9th February 2019 (Bahamas Railtour I)

Date Saturday, 9th February 2019

Locomotive 45596 (Bahamas)

Ran as 45596

Direction North and south

Load 10

Diesel Rear

Tour name Bahamas Railtour I

Headboard The Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, The Bahamas Renaissance

Tour promoter Keighley & Worth Valley Railway

Operating company West Coast Railways

Route

  • Oxenhope (45596 on)
  • Keighley
  • Hellifield
  • Carlisle
  • Hellifield
  • Keighley (45596 off)
  • Oxenhope

Notes

Bahamas' first mainline railtour following overhaul. Delayed departure from Keighley due to a tree fowling the overhead wires on the down line near Keighley. Time was fully regained on arrival at Carlisle. Headboard changed at Appleby on the return. 45212 hauled the final part of the tour with KWVR stock between Keighley and Oxenhope, running tender first.
After an absence of 25 years, 'Bahamas' makes a welcome return to the mainline. Looking resplendent in a burst of midday sun, 45596 cruises past Long Marton with a tour train from the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway to Carlisle, 2nd February 2019..Sunny Bahamas
 by David Horner. A green Jubilee on the Settle -Carlisle. 45596 Bahamas climbs towards Lazonby from Long Meg.Bringing on back the good times
 by Robert & Joan Green. Stanier 'Jubilee' 4-6-0 45596' Bahamas' well into her stride as shed passes Howe & Co. Sidings returning the 'Bahamas Railtour I' to Keighley, the 1Z61 15:30 from Carlisle on Saturday 9th February 2019. The British Gypsum Howe & Company sidings, the throat of the yard once in the grassed area in the foreground, were lifted between 1982-83 by volunteers from the Tanfield Railway. © Gordon Edgar - All rights reserved. Please do not use my images without my explicit permissionHowe & Co 'Sidings'
 by Gordon Edgar.