Want to ride aboard @ClanLine28 steaming at speed on the mainline? For this new @NetworkRailWssx video we put GoPro cameras on it and went to see @networkrail’s Haslemere signal box in operation. Fun AND interesting:
🚂 Did you know...?
On this day in 1965, Canadian Pacific No.35005 set a record speed of 105mph on the descent to Winchester, and a 41-minute net time for the journey between Waterloo and Basingstoke.
📷: Steve Morley
Learn more about this moment:
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We are absolutely delighted to announce our first visiting locomotive for our Diesel Gala is Class 52 D1015 Western Champion, courtesy of our friends at the Diesel Traction Group!
More visitors announced soon.
Book now! https://t.co/ePznt8zxKM
📷 Image credit - DTG.
ICYMI, on Saturday the signal box at Haslemere welcomed its final steam train before its retirement later this year. A full video with @MrTimDunn will be released soon. For now, enjoy these clips and some words from signaller Ashley who sent the @ClanLine28 service through.
All aboard for the Diesel Gala at the Watercress Line.
📅 11 - 13 July
Join us for a weekend of heritage diesel traction as an intensive timetable runs across our steeply graded line.
Book your tickets now: https://t.co/4XjS6SscL9
📷 Richard Bentley
This weekend I had one of the rides of a lifetime: a mainline steam train trip with @ClanLine28 volunteer support crew. We became the last steam train signalled out by Haslemere box: ops soon moves to Basingstoke’s futuristic ROC. Expect our new @NetworkRail video on this v soon!
What a week its been! Hard to believe that a year ago today that Clan Line was about to haul it's 50th anniversary return to steam after major boiler works at Leaky Finders in Devon.
Thank you to all our friends, colleagues & supporters who made it all possible.
We're ready for tomorrow! Clan Line is all set for our trip to Bristol and Day One of the GBXVII with @railwaytou
Departure from Victoria will be 08:44 and we will be stopping at Haslemere & Salisbury along the way!
Missed the launch of 35005 Canadian Pacific?
Don’t worry - you haven’t missed your chance to see her in action! Join us at our upcoming Spring Steam Gala: https://t.co/SAZmf4mbls
Clan Line's all set and ready to go for tomorrow! She's out again with British Pullman with a trip to Dover and back from Victoria. Timings are 10:59 and 16:10 departure and arrival back into London and 13:20 and 13:52 arriving and departing from Dover respectively.
Happy Mother's Day!
The Sunday Session has two steam trains running today, allowing you to explore the Worth Valley & beyond. The first service departs Oxenhope Station at 1000.
🚂 45596 LMS 'Jubilee' Class 'Bahamas'
🚂 85 TVR Class 02
💙 Blue Timetable
#kwvr
Our third and final guest locomotive for our Spring Steam Gala is L&YR no. 752, courtesy of Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Trust. We are very excited to have No. 752 with us for the first time. Find out more and book here: https://t.co/xLDSdr0OOd
📷 Liam Barnes
We were delighted to welcome the CEO of the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Eilish McGuinness, and the Canadian Deputy High Commissioner, Robert Fry, to formally unveil 35005 'Canadian Pacific' at Alresford Station today. Wonderful day to formally celebrate her return to steam.