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    Jun 07, 2022 7 minutes

    TABLE ONE: CARNFORTH-CHESTER

    Don Benn looks at some of the locomotive performance on the Railway Touring Company’s Great Britain X1V tour, featuring LMS Jubilee Class 6 4-6-0s No. 45596 Bahamas double-heading with 45690 Leander, and LMS Princess Coronation pacific 6233 Duchess of Sutherland.

    IN APRIL this year the Railway Touring Company ran another ‘Great Britain’ tour, No. 14 (X1V) in the series. The itinerary, with loco and crew allocations, is shown below. DL 47802 was taken throughout in Scotland – due to dry conditions, Network Rail Scotland declared a high fire risk. I was not on this so I am relying on reports from my correspondents, Sandy Smeaton and Alan Rawlings.

    Wednesday, April 27 (day six) was possibly the best of the tour, with double-headed 5XP Jubilees all day from Grange-over-Sands to Cardiff. Sandy takes up the story:

    ‘’Day six was arguably the highlight of this year’s ‘Great Britain’, with the two Jubilees – 45596 and 45690 – working the train from Grange-over-Sands to Cardiff. The empty stock started from Carnforth at the anti-social hour of 03.59, with No. 47802 leading and the Jubilees at the rear, running out to Askham, reversing there for Grange. After

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