WSR MIXED TRAFFIC WEEKEND & TORNADO

Hi,
Just a reminder to say that 60136 will be running on the WSR between the 1st & 15th June, starting from BL each day.

Times - 1140 BL-MD; 1315 MD-BL; 1505 BL-MD; 1655 MD-BL

60163 will be the sole steam loco during the Mixed Traffic Weekend, 12th-14th, and the timings are -

1100 BL-MD; 1247 MD-BL; 1430 BL-MD; 1635 MD-BL

The diesel line up is as follows

Guests - 832, 1062, 9520
Home fleet - 7017, 7523, 6566, 1661, 9526. 6566 will be spare.
DMU shuttles MD-BA; BL-NF.
03 shunting at MD.
1010 will not be running.

cheers
Keith

 

The Quantock Belle dining train will be offering their gala meal service during the WSR Mixed Traffic Weekend, including our extremely popular QB Big Breakfast.

Full details including our new lunchtime menu can be found on this link:

http://www.wsr.org.uk/mtw2009.htm

Barrie

 

Is 60163 hauling the Belle at all?

 

We rather hope the Quantock Belle restaurant car will operate throughout Tornado's Saturday diagram. We are still waiting for Special Events Planning Team to confirm the necessary shunting arrangements that would make this possible. On both Friday and Sunday we are expecting the QB to be diesel hauled.

As soon as SEPT reply to us the detailed QB workings will be posted here.

Regards,

Barrie

 

I see the QB diagrams have been published now.

 

The QB diagrams have indeed now been published and are as follows:

Friday 12th June: 9.15am and 12.40pm departures from Bishops Lydeard
10.57am and 2.40pm departures from Minehead
Saturday 13th June: 11.00am and 2.30pm departures from Bishops Lydeard (booked for Tornado haulage)
12.47pm and 4.35pm departures from Minehead (booked for Tornado haulage)
Sunday 14th June: 9.15am and 12.40pm departures from Bishops Lydeard
10.57am and 2.40pm departures from Minehead

No reservations, just turn up!

Full details, including menus, can be found (as usual) on http://www.wsr.org.uk

 

heres to a fabulous time at WSR with the BIG T! gonna be good fun...\/

i should be helping on the first train into minehead on 30th may from the 2 GLOS-BRS trips that day then i go back to london next morning, but,
please, why oh why, does your first train on a sunday morning from minehead arrive Bishops Lyd 5 mins AFTER the first bus leaves for taunton ](*,) grrrr
the next bus is 2 hours later lol... i know its a sunday and we expect everything to be difficult lol but please can you try and work the train arrvls/deps with the bus companies...

i will have to catch the bus now all the way from MHD to taunton station to get my train home to PADD. (yuk)
i was looking forward to a nice run on the WSR that morning and now i cant, shame.

then i shall hopefully be in minehead helping wiv tornado for around a week maybe until she leaves on june 18th
cant wait !

ps i have just re-read this and it sounds like i am being a whingy moaner lol i'm not really but i'm disappointed i cant have a nice sunday morning run on the WSR to get home !

 

Get the bus from Watchet or Williton instead back to Taunton.

 

Or if there are enough of you, in the same position, join forces for a taxi from BL? You could ask on this website if anyone else has the same problem.

A Sunday morning trip from Minehead behind steam is a grand experience. Some years ago, I did that, then in Taunton joined a Torbay Express behind No. 9 'Union of South Africa' down to Kingswear. Memorable!

John

 

I see that the Warship was under test this weekend on the WSR. Let's hope we might see it over the mixed traffic weekend.

 

Just a reminder that Tornado is due to arrive tommorrow, Sat, evening.

 

Hello to all, [smilie=hi ya!.gif]
I have just added a twelve photo collection of the "New Construction" Peppercorn development Pacific Class A1 4-6-0 60163 TORNADO as she hauled the "Severn Coast Express" made up of ten coaches, plus her support coach and a Type 67 diesel 67002 on the rear, into Bishops Lydeard on the West Somerset Railway, on the early evening of Saturday 30th.May.2009. Here she stopped off to take on water before continuing on to Minehead and to start her two week "Guest" apperance on the WSR.

The sound of TORNADO as she pulled the train away from Bishops Lydeard, I can only describe as "awesome".
WSR are really onto a crowd pulling apperance of this locomotive, and good luck to them.:smt023 I shall be revisiting during the next two weeks, thats for sure.

So please visit my site and hopefully enjoy. :smt038 Link here http://preservedrailwaylocomotivephotos ... topic.net/

Best regards SteamHawk216.

PS While I was at Bishops Lydeard I was chatting to a chap, I think he was the tall, grey bearded gent in the video, who advised me to use this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBBK2hjcPuA to You Tube for a amusing bit of steam locomotives enthusiasts experience in "trying" to get a good look at this piece of history the A1 60163 TORNADO. If you haven't viewed this link, it is worth it to see others mis-fortune. LOL. [smilie=to funny.gif] Bye for now. :smt006

 

Brilliant clip on YouTube. =D> =D> =D>

 

Does anyone know what time the special evening 'founders' QB departs BL Saturday behind 60163?

 

Hello,
You should be able to get info you require from this link: http://www.wsra.org.uk/
if not who to email for details. Hope this helps

Best regards SteamHawk216.

 

Hello JBTEvans,

More details posted today here http://wsr.org.uk/news.htm updated today.

Best regards SteamHawk216.

 

Yes thank you for that but it doesn't tell me the time of departure from BL!

 

It's 7.15pm

Steve
(WSW)

 

Any idea if there are plans to turn 60163 during running on the WSR? I'm visiting Sunday to ride behind this loco and would like to get some photos later in the day - is it still facing Minehead, and if so is it likely to remain that way?

 

Yes Mighty Mogul Tornado is still facing Minehead, took some great photos of her today, will be travelling on Saturday, they will have to turn her somehow before the return Charter, not sure about on the turntable,