16th February 2013 (Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express)

Date Saturday, 16th February 2013

Locomotive 60009 (Union of South Africa)

Ran as 60009

Direction South

Load 12

Diesel None

Tour name Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express

Headboard Cumbrian Mountain Express

Tour promoter Railway Touring Company

Operating company West Coast Railways

Blue Riband time

26 minutes, 14 seconds

Route

London Euston
Carnforth (60009 on)
Carlisle
Hellifield
Blackburn
Farington Junction (60009 off)
London Euston

I was surprised to find the light reasonable around Kirkby Stephen compared to Carlisle. This is a location I've wanted to try for some time. I wasn't sure about cutting the frame in half with the dry stone wall in the foreground but decided that it complemented the scene more than having just the field which is behind it.

Union of South Africa comes off Smardale Viaduct with it's third consecutive Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express run this month.

Published in Railway Herald Issue 350.

Union of South Africa at Smardale
at , Smardale, England, United Kingdom by The Talkin Lens.