Scottish Lowlander Racing Saturday 27th September 2014

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• published: 29 Sep 2014
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Coming up in this episode. We race the Scottish Lowlander Railtour marking the 50th Anniversary of the original train that ran in September 1964. The train ran from Crewe to Edinburgh and return with an LMS Duchess doing the Crewe to Carlisle and Return run up shap and an LNER A4 doing the scottish leg from Carlisle to Edinburgh and return. The locomotives from the original run were 46256 Sir William Stanier F.R.S and 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley. 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley is today the sole survivor from the original train and I thought it mite have been involved with the 50th anniversary but unfortunately the a4 was needed at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway as on the same weekend of this trip was the autumn steam gala on the NYMR. On the day of the 50th anniversary the tour could not get into Edinburgh due to the Ryder Cup tournament and there would not have been a available platform in Edinburgh. So instead for the Scotland section it would do the circle route via Dumfries. The locomotives given the honor for the 50th anniversary trip were 46233 Duchess of Sutherland and 60009 Union of South Africa. The duchess would take the train up the west coast mainline from Crewe to Carlisle via Shap while number 9 would take the train from Carlisle to Scotland circle via Dumfries. We start this episode at Wigan North Western and we board the slightly delayed 6.25am Virgin service to Lancaster which is were we get 46233 at Speed for our first proper film shot of the day. We then board the 8.15am First Trans Pennine Express service to Penrith North Lakes along the way we past the duchess at Carnforth as she was taking on water before the climb to Shap. Before arriving into Penrith were we get 46233 at speed again before we board the delayed 9.21am FTP service to Lockerbie. We past the special at Carlisle as 46233 was ready to be uncoupled from the train to make way for 60009. We soon arrive at Lockerbie station were we get 60009 Union of South Africa at Speed while doing the scottish leg of the tour. We soon depart Lockerbie on the 11.10am FTP service as far as Carlisle were there was a layover so i can get something to eat before boarding the 12.08pm Virgin service to Wigan North Western were the is show finishes. To sum up it was an awesome morning racing the Scottish Lowlander and getting the speeding shots of 46233 and 60009 the highlight was seeing 60009 on scottish territory as 60009 has been a scottish engine for most of his life in service. Thanks for reading enjoy the film.