Railway Touring Company

Yes, with steam now from Shrewsbury not Manchester resulting in a loss of some 78 miles of steam. Presumably this is due to the 50 mph speed restriction of the 8F and the time it would thus take, including a water stop, to get from Manchester to Shrewsbury. This is disappointing. I wonder if RTC will offer any compensation.

 

Compass are using the WCR Carnforth LMS pool of loco's 5690, 46115, 48151 etc not the Crewe pool that RTC are using

 

Eh? It says above that RTC are using 48151 which is in the WCR pool? I'm confused.

 

Anyone been on the overseas trips?

I'm thinking of going with them to the Balkans in May, but are there usually plenty of serious photographic opportunities?

 

A friend of mine went on one of their Swiss winter steam tours a few years ago, and he worked out they should have had 310 miles of steam in a week. They got 130 miles. He got a few phots of the trip, but not a great deal. But that was just one tour, the others are probably different.

 

The trains on this tour are either private charters for our group or real steam workings between coal Mines
The Tour Facilitater and Leader is Zoran Veritich a Serbian Railway Enthusiast who now lives in the Uk
Zoran has led all our tours in this area with great success

There will be Many Runpasts as photo Oportunities which is not a problem in this part of the World
Of course runpasts on Swiss Main Lines are more difficult

Nigel Dobbing

 

The last tour in 2009 was a huge success. Not only was the full,very ambitious,itinery achieved but many of the party enjoyed footplate rides. A highlight for me was a cabride on a working cl62 - similar to the USA class-on 500T + of coal!

A highlight this year is the FIRST UK charter (AFAIK) from Visegrad in Bosnia on the newly restored section of the ng line along a fantastic wooded valley.

I wrote a summary on N P as I was the tour manager from the UK with Zoran leading! Zoran IS the expert on former Yugo rlys as his book confirms.

A quite exceptional tour. However, it visits WORKING coalmines to see WORKING industrial locos as well as spl charters. Activity can + does vary with Zoran working hard to do as much as possible. This tour is fantastic for the enthusiast who loves ng industrials/loops(at Sargan) coal mines main line charters etc etc

A very full account of the last RTC trip by Chris Bailey appeared in a recent "Todays' Railways" with lots of photos--he was a participant(+author on E Europe)

The tour is in Bosnia + Serbia as well as Slovenia(fantastic charters)+briefly Croatia

Most enjoyed by enthusiasts who reseach their subject--lots on the internet--+ dont expect elderly locos to perform on demand. We managed many runpasts but as Nigel mentioned mainline running is always subject to "Operational Issues" With Zoran leading you are promised an action packed trip.

RAY MASON

 

Nigel - I have emailed you via your website re flights

 

Dont care much for those 78 miles to Shrewsbury anyway,8F thrash,yes please!!! Great stuff.

 

Heart of Wales tour now postponed by one week to 21 May but still with the 8F from Shrewsbury.

 

Going to Euston that day,oh well.

 

Hopefully this event will take place this year

Peak Forester

 

18th & 25th S & C standard sold out when i tryed to book yesterday

 

Booked for the July one, so hope it might be a bit warmer then!

John

 

Is the Cumbrian Coast Express 17.3.2012 from Skipton a steam tour ? its a bit vague to me cant make it out.
Brian

 

It's listed on Uksteam, so I would think some of it will be.

 

I looked on RTC website for the tour no mention of steam although photo shows steam...
UK steam has it listed as you rightly say.

Brian