Details can be found here
http://gbrfcharityrailtours.co.uk/railtours/sep-8-11th-gbrf-15 including fares and traction
Day 1
London Victoria to London Kings Cross
A circular trip around Sussex, Wessex and the Western Region using a pair of Class 73/1 and a pair of Class 20 Locomotives kindly provided by Harry Needle Railroad Company.
Route Details (provisional)
London Victoria Factory Jcn Tulse Hill Streatham Tooting Wimbledon Raynes Park Motspur Park Epsom Dorking Horsham Arundel Chichester Havant Fratton (reverse)
Fratton Fareham Netley Southampton Brockenhurst Bournemouth Corfe Castle/Swanage TBC* (break and reverse)
Corfe Castle/Swanage TBC* - Bournemouth Southampton Eastleigh Romsey Salisbury Westbury Pewsey Reading Acton Main Line Willesden Junction High Level Gospel Oak Haringay Park Jcn Hornsey Signal K440 (reverse)
Hornsey Signal K440 London Kings Cross
Day 2
Our second day and we take a trip around our traditional stomping ground of Anglia, covering some unusual routes including Whitemoor Yard and taking refurbished Class 73/9 Locomotives to some unusual places.
Route Details (provisional)
London Kings Cross Welwyn Garden City Stevenage Hitchin Flyover Royston Cambridge Ely Whitemoor Yard (reverse)
Whitemoor Yard Peterborough VQ Lines (reverse)
Peterborough VQ Lines Ely West Curve Thetford Wensum Curve Acle Great Yarmouth (break and reverse)
Great Yarmouth Reedham Norwich (reverse)
Norwich Diss Ipswich Harwich International (reverse)
Harwich International Colchester - Stratford
Day 2 overnight
Stratford to Edinburgh Waverley
To cover some distance, we are running overnight to Scotland with traditional AC Electric Traction, kindly provided by the AC Locomotive Group.
Route Details (provisional)
Stratford Canonbury Finsbury Park Welwyn Garden City Stevenage Huntingdon Peterborough Grantham Newark Retford Doncaster York Darlington Newcastle Morpeth Berwick Edinburgh Waverley
Day 3
Edinburgh Waverley to Edinburgh Waverley
But obviously not quite as simple as all that! We head north with a pair of Class 20 locomotives, again kindly provided by Harry Needle Railroad Company, taking the coastal route via Dundee and Aberdeen to Inverness. We then head back to the Scottish Lowlands using a Class 47 locomotive, with thanks to Riviera Trains/Harry Needle. We've also had preliminary special agreement to take the train over the Tay Bridge, something not normally done with more than one locomotive on the front.
Route Details (provisional)
Edinburgh Waverley Inverkeithing Kirkcaldy Ladybank Tay Bridge Dundee Aberdeen Elgin Inverness (break and reverse)
Inverness Aviemore Dalwhinnie Perth Stirling Croy Springburn Bellgrove Shields Jcn (reverse)
Shields Jcn Bellgrove Airdrie Bathgate Edinburgh Waverley
Day 4
Setting off with a Class 92, heading up the West Coast Main Line and into Liverpool Lime Street, from where we plan to use repatriated 59003 to take the train to Doncaster. From Doncaster we head south with classic AC traction to Wembley Yard from where we will run to our destination of London Paddington with a Class 66 locomotive. There will be a short extension to Reading on the end of the trip which is simply part of the empty move back to Eastleigh for the coaching stock.
Route Details
Edinburgh Waverley Carstairs Carlisle Lancaster Preston St Helens Liverpool Lime Street (reverse)
Liverpool Lime Street Runcorn Acton Bridge Northwich Altrincham Stockport Guide Bridge Stalybridge Huddersfield Wakefield Kirkgate Knottingley Askern Doncaster
Doncaster Retford Newark Grantham Peterborough Huntingdon Stevenage Welwyn Garden City Hornsey Camden Road Primrose Hill WEFOC (reverse)
WEFOC Acton Canal Wharf Acton Main Line Castle Bar Park Park Royal London Paddington (reverse)
London Paddington Slough - Reading
Having said that, it depends what motive power and routes are offered each day and what segment fares are offered as to how much of the trip I actually do.
