The EMT service on the branch is only two hourly on a Sunday.:)

Anyone got any timings for it's arrival at Matlock ???

http://www.railwaytouring.co.uk/inde...---050311.html

But note it still says Saturday the fifth of March so the eventual timing may be different.

Matlock arr 13:00
Rowsley arr 13:30 dep 16:40

Railway Touring Co. website is usually somewhat tardy in updating (Allegedly) and details given on it from my own experience can vary drastically from what eventually happens. Some very good tours are announced but the outcome can frequently be at odds with the first announcement, different dates/routes/locos or combinations thereof. Bear in mind that tours are in the R.T.C. Brochure which covers tours many months in advance (our copy landed on the doormat this morning) and rarely are the locos booked or routes agreed before publication.

Timings are usually only sent out to tour operators about ten days before the tour actually runs. Any times given on the websites/in the brochures should be regarded as provisional only, the actual times can and DO vary considerably from the initial estimates.

Regards, 62440.

Would it be on TRUST and do we have a mole in the railway organisation? :-)

Timings look interesting. It looks as if they plan to hold the Charter in the loop at Ambergate to allow the Matlock Train to leave the branch at 12.51. Going to be tight to get to Matlock for 13.00hrs!

Matlock branch Train is due to pick up the token at Ambergate at 13.08! arriving at Matlock at 13.24. Not much room for late running!

The return journey: Charter to leave Matlock at 17.20. Matlock Branch Train to arrive at Matlock 17.24 or is it going to be a bus! Perhaps if the Charter left at 17.30 the Branch train could go into the loop at Matlock. However the branch train is due to leave Matlock at 17.36, so the Charter will not have reached Ambergate to release the token.

Should be an interesting day!

Best wishes,

John H-T.

It's the first day of the new timetable so anyone's guess.

However is there a loop at Matlock (I haven't been to Sainsburys lately) and would the EMT be able to use it not being Network Rail metals?

I think that they are network at least up to the bridge near Sainsbury's as they have enough NR signage warning about trespass etc. there's plenty of nice photo opportunity space in the car park pity it's pay and display

Wouldn't there be some sort of boundary marker board?

Park at Cromford and take the train in. That's what a lot of people do particularly on Summer weekends.

The Network Rail Boundary is where the red stop block is, fenced in on my first photo. If my memory serves me correctly there is a NR loop by Sainsburys so the Matlock Branch Train could be held there. This all assumes that the Charter goes through to Rowsley.

My Matlock Branch Timetable is to 21st May 2011.

Best wishes,

John H-T.