2nd September 2007

Past Time Rail
The Torbay Express

Loco(s) Used 37410 & 37417
Stock Used ????? (2)

Route:
1Z27 : Bristol Temple Meads to Kingswear
1Z28 : Kingswear to Bristol Temple Meads

Locos Route
37410 + 37417 Bristol Temple Meads - Weston-super-Mare - Taunton - Exeter St Davids - Newton Abbot - Paignton - Kingswear
37417 + 37410 Kingswear - (reverse of outward route) - Bristol Temple Meads

Notes:
(1) This was the ninth of a series that was booked to run on the ten Sunday's between 8th July and 9th September 2007. This train was originally booked for haulage by steam: 6024 'King Edward I' but this loco was unavailable due to a piston rod problem.
(2) Stock 'was per previous steam turns with a Virgin MK2 locked out of use as a barrier vehicle'.
(3) Adrian Noel comments: Timings were as booked west - meaning sitting around at prescribed water stops to facilitate pick-up times. On the return these stops were irrelevant so an arrival at Bristol Temple Meads was somewhere around 50mins early.

Sources : Gary Thornton (from contemporary sources) & Adrian Noel

Photo Review
(all photos: Adrian Noel)


37417 at Kingswear.


The pair, en-route.


Timings (Booked Only)
(from Adrian Noel)

Miles Location Booked (out) Booked (rtn) Miles
0.0 Bristol Temple Meads 09.19d 21.44a 112.0
16.8 Worle Jn 09/36 21/20 95.2
19.1 Weston-super-Mare 09.42a ~ 09.44d 21.10a ~ 21.15d 92.9
20.8 Uphill Jn 09/49 21/06 91.2
28.1 Highbridge & Burnham 09/57 20/56 83.9
28.5 Highbridge U/DGL 09*59 ~ 10*06 - -
34.4 Bridgwater 10/14 20/50 77.6
41.1 Cogload Jn 10/22 ? ?
45.9 Taunton 10w29a ~ 10w54d 20w17a ~ 20w37d 66.1
60.1 Tiverton Parkway 11/10 19/57 51.9
75.6 Cowley Bridge Jn 11/24 ? ?
76.6 Exeter St Davids 11w27a ~ 11w46d 18w44a ~ 19w34d 35.4
87.1 Dawlish Warren 12/00 18/29 24.9
96.8 Newton Abbot 12/10 18/16 15.2
103.4 Torquay 12/19 18/03 8.6
105.5 Paignton 12.29a ~ 12.49d 17.51a ~ 17.57d 6.5
112.0 Kingswear 13.16a 17.17d 0.0


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