What is this train?

[alexnick]

Hi all,

At work today, we wre examing the working timetables for the West London Line and discovered the following train - we don't know what it is, but the best guess is a railtour of sorts.

It leaves Victoria at 8:45 for Chesterfield, then is scheduled to return at about 18:30. It only runs on Wednesdays, but has a path every Wednesday. It's scheduled motive power was described as "90-47 774(pi)" - this means that it is a 47 and permitted to do 90mph, but nobody could figure out the pi sign. (Is the 47 pushing something else? - just a thought).

Anyway, I'd be interested if anyone knows what this is. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Nick

[chuxn2005]

Dont think it runs every wednesday

[alexnick]

Probably not, but it has the path booked every Wednesday (and it's not described as 'conditional' - which would mean that it is not a regular service).

[trainlover123]

Looking in Freightmaster it doesn't appear to be a regular freight working. (What would one be doing at Victoria anyway?)

Perhaps a London Spotter could shed some light?

What is the Reporting Code?

[alexnick]

No, it's in the passenger timetable (1E02 - I think, or at least it is coming up by Acton and Willesden). I'm really puzzled by this - and why it contains pi in it's code is beyond me (it wasn't listed as a symbol in the guide to the timetable!). It also confused one of the best timetable planners in the country, so I know it's quite a difficult one! Perhaps someone has seen it though.

Nick

[Damo]

It would most likely be for the Blue Pullman (top and tailed 47s) or something similar. The VSOE, for example, has a booked timetable for every Wednesday down my line but it doesn't run every week however if a VSOE is going to Southampton or the West Country then it will use that particular path.

[ianmacmillan]

Try looking for it on the German timetable site.

http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/en

It used to give the Royal Scotsman timings including it's twice a year trip to Paddington.