60163 + 6024 DH to Plymouth, and 60163 to Penzance!!!

Taken off the Pathfinder Tours website, 3 exciting trips to the South West this summer.

Saturday 21 August Hampshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire and Severnside for 60163 'Tornado' to Plymouth and return.

Saturday / Sunday, 11 - 12 September Weekend excursion to the Royal Duchy of Cornwall, featuring 60163 'Tornado' for its first trip to Penzance!

Saturday 25 September Hampshire, Wiltshire and Severnside stations to Plymouth, with both 6024 'King Edward 1' and 60163 'Tornado' at the helm from Bristol!

 

Very nice trip by the sounds of it a very busy year for both the king and tornado wish them both well, 2 very fine loco's .





(any words and thought's are mine and mine a lone and is not the thought's or word,s of any club society or member that i am a member/share holder of )

 

This post looks like some of the unwanted emails I receive. I can understand your enthusiasm in trying to get your message across. But a bit of decorum wouldn't go amiss.

 

Finally a load to test 60163. Pulling the train and pushing the King.

 

That's good,

 

Its red because i just copied from the pathfinder website. Next time i'll take 2 seconds longer and change it!

 

Me thinks some very expensive trips are about to be announced then,no doubt the weekend one will be too much but the double header is unmissable!

 

That will be worth seeing it alone lol. I think i see a posible first trip to Plymouth in the diary, but all depends on where it starts off from and whether i can get there.

 

Another three tours in the South West that I won't be bothering to go out for. I am not even a GW fan but the lack of appropriate engines in the SW this year is very surprising.

Now if WCRC had the Torbays perhaps we would have Halls, Castles and maybe a Brit!

 

So how much do we think for this one, £120?

 

Looking at Pathfinder's fare structure that wouldn’t surprise me, if not more. You just have to look at the rip off £98 for the Royal Duchy in May.

 

There's always one. Someone does their best to pass on useful info, and get's criticised for the way it's presented.
What would you prefer, no info at all!!!

 

Oh for heaven's sake be thankful we've got any steam at all on the main line. Look upon it as a reprise of the pre 1968 BR days when railtours were often hauled by locos a long way from home territory.
I can recall ex LNER Pacifics on the LSWR, MNs to Carlisle and Newcastle, ex-SECR 4-4-0 on the Cambrian and so on. All damn good fun and pure heaven for the trainspotter. Even if the loco is "appropriate," some of the rolling stock and infrastructure is certainly not steam era.

 

Problem is we seem to get more than our fair share of Yawnado down here and every train it hauls could be something more interesting.

Although it has done a lot of good for the heritage movement I am affraid it doesn't do anything for me. I may be in a small minority but give me a King, Castle, Brit, Balck 5 or anything that makes some noise!

And chocolate and cream MK1s under the pegs in Cornwall behind a GW or BR Std is as close as you will get to appropriate in 2010...

 

Overlooked the Cornishman then ?.

 

And Pathfinders The RoyalL Duchy

Steam Dreams Cornish Riviera

Not much then

 

What? - there are other engines on the main-line???

 

Yawnado! - plonker!

 

I apologise to MC5025 for being too hasty in criticising his post. I didn't realise it was a cut and paste job.
However whenever I see a message in large red letters on the internet I like a lot of other people automatically think.....this is either something I don't want or need, and it is a turn off.
Blame the spammers for my attitude.
Anyway to get back on topic......it should be quite something to see 6024, 60163 plus load 10 or eleven being pushed over the Devon Banks by a class 66 shed.:behindsofa:

 

60163 makes noise my friend. Evidence the climb up Upton Scudamore on 14th Feb. Maybe not as loud as a King but certainly made the level meters dance on my sound unit. As for calling it Yawnado - that's just plain childish. Not denying your right to an opinion, I just happen to think you're way off mark.