Odd workings at Liskeard.....

[DaveHarries]

Evening all,

Just been browsing around Liskeard (LSK) on OTT and come across some very strange workings down the Looe branch, timings based on a DMU of the Class 15x type, with the trains operating a round trip of 3hr 36min.

There are no trains to / from Looe in the morning. Then, during the afternoon, a train arrives from Bristol Temple Meads:
http://www.opentraintimes.com/schedule/U54201/2013/2/10

followed by a reversing movement.....
http://www.opentraintimes.com/schedule/U54204/2013/2/10

..... whereafter there is one train to / from Looe via. Moorswater Lafarge in both directions which leaves at 1500 from Liskeard and arrives back in Liskeard at 1836.....
http://www.opentraintimes.com/schedule/U54202/2013/2/10

..... and this then heads back to Bristol Temple Meads, arriving at 2241:
http://www.opentraintimes.com/schedule/U54203/2013/2/10

Has some sort of special timetable been in operation today (10th February)? No planned changes (ie. engineering works) were advertised here.....
http://www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk/...3 until Friday 15 February 2013_Layout 1.ashx

..... so I can't help wondering what these trains were. Any thoughts welcome.

Dave

 

[Chester025]

http://www.pathfindertours.co.uk/index.php/tour-calendar-reader/events/the-hullaba-looe---new.html

 

[richw]

Looe services dont run on Sundays in winter timetables, but the line sees a few winter specials as Chester025 has linked to.

 

[QJ]

As alluded to by a previous poster these are timings for the Pathfinder Hullaba Looe Railtour. The NR system requires a vehicle type for timing purposes and the only passenger stock available to use were the class 150 references in the system for the Looe branch.

Only one loco and a coach could fit on the platform at Looe so one of the paired 37s had to be detached at Moorswater on the way to Looe and re-attached on the way back to Liskeard.

 

[The Planner]

That or they were too lazy to calculate and put anything in the system for the charter.

 

[DarloRich]

That or they were too lazy to calculate and put anything in the system for the charter.

shhhhhhhhhh - dont blame charter companies they are always blameless

 

[The Planner]

Wasn't the charter company I was moaning about, it was train planning!

 

[mrcheek]

Nice photo on the railway-centre.com website!

http://www.railway-centre.com/uploads/7/2/2/3/7223531/2360975_orig.jpg