Bedding In
GBRf loco 66 748 'St Michael's Mount' is the dedicated locomotive for Belmond's 'Brittanic Explorer' luxury sleeper train service, and has been painted in colours which match the coaches.
Rolling stock being Mk III carriages, originally built by British Rail Engineering Limited at Derby for Córas Iompair Éireann. Since arriving in Britain, after being used on the short lived Belmond Grand Hibernian luxury service in Ireland, the vehicles have been fully refurbished and re-gauged to run on the UK network by Arlington Fleet Sevices, Eastleigh. I believe there have been a few problems with this refurbishment work, but these have now been resolved.
I was very fortunate whilst making a brief change of trains at Woking to capture this empty stock working from Eastleigh to Stewarts Lane Depot.
Bedding In
GBRf loco 66 748 'St Michael's Mount' is the dedicated locomotive for Belmond's 'Brittanic Explorer' luxury sleeper train service, and has been painted in colours which match the coaches.
Rolling stock being Mk III carriages, originally built by British Rail Engineering Limited at Derby for Córas Iompair Éireann. Since arriving in Britain, after being used on the short lived Belmond Grand Hibernian luxury service in Ireland, the vehicles have been fully refurbished and re-gauged to run on the UK network by Arlington Fleet Sevices, Eastleigh. I believe there have been a few problems with this refurbishment work, but these have now been resolved.
I was very fortunate whilst making a brief change of trains at Woking to capture this empty stock working from Eastleigh to Stewarts Lane Depot.