Scarborough Flyer July/August/September 2010

Garanteed to be used then the week i travel up north especially to take photos of the SSE aint it Mark!

 

71000 now removed from the pool on uksteam.

 

Not wrong there matey, just checked it now. Wonder why 71000 had to pull out??

 

Posted on 71000 Trust website on 5th March:

"A full programme of mainline work is expected to commence June/July. Details will be announced as soon as negotiations with your operators have been completed."

 

LNER A4 60019 'Bittern' now added to the pool of locomotives to share the work along with 6201 'Princess Elizabeth' and 6233 'Duchess of Sutherland'.

 

Is it just 6233 & 6201 now doing all the Scarborough Flyers?

Neil

 

Hopefully the weather behaves and we get all steam running

Neil

 

Times now on uksteam

Loco Pool 6201/6233/60019

http://www.uksteam.info/tours/t10/t0723a.htm

Neil

Neil

 

No loop stop at Diggle this year, it appears. Good. It's a long day, though, if you start and finish your trip at Crewe! (Longer still for the support crews. Heroes all!)

 

I see there is a stop at Denton in the morning, but I can't work out from Google maps where the road access to the station is, among the nearby motorway spaghetti. Any local info please? And on what the photo possibilities are there? Or should I just go to Stalybridge? I don't suppose they do a full English in the station buffet do they?

Peter in another part of Greater Manchester
http://pjhrailpics.fotopic.net

 

Anyone seen anything yet this morning of 6201 & Scarborough Flyer?

Neil

 

A colleague reported it leaving Crewe at around 07:50 so 40(ish) minutes late.

 

......

 

Through Diggle at 09:40.

 

Through Huddersfield at 9.54am.

 

roughly on time at Normanton at 10:25.

Cheers,
Mark

 

Picture of it near Huddersfield around 9.50 - sun decided to in.

http://billsphotos.photoblog.me.uk/p66104717.html

 

Hi All

6201 Princess Elizabeth on the Cotton Mill Express past Deighton about 20 minutes late this morning @10:01

http://huddersfield-railtours.photos.gb.net/c1874767.html

Neil

 

Through Stalybridge, 10 mins or so late. Lots of clag, here they put the hammer down, with a slight slip just after the platform. I'll be there with a pint at 8.15 tonight.

 

Love that shot,real sense of power

My shots from the former Goosehill J now up:

http://mark-walker.fotopic.net/p66105006.html


http://mark-walker.fotopic.net/p66105007.html

http://mark-walker.fotopic.net/p66105008.html


Cheers,
Mark