This railtour was run to celebrate 25 years of the Class 40 Preservation Society and was a 3-day extravaganza, featuring an enormous amount of high-speed running on ER mainlines.
The photos below show the tour at various stages over the three days.
| We start our journey at 15.10 at London Kings Cross. Here is 40145 awaiting departure for York. | |
| From a different angle | |
| After a high-speed run to York, 40145 takes a well earned rest before the passengers head for the city's main hostelries. | |
| Early, the following morning, 40145 prepares to depart, heading for London Liverpool St, via Peterborough and Cambridge. | |
| At around 12.30 we arrived at Liverpool St | |
| After a 2.5 hour break whilst both loco and passengers "took on fuel" we were ready to depart for what was billed as a non-stop run to Norwich. The run to Norwich was the highlight of the tour, timed at just 104 minutes, 7 minutes faster than scheduled...... | |
| ....... This was greatly helped by the decision to "loop" the 15.00 Liverpool St-Norwich electrically hauled express service train for us at Colchester !!!!! Whoever made that decision I take my hat off to you sir! Here we see '145 on arrival at Norwich. | |
| After reversing the train we set off again, and after only an hour arrived at Ely, where once more our train reversed. Here we see '145 about to set off for Peterborough and stations to York. | |
| Arriving at York shortly before 11pm there was a chance to catch up with some old friends...... | |
| The following morning and after a leisurely breakfast it was time to head south once more. Here is '145 awaiting departure in the sunshine. | |
| Again we travelled via Ely and Cambridge and again we stopped at Ely. Here is '145 enjoying a short break in the sun. | |
| Finally we arrived back at Kings Cross, having spent 3 days behind 40145. The loco never missed a beat and sounded superb throughout. | |