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Highlands & Islands Explorer - May 2014

Discussion in 'What's Going On' started by steam_mad, Feb 19, 2013.

  1. steam_mad

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    An interesting one from steam dreams in 2014 - no loco allocations yet (a good thing since its a while away) so let the speculation begin - Personally hope to see the K1, k4 and a B1 somewhere!

    Friday 9th - London to Troon (OW)
    Saturday 10th - Troon to Inverness (OW)
    Sunday 11th - Inverness to Kyle of Lochalsh
    Monday 12th - Inverness to Durobin Castle
    Tuesday 13th - Inverness to Fort William (OW)
    Wednesday 14th - Fort William to Oban
    Thursday 15th - Fort William to Mallaig
    Friday 16th - Fort William to Durham (OW)
    Saturday 17th - Durham to London (OW)


    (OW) = One way only.
     
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    With that itinery, I'd expect a K1/4 and Black Fives to dominate, apart from something 75MPH rated for the first and last days.

    Is 61264 going fully blown mainline now ?, I thought it was going to be Whitby only ?, 61306 hasn't had a full blown mainline test yet, and has only done that under DCR as a TOC rather than DBS (presumably still Steam Dreams TOC of choice).
     
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    If it's anything like this year's Cathedrals Explorer, half of it will be by diesel or coach.
     
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    The brochure stated that all legs should be steam hauled, although there are options for passengers to take a coach instead of the long positioning move by train on the 13th May.
     
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    SD current choice of operator is DBS so this will effect what type of loco's maybe used but this could all change of course by next year.
     
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    Oh, for goodness sake......2014!!!!!!
     
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