required

• Real Ale Bars at Wansford and on the Train

• Tornado Souvenirs

• Shed Tours Available - "All donations gratefully received by your tour guide"

• Tours times - 10.00 Loco, 11.00 Loco, 12.00 C&W, 14.00 Loco, 15.00 Loco, 16.00 C&W

More information to follow

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The Club Car

On Monday 9th April - Take a seat aboard the Club Car and enjoy a Continental Breakfast or Lunch in the Club Car

A Continental Breakfast with Tea or Coffee
£10.00

Cheese & Ham Ploughman with Chutney,
&
Apple Pie and Cream
Freshly brewed Tea & Coffee
£15.00

The Club Car service must be booked in advance, and is additional to your travel tickets

Reservations on sale from 7th February 2012

 

Seven round trips I see. That's not bad at all.
The 34081 sales stand will be at Wansford so if you've got some money to spend after your 'Tornado Experience', you know where to spend it.

 

And of course the lms patriot project sales stand Will be next to you so if you have some more money there is always the lms option. Haha.

 

Duelling sales stands then.

 

Round one was at GCR the other week, Nene Valley will be round 2!!:loco:

And if you come to SSS3 we can have round 3 back on our home turf.

 

We're hoping to be there but not for the whole event.

 

Why have I got a picture of Harry Hill in my head at the moment?

 

Can someone please clarify if I've missed something here?

I have been an NVR member for a number of years now. I thinks its fair to say for the last few of those years there has been a lack of gala visitors. That was until the fantastic 'East meets West' gala last Autumn with 'The Duke' and 'Kinlet Hall'. With that in mind, when I saw this first advertised I assumed it was replacing the Mixed Traction gala from last year and really got my hopes up. As details came out including the Club Car, Dining Train and Shed Tours I really thought that this was turning into a massive event and the NVR was finally trying to get back into the Steam premier league.

But then the timetable was released. Only two engines in steam and one of them is Thomas! I accept its Easter and there are children to please, but surely if you have Thomas with two coaches doing regular shuttles to Yarwell, there is room for another train to Peterborough. Whether it be a goods, mail or another passenger set (Wagon Lits).

From the massive gala that the last was with 5 engines we have dwindled down to two!

So my previously local railway seem to have finally gone the extra mile to get the biggest guest of all, but if a paying customer arrives at the wrong time all they get to see is Thomas racing around the yard for an hour?

So back to the original question, have I missed something or are my expectations just to high?

 

The Tornado visit is not a gala event and was never intended to be, it is a unique event to celebrate Tornado on the NVR,

 

It does strike me as a massive wasted opportunity. At the very least it would make sense to have a main line engine on the second service and just have Thomas pottering around the station or doing Yarwell shuttles.

 

ChrisKempster Photography | NVR - Easter with Tornado

Here are my shots from the last two days. May I also say the wife and I had a fantastic time on the dining train last night. The team did a fantastic job!

 

Had a great weekend with Tornado visiting our line. A superb day on the footplate yesterday. Please see a link below to some of my lineside images of 60163's visit during its stay.

60163 - NVR - a set on Flickr

Many thanks

Oli (NVR Fireman)

 

Great photos., many thanks for sharing.