MAIN LINE DIARY

The below is correct as this issue went to press, however, industrial action may affect the running of charter trains.

OCTOBER SAT 15 ‘CUMBRIAN MOUNTAIN EXPRESS’

Carnforth – Shap – Carlisle – Appleby – Preston by TBC. RTC.

SAT 29 ‘GOLDEN AGE OF TRAVEL BY STEAM’

London Victoria – Dover Priory – London Victoria by No. 35028. Belmond.

SAT 29 ‘SETTLE & CARLISLE STEAM SPECIAL’

Carnforth – Shap – Carlisle – Appleby – Preston by No. 34067. NB.

NOV SAT 5 ‘THE BLACKPOOL ILLUMINATIONS’

Carnforth – Bentham – Settle Junction – Hellifield – Clitheroe – Blackburn – Preston – Blackpool North by TBC. TBC.

THURS 10 ‘SETTLE & CARLISLE STEAM SPECIAL’

Carnforth – Shap – Carlisle – Appleby – Preston by No. 34067. NB.

FRI 11 ‘THE KENTISH BELLE ARMISTICE DAY’

London Victoria – Dartford – Chatham – Faversham – Whitstable – Margate – Ramsgate – Deal – Dover Priory – Folkestone – Ashford – Paddock Wood – Redhill – East Croydon – London Victoria by No. 45596. RTC.

SAT 12 ‘GOLDEN ARROW 50TH ANNIVERSARY’

London Victoria – Canterbury West – London Victoria by No. 35028. Belmond.

THURS 17 ‘LONDON TO YORK CHRISTMAS MARKET’

London King’s Cross – Potters Bar – Stevenage – York and return by No. 60007. SD.

SAT 19 ‘GOLDEN AGE OF TRAVEL BY STEAM’

London Victoria – Dover Priory – London Victoria by No. 35028. Belmond.

TUES 22 ‘THE CARDIFF CHRISTMAS EXPRESS’

London Victoria – Staines – Ascot – Reading – Didcot Parkway – Swindon – Stroud – Gloucester – Cardiff Central and return by No. 6233. RTC.

THURS 24 ‘THE CHRISTMAS SUSSEX BELLE’

Steam TBC: London Victoria – Haywards Heath – Lewes – Eastbourne Diesel: Eastbourne – Hastings Steam TBC: Hastings – Robertsbridge – Tonbridge – Swanley – London Victoria. RTC.

KARL HEATH ‘Black Five’ No. 45212 pounds up the 1-in-50 from Glenfinnan Viaduct with the morning ‘Jacobite’ train on September 28.