Six Bells Junction

Date(s)	Loco(s)	Route
01/09	50003	Penzance – Truro – Liskeard – Plymouth
01/09	47480	Plymouth – Exeter St Davids – Taunton – Weston-super-Mare – Bristol Temple Meads
01/09	33033 + 33052	Bristol Temple Meads – Stapleton Road – Filton Jn – Bristol Parkway – Westerleigh Jn – Yate – Standish Jn – Gloucester Yard Jn – Gloucester
01/09	33033 + 33052	Gloucester – Barnwood Jn – Cheltenham Spa – Abbotswood Jn – Norton Jn – Worcester Shrub Hill – Droitwich Spa – Stoke Works Jn – Bromsgrove – Kings Norton – Selly Oak – Birmingham New Street – Proof House Jn - Landor Street Jn – Water Orton – Abbey Jn – Midland Jn – Wigston North Jn – Knighton South Jn – Coalville
01/09	58018	Coalville – Burton-on-Trent – Stenson Jn – Derby – Ambergate – Matlock
01/09	58018	Matlock – Ambergate – Derby – Long Eaton – Trent South Jn – Loughborough – Syston South Jn – Leicester
01/09	33033 + 33052	Leicester – Wigston North Jn – Midland Jn – Abbey Jn – Water Orton – Park Lane Jn – Ryecroft Jn – Walsall – Bescot – Perry Barr North Jn – Aston – Proof House Jn – Birmingham New Street – Galton Jn – Stourbridge Junction – Droitwich Spa – (reverse of outward route) – Barnwood Jn – Gloucester Yard Jn – (reverse of outward route) – Bristol Temple Meads
01/09-02/09	45121	Bristol Temple Meads – (reverse of outward route) – Penzance

Notes :
(1) Stephen Atkinson comments: The original advertised routing was to go to Stratford-upon-Avon after leaving Birmingham New Street on the outward run with the pair of class 33s and reverse for a class 56 to take the tour Leamington Spa where, after another reversal, the class 33s would lead the tour to Nuneaton via Coventry. This section was dropped, as was advised in the confirmation letter, because SLOA had complete possession, to the exclusion of all others, of that area for their steam specials. The class 56 was lost and the class 33s went via Water Orton as per the timings. The advertised traversal of the Wirksworth branch was also dropped, as was advised in the confirmation letter, because LM management had decreed that only trains which form part of their 'intensive' programme of shuttles would be allowed to traverse the branch. Railway 'politics' being blamed for this omission. A pair of class 20s were also due to haul the tour from Wirksworth back to Leicester but they were also lost as a result of not going to Wirksworth. The tour instead went to Matlock with the class 58 hauling it there and back. The tour was also originally advertised to traverse the Walsall-Dudley-Stourbridge Junction line on the return leg but this was also dropped, as was advised in the confirmation letter, because due to LM not willing to open the signal boxes on that section. The tour hence went via Birmingham New Street and Galton Jn instead. The set-down at Gloucester on the return leg was not available and passengers were advised to catch the 21:18 from Worcester to Gloucester service, departing Cheltenham Spa at 21:45. The service train was included in the tour ticket price. A pair of 37s was advertised from Penzance to Bristol and return but they were dropped in favour for a class 45 loco, as was advised in the confirmation letter, because the Western Region decreed that the train must be heated and Cornish 37s did not have train heating boilers anymore. The sweetener to this was the fact that 'Peaks' would no longer be diagrammed west of Bristol from the end of September so the tour would be a last chance to have one in the west. From the list of locos used above, it would seem that the class 45 didn't work the tour from Penzance on the outward leg and other locos were substituted instead but it did work the return leg. An off-train option was offered as an alternative to going to Wirksworth. A depot visit to Toton was offered for the price of £2.50 which included the Derby Corporation bus fare from Derby to Toton and return (originally advertised as returning to Long Eaton). The loco change reference in the timing sheet at Matlock is believed to be incorrect as the class 58 ran-round the tour at Matlock and worked onwards to Leicester.

Sources : Ian Monkton (Joined/left train at Taunton), Peter Turtle
& Stephen Atkinson (joined/left the tour at Worcester Shrub Hill)

Timings (Booked & Actual)
(from Howard Harrison & Stephen Atkinson)

