1001 goes to the West Somerset Railway - 'West Somerset Limited' Railtour Part 2 - 19/06/10

On Saturday 19th June 2010, class 201 'Hastings' DEMU No. 1001 worked Hastings Diesels Limited's third tour of the year, the 'West Somerset Limited', which took the 'Thumper' from Hastings to Minehead on the West Somerset Railway, the longest preserved railway in the UK.

The tour started at Hastings and travelled via Battle, Tunbridge Wells, Tonbridge and Guildford to get to Reading. From here, the 'Thumper' took the 'Berks & Hants' line down to Newbury and Westbury. After Westbury, the tour was supposed to run via the Frome avoiding line, however, due to early running and presumably no available path, the train took the Frome station line to get out of the way of FGW HSTs. The route was then to Taunton and on to the West Somerset Railway.

The return from Minehead saw the 'Hastings' unit retrace its steps along the West Somerset Railway and on to Fairwood Junction where the tour took the Westbury avoiding line instead of the Westbury station line as per the outward route. From Heywood Road Junction, the 6-car DEMU was back on the outward route, running via Reading, Guildford, Redhill, Tonbridge and down to Hastings.

This is part 2 and shows the tour traversing the WSR between Bishops Lydeard and Minehead and also features D1015 and 6024 at Minehead and some of the return journey along the WSR.

Some photos @ http://craigrailpics.fotopic.net/c1862793.htm

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[60103Henry]

Great Video, 5 Stars! I saw 6024 and D1015 at Taplow.

[robmasterman]

Absolutely superb Craig, so nice to see the WSR from inside a Thumper...on to part three...Bob

[crazymanlargemarge]

Lovely Countryside, i might have to visit there sometime! liked Great Work :)

[concretejockey]

Hi 21C123

Supurb.Thank you.

Kind regards Concretejockey.