Confirmed Timings and Routing added 02.08.2021.
Please note New Boarding Passes are being issued for this railtour – previously issued ones are invalid.
‘The Blue Boys Merrymixer’.
The confirmed routing is:
Class 68 Eastleigh – Basingstoke – Reading West – Didcot Parkway – Banbury – Leamington Spa – Coventry – Birmingham International – Stechford – Bescot Up and Down Goods (Reverse & Attach Class 37’s to head): – Soho junctions – Birmingham NS – Water Orton – Wichnor Jn – Coalville line- Knighton Up and Down Goods Loop – Wigston Junction – Hinckley – Nuneaton – Water Orton – Sutton Park – Walsall – Bushbury Junction – Stafford – Crewe (break 1425-1625).
Class 66 to haul Crewe – Gresty Green Through Siding – Nantwich – Crewe Bank Up Goods Loop – Shrewsbury – Cosford Up Goods Loop – Oxley Up Goods Loop – Oxley Chord – Bushbury Down Goods Loop – Penkridge – Stafford Up and Down Goods Loop (Reverse & Detach class 66. Attach class 88 to haul): Stafford – Wolverhampton, Soho Junctions – Perry Barr Junctions – Bescot (Reverse & Detach Class 88 and attach Class 57(s) to haul): – Bescot – Aston – Birmingham International – Coventry – and back to Eastleigh as per outward journey.
Confirmed Timings:
Eastleigh 0530 0020
Basingstoke 0610 2345
Reading West 0635 2315
Didcot Parkway 0655 2255
Banbury 0730 2210
Leamington Spa 0750 2145
Coventry 0835 2110
Birmingham International 0850 2050
Birmingham New Street 1020 –
Wolverhampton – 1920
