Tudor Minstrel hauls the Waverley Special

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Tudor Minstrel hauls the Waverley Special
Tudor Minstrel hauls the Waverley Special

LNER Peppercorn A2 No 60528 'Tudor Minstrel' comes off the Waverley route and approaches the south end of Millerhill Yard with the Altrincham Railway Excursion Society's 'Waverley Special'.

Compared to many railtours of this period, this tour was a simple out and back from Manchester Exchange, running up to Carlisle, over the Waverley route to Edinburgh and down the east coast route to York before crossing the Pennines again to Manchester.

While part of the Waverley route has now re-opened as the Borders Railway, this section of the line was abandoned after the building of the Edinburgh City bypass in the 1980s.

The attraction of this tour was almost certainly the traction: the 3 surviving Peppercorn A2s and the 14 surviving V2s (V2 No. 60824 hauled the train south from Edinburgh) would be rare outside of Scotland in 1966.

In any event, both locomotives were withdrawn from service before the end of the year.

Photograph by an unknown photographer, now part of my collection.

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Taken on: April 23, 1966
Sets appears in:   • Nic Joynson Collection   
Groups appears in:   • Edinburgh's Railways   
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