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    Vintage Trains reveals its big plans for the future as it becomes TOC

    Oct 15, 2018 5 minutes
    By Jonathan Webb
    VT

    NINE months since it ran its last train, GWR Castle 4-6-0 No. 5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe on the ‘Christmas White Rose’ from Tyseley to York on December 16, Tyseley-based Vintage Trains has been granted an operating licence by the Office of Rail and Road, as reported in Headline News last issue.

    The long delay in completing the process has meant that VT has not been able to launch the new TOC on its trademark ‘Shakespeare Express’ service as originally envisaged.

    Although this hiatus was frustrating, and had an undoubted impact on cash flow, the company is placing that all behind itself and looking to the future with a host of exciting proposals that will encompass not only steam, but heritage diesels and other TOCs.

    Commercial director Ben Mason explained that for quite a while prior

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