Steam locomotive 45699 Galatea will be back in steam on the mainline and will be in and around Shrewsbury on Thursday 13th September 2018.

The locomotive is on a special railtour on Thursday 13th September 2018. 45699 is hauling the Carnforth – Shrewsbury section of the Salopian Express 2 tour. The tour sees the steam locomotive steam through Preston and Wigan on its way to Shrewsbury.

The train will depart Dumfries behind a diesel locomotive at approximately 05:53 am.

The railtour will then leave Dumfries for Shrewsbury where it will call at Annan (06:10), Gretna Green (06:21), Carlisle (07:06), Penrith North Lakes (07:32) before arriving at Carnforth Down & Up Goods Loop at 08:18.

Here, steam locomotive 45699 Galatea will be attached to the train. Departing at 9 am, 45699 will call at Lancaster (09:11) and Preston (09:40) before arriving into Wigan North Western 10:36.

From Wigan, the train will pass through Warrington Bank Quay (10:58), Acton Bridge (11:15) and Winsford (11:26) before arriving into Crewe at 11:40.

Leaving Crewe, 45699 Galatea will head via Nantwich (12:28), Wrenbury (12:32) and Wem before arriving into Shrewsbury at 13:04.

On the return trip, the steam locomotive departs Shrewsbury at 17:10 and will head via Crewe (18:08), Wigan North Western (19:31), Preston (19:56) and Lancaster (21:38) to get back to Carnforth, arriving back at 21:49.

Here, the diesels take over from steam, and will head via Penrith North Lakes (22:51), Carlisle (23:12), Gretna Green (23:35) and Annan (23:47) before arriving into Dumfries at 00:06.

Please note: the timings shown above are only advisory, and these may change throughout the day. Please check the below links for up to date tracking of the train.

**45699 shown as an advised locomotive, this may change at short notice. The other locomotives that could haul this train are 45690 Leander or 35018 British India Line**

Timings

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

• Outbound: 1Z40 0553 Dumfries to Shrewsbury via Crewe
• Return: 1Z44 1710 Shrewsbury to Dumfries via Preston

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