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And for the traction for a fair few on board I would say. An enjoyable day with some good weather as well. Some pics from the day can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gbrailphotos/sets/72157639136208223/

According to the PLEG site today, 56018 is ill and will be replaced by 56301 and the GBRf 66/7 is no longer available on the Saturday due to traffic commitments.

And some more form the Saturday... http://www.flickr.com/photos/gbrailphotos/sets/72157633370976012/

I wouldn't be to hasty to think it won't run, I have been on a number of RPSI tours over the last 3 years and certainly the "Mystery Tours" have been only advertised about 4 weeks before! Its a pain to organise flights etc if you don't live in Ireland but RPSI have a real job getting tours...

Nice picture. The sun wasn't out at Rugby though :-( http://m.flickr.com/#/photos/gbrailphotos/8175078287/ http://m.flickr.com/#/photos/gbrailphotos/8175112080/

I stand corrected, 015 was what I was told earlier and made sense as its been working off Warrington for the last 3 weeks. At least the tour has a 60 on the front as is running today :-)

92019 north on your through Rugby slightly early at 09.53. 60015 quoted from Crewe.

170502 on 17.59 to Gt Malvern last night(24/10), I was hoping to see 109 :-( Has this permanently gone over to 170's now or just a temporary thing whilst they are being repainted? Like the LM livery on the 150's though, shame they're not doing the insides too.

I was sitting next to some guys more into track than I am and apparently we did a loop line on the approach to Sheffield near Brightside coming back from Ferrybridge? Anyway, good day out and I agree, the commentary wa very informative. Limited pics ...

Sorry for being pedantic but 1H80, 1H81 were great for knowing what trains were loco-hauled (and thus avoiding units) but there weren't any "diagrams" as such in them. I suppose it comes down to what you define as a diagram but the previously mentioned "loco-hauled travel" books of the early...

Ok, thanks. UK Railtours use DB Schenker for motive power but on numerous occasions over the years they use top n tail 66/0's depending on where the tour is going, hence my question for this tour.

Hopefully someone may know and this hadn't been asked before but what's the likely traction for this 66's or 67's? Thanks

Ah, but in Germany, France, Holland etc they have double-decker stock so you don't

Or Britain could have gone down the route of Germany and thus have multiple fixed sets of loco + stock coupled together thus getting the best of both worlds? I have travelled on many a DB 218 + Dostos or n-wagen which were coupled up at peak times to another set doubling capacity, with no...

There is a regular 70 turn through Solihull line to Southampton on Saturday mornings around 9am (at Solihull) too. Don't blame me if a 66 turns up on occasions :-) Pic of 70008 on 31/3/12: http://m.flickr.com/#/photos/gbrailphotos/7031717053/in/set-72157627248025281/