M.C	Location	Booked (out)	Booked (rtn)	M.C
0.00	Penzance	02.50d	03.00a	208.01
5.63	St Erth	02/57	02/52	202.18
13.10	Camborne	03.08a ~ 03.10d	02.40a ~ 02.42d	194.71
25.73	Truro	03.28a ~ 03.30d	02.18a ~ 02.20d	182.08
37.74	Burngullow	03/48	02/04	170.07
40.24	St Austell	03.50a ~ 03.52d	01.58a ~ 02.00d	167.57
44.61	Par	04/02	01/52	163.20
49.16	Lostwithiel	04/17	01/47	158.65
56.48	Largin	04/30	01/39	151.33
61.63	Liskeard	04.38a ~ 04.40d	01.30a ~ 01.32d	146.18
70.25	St Germans	04/50	01/19	137.56
75.23	Saltash	04/55	01/13	132.58
79.41	Plymouth	05.05a ~ 05.10d	01.00a ~ 01.05d	128.40
86.26	Hemerdon	05/20	?	?
95.56	Brent	05/31	?	?
102.53	Totnes	05.39a ~ 05.40d	00.28a ~ 00.30d	105.28
111.30	Newton Abbot	05.53a ~ 05.55d	00.13a ~ 00.15d	96.51
121.02	Dawlish Warren	06/06	?	?
131.44	Exeter St Davids	06.18a ~ 06.20d	23.50a ~ 23.52d	76.37
151.36	Whiteball SB	06/39	?	?
162.24	Taunton	06.53a ~ 06.55d	23.18a ~ 23.20d	45.57
173.69	Bridgwater	07/05	?	?
187.32	Uphill Jn	07/15	?	?
189.04	Weston-super-Mare	07.18a ~ 07.20d	22.49a ~ 22.51d	18.77
191.26	Worle Jn	07/23	?	?
208.01 0.00	Bristol Temple Meads	07L40a ~ 08L05d	22L15a ~ 22L30d	0.00 156.64
4.50	Filton Jn	08/13	?	?
5.69	Bristol Parkway	08.15a ~ 08.17d	22.00a ~ 22.02d	150.75
10.39	Westerleigh Jn	08/23	?	?
18.52	Charfield	08/30	21/45	138.12
31.77	Standish Jn	08/39	?	?
38.07	Gloucester Yard Jn	08/55	21/30	118.57
39.08	Gloucester	08.57a ~ 09.10d	-	-
45.48	Cheltenham Spa	09.18a ~ 09.20d	21.18a ~ 21.20d	112.27
52.59	Ashchurch	09/28	21/12	105.16
63.46	Abbotswood Jn	09/36	21/03	94.29
67.40	Worcester Shrub Hill	09.43a ~ 09.45d	20.55a ~ 20.57d	90.35
73.19	Droitwich Spa	09/52	20/48	84.56

M.C	Location	Booked	Actual
77.34	Stoke Works Jn	09/58	?
79.47	Bromsgrove	10/01	?
82.20	Blackwell	10/07	?
83.10	Barnt Green	10/12	?
88.00	Kings Norton	10/22	?
92.21	Church Road Jn	10/28	?
93.58	Birmingham New Street	10.31a ~ 10.46d	??.?? ~ 10.43
94.46	Proof House Jn	10/48	?
95.23	Landor Street Jn	10/50	?
101.40	Water Orton East Jn	10/57	10/53
104.14	Whitacre Jn	11/01	?
113.73	Abbey Jn	11/14	?
115.45	Midland Jn	11/19	?
120.18	Wigston North Jn	11/37	11/36
121.67	Knighton South Jn	11/45	11/44
129.07	Desford LC	12/14	?
130.79	Desford Colliery Sidings	12/17	?
136.35 0.00	Coalville	12L41a ~ 13L55d	12.31 ~ 13.56
0.72	Mantle Lane	13/58	?
8.54	Moira West Jn	14/21	?
14.67	Leicester Jn	14/41	?
15.17	Burton-on-Trent	14c52 ~ 14c53	14.54 ~ 14.55
21.34	Stenson Jn	15/00	?
26.18	Derby	15.09a ~ 15.11d	15.06 ~ 15.12
34.05	Belper	15/23	?
36.48	Ambergate	15/26	?
43.30 0.00	Matlock	15L38a ~ 17L10d	15.37 ~ 17.11
6.62	Ambergate	17/22	?
9.25	Belper	17/25	?
17.12	Derby	17.34a ~ 17.36d	17.35 ~ 17.43
25.21	Long Eaton	17.46a ~ 17.48d	17/53
26.33	Trent South Jn	17/50	?
34.03	Loughborough	17/56	18/01
41.51	Syston South Jn	18/03	?
46.42 0.00	Leicester	18L08a ~ 18L27d	18.12 ~ 18.29
3.11	Wigston North Jn		?
17.64	Midland Jn	18/49	?
19.36	Abbey Jn	18/52	?
29.15	Whitacre Jn	19/04	?
31.69	Water Orton East Jn	19/11	19/18
32.41	Water Orton West Jn	19/12	?
33.30	Park Lane Jn	19/15	?
44.79	Ryecroft Jn	19/37	?
45.41	Walsall	19/39	19/47
46.28	Pleck Jn	19/43	?
51.52	Perry Barr North Jn	19/45	?
53.74	Aston	19/53	19/57
55.76	Proof House Jn	19/53	?
56.64	Birmingham New Street	19.57a ~ 19.59d	20.06 ~ ??.??
58.65	Soho South Jn	20/05	?
60.43	Galton Jn	20/07	?
68.41	Stourbridge Junction	20.19a ~ 20.22d	?
75.20	Kidderminster	20/31	?
78.74	Hartlebury	20/42	?