A steam train will be travelling through Cumbria this weekend – and here’s where you can spot it.
The SR 4-6-2 Tangmere will be making its way through the county tomorrow, Saturday June 1.
It will be travelling on the coast line from Carlisle to Carnforth from 1.22pm.
It is named after the military airfield in Sussex and is a Battle of Britain class locomotive, completed at Southern Railway’s Brighton works in September 1947 and given the number 21C167. Following the nationalisation of Britain’s railways, Tangmere was renumbered 34067 in July 1949.
The locomotive was returned to steam in October 2021 following an overhaul which included fitting the boiler from class mate 34073 249 Squadron.
Tangmere is owned by David Smith who owns Steamtown Railway Museum Ltd depot at Carnforth, the holding company for West Coast Railways.
The locomotive is normally based at the company’s second base the former Great Western Railway depot at Southall Railway Centre, West London.
It returned to the main line at the end of January 2022 when it hauled the Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express.
It is expected at:
- Carlisle 13.22
- Wigton 13.49
- Maryport 14.11
- Workington 14.20
- Whitehaven 14.46
- St Bees 14.56
- Millom 15.58
- Barrow 16.29
- Ulverston 16.46
- Carnforth 17.16
If you spot the Tangmere on its journey through Cumbria – email us your photos and video! Send them to [email protected]
UPDATE – Saturday June 1: Here’s a selection of photos and videos from our readers.
