Vintage Trains

Vintage Trains
Overview
Franchise(s): Railtour Operator
Main service(s): Shakespeare Express
Parent company: Birmingham Railway Museum Trust
Web site: www.vintagetrains.co.uk

Vintage Trains is an operator of heritage railtours in the United Kingdom. It is a subsidiary of Birmingham Railway Museum Trust, and is based at Tyseley Locomotive Works, the trust's other subsidiary. Since 1998 a summer Sundays timetabled service on the North Warwickshire Line has supplemented Vintage Trains usual railtour activities.

Mainline Locomotives

Vintage Trains operates many steam and diesel locomotives on their mainline railtours. Here is a list of the locomotives that are provisionally part of their 2013 tour programme:

Home Fleet:

Visiting Fleet:

Vintage Trains has also operated mainline steam locomotives in the past that no longer work on the mainline. These have been withdrawn for various reasons and not all are currently based at Tyseley Locomotive Works:

Also in the past 6 years, Vintage Trains has operated charters using electric and diesel traction that hasn't already been mentioned above, including British Railway's Electric Class 86 86259 'Les Ross', British Railway's Class 47 Diesel 47580 'County of Essex' and British Railway's Class 50 Diesel 50049 'Defiance'. The company has also used various other diesels such as West Coast Railway Company's own Class 33 and Class 47 Diesels.

External links

A picture of a Chiltern Turbo and a Vintage Trains steam train at Stratford Upon Avon station in the year 2004.
Shakespeare Express route map
Legend
Snow Hill-Worcester Line
Birmingham Snow Hill Midland Metro
Snow Hill Tunnel
Birmingham Moor Street
Bordesley Viaduct
Bordesley
Camp Hill Line
Bordesley Junction
Small Heath
Tyseley Locomotive Works
Tyseley
Tyseley South Junction
Spring Road
Hall Green
Yardley Wood
Shirley
Stratford-upon-Avon Canal
Whitlocks End
Wythall
Earlswood
The Lakes
Spring Brook
M42
Wood End
Wood End Tunnel
Danzey
Henley-in-Arden
Chiltern Main Line
Wootton Wawen
Edstone Aqueduct
Bearley West Junction
Wilmcote
A46
Stratford-upon-Avon Canal
Stratford-upon-Avon
Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway