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What was the shortest distance Railtour?

Discussion in 'Diesel & Electric Traction' started by neildimmer, Jul 20, 2013.

  1. neildimmer

    neildimmer Resident of Nat Pres

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    [SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]Evening All[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE]

    [SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]Does anyone know what was the shortest distance main line railtour?[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE]

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    Thame Phoenix railtour taken by Alan Costello which took place on the 28 and 29 June 1986 featuring single coach railcars
    the distance travelled was about 28 miles

    Units involved were
    Class 121 Pressed Steel 'Bubble Car' 55033
    http://tinyurl.com/kgb8zgn
    &
    Class 122 Gloucester RC&W 'Bubble Car' 55006
    http://tinyurl.com/n6s3ht6

    both units passing each other
    http://tinyurl.com/kcboa4v

    Further help needed please for some reason, and Alan does not know the reason why on the 18th September 2 further units ran with the same headboard anyone know why please?
    55005 http://tinyurl.com/m5d44s4
    &
    55000 http://tinyurl.com/meq8cux

    Full tour explanation & timing sheets
    http://tinyurl.com/m9o4nl9

    Neil
     
  2. ADB968008

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    Marylebone - Beaconsfield in 2006 with 5690 and 48151 was not much over 20 miles,
    though in 2013 Moorgate to Edgware Road with Met no1 isn't double digit miles.

    Also hasnt there been Quainton Road to Aylesbury shuttles
     
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    Hertfordshire Railtours ran the "Wirksworth Phoenix" several times in the mid 1980's, Derby-Duffield-Wirksworth, Derby- Duffield is 5M 20Ch., Duffield-Wirksworth is 8M 13Ch., total 13 miles 33 chains each way.
     
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    PTR's Shoeburyness to Pigs Bay and back was something like 3 miles return. Admittedly it was a fill in move during the LTS shuttles from Fenchurch St, but it was advertised as a separate tour with separate tickets.
     
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    8th July 1971, the first ever privately owned diesel train to go onto then BR main line took place when “Cider Queen” ( Hunslet shunter built at Engine Company of Leeds in July 1958, as works number 5460) and three brake vans ran a special charter for the 6000 LA members from Barrs Court Hereford to Moreton under Lugg, Army Western Command Depot and return. Train number 201. Not sure on the exact mileage but could be a contender? Google Hereford Station to Moreton is 4 mile.

     

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    Went on one of those on the occasion of the Wirksworth Well Dressing. A very liquid day from what I can remember.
     
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    Bramley Bunker? Basingstoke-Bramley round the depot and back to Basingstoke
     
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    Martin Perry Nat Pres stalwart Staff Member Moderator Friend

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    Apart from some of the prototypes such as 'Hawk', 'Kestrel', 'Falcon' etc?
     
  9. ADB968008

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    and any number of industrials, when industrials were moved around the network ad-hoc as it was the only way to move them between locations.

    Indeed there's a recent picture emerged of an newly built export diesel being tested arriving on a passenger train in Glasgow from the 1960's somewhere..
     
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    Are you thinking of the photograph in Newcastle taken in the 1930s with the Armstrong Whitworth "Universal"diesel locomotive that was trialled by the LNER between York and Berwick during 1933 / 34 or that built by Beardmore that was tested by the LMSR around Glasgow in 1929 before being sold to the North Western Railway of India in the same era ?
     
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    err Deltic...
     
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    lol how could I forget that ...
     
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    I suggest a visit to the Ribble Steam Railway museum to refresh your memory; it's the rather large blue beastie with yellow whiskers at each end ! ;)
     
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    11th April 1987
    York to Rowntrees Halt and return
    Distance 2 miles..!
     
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    How about Paddington-Old Oak Common depot, 92220 and 6000 I think.
     
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    If we're including Depot Open Day Shuttles, how about Reading 1985, from a bay platform at Reading Station all of 200 yards to a temporary platform on the embankment adjacent to Hodsoll Road.
     
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    I think the same event used 5572 shuttling from the depot over the recently demolished bridge over Cow Lane for a few yards & back.
    I think it is more than 200 yards from Reading Station to Hodsoll Road, more like 1/4 of a mile at least.
     

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