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Harpo said:
As diesel railtours become seriously expensive it’s interesting that Saphos has £99 standard class tickets on Crewe to S&C steam tours with a heritage diesel bolted on the back.

Saphos Trains | Luxury Steam Train Journeys

Explore luxury steam train journeys across the UK with Saphos Trains. Enjoy historic routes and fine dining in our beautifully restored vintage carriages.
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It doesn't have very many seats in standard class though.
 
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Any idea what tour this is, checked Railadvent and saw nothing. It’s timed for 95moh max trailing 455 tonnes to presuming T&T 47/57s, but can’t see anything on any websites (maybe I don’t see the right one, I’m not sure)

ECS: https://live.rail-record.co.uk/train.php/?c=U74926&d=2026-02-28
Outbound: https://live.rail-record.co.uk/train.php/?c=U74927&d=2026-02-28
Return: https://live.rail-record.co.uk/train.php/?c=U74925&d=2026-02-28
ECS: https://live.rail-record.co.uk/train.php/?c=U74928&d=2026-02-28
 
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Amos390 said:
Any idea what tour this is, checked Railadvent and saw nothing. It’s timed for 95moh max trailing 455 tonnes to presuming T&T 47/57s, but can’t see anything on any websites (maybe I don’t see the right one, I’m not sure)

ECS: https://live.rail-record.co.uk/train.php/?c=U74926&d=2026-02-28
Outbound: https://live.rail-record.co.uk/train.php/?c=U74927&d=2026-02-28
Return: https://live.rail-record.co.uk/train.php/?c=U74925&d=2026-02-28
ECS: https://live.rail-record.co.uk/train.php/?c=U74928&d=2026-02-28
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Statesman Railtour - The Settle & Carlisle Circular - https://www.statesmanrail.com/journey/the-settle-carlisle-circular-28-02-26/

Step aboard the celebrated ‘Statesman’ land cruise train for a very special circular winter tour over England’s most spectacular railway – the famous Settle to Carlisle line and the Cumbrian Fells with views of the snow-covered Lakeland mountains.
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Interestingly, there is no need to spend time at any intermediate location, since:
This journey does not have a destination, it is a continuous circular tour.
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True enough, a ten minute stop in Appleby seems to be the only leg stretch opportunity.
 
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neil65 said:
64 I would imagine

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I think it is less than 64 as the standard class is provided in mark 1 restaurant micro buffet (RMB) no. 1863 which has recently been added to the Statesman rake. I would imagine it has one quarter fewer seats than a standard mark 1 standard class, so 44 or 48
 
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gazthomas said:
I think it is less than 64 as the standard class is provided in mark 1 restaurant micro buffet (RMB) no. 1863 which has recently been added to the Statesman rake. I would imagine it has one quarter fewer seats than a standard mark 1 standard class, so 44 or 48
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I'd suggest it is possibly even less than that, having seen it. Possibly just 24. The bar is vast and takes up a great space in that coach, as beautiful as it is.

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gazthomas said:
I think it is less than 64 as the standard class is provided in mark 1 restaurant micro buffet (RMB) no. 1863 which has recently been added to the Statesman rake. I would imagine it has one quarter fewer seats than a standard mark 1 standard class, so 44 or 48
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if it’s the one that used to be in the Saphos Mk 1 rake then it’s just 24 or 32 seats as I travelled in it a few years ago, can’t remember now how many 4x4 bays there were in it
 
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gazthomas said:
I think it is less than 64 as the standard class is provided in mark 1 restaurant micro buffet (RMB) no. 1863 which has recently been added to the Statesman rake. I would imagine it has one quarter fewer seats than a standard mark 1 standard class, so 44 or 48
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A sure they have to have more standard class, the Cumbrian Mountaineer tours would surely feature more than that.
 
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There's also 5366, the Mk. 2A TSO, which should have 64 seats or thereabouts.
 
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Crikey, it will be busy in Penzance on 27th June. Statesman, Railway Touring Company and UK Railtours all running tours there for Mazey Day. All picking up at the same stations as well.
 
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Crikey, it will be busy in Penzance on 27th June. Statesman, Railway Touring Company and UK Railtours all running tours there for Mazey Day. All picking up at the same stations as well.
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Wouldn't be surprised if one gets caped due to lack of bookings, interesting to note also is they seam to be able to run pathfinder trains cheaper than they managed to
 
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Crikey, it will be busy in Penzance on 27th June. Statesman, Railway Touring Company and UK Railtours all running tours there for Mazey Day. All picking up at the same stations as well.
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Uk railtours isn’t confirmed and they might not run it since the RTC one
 
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talking about UK rainouts, do we have an idea as to when the timings for their Peak Blinder will be released on the 24th Jan as I would like to know around what times it is in the east mids, I know that Chesterfield is it’s lunchtime and refuel spot, so presuming that’d be around midday to 1pm, but that’s only speculation.
 
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Amos390 said:
talking about UK rainouts, do we have an idea as to when the timings for their Peak Blinder will be released on the 24th Jan as I would like to know around what times it is in the east mids, I know that Chesterfield is it’s lunchtime and refuel spot, so presuming that’d be around midday to 1pm, but that’s only speculation.
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Timings are confirmed on the uk railtours website, nothing on RTT yet though
 
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Timings for Saturdays ‘Peak Blinder’ have just been released:
Norwich Low Level -> NRW: https://live.rail-record.co.uk/train.php/?c=U73973&d=2026-01-24
NRW -> CHD: https://live.rail-record.co.uk/train.php/?c=U73971&d=2026-01-24
CHD -> Barrow Hill: https://live.rail-record.co.uk/train.php/?c=U73974&d=2026-01-24
Barrow Hill -> CHD: https://live.rail-record.co.uk/train.php/?c=U73975&d=2026-01-24
CHD -> NRW: https://live.rail-record.co.uk/train.php/?c=U73972&d=2026-01-24
NRW -> Norwich Low Level: https://live.rail-record.co.uk/train.php/?c=U73976&d=2026-01-24
 
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Amos390 said:
Timings for Saturdays ‘Peak Blinder’ have just been released:
Norwich Low Level -> NRW: https://live.rail-record.co.uk/train.php/?c=U73973&d=2026-01-24
NRW -> CHD: https://live.rail-record.co.uk/train.php/?c=U73971&d=2026-01-24
CHD -> Barrow Hill: https://live.rail-record.co.uk/train.php/?c=U73974&d=2026-01-24
Barrow Hill -> CHD: https://live.rail-record.co.uk/train.php/?c=U73975&d=2026-01-24
CHD -> NRW: https://live.rail-record.co.uk/train.php/?c=U73972&d=2026-01-24
NRW -> Norwich Low Level: https://live.rail-record.co.uk/train.php/?c=U73976&d=2026-01-24
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Thanks, I’ve been waiting for those. I’m hoping to see it at Chesterfield :)
 
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SRPS Railtours have a released a new railtour titled

The Garrison Growlers​

It starts at Glenrothes with Thornton and the destination is Fort William.
 
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