Long Term Steam Routes

Would it be wise letting diesel fans so near to the general public? Maybe separate entrances and screens might be necessary.

One that maybe already be done (or have been done) is how do trips to Stratford upon Avon dovetail with the theatre there? I wondered about a late morning departure, then with enough time to have lunch and to see a matinee before returning. (Maybe pathing is an issue these days or the theatre goers and train riders don't mix).

 

The siding at Tywyn is still being used. At present ( 10:45, 16 April ) there's an 'engineer train' parked there, as seen on the Wharf webcam.

 

If it's to Worcester, that'd definitely have to be afternoon train, as from personal experience, just about the entire city centre shuts down by 17:30. Unless Vespers at the cathedral is your bag, there's not an awful lot to do.

 

Choral Evensong, please!

 

Twice a week, when last I was stranded there. A fair proportion of pubs and eateries don't even bother opening in the evening from Sunday to Thursday. Basically, everything interesting that was ever going to happen in Worcester has already happened. Picture postcard pretty, but to be stuck in after sundown, as dull as ditchwater.

 

Not arguing that - just being picky about the service sung at cathedrals...

 

Way back when, there were occasional steam trips from Marylebone to Stratford, and that was with some of the Chiltern Line single track. How hard would pathing be on that route nowadays?

 

Might I offer you this?:
https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/7687429.late-night-vespers-n-review-worcester-cathedral/
Suggesting an itinerary along the lines of:
● Luncheon
● Sightseeing
● Afternoon Tea
● Feed swans on the Severn
● Vespers at the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Mary the Virgin, of Worcester.
● Cross off bucket list and consign to memory

Unless saying a prayer for soul of the Cathedral's most famous inmate, King John, that's Worcester pretty much done and dusted for one lifetime.

Although quite fond of swans, I'm on a permanent restricted diet and am neither religious, nor a royalist, which somewhat delimits the list above!

 

Noted - just very conscious that evensong largely (and I accept Worcester to be an exception) superseded Vespers while also incorporating Compline when the Book of Common Prayer was written. Those other services do still exist, but rarely - having heard my son sing Evensong in a wide range of places (though my wife did the Worcester trip!), but never attended a service of Vespers or Compline, I'll plead some expertise.

As for Worcester, perhaps the time to do a trip would be during the Three Choirs Festival? Perhaps with a performance of Honegger's "Pacific 231" included in the programme for the lucky travellers...