Class 31 Tour?
 

I've heard that it's to do Essex branches, not heard anything recently.

Welcome to the Forum Tim.

Sorry, I don't have any details of this railtour.

Best wishes,

John H-T.

Hello Tim and welcome to the Railway Forum. Sorry but I also don't know anything about this railtour.

Hello and welcome to the forum Tim.

I Love the Class 31's, and also Southend when a kid, so Very interested in this tour and will have to search for the details.

Looked on the Pathfinder Tours website - nothing there

They said about this initially (I assume after dozens of queries) on The Mersey Mancunian of 24th January 2009, about all we were told is that it is hoped to be some sort of collaboration with A1A using 31s on an Essex branches tour, with details being known in the next few weeks. It'll be 3 weeks since then on Saturday, so I'm not expecting owt to be mentioned until Monday 16th February 2009. Possibly to ensure that they get The Cwm and Go sorted first.

I don't want to miss this though, a rare opportunity to get the branches down there done on something proper rather than sitting on a variety of 315s, 321s and 360s!

31s, lovely, book me a ticket. Been a long time since I last sampled 31s on the mainline :(

Class 31 Tour
 

Yes

It is a long time since we sampled Class 31s on a tour.

I did hear in the past, if this is correct, that EWS would not sign Class 31s? If this is true, either a crew hired in from West Coast Railways, Freightliner or GBRF would be used?