June 2016
The first Class 68's to work a railtour to the Westcountry was on Saturday 4th June 2016 when 68016 'Fearless' top & tailed with 68017 'Hornet' worked the Belmond Northern Belle, captured passing Totnes at 09:55 forming 1Z31 07:05 Swindon to Par. Tickets on this charter were £340 which included a trip to the Eden project
The first Class 68's to work a railtour to the Westcountry was on Saturday 4th June 2016 when 68017 'Hornet' top & tailed with 68016 'Fearless'worked the Belmond Northern Belle, captured passing Totnes at 09:55 forming 1Z31 07:05 Swindon to Par. Tickets on this charter were £340 which included a trip to the Eden project
47848 & 47812 on hire from Riviera Trains to Rail Operations Group (ROG) head arrive into Totnes with the latest refurbished GWR Mk3 HST set LA16, forming 5V47 05:15 Kilmarnock to Laira. This was the second GWR HST set to receive to new GWR green livery. Barrier coaches 6348 & 6336 were also in the consist having been overhauled as well. The formation of the train was: 6348 41158 40743 42245 42581 42129 42200 42250 44086 6338 6336. Saturday 18th June 2016
70809 stops in Totnes to reverse into the Tamper siding to the west of platform 2 with JNA NLU 29157 to collect JNA NLU 29076 which has been dumped in the tamper siding since March. The working was 6C30 09:30 Tavistock Junction to Westbury which was moving the two cripple JNA Falcons back to Westbury. Wednesday 29th June 2016