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Bath Spa Expresses
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 6:39 pm
by mow
Torbay Express people are running trips to Bath from Poole.
http://www.torbayexpress.co.uk/index.ph ... thSpa.html
3, 17 & 31 August
14 & 28 September
5 October
Locos listed for this run are BR Pacific 70000 Britannia and LNER Pacific 4492 Dominion of New Zealand (Bittern 60019)
wed 17th aug 2011
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 5:55 pm
by chippy
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 8:40 pm
by horace
Britannia broken down at Westbury on return, coaches just gone through Wylye at 19:35 pulled by a EWS class 66.
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 10:10 pm
by mow
On the way to Bristol.
Must have been only a couple of feet away from Chippy, and didn't know it.
On the way back.
Bath Spa Expresses
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 2:50 am
by Mitch
Britannia ran out of steam at Warminster, according to Network Rail control. Problems with injectors and a visit from the fire brigade to provide much-needed water to prevent an explosion, allegedly.
Re: Bath Spa Expresses
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 8:22 pm
by free2grice
Mitch wrote:.....problems with injectors
You can see the problem evolving by studying the photograph at Claverton. By Warminster the water had all but disappeared. <BJ>
return - 31.8.2011
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 6:53 pm
by chippy
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 2:25 pm
by stopblock
There is another question going around the Traincrew that worked it. Who turned on the ashpan sprinkler and failed to turn it off. Although the fireman who worked it to Bath siad that it shouldnt have used all the water up.
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 9:33 am
by mow
The train appears to arrive earlier on Wednesday.
http://www.uksteam.info/tours/t11/t0914a.htm
Bradford Jc 10:55
Bathampton Jc 11:09
Bath Spa a 11:14 d 11:17
Bristol T M a 11:37
Return run.
Bristol T M d 15:35
Bath Spa a 15:52 d 15:54
Bathampton Jc 16:00
Bradford Jc 16:12
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 9:19 pm
by free2grice
mow wrote:The train appears to arrive earlier on Wednesday.
I believe that the timings are identical to the last Bath Spa Express on 31st August. <BJ>
1hr late at twerton - outward
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 6:40 pm
by chippy
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 7:58 pm
by BristleGWR
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 10:16 pm
by Robin Summerhill
What happened?? The A4 doesn't look particularly "lively"!!
Edited to add - I've just looked at Chippy's caption on his photograph .... ran out of coal. That's not the first time thats happened to an A4 in this neck of the woods
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 10:30 pm
by mow
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 10:36 pm
by mow
