Power: 47593, 47712
Headcode: 1Z25o/w, 1Z26 r/t
Load: 6 incl 5 xx Mk III – 9513, 12111, 12171, 10404, 11066, 11082
47593 at the Marylebone blocks with the memorial tour
Route o/w (Crewe – Stoke – Derby (rev) – Bedford) – Bletchley (rev) – M.Keynes (rev) – Bletchley Flyover – Winslow – Oxford – Oxford up loop (rev) – Bicester Vill – Princes Risboro (rev) – Aylesbury depot (rev) – Princes Risborough – High Wycombe – Marylebone
Route r/t Marylebone – High Wycombe – Bicester Vill (rev) – Bletchley Flyover – M.Keynes – (Northampton – Rugby – Nuneaton – Colwich – Stoke – Crewe)
Destination: Marylebone
Timekeeping: r/t
Ching: £99
Highlights: 1/ Very relaxed 1156 tour start from Bletchley for me
2/ Quality Mk III stock – sensible use of PA, soche stewards
3/Booked up slow (bang road) Denbigh H – M.Keynes)
4/ storming speeds out Winslow and sections of Chiltern mainline
5/ good atmosphere
6/ many quick reversals
7/ local haunts
Farces: None
Rating: 8
Weather: Wet am, sunny pm
Photo stops Bletchley, Aylesbury, Marylebone, M.Keynes
Just after the tour arrived at Bletchley 37611 passed by on the flyover on a crew training run to Bicester.
47712 at a soggy Keynes about to tackle Bletchley flyover and beyond? Is this the first shove duff to work passenger over the flyover?
The tour during a mid afternoon stop at Aylesbury after working into the depot road
The tour at Marylebone during a 90 minute layover in the sociable platform here
Ready for the off from the Keynes back to Crewe around 1930
Another excellent tour from Inter City/LSL, well done to all concerned
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