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37426 Tywyn, 17.10.87 GJC_IMG_3308 (1)
37426 terminating at Tywyn after working a rail tour from departure points in the North East of England on 17.10.87.
This tour operated by South Tynedale Travel involved locomotive changes at Carlisle and Crewe with a stop at Welshpool for the narrow gauge railway and coach connection to the Tywyn railway. There was an alternative option to return in the opposite direction to rejoin the train later at Welshpool on the return journey.
South Tynedale Travel was the fund raising arm of the South Tynedale railway with the purposes of track extension north of Alston. Some of their tours were over ambitious and too frequent at times for the clientele but fun nonetheless. Needless to say they stopped running them a few years later for costing reasons. There used to be a webpage detailing all the tours but that has unfortunately disappeared some time ago.
Class 37 37426 was converted two years earlier from effectively a South Wales coal locomotive to an electric heat passenger locomotive. The main stay of the six Cardiff modified locomotives were the Shrewsbury to Aberystwyth portion of the London train, summer saturday trains along the mid Wales coast and The Marches line from Cardiff to Crewe. With the deployment of Sprinter units around the country, this locomotive gradually moved north. It was a regular on the Blackpool Club trains in the early 90s and the North Wales coast during the late 90s. It then moved to Scotland to cover the Fort William sleeper route.
I was fortunate enough to catch it for my final time in May 2003 when it worked a charter to Oban as it worked for the last time the following month. It languished about in various depots and locations for 10 years before being cut up in 2013.
37426 Tywyn, 17.10.87 GJC_IMG_3308 (1)
37426 terminating at Tywyn after working a rail tour from departure points in the North East of England on 17.10.87.
This tour operated by South Tynedale Travel involved locomotive changes at Carlisle and Crewe with a stop at Welshpool for the narrow gauge railway and coach connection to the Tywyn railway. There was an alternative option to return in the opposite direction to rejoin the train later at Welshpool on the return journey.
South Tynedale Travel was the fund raising arm of the South Tynedale railway with the purposes of track extension north of Alston. Some of their tours were over ambitious and too frequent at times for the clientele but fun nonetheless. Needless to say they stopped running them a few years later for costing reasons. There used to be a webpage detailing all the tours but that has unfortunately disappeared some time ago.
Class 37 37426 was converted two years earlier from effectively a South Wales coal locomotive to an electric heat passenger locomotive. The main stay of the six Cardiff modified locomotives were the Shrewsbury to Aberystwyth portion of the London train, summer saturday trains along the mid Wales coast and The Marches line from Cardiff to Crewe. With the deployment of Sprinter units around the country, this locomotive gradually moved north. It was a regular on the Blackpool Club trains in the early 90s and the North Wales coast during the late 90s. It then moved to Scotland to cover the Fort William sleeper route.
I was fortunate enough to catch it for my final time in May 2003 when it worked a charter to Oban as it worked for the last time the following month. It languished about in various depots and locations for 10 years before being cut up in 2013.