i look forward to it! Myself I am stil undecided although there are several contenders.
I was on a tour yesterday, so I wanted to give that a chance before making the list. Anyway, I've been on 20 railtours this year - here's the top eight, with the first six in no particular order:
The Last Blue Train - 5 March - c2c
The R'n'B 2 - 2 April - Spitfire
The Curnow Irrupter - 28 May - Pathfinder
Buffer Puffer 9.0 - 17 September - Pathfinder
The Tees Goblin - 1 October - UK Railtours
The Mine of Serpents - 5 November - UK Railtours
And the top two, which are slightly better than the others, but I can't put a cigarette paper between them:
The Galloway Galloper - 12 February - Pathfinder
The Trent Explorer - 23 April - BLS