'The Capital Christmas Express'. 23rd November

44932 is going down on Friday.

 

Out and back via Wimbledon! I hope this isn't a one-off. It would be great if regular paths from Waterloo could be found fro Steam that don't involve going all round the houses (i.e., the Windsor Lines). While our friend Kent Yeti will point out how in 1967 some trains made it to Basingstoke in 40 minutes from Waterloo, I still think that 57 minutes Waterloo-Fleet is a great inprovement on one or two steam trains I have been on where the Windsor Lines Crawl have resulted in it taking 90 minutes (or more!) to get as far as Woking.

 

Are you sure about that? My understanding was that Steam Dreams still have the SRPS set on hire until the end of this year.[/quote]


Could well be - I thought it had been returned but there is comment elsewhere in the internet that there is no SRPS tour to the Lincoln Christmas Fayre this year, so that is quite possible. I was making an assumption on Riveria.

Steven

 

Not having seen the timings but is this going to be using the Putney loop ?

 

And yet the RTC website still has the loco as Tangmere!

 

Real Time Trains has 17.58 at Clapham Junction and 18.03 at Wimbledon, with no intermediate timings. Departure is from Platform 19 at Waterloo, which is normally used for Windsor Line trains, but Platform 9 is shown for Clapham Junction, so it looks like it will go via Earlsfield rather than the Putney Loop, and will flip over from the Windsor Line tracks at Queentstown Road.

 

I think glide, switch or manover might be better than flip which has other connotations

 

If only it was that simple....

 

Don't be surprised, the RTC website had the tour on the 9th as visiting Uckfield first when the timings next to it clearly showed Sheffield Park first!

 

Presumably DL+44932+stock. Any timings for this?

Don

 

Actually around 43 minutes was accepted as being the fastest, net about 41 minutes. I think Kent Yeti is hibernating

Brother Don

 

http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U54641/2013/11/22/advanced

 

Oh I'm not surprised!

 

34067 is in steam at Carnforth tonight and due to work down to Southall on Thursday

te="Enterprise, post: 704701, member: 144"]Oh I'm not surprised![/quote]
It was changed at the request of the Bluebell Railway Did not upset any of our passengers ONLY PHOTOGRAPHERS

 

Thanks Nigel.

Which makes sense, since it made it easier to path the train.

 

Bravo

 

And now UK Steam info is hedging its bets for Fridays ECS down to the coast. Tangmere/44932

 

It was changed at the request of the Bluebell Railway Did not upset any of our passengers ONLY PHOTOGRAPHERS[/quote]


If 67 is fixed, that's great.

Your comment about "ONLY PHOTOGRAPHERS" is odd. Steam railway enthusiasts are not one dimensional. Many take photographs and travel on tours and work hard in many ways to keep steam alive. When you upset photographers, you will also be upsetting some of your potential future clients. I have travelled on your trains and I have had some very enjoyable experiences. I have also had some that left much to be desired not necessarily due to circumstances under the control of RTC. I have not booked on some advertised tours that looked inviting because it seemed to me that the prospectus was most unlikely to be fulfilled. Nearly always my judgement was correct but at least twice I missed tours that I would have enjoyed. That would not have happened if I had more trust in the information that RTC provide initially and if RTC updated locomotive information and route changes promptly and openly. You might regard the loss of two premier class passengers as insignificant but I am not alone in my opinions about RTC publicity.

 

34067 passed its FTR at Carnforth Today and will run to Southall tomorrow