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For those, who want to travel on lines still open in the Preston Docks area .There are always the Ribble Steam Railway undertaking lots trips this year. We were informed by Pathfinders on their tour on the 7th March, that they will be running a trip straight through from the main line, which...

Good morning Robert, Will up date when known. Perhaps most rail tours should have the phrase cavaet viator,somewhere in the literature of the tour.:) Standish

Good afternoon Robert, I believe another stub or piece of track has replaced,that which has been deleted. Again this tour is raising money for Charity,which should most people happy. Standish

Branch Line Society are running 185 Tour on Sunday the 19th April from Manchester to Beattock raising money for charity. Beside the unusual bits on the outward journey. The unit returns via Carlisle/ Settle/ Blackburn, not sure how often these units have been on this route? Full details...

No 319's running at weekends according previous messages. Also noted a 319379 at Stockport carriage sidings yesterday and another 319 in the sidings just to the north of Preston station. I assume these are being used for training.

Your Tour does not appear on Six Bells Junction web site, but you might want to add it to the tours for 1983.

The full timings for these tours are on RTT, certainly the day time tour is in the system.:)

E-mails to Mr Farrow, Mr Watts and BLS with your suggestions. No passenger train been to Wilton since the early 1990's.:(

I suspect that Mr Farrow and Mr Watts, would do rail tours to Ludgershall if the line were to close.

Give UK Rail tours a ring, you might even speak to John Farrow the boss ,who sometimes picks up the phone :) or you can e-mail them.

Problem resolved, delays until 22.00pm.:) No indication of the problem.

The actual branch is not new,previously was used for transporting fertilzers in the 1980,s and early 1990's. The alignment may change at the end of the branch into Quinn Glass. When opened the branch will be used to bring in sand from Middlleton Towers.:D At the moment this goes to Ellesmere...

For those travelling this month,p lenty of cheap tickets which allow travel between London and Birmingham.

If you type Buffer Puffer trains into your search engine, all will be revealed. There are plenty of videos of these trains in the London area.:wink:

Good afternoon Robert, Think of the good news from this Tour. I believe it raised nearly £20,000 for the Clatterbridge Cancer Charity.:D

Full details of Pathfinders diverted train down west coast mainline are now on their web site at 14.40pm.

The good news out of this cold weather was that the two front units of this convoy formed a charter train ,when they returned to Hooton. Branch Line Society ran 750V Tracker Railtour around the Mersey Network. It started very late !!! but was back on time at about 19.48pm at Hooton. The...

Routes to be taken are now on the link of the first e-mail

Yes it was 68014. We saw it coming back north while we were going south on Pathfinder Tours The Tugging Shedmaster.

The latest edition of north wales coast railway web confirms nothing is no longer open at the station.