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B1 61306 to Stratford-upon-Avon. 22/08/2015

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  1. free2grice

    free2grice Part of the furniture Friend

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    B1 61306 to Stratford-upon-Avon. 22/08/2015.

    Timing now available thanks to 'uksteam'
    http://www.uksteam.info/tours/t15/t0822b.htm

    It appears to be a diesel free run from Hanwell Brg. loop to Stratford - upon - Avon and return.
    The diesel runs LE from Hanwell Brg. loop to Southall.
    http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U54137/2015/08/22/advanced

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  2. alastair

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    SD report on their Facebook page that 61306 has passed it's FTR so thats one bit of good news
     
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    Excelent. Can't quite believe that the flower is being let out on its own on this run, but lets see.
     
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    It depends on the load. I guess the limiting bit tomorrow is the restart from Stratford. Wilmcote bank is 1-in-75. Hatton is gentler, mostly 1-in-110, I seem the recall. So long as the schedule is not too demanding, she should manage 10 ?
     
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    Apologies if this is old ground, but it seems a bit arbitrary to start a tour to Stratford from Southend, especially as that gives punters a 15 hour day on the train. Having decided on Stratford as a destination, what is the thought process by which Southend is chosen as the start point?
     
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    I expect they start the other way round.Where can you go from Southend which they have not been to before and/ or recently. Southend is one of the most popular pick up points for SD.
     
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    10 coaches has to be borderline for Mayflower, on this trip. Wilmcote is the only potential stumbling block, though I'm pretty sure it will be either one of the Ray's on the footplate and they go up Wilmcote almost every week on the Shakespeare !
     
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    Well it won't be Ray Churchill he has got the unfortunate diesel trips tomorrow and Sunday.
     
    maureen, Aug 22, 2015
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    A bit of trivia. Last pick up for this trip is Stratford. So for these folk they are going from Stratford to Stratford. Can't think of another steam trip with that same coincidence.
     
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    Daylight Railtours ran from Alresford (Hants) to Alresford (Essex) some years ago.
     
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    A great day out it was too with 35005 hauling this trip.
     
    green five, Aug 22, 2015
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  12. KentYeti

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    And now something far more than trivia. Words the great man himself would have been proud to have penned. Not.

    Today our train will steam to Stratford

    Behind our flower that’s 3 months late

    On the way we’ll all get plastered

    Drinking beer from a massive crate
     
    KentYeti, Aug 22, 2015
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    On time passing Twyford at 10.50am. No diesel. Weather sunny and very warm. Hot later but not perhaps in Stratford-on-Avon!
     
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    Seems to be going well so far. 5 early at Banbury
     
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    Come on Bryan. The train is heading for Shakespeare territory so with apologies to Titania in a Midsummer Night's Dream (Act 2 Scene 1), how about:

    I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
    Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
    Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
    With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine,
    It is there that Mayflower may stir the blooms,
    As she climbs to Wilmcote with steam and plumes.
     
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    B1 seems to be on form today. I saw the train race through Oxford on the down main in fine style. Looking at the timings on Real time (I know it's not that accurate but it is an indication) pass Oxford to stop Banbury 23m 55 ch in 22 mins cutting 4 mins off the schedule.
     
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    And here is a part of that Oxford / Banbury section - 1 up at Tackley



    Note no POB at the head of the train, on the back I assume. Those on the front got more noise, smoke, smut, and clinkers than normal!
     
    mrKnowwun, Aug 22, 2015
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  18. gricerdon

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    Fantastic. Should have been on this and made the wrong choice with the WSE. Will try for next Saturday but will that be DL free?
     
    gricerdon, Aug 22, 2015
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    From the lineside it looked a really solid run, with a very spirited departure out of Banbury. Also going nicely through Leamington Spa on the return.
     
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