Clan Line Farewell 30th June

Railway Herald reports that UK Railtours and MNLPS are planning a farewell trip for 35028 prior to its withdrawal for overhaul.

Routing is said to be Victoria-West London Line-WCML-Coventry-Nuneaton-Trent Valley-Crewe-Chester(break)-Crewe,then electric hauled back to Euston. No fares are mentioned,nor is the trip on sale yet.

Good to see it on a non-VSOE trip for once.

 

Sounds good. The trip is actually mentioned in their last brochure although the start point is Euston in the brochure.

 

Presuming 35028 is booked in at Crewe for overhaul, there is quite an order book building what with all the LSL jobs as well.
Great to have chance to get 35028 nearer the north. It had been mooted that a final fling in the fells would happen but maybe that will be after the overhaul.

 

UKR website confirms departs Victoria but returns to Euston see http://www.ukrailtours.com/tourshow...ns&tourfile=150630_THE_CLAN_LINE_FAREWELL.txt

 

May see about it, depending on price, as I'd like to do Latchmere-Willesden northbound. Would probably bail out at Crewe on the return to get back to York.

 

Coventry - Nuneaton TV?

Don

 

Makes a change from the last time it went up North, the most imaginative thing they could think of up there was have it shuffling round a steel yard.

Now onto the important bit. What is going to replace Clan Line on the British Pullman. Tornado?

 

The RH story states that the Coventry-Nuneaton routing is to provide a section not "under the wires" so coal can be shoveled forward from the tender safely.

 

I was talking to an MNLPS insider about this tour at the weekend, and now trying to remember what he said. It will be via Northampton. IIRC, it's a water stop.

As I understand it, the main work at this overhaul will be the boiler. The rolling chassis is in pretty good shape. So much depends on what they find when they lift the boiler, but the intention is to be back at work before the end of 2016, run-in and ready for a busy year in 2017 (9th July, and all that...)

 

Very unlikely. I think we analysed the probability of this happening on the non-stop 46233 run last year and concluded it was next to impossible, unless something unexpected happened on the day. Presumably the same logic applies to this trip, albeit 35028 will be working in the down direction ?

 

That sounds good. The last overhaul took a lot longer if I remember rightly with 35028 bowing out in 2001, and returned in 2007 ?

 

More-or-less. IIRC, the first test run was autumn 2006 - one of the last things I shot on MiniDV before going to HD.

 

Other locos have managed to get straight down the WCML without this being necessary.

 

True, and doesn't 35028's tender have a higher than average coal capacity, or was this sacrificed for the air compressor, which to my knowledge, is still the only one mounted on the back of the tender in that way ? I wonder if the MNLPS will take the opportunity to move it between the wheelsets during the overhaul, and restore the tender to it's previous condition, or is that impossible perhaps due to her dimensions ?

 

Possibly 35018? I would have thought it would be ready by then.

 

They sacrificed water capacity for the 'cabinet'. I think 34027 had an air pump between the frames, so its not unusual, but maintenance considerations dictated 35028's air pump position.

 

Is 35018 being air brake fitted?