31st May 1999 (Cumbrian Mountain Express)

Date Monday, 31st May 1999

Locomotive 35005 (Canadian Pacific)

Ran as 35005

Direction South

Load 13

Diesel None

Tour name Cumbrian Mountain Express

Headboard None

Tour promoter Pathfinder Tours

Route

  • Didcot Parkway
  • Carlisle (35005 on)
  • Hellifield
  • Blackburn
  • Crewe (35005 off)
  • Didcot Parkway
With the 50th anniversary of the end of B.R. Southern Region steam fast approaching, the incongruous sight of a a rebuilt 'Merchant Navy' Bulleid Pacific hard at work on the Settle-Carlisle line will soon be a spectacle to be repeated repeated. Turning the clock back eighteen years, 35005 'Canadian Pacific' crosses Ais Gill viaduct heading a Cumbrian Mountain Express' charter on 31st May 1999. Copyright Gordon Edgar - All rights reserved. Please do not use any of these images without my explicit permissionBulleid at Ais Gill
 by Gordon Edgar.