20th September 1984 (Cumbrian Mountain Express)

Date Thursday, 20th September 1984

Locomotive 46229 (Duchess of Hamilton)

Ran as 46229

Direction South

Load

Diesel

Tour name Cumbrian Mountain Express

Headboard Cumbrian Mountain Express

Tour promoter Steam Locomotive Operators Association

Operating company British Railways

The shots on the curve by the old Midland cottage were well-known but there were other options in the Baron Wood area.I posted a couple from the sandpit a while ago,this is a bit further north.46229 Duchess of Hamilton passes the old siding(Christmas tree siding ?) with a southbound CME
Copyright David Price
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Deep in Baron Wood 1
by David Price.

46229 exits the Southern portal of Birkett tunnel with an up CME.

BIRKETT TUNNEL 20TH SEPTEMBER 1984
by Lord Stamp.

Tom Coleman's classic lines for the Princess Coronation pacifics are well evidenced from this angle as 46229 toys with an 11 coach load for the final mid-week CME of the 1984 season.

DENT HEAD 20TH SEPTEMBER 1984
by Lord Stamp.

Duchess of Hamilton with a southbound CME on 20/9/1984
Not much chance of exhaust here but it does show the old layout with the box,all the semaphores and northbound loop and siding visible
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46229 Blea Moor
by David Price.