The York Dalesman Thursday 5th September 2024

I travelled on the York Dalesman yesterday, boarding at Leeds behind 47832 & 57313, before 34067 Tangmere took over from 57313 from Hellifield to Carlisle & return

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Outward journey ran normally, but on the return we were advised a tree had come down near Skipton taking down all the overhead lines, Route closed!! to Leeds
Rail option from Hellifield was to proceed to Skipton and detrain Keighley and Shipley passengers, and any Leeds passengers that had to get connections at Leeds, me included.
WCRC tour manager advised this would be the best for Leeds passengers, which sadly did not happen, Bus took us to Shipley where we were supposed to get a train from Bradford to Leeds, only for some reason Northern Rail decided to cancel all these, leaving us stranded at Shipley with no onward transport, the passengers asked the bus driver if he could take us all to Leeds, after a lot of telephone conversations with his boss he agreed, getting us to Leeds at 9:30pm

Meanwhile the Dalesman went back to Hellifield then after reversing onward to Blackburn, Copy Pit and Calder Valley to Leeds, i actually passed it heading to Leeds while on my train to Huddersfield at Mirfield, which the tour finally arrived at Leeds 105 minutes late

Neil