67024 passing Weaver Junction working 3Z40 1705 Arpley Sidings - Liverpool South Parkway via reversal at Crewe with 67021 at the rear 05/04/25. Pole shot.
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67024 passing Weaver Junction working 3Z40 1705 Arpley Sidings - Liverpool South Parkway via reversal at Crewe with 67021 at the rear 05/04/25. Pole shot.
67021 taken on no 3 neck about to depart with 3Z40 1705 Arpley Sidings - Liverpool South Parkway via reversal at Crewe with 67024 at the rear 05/04/25.
Belmond DB 67021 with 67024 speed south at Weaver Junction in Cheshire with the returning empty VSOE stock for Liverpool South Parkway to pick up its passengers after the 2025 Grand National at Aintree.
* This is the site of the first Flying Junction in the world.
The WCML Warrington - Crewe section was opened through here in 1837 by the Grand Junction Railway and the Liverpool line constructed by the LNWR in 1869.
WCML occupies the centre two tracks and the up Liverpool - Crewe the far track via the Flying Junction opened in 1881.
** Details of the VSOE Stock:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belmond_British_Pullman
67021 stabled on the hump at Arpley while the train is being serviced after working up north for the annual 'Grand National' day special. It would shortly depart as 3Z40 1705 Arpley Sidings - Liverpool South Parkway via reversal at Crewe with 67024 at the rear 05/04/25.
After disgorging its well healed Aintree Grand National punters, DB Belmond liveried 67021 works the VSOE empty stock back to Warrington Arpley for servicing.
* This move required a reversal at Crewe after DB refused to take the stock via the Low Level line after unchecked lineside vegetation scratched the Pullman stock two years ago.
* Pole @ 8m.
Having earlier arrived with visitors from London Euston for the Grand National at Aintree racecourse, the Belmond British Pullman heads eastbound through Halebank empty after dropping its passengers off at Liverpool South Parkway. DB Cargo Class 67 loco 67021 leads the stock on the empty run from Liverpool over to Arpley Sidings via Crewe, with fellow classmate 67024 tailing the rear of the train.
Note: A pole was used for this shot
DB Cargo Class 67 No. 67021 approaches Shortlands working the 1Y40 11:03 Victoria to Gillingham Belmond British Pullman “A Moving Murder Mystery” rail tour
Never shoot into the sun, they say. Well sometimes it’s that or nothing and the return Belmond Pullman ‘Historic Bath’ trip is a case in point, given its timing and the sun direction, at least in the Bath area. So here is 67021 passing Sydney Gardens with 1O92, 15:56 Bath Spa-London Victoria Pullman on 5 March, 2025. Luckily, digital technology is quite up to dealing with less than ideal lighting.
Working 1Z52 1300 Peterborough to London Kings Cross
Running an ECS move from Bristol to Bath from where it would form 1O92, the 15:56 to London Victoria.
1Z50 1055 London Kings Cross to Peterborough Belmond Pullman service arrival into Peterborough station seen at 1245.
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1Z50 1055 London Kings Cross to Peterborough Belmond Pullman service arrival into Peterborough station seen at 1245.
Ian Sharman - All rights reserved. Please do not use my images without my explicit permission.
1Z50 1055 London Kings Cross to Peterborough Belmond Pullman service arrival into Peterborough station seen at 1245.
Ian Sharman - All rights reserved. Please do not use my images without my explicit permission.
1Z50 1055 London Kings Cross to Peterborough Belmond Pullman service arrival into Peterborough station seen at 1245.
Ian Sharman - All rights reserved. Please do not use my images without my explicit permission.
1Z50 1055 London Kings Cross to Peterborough Belmond Pullman service arrival into Peterborough station seen at 1245.
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leading, TnT 67024, 1Z47 London Victoria to Cardiff Central, private charter for Six Nations Rugby
67021 passes Sydney Gardens with 1V80, a Belmond Pullman ‘Historic Bath’ luxury dining service from London Victoria on 5 March, 2025. Sydney Gardens predates the railway, having been opened in 1795, modelled on the then-famous Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens in London.
67021 leads 67024 Through a lucky patch of sun near Hullavington working 1Z47 London Victoria - Cardiff Central for England's game against Wales in the Six Nations.
