4 LNER locos for Great Briton 2

[Tom Quayle]

The route for and locos for the second great briton tour is avalable on www.uksteam.info

It under the name of the North Briton this time
Loco list is
60007 sir nigal gresley
60009 union of south afirca
60019 bittern
61994 The great marquess

Running from the Cross on 12th april 2008
Route
Kings X-York (60019) York-Edinburgh (60007) day 1
Edinburgh-Aberdeen (60009) Aberdeen-Iverness day 2
Inverness-Kyle-Inverness (61994) day 3
Inverness-Perth (61994+60009) Perth-Glasgow (60009) day 4
Glasgow-Carlisle-Newcastle-York (60007) York-Kings X (60019) day 5
What an opertuity for those who missed out on the A4 run next summer.

The big one for me with this coming run apart from the odvious all LNER affair is 60007 over Beatock and depending on route 60009 on the forth bridge

[x568wcn]

I notice that last year's was 8 days, anyway, it'll be great to see Bittern come up, and stop for 5 days, and have the change over with Gresley, both ways.
We didn't get a lot of the last one here in York, this is all we saw of it!








When that had come in, I did though get this one!

Not quite International Rescue!

[Tom Quayle]

Not quite international rescue?

Not even the 57/3s are International rescue the real international rescue is 45407 and 76079 to railtour steam standby no matter where you are in the country. IRE-think about it.

[Bullhead]

Depending on route 60009 on the Forth Bridge

I should have thought that a much more likely route than Perth - Hilton - Ladybank - Dalmeny - Winchburgh (with all the potential to interfere with First ScotRail's E&G service from there) is Perth - Gleneagles - Stirling - Greenhill, which has the added advantage of raising nostalgic echoes of the A4s' swansong on the Glasgow (Buchanan Street) to Aberdeen expresses. It's quite photogenic through Strathearn, too, and there are still semaphore signals at places such as Blackford.

[Tom Quayle]

fair point, just though with Glasgow-Perth being done on the last GB they wold take a diiferent route.

[x568wcn]

Iposted it else where but can't find it!

On the subject of a Diesel hauled GNER 43 set, does this happen a lot?

Whilst aproaching the ECML on the A1237 York Outer Ring Road this evening around 20:30 one went up, with a definate 'Block' in front of it, heading North!