18th May 1968
R.C.T.S. (West Midlands
Branch)
South Midlands Rail Tour
Motive Power Used | 50313+59123+50331 |
Route :
DMU | Route |
as listed | Rugby Midland - Long Buckby - Northampton - Northampton Bridge Street - Hardingstone Jn |
as listed | Hardingstone Jn - Northampton Bridge Street - Duston West Jn - Blisworth - (via WCML) - Leighton Buzzard |
as listed | Leighton Buzzard - (via Bletchley South curve) - Swanbourne Sidings |
as listed | Swanbourne Sidings - (via Bletchley Flyover) - Fenny Stratford - Kempston Hardwicke - LNW Jn - Bedford Midland - Sharnbrook - Wellingborough Jn |
as listed | Wellingborough Jn - Higham Ferrers |
as listed | Higham Ferrers - Wellingborough - Kettering |
as listed | Kettering - Cransley - Loddington |
as listed | Loddington - Cransley - Kettering |
as listed | Kettering - Kettering Jn - Cranford - Islip Sidings |
as listed | Islip Sidings - Cranford - Kettering Jn - Kettering - Market Harborough - Market Harborough No.3 Jn |
as listed | Market Harborough No.3 Jn - Market Harborough - Kelmarsh - Lamport - Brixworth - Northampton Castle |
as listed | Northampton Castle - Long Buckby - Rugby Midland |
Sources : David Hills, David Wignall & David Allen
Photo Review
At Higham Ferrers, with 50313 nearest the camera.
(photo: David Allen courtesy of Phantasrail
Galleries)
Passing Cransley scrapyard on the Loddington branch, 50331 leads.
(photo: David Allen courtesy of Phantasrail
Galleries)
From Andrew Fairholm's ticket collection.
Timings (Booked & Actual)
(from David Wignall)
Location | Booked | Actual |
Rugby Midland | 10.15d | 10.23 |
Northampton Castle | 10.50a ~ 10.53d | 10.46 ~ 10.54 |
Duston North Jn | 10/56 | 10/56 |
Bridge Street | 10/58 | 10/57 |
Hardingstone Jn | 10.59 ~ 11.05 | 10.58 ~ 11.01 |
Bridge Street Jn | 11/07 | 11/04 |
Duston West Jn | 11/09 | 11/05 |
Blisworth | 11/16 | 11/12 |
Roade | 11/20 | 11/16 |
Bletchley | 11/32 | 11.41 ~ 11.43 |
Leighton Buzzard | 11.40 ~ 11.43 | 11.54 ~ 12.03 |
Swanbourne Sidings | 11.58 ~ 12.03 | 12.15 ~ 12.20 |
Bletchley | 12/07 [flyover] | 12/25 [flyover] |
Fenny Stratford | 12/10 | 12/29 |
Millbrook | 12/23 | 12.44 ~ 12.52 |
Bedford St Johns No.1 | 12.33 ~ 12.40 | 13.01 ~ 13.06 |
Bedford St Johns | DIV | 13.07 ~ 13.11 |
Bedford Jn | 12/46 | 13/17 |
Bedford North Jn | 12/48 | 13/20 |
Oakley Jn | 12/51 | 13/24 |
Sharnbrook | 13/00 | 13/32 [GL] |
Irchester South Jn | 13/10 | 13/40 |
Wellingborough Jn | 13.15 ~ 13.17 | 13.44 ~ 13.48 |
Irchester Jn | 13/21 | 13/54 |
Higham Ferrers | 13.50a ~ 14.30d | 14.14 ~ 14.30 |
Irchester Jn | 14/49 | 14/46 |
Wellingborough Station Jn | 14/53 | 14/48 |
Kettering | 15.01 ~ 15.03 | 15.01 ~ 15.09 |
Cransley | 15.10 ~ 15.35 | ? |
Loddington [end of branch] | 15.42 ~ 15.52 | 15.31 ~ 15.46 |
Cransley | ? | 16.02 ~ 16.09 |
Kettering | 16.08 ~ 16.20 | 16.16 ~ 16.28 |
Kettering Jn | 16/24 | 16/31 |
Islip [end of branch] | 16.37 ~ 16.42 | 16.42 ~ 17.00 |
Kettering Jn | 16/58 | 17/16 |
Kettering | 17/00 | 17.19 ~ 17.20 |
Glendon North Jn | 17/05 | 17/25 |
Market Harborough No.3 Jn | 17.15 ~ 17.17 | 17.37 ~ 17.44 |
Market Harborough | 17.19 ~ 17.27 | 17.46 ~ 17.46 |
Kelmarsh | 17/38 | 17/55 |
Northampton Castle | 18.03a ~ 18.05d | 18.17 ~ 18.19 |
Long Buckby | 18/15 | 18/34 |
Rugby Midland | 18.27a | 18.44 |