Steam locomotive 35018 British India Line will be back in steam on the mainline and will be in Carlisle and Blackburn on Saturday 23rd February 2019.
The Merchant Navy locomotives are on a special railtour tomorrow. 35018 British India Line are hauling the Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express on Saturday.
The railtour departs London Euston behind an electric locomotive at approximately 07:10 am.
The railtour will then leave London Euston, bound for Carlisle, where it will make stops at Milton Keynes Central (07:45), Rugby (08:23), Nuneaton (08:44), Crewe (09:34) and Preston (10:24) before arriving at Carnforth Down and Up Goods Loop at 10:49.
Here, 35018 British India Line will be added to the front of the train. The train will depart with the at 11:24, steaming through Oxenholme (11:42) and Penrith (12:20), it will go non stop to Carlisle, where it will arrive at 12:41.
After around an hour in Carlisle, 35018 will depart Carlisle at 14:11 bound for London Euston. It will pass through Lazonby & Kirkoswald (14:36) and will stop for water at Appleby (14:57).
Continuing down the Settle and Carlisle line, the locomotive will pass over the Ribblehead Viaduct at approx 15:56, continuing to Settle, the train comes off the Settle and Carlisle line at Settle Junction (16:15) where it heads for Hellifield, for a water stop, at 16:22.
From here, 35018 will pass through Clitheroe (17:09) and Blackburn (17:36) before arriving into Preston at 18:06.
At Preston, 35018 are taken off the train, and an electric locomotive will take the same path back to London Euston, calling at Crewe (19:33), Nuneaton (20:28), Rugby (20:50), Milton Keynes Central (21:22) and Watford Junction at 22:01.
The railtour will arrive back at its final destination of London Euston at 22:27.
These above timings in brackets are approximate timings. Please click the links below, which tracks the train throughout the day to keep you up to date on when it will pass through your local station.
Timings
For timings on these movements, please click the links below:
- Outbound: 1Z86 0710 London Euston to Carlisle via Milton Keynes Central, Preston and Carnforth
- Return: 1Z87 1410 Carlisle to London Euston via Appleby, Clitheroe, Blackburn
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Responses
I was on the tour on Saturday but I like the day out
What a disappointment. Up at 5 am to get into Euston for departure time only to find no platform information on the board. 2 mins after departure time they put up platform 16. A fast shuffle to the platform, being disabled, we find that the loco was delayed by track works which had not been notified. We left 18 mins late. Loco “Peter Pan” made good time and made up almost all of the lost time.
At Carnforth we were meant to be hauled by 35018 British India Line but the public address announced that she had failed due to injector problems. So a steam engine ride turned into a dirty diesel trip!
The weather was fine and the scenery nothing less that magical but so disappointing not to be hauled by real live steam. My heart goes out to all those hundreds of people in very remote places hoping to see what we wanted to ride behind.
What a let down!
Unfortunately, these things happen. The locomotive would have been passed to run the day before, but upon preparation, there was a problem found. Not enough time to find a replacement
Im glad you had a nice trip regardless
Dragged myself up Whalley Nab to get a shot over the arches, Not to pleased when it came diesel hauled. Not had much luck of late, Ribblehead last week for Bahamas, only for wind direction to ruin all the shots.