SR 34067 Tangmere shatters Oxenholme! | The Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express | 27/1/24
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- Опубликовано: 26 янв 2024
- Today’s video is of SR Unrebuilt Battle of Britain Class Light Pacific 4-6-2 34067 Tangmere on the Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express promoted by Railway Touring Company and operated by West Coast Railways. The tour originated from London Euston, heading up the WCML via Milton Keynes, Rugby, Nuneaton, Crewe and Preston with a class 86 electric taking the train as far as Carnforth where the 86 was swapped for 34067 Tangmere. The train then headed up to Carlisle, returning later on via the S&C to Preston from where the 86 took the train back to London. Although WCR was recently served with a revocation of use for slam door stock, they've made clear their intent to continue operating so have put together a rake of Mk2s. This was the first mainline tour in the diary for 2024 and I couldn't miss it!
I started out from my local at a rather undignified 06:41 in the morning, heading up to Newcastle and across the Tyne Valley Line running the breadth of the country to Carlisle. After that I took train to Oxenholme (after Avanti cancelled the one I intended to get) and met @harnettyrailways. We both set up in the field just north of the station, and awaited the very delayed WCME (this was because the 86 failed before departure from Euston). Unfortunately 34067's changeover took longer than I'd hoped so I had to miss my train from Oxenholme back to Carlisle. However, my spirits were raised by a fantastic runpast from 34067 with no diesel assistance! Luckily, because she was running so late, I took a gamble and assumed that the next train to Kirkby Stephen would be ahead of 34067, and after taking an Avanti service to Carlisle, this proved true. However, I didn't have enough time when I arrived at Kirkby Stephen to get to my originally planned location of Birkett Common because 34067 was directly behind me so I took another gamble and tried out a field just to the North I'd spotted whilst coming into the station (which was just beyond a speed restriction caused by an unstable cutting!) and I think it worked quite well as she powered through the Northern Fells, gathering speed up the gradient for the final stretch to Ais Gill! After that I headed back through Carlisle and Newcastle on my way home.
I hope you enjoy as I did!
Absolutely love the long shot, fantastically composed. Great work.
Thank you very much! It was a bit of an improvisation but I think it worked well in the end lol. Regards, Dan
Good work, as usual. Captured the distinctive exhaust sound nicely, and a lovely mellow whistle in the first scene.
Many thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it! I was very glad to have captured her working in both shots with some whistles. Regards, Dan
Very nice and steamy.
Thank you very much! And most definitely, the spamcan usually creates a hell of a lot of smoke. Regards, Dan
That was a fantastic shot. One spot panorama, brilliant. Made me think of Peter Handfords recordings on vinyl back in the 70s 👍👍👍👍👍
Haha I'm glad to have reminded you of such things! Thanks for commenting and I'm glad you enjoyed. Regards, Dan
Great video Dan those shots were wonderful.Glad you managed to get them despite a few spanners in the works.I saw the 86 at Hartford on its way to Carnforth it was over an hour late.
Thank you very much Richard! Yes the late running did throw a few spanners in the works but the gambles I made thankfully paid off. Regards, Dan
I fear we're going to be getting an awful lot of Tangmere this year, but you found some good spots to see it at least!
Thank you very much! And yes we definitely will be seeing a lot of her until the CDL issue is sorted lol. Regards, Dan
Dan, Nicely captured and excellent locations considering your reliance on public transport. Regards, John
Thank you very much John, yes the best locations can be a struggle using the trains but I'm glad you feel my efforts paid off. Regards, Dan
Very nice, I saw two people stood on the hill from the station! Never tried up on the hill before but great shot at Oxenholme
Thank you very much! Yes, I've just sen your video and that was me and Richard Harnetty lol. I'm glad you enjoyed! Regards, Dan
Spotted you standing up on the hill there, nice shots!
Haha i think a few did lol! Thank you very much! Regards, Dan
I caught two tours at atherstone the princess 47 going to Norwich and les Ross as far as Carnforth where it hands the train over to tangmere to continue to Carlisle
That's great Scott I hope you enjoyed your time there. You should definitely come up North and see some steam for one of the WCMEs mate. Regards, Dan
@@crunchynutsteamfilms5043I can’t Dan it’s way too far away from here so I prefer to stick to the stations within Staffordshire Warwickshire even Worcestershire
Oh is that 34067 Tangmere? I might get a Hornby model of that to pull my mainline wagons around Cardinal ways.
Yes it is, I hope you enjoy your time at club mate. Regards, Dan
Lovely beat of Tangmere 👍🏻 It passed the rear of my house as I live just north of Preston at Barton 😀 I see WCR are using Mk2 coaches now 🤔 Is that because they have electric door locks?
Than you very much, she sounded great! The Mk2 coaches are a temporary measure, because in early January WCR were served with a revocation of an exception that allowed them to run Mk1s without central door locking. Because of this they've had to assemble a fleet of Mk2s which do have CDL whilst they fit it to the Mk1s! Regards, Dan
Sean the sheep didn't think much of it!
Haha he certainly didn't lol! Regards, Dan
Do such heritage trains HAVE to consist of a disiesel at the rear?
They don't, but are unfortunately becoming increasingly common due to their usefulness in providing heating to coaches, assistance on gradients or in fire risk situations and helping out on turning moves. I'd like to see more tours run without them but this sadly isn't something I'm in charge of lol. Regards, Dan
Anyone know what went wrong on the way south? 40 minutes late at Carlisle, another two and a half hours later at Preston, cancelled at Crewe. I hope their customers were put on trains from Preston, because there was nothing back to Euston from Crewe after it arrived there.
Points failure at Preston. 3 hours late so couldn't make it in time to get through the planned overnight block at Stafford. Terminated at Crewe
Passengers bused to their destinations. Extremely late night/morning.
Quite a lot went wrong with the tour in the end, so the initial 40 late departure from Carlisle was caused by late running on the outward that meant servicing ran into the time of departure. Last I heard is exactly what Nick says, points failure and coaches from Crewe to avoid a bloc at Stafford. I can imagine they really weren't hoping for the first tour of 2024 to go that badly! Regards, Dan
I was on this charter. In fairness to the RTC, they have offered a full refund to all passengers, even though it was not their fault, but all down to the failure of Network Rails infrastructure, yet again.
@@NickGarswood That's very good of them. A shame they ended up making nothing from it because of someone else messing up though. Thank you for the update! Regards, Dan
MI BOMBOCLAATTTTTTTT
Thank you mate 😂. Regards, Dan
More importantly mate I’ve caught the 730/2 unit with LNWR for the first time ever on a test run
That's great Scott. Regards, Dan
@@crunchynutsteamfilms5043yeah it’s great for me hopefully once the test run is complete we will surely be able to ride it
That tour was 66 minutes late before it got to me at atherstone compare with Diana Spencer the 47 loco it got to me at atherstone 1 minute late
Yes it was over 70 minutes late at Oxenholme. The tour didn't do too well with timeliness. Regards, Dan
@@crunchynutsteamfilms5043yeah Dan
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Thank you very much for your loyalty to the channel mate lol. Regards, Dan
Diesel
Thankfully only providing assistance in one of the clips. Regards, Dan