2nd September 1981 (Cumbrian Mountain Express)

Date Wednesday, 2nd September 1981

Locomotive 45407

Ran as 5407

Direction South

Load

Diesel

Tour name Cumbrian Mountain Express

Headboard Cumbrian Mountain Express

Tour promoter Steam Locomotive Operators Association

Operating company British Railways

5407 approaches Ais Gill summit with a southbound CME in the late summer of 1981.I cannot find my notes from that period,Kodak stamped the slide mount Nov 1981 so I think it must have been taken late Aug or early Sept but if anyone can provide a date I would be grateful
Copyright David Price
No unauthorised use

Topping the climb
by David Price.