Tuesday 18th June 2019:
Black Five Steam Locomotive To Pass Through Warminster
For the rail buffs in Warminster, if you don't know already, a Steam Dreams tour London-Bristol will be making its return journey (via Salisbury) through Warminster on Thursday 20th June 2019, at 6.50 p.m. The Steam Dreams website says a Black Five locomotive is rostered.
Black Fives were known as "do-anything and go-anywhere" locomotives.
18 Black Fives survived into preservation with several examples
still working on the mainline railway. Members of the class that have
feature on previous tours with The Steam Dreams Rail Co. include 45212,
44871, 45407, 45305 & 44932. The first class 5 locomotive was built for the London, Midland &
Scottish Railway in 1934 to the design of Sir William Stanier. The new
locomotives when built left the railway works in the standard mixed
traffic black livery which soon earned them the nickname "Black Fives"
for which they are still affectionately referred to today. The
locomotives were capable of handling both express passenger and freight
trains and were spread far and wide across the UK railway system. By the
time the last Black Five was built in 1951, the class numbered 842
locomotives; one of the most numerous classes of British steam
locomotives ever built.
Whilst this locomotive is rostered for the steam hauled
sections of the trip listed, it cannot be guaranteed and may be
substituted for a different engine.
https://www.steamdreams.co.uk/tours.php?tourid=72142
Outbound:
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U52210/2019/06/20/advanced
.
Return:
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U52214/2019/06/20/advanced
https://www.national-preservation.com/threads/steam-dreams-london-bristol-20-06-19.1395612/