Torbay Express 2018

[MatthewRead]

I've noticed there are no Torbay Express tours throughout August just 2 in July and only 1 in September why is that?

 

[STEVIEBOY1]

I've noticed there are no Torbay Express tours throughout August just 2 in July and only 1 in September why is that?

Where are you getting your info from? I just found this on their website.

Provisional dates for Sundays in 2018:

3 June - via Bath Spa

17 June - via Weston-super-Mare,

15 July - via Bath Spa

29 July - via Weston-super-Mare

19 August - via Bath Spa,

2 September - via Weston-super-Mare

16 September - via Bath Spa

 

[MatthewRead]

Where are you getting your info from? I just found this on their website.

Provisional dates for Sundays in 2018:

3 June - via Bath Spa

17 June - via Weston-super-Mare,

15 July - via Bath Spa

29 July - via Weston-super-Mare

19 August - via Bath Spa,

2 September - via Weston-super-Mare

16 September - via Bath Spa

The sight was this http://www.uksteam.info/tours/trs18.htm#aug

 

[STEVIEBOY1]

It may be because of planned engineering works or extra summer trains perhaps? Also there are sometimes other steam charters from Bristol on some Sundays to Par or Weymouth so they may not want to clash with those to dilute the market?

 

[MatthewRead]

It may be because of planned engineering works or extra summer trains perhaps? Also there are sometimes other steam charters from Bristol on some Sundays to Par or Weymouth so they may not want to clash with those to dilute the market?

I do remember being told on a previous thread that they wouldn't run any Torbay Express tours during high summer after what happened in 2016 but i don't know what happened then please enlighten me.

 

[STEVIEBOY1]

I do remember being told on a previous thread that they wouldn't run any Torbay Express tours during high summer after what happened in 2016 but i don't know what happened then please enlighten me.

I did not travel on it in 2016, so don't know what happened then, Perhaps some others on this forum may know? ( I did travel on it this year on the first one in June this year, it was hauled by Tornado but also had a diesel doing most of the work owing to a poss fire risk? )

 

[MatthewRead]

Just found out y

Where are you getting your info from? I just found this on their website.

Provisional dates for Sundays in 2018:

3 June - via Bath Spa

17 June - via Weston-super-Mare,

15 July - via Bath Spa

29 July - via Weston-super-Mare

19 August - via Bath Spa,

2 September - via Weston-super-Mare

16 September - via Bath Spa

Just found out you were right but I'm not in Devon on any of those dates I wish the 19th August tour could be brought forward by a week and then I could film it at Dawlish or somewhere.

 

[Dhassell]

Just found out y

Just found out you were right but I'm not in Devon on any of those dates I wish the 19th August tour could be brought forward by a week and then I could film it at Dawlish or somewhere.

This again?!? We had this same sort of thread last year explaining to you that they don't plan charters just so you can film them in devon!

 

[MatthewRead]

This again?!? We had this same sort of thread last year explaining to you that they don't plan charters just so you can film them in devon!

I know I just thought if I could film one along the sea wall to get more hits on my channel

 

[Dhassell]

I know I just thought if I could film one along the sea wall to get more hits on my channel

 

[MatthewRead]

What does that mean?????????

 

[AnthonyRail]

What dates are u in Devon

 

[MatthewRead]

What dates are u in Devon

4-18th August!

 

[STEVIEBOY1]

4-18th August!

According to UK Steam info, there may be a steam train from Bristol going to Par on 05 Aug and also a Torbay Express on 19 Aug.

 

[MatthewRead]

According to UK Steam info, there may be a steam train from Bristol going to Par on 05 Aug and also a Torbay Express on 19 Aug.

Still not convenient for me.

 

[AnthonyRail]

Still not convenient for me.

Seriously

 

[Cowley]

I reckon you should reschedule your annual holiday Matthew. September’s a nice time to be in Devon. Or June...

 

[MatthewRead]

I reckon you should reschedule your annual holiday Matthew. September’s a nice time to be in Devon. Or June...

Sorry family tradition to spend the first 2 weeks of August in Devon besides there use to be a Torbay Express tour on one of those 2 Sundays I was there so why can't there be anymore someone did say to me last year that they wouldn't run any during high summer now why is that?

 

[theblackwatch]

If you want to see/video this train, you need to plan around it - they aren't going to arrange it around you! Or are you intending keeping up the tradition of moaning about it every year?

 

[Cowley]

Sorry family tradition to spend the first 2 weeks of August in Devon besides there use to be a Torbay Express tour on one of those 2 Sundays I was there so why can't there be anymore someone did say to me last year that they wouldn't run any during high summer now why is that?

I guess you’re really stuffed then.
Do you like Pacers?

 

[Dhassell]

If you want to see/video this train, you need to plan around it - they aren't going to arrange it around you! Or are you intending keeping up the tradition of moaning about it every year?

Brilliant!

 

[STEVIEBOY1]

You could get lots of good pictures of the Paighton to Kingswear Line which is not that far to go and also the Steam trains that go from near Totnes to Buckfastleigh? I think there is sometimes a little steam in the Okehampton area too?? Then a bit further down in Cornwall is the Bodmin Steam Railway which is quite scenic.

 

[AnthonyRail]

Paighton to Kingswear Line will have a S160 by then.

 

[MatthewRead]

If you want to see/video this train, you need to plan around it - they aren't going to arrange it around you! Or are you intending keeping up the tradition of moaning about it every year?

I'm sorry it's just there always use to be a Torbay Express tour on one of the 2 Sundays I was there and now suddenly that has stopped I was told something to do with them not being run during high summer now why is that?

 

[theblackwatch]

Also worth noting that the Torbay Express has some competition from Saphos Trains this year, with two 'English Riviera Express' Sunday trips (on June 24th and July 1st) which feature steam between Bristol and Kingswear.

 

[MatthewRead]

You could get lots of good pictures of the Paighton to Kingswear Line which is not that far to go and also the Steam trains that go from near Totnes to Buckfastleigh? I think there is sometimes a little steam in the Okehampton area too?? Then a bit further down in Cornwall is the Bodmin Steam Railway which is quite scenic.

They just use boring tank engines everyone in my family likes to see a Torbay Express tour.

 

[MatthewRead]

Paighton to Kingswear Line will have a S160 by then.

Surely they are to big for any line in Britain

 

[AnthonyRail]

Surely they are to big for any line in Britain

No there is 2 in preservation on hertige railways

 

[Cowley]

No there is 2 in preservation on hertige railways

And they’re extremely loud.

 

[221129]

I'm sorry it's just there always use to be a Torbay Express tour on one of the 2 Sundays I was there and now suddenly that has stopped I was told something to do with them not being run during high summer now why is that?

They have done it just to annoy you.