8th August 1982

Yorkshire Dales Railway Museum Trust
The Yorkshire Flying Banger

DMU Used 50599+50635

Route : (3 trips made)

DMU Route
as listed Skipton [P2] - Skipton North Jn
as listed Skipton North Jn - Embasy (Yorkshire Dales Railway)
as listed Embasy - Skipton North Jn
as listed Skipton North Jn - Skipton

Notes:
(1) "The Yorkshire Flying Banger" sponsored by 'Yorkhams Meat Products' (in connection with a Real Food Festival at Embsay).
(2) There were three return trips during the day, departing at 11:30, 13:30 & 15:30, returning 20 minutes later.
(3) In order for the train to access YDR tracks, the plain track at Embsay Jn for the Grassington branch had to be re-laid for the day.
(4) An earlier attempt to run shuttles from Skipton on 06/06/82 had to be abandoned after one round trip when a flash flood hit the area swamping Skipton, turning Embsay village into an island and causing a mudslide blocking the line in the cutting before Embsay Jn.

Source : Andy Pullar & Kevin Driscoll

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