24th April 1993
Bedford Bletchley Rail
User's Association
???
(B.B.R.U.A. Special Train No.16)
DMU's Used | 2x 2-car sets (?) |
Route :
DMU | Route |
as listed | Bletchley - Ridgmont - Bedford - (via MML) - Wigston South Jn - Hinckley - Nuneaton |
as listed | ?Nuneaton - Bedworth -? Coventry - Kenilworth - Leamington Spa |
as listed | Leamington Spa - Warwick - Hatton - Claverdon - Stratford-upon-Avon |
as listed | Stratford-upon-Avon - (reverse of outward route) - Leamington Spa |
as listed | Leamington Spa - Kenilworth - Coventry |
as listed | Coventry - Rugby (4) - Bletchley (5) |
Notes :
(1) Ran to celebrate the end of the long service of the 2-car DMU sets on the
Bedford to Bletchley line. Preferred date has been in May but was brought
forward as the units were due to end service at the end of April. Arrival into
Stratford-upon-Avon was 40mins late due to a lack of train crew at Coventry.
(2) At Stratford-upon-Avon passengers had an option to visit the G&WR at
Toddington where a return trip behind 46521 was made.
(3) Booked departure time from Stratford-upon-Avon was 18.30 but due to a
freight train derailment at Fenny Stratford the train was delayed and also was
to be re-routed down the WCML from Coventry to Bletchley. The train organisers
requested that the train run booked-route to Woburn Sands with buses forward but
at Coventry passengers for stations to Bedford were directed onto a Regional
Railways service train to Leicester where an HST was caught to return passengers
to their departure stations.
(4) On arrival at Rugby it was announced that the train would terminate there -
however as soon as the organisers and passengers were off, the route was cleared
for the train to continue!
(5) Arrival back into Bletchley was an hour early but passengers for stations
along the Bletchley to Bedford line then had a very long wait for the onward
bus. The passengers for stations after Ridgmont were transferred from the bus to
a single-car DMU!