The Armistice Kentish Belle 11/11/23

Times up on RTT
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U55350/2023-11-11/detailed

https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U55355/2023-11-11/detailed


https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U55353/2023-11-11/detailed

 

Great to see the rarer bits of track are being done as planned. Looking forward to it.

 

Indeed, though there's always potential for a last minute modification.

 

Even though the R T T times are almost the same as approximate times curious

 

Al, I hope it all goes well and you enjoy your new track. As you cross the Swale and before you head under the main road, to the right of the train's direction of travel you will glimpse the edge of the massive island nature reserve where a gricing owl can often be seen - sometimes gricing his fellow creatures or gricing the sound of the Sittingbourne and Kemsley Light Railway when the wind is in the right direction. And don't forget you will pass over the combined road and rail lifting bridge as you cross over the Swale - that is the tidal area of sea that earns Sheppey its island status. Photo of 70013 crossing the bridge from island to mainland in 2011 attached - I hope at a size that is not too big!. The high bridge carries the A249 main road onto Sheppey.

 

I was there that day but shot from a completely different angle.
70013 'Oliver Cromwell' Isle of Sheppy 22-05-2011 by KING COBRA 92, on Flickr

 

Maybe being retimed for the return with the likely riots in London on Saturday?

 

E-ticket received times as RTT in first post.

 

I think the times have been on RTT for several days now, so the note from RTC is odd. I can't imagine any changes being made because of political events in London - no matter where/when the train travels it needs to come back to the same place!

 

I see the full timings (showing all the stations) are now shown on RTT, looking the same as the outline timings from before.

 

Not necessarily, even if this one does. My first ever railtour started from St Pancras and finished at Kings Cross. UKRT's Newhaven Nonsense in August this year started from Victoria and finished at Waterloo, and there have been other combinations.

 

Quite. Mine was King's Cross to Euston, via Dundee.

 

I did a tour with Kingfisher that started at Victoria and ended at Kenny O.
DCE for many years was a Victoria start, Waterloo finish with no Staines stop on the way back as it went up the main from Woking.

 

Examples I recall from personal experience:

2010 The Doric Olympian (46201) Crewe-Kenny O; Euston-Crewe

2011 Lincoln Imp (70013) Victoria-Lincoln-King's Cross

2018 Chilterns and Downs (35028) Paddington-Oxford-Victoria

2022 The Mancunian (46233) Euston-Manchester Piccadilly; Manchester Victoria-Euston

 

Well let us know if there is an argy bargy rail rage incident about who has right of way.