Back to "The Railtour Files"29th September 1984
Axminster Round Table
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| Locos Used | 25060, 25235, 45060 & 47152 |
Route : 1Z41 throughout
| Loco(s) | Route |
| 47152 | 03.15 Plymouth - Exeter St Davids |
| 47152 | Exeter St Davids - Exeter Central - Yeovil Junction - Yeovil Pen Mill - Castle Cary - Westbury - Trowbridge - Bradford-on-Avon - Bath Spa - North Somerset Jn - Dr Days Jn - Cheltenham Spa - Worcester Shrub Hill - Bromsgrove - (via Camp Hill line) - Birmingham New Street - Tipton - Wolverhampton |
| 25060 + 25235 | Wolverhampton - Crewe - Warrington Bank Quay - Earlestown - Eccles - Manchester Victoria - Cheetham Hill Jn - Rochdale - Hebden Bridge - Halifax |
| 25235 + 25060 | Halifax - Copy Pit - Blackburn - Preston - Carnforth |
| 25235 + 25060 | 16.35 Carnforth - Giggleswick - Hellifield - Skipton - Holbeck - Altofts Jn - Goose Hill Jn - Oakenshaw South Jn - Cudworth - Rotherham - Beighton Jn - Chesterfield - Derby |
| 45060 | Derby - (via Camp Hill line) - Cheltenham Spa - (reverse of outward route) - Exeter St Davids |
| 45060 | Exeter St Davids - Plymouth |
Notes :
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Peter White comments : A charter postponed from earlier in the year originally
planned to take in the ECML and North London Line on the return as well ! No
advertised traction meant quite a surprise at Wolves when the Rats appeared
(47475 was in the bay but turned out to be for the Salop). The mileage involved
for the Rats, the fact that they got all the way round, and the racket they
made in Summit Tunnel made for some day out. Also the outrageous coincidence of
running neck and neck with the 86 on the Exmouth Round Table's Blackpool charter
outside Preston, and our locos steaming out and back in the small hours
over the Yeovil-Exeter line.
Source : Peter White (Joined/left the train at Newton
Abbot)
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