Steam locomotive 45699 Galatea / 48151 will be back in steam on the mainline and will be in Carlisle on Tuesday 28th August 2018.

The Jubilee or 8F locomotive is on a special railtour tomorrow. 45690 is hauling The Dalesman on Tuesday.

The railtour departs York behind a diesel locomotive at approximately 08:34 am.

The railtour will then leave York, bound for Carlisle, where it will make stops at Normanton (09:23), Wakefield Kirkgate (09:31) and Wakefield Westgate (09:38) before arriving at Leeds at 09:56.

Departing Leeds at 10:20, the train will head via Shipley (10:42), Keighley (10:58) and Skipton (11:14) to Hellifield Goods Loop, where either 45699 or 48151 is added to the train.

The train will depart with either 45699 or 48151 at 11:58, steaming through Ribblehead (12:23) and Kirkby Stephen (12:53), it will go non stop to Carlisle, where it will arrive at 14:21.

After around 2 hours in Carlisle, 45699 or 48151 will depart Carlisle at 16:34 bound for York. It will pass through Lazonby & Kirkoswalk (17:04) and will stop for water at Appleby (17:26).

Continuing down the Settle and Carlisle line, 45699/48151 will pass over the Ribblehead Viaduct at approx 18:25, continuing to Settle, the train comes off the Settle and Carlisle line at Settle Junction (18:42) where it heads for Hellifield at 18:48.

At Hellifield, 45699/48151 is taken off the train, with a diesel locomotive taking the train for the remaining journey and will take the same path back to York, calling at Skipton (19:53), Keighley (20:08), Shipley (20:21), Leeds (20:44), Wakefield Westgate (21:11), Wakefield Kirkgate (21:15) and Normanton (21:24).

The railtour will arrive back at its final destination of York at 22:01.

These above timings in brackets are approximate timings, please click the links below, which tracks the train throughout the day to keep you up to date on when it will pass through your local station.

Timings

For timings on these movements, please click the links below:

• Outbound: 1Z45 0834 York to Carlisle via Leeds, Keighley, and Ribblehead
• Return: 1Z47 1634 Carlisle to York via Appleby, Ribblehead, Skipton, and Shipley

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