21st February 1981 (Cumbrian Mountain Express)

Date Saturday, 21st February 1981

Locomotive 44767 (George Stephenson)

Ran as 4767

Direction North

Load

Diesel

Tour name Cumbrian Mountain Express

Headboard Cumbrian Mountain Express

Tour promoter Steam Locomotive Operators Association

Operating company British Railways

Notes

5407 worked the Little North Western leg.

Bernard Staite whistles to his SLOA patrons taking photos off the road bridge to rejoin the train after a brief photographic stop at Dent. We were later treated to the first ever SLOA run pasts at Appleby - a feature that continued for several years.
4767 was given the lead roll at the time but 30 years later this much altered scene is of equal interest.

DENT 21ST FEBRUARY 1981
by Lord Stamp.