Krupps Tunnel locos to St Pancras 1st November 17?

[Ash Bridge]

Looks good to see continental rolling stock in the UK.

I stand to be corrected here, but I'm sure some of the VSOE vehicles are actually British built by the likes of Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Co. and Metropolitan Cammell. Whether any are included in the rake behind the class 92 I'm not certain.

 

[TimboM]

I stand to be corrected here, but I'm sure some of the VSOE vehicles are actually British built by the likes of Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Co. and Metropolitan Cammell. Whether any are included in the rake behind the class 92 I'm not certain.

2869 in the rake was one of the Birmingham built ones. Not sure about any of the others.

 

[duesselmartin]

Anybody got a pic of the loco?

 

[TimboM]

Anybody got a pic of the loco?

If you're meaning the 2x Krupps, there's a few on Flickr of them in the headshunt outside St P, e.g. https://flic.kr/p/ZZtTE7

And of them on the stock at D Moor https://flic.kr/p/YXAQ9o

If you search "Orient Express" on Flickr and sort by "Date Taken" there's plenty of interesting photos to see.

 

[Ash Bridge]

2869 in the rake was one of the Birmingham built ones. Not sure about any of the others.

Cheers for that Tim, so presumably this is the first time since it was built 92 years ago that it has crossed the border back from France to England, very interesting.

 

[TimboM]

Cheers for that Tim, so presumably this is the first time since it was built 92 years ago that it has crossed the border back from France to England, very interesting.

I'm guessing so - can't recall it ever come through the tunnel before and would be surprised if it was shipped back over before then.