TORBAY EXPRESS 2011 Season

Torbay Express website makes no mention of stop at Torquay, despite it appearing on UKSteam times.

 

I am now advised that there will be no passenger stop at Torquay.

David

 

It would have been interesting, but Torre bank is a wonderful stretch of track, and very noisy, even without the station stop. <BJ>

 

A provisional loco roster for the Torbay Express this year is on the 6024 website.

Sun 05-Jun-11: 71000 Bristol Temple Meads to Kingswear and return
Sun 12-Jun-11: 6024 Bristol Temple Meads to Kingswear and return
Sun 19-Jun-11: (no service)
Sun 26-Jun-11: 71000 Bristol Temple Meads to Kingswear and return
Sun 03-Jul-11: 6024 Bristol Temple Meads to Kingswear and return
Sun 10-Jul-11: 60163 Bristol Temple Meads to Kingswear and return
Sun 17-Jul-11: 60163 Bristol Temple Meads to Kingswear and return
Sun 24-Jul-11: 60163 Bristol Temple Meads to Kingswear and return
Sun 31-Jul-11: 60163 Bristol Temple Meads to Kingswear and return
Sun 07-Aug-11: 71000 Bristol Temple Meads to Kingswear and return
Sun 14-Aug-11: 6024 Bristol Temple Meads to Kingswear and return
Sun 21-Aug-11: 71000 Bristol Temple Meads to Kingswear and return
Sun 28-Aug-11: 6024 Bristol Temple Meads to Kingswear and return
Sun 04-Sep-11: 71000 Bristol Temple Meads to Kingswear and return
Sun 11-Sep-11: (no service)
Sun 18-Sep-11: 6024 Bristol Temple Meads to Kingswear and return

 

Okay. Its time for an urgent call for everyone to do their rain dances again following successes the last 2 years! With 6024 headed for Plymouth with a diesel on the front today and possibly 71000 doing the same to Kingswear tomorrow we need that wet stuff desperately. Give it your best shot everybody!!!!!!!!!!

 

Rain forecast on Sunday. Hopefully enough to persuade NR a pilot isn't needed.

 

Well I'll be dancing all next week as I'm on the Torbay Express next weekend!

 

Were on tomorrow's - fingers crossed! It rained in Bristol earlier today and with more planned tomorrow I guess we shall have to watch this space. Good job NR didn't exist when steam was the norm . . . oh no wait a minute. Linesides were cared for then!!

 

That most English of rain manufacturing dances just ended it's second day. A Lords Test Match.

Fear not. There will be flood alerts before the morning!

 

47815 being reported as tomorrow's loco. http://sulzerpower.com/news.html

 

Could Paignton get a 2-8-0 ready to take the train forward? At least you'd get some steam.

 

There's £280 of my hard earned cash wasted!! In future I'm not going to advance book tours but will wait til the day - if its full so be it but this is the 3rd time I have done a diesel Torbay and wasted money! Whats the betting it'll be a rainy day also!

 

Strewth. A web site for boxes!

Is there a setting on my browser, (like the adult one), that stops me accidentally going to such sites?



WINK!

 

Well I assume the PDSR charges some sort of access fee? I think they've done it before for something.

 

An update from Nick Scott on the brush47 yahoo group is that it will be 71000 and 47815 double heading.

 

Is 71000 less likely to emit sparks than a King? It never seems to sound as though its working particularly hard with its soft beat. (the opposite of a 67 that sounds like its at full throttle whatever its doing!)

 

I am very sorry to say that NR has oversteeped the mark here. I repeat what I have posted elsewhere, following NR's logic for tomorrow's tour with 71000 and they have to insist that all steam tours are diesel assisted for the forseeable future.

Crazy, absolutely crazy and I feel desperately for those who have paid a lot of money for these tours. And it is not as if we are experiencing extreme hot conditions. It has been around 25 degrees. A couple of years ago it was 31 degrees and 6024 hauled the Torbay Express unaided to and from Kingswear.

Sensless.