Great Britain XVIII: 18/4 -25/4/26

45407, 44871, 34028 and 34067 are now confirmed by RTC.

 

Have they said which days are being done by what? I believe 34028 is on the first two days.

 

Guessing 34028 will lay over at 10A from Chester day 2 and maybe take the train back to London from Newcastle on 25th April?

 

I had heard Days 1/2 34028, the rest a Black 5

 

Will the excursion day 22nd April be different if the Jacobite hasn't commenced by that stage? Or would the GB stock be used in any case?

 

Has anyone as yet seen any timings for this? Its not that far away now and nothing can be planned until the timings are up.

 

Its over 3 weeks away, rare to have timings out that far in advance.

 

Timings came out for the GB 8 days before last year so I doubt they’ll be out for a week or 2

 

Plus I see little in the trip, if anything, that could be "cloned" from one of the regular itineraries, unless on the free day it ends up using the existing Jacobite path. So all 8 days likely will need to be planned on the intensive network. The Whitby trip was only put on the system a couple of days before, although I do know from the stewards the times were out earlier than that.
I suspect the reason the Sussex Belle timings were out so early were due to it being a rerun of something a few months back with little or no timetable changes since. Way easier to plan than something from scratch.
Of course at the end of the day, all that is needed is a departure time from Paddington on Day 1 and arrival time back in London on Day 8, for those who are actually travelling and need to organise connections.