Vintage Trains

Vintage Trains
Overview
Franchise(s)	Railtour Operator
Main service(s)	Shakespeare Express
Parent company	Birmingham Railway Museum Trust
Website	www.vintagetrains.co.uk

Vintage Trains is an operator of heritage railtours in the United Kingdom. It is a subsidiary of Birmingham Railway Museum Trust, and is based at Tyseley Locomotive Works, the trust's other subsidiary. Since 1998 a summer Sundays timetabled service on the North Warwickshire Line has supplemented Vintage Trains usual railtour activities.

Mainline Locomotives

Vintage Trains operates many steam and diesel locomotives on their mainline railtours.

Steam locomotives

Locomotives listed here are not all owned by Tyseley Locomotive Works as some are owned by private societies, but are made available to operate on the mainline by their respective owners (assuming they have the appropriate mainline certification).

All engines used on VT's tours will be operated under vacuum braking, engines which do have dual/air braking fitted can be used on VT tours but only operated under vacuum braking (71000 being an example as it's fitted with air brakes).

Updated: 30 Sept 2018, 1:00pm

Key:	Operational	Operational, Heritage Railway/Museum	Under Repair/Fitment of equipment	Due to be certified in near future/Undergoing testing	Under overhaul/restoration/construction	Expired Mainline Certificate/Withdrawn from Service/Stored

Number	Name	Class	Livery	Owner	Tops No	Mainline until	Max Speed	Location	Notes
4965	Rood Ashton Hall	GWR "Hall" 4-6-0	GWR Green	Tyseley Locomotive Works	98565	2020	60 mph	Tyseley LW
5043	Earl of Mount Edgcumbe	GWR "Castle" 4-6-0	BR Green, Early Emblem	Tyseley Locomotive Works	98743	-	75 mph	Tyseley LW	Due for overhaul near end of 2018
5080	Defiant	GWR "Castle" 4-6-0	GWR Green	Tyseley Locomotive Works	98780	-	75 mph	Tyseley LW	Funding for overhaul underway by "The Defiant Club".^[1]
6880	Betton Grange	GWR "Grange" 4-6-0	N/A	The Betton Grange Society	98580	-	60 mph	Tyseley LW	New build of next member of class.
7029	Clun Castle	GWR "Castle" 4-6-0	BR Green, Late Crest	Tyseley Locomotive Works	98729	*2025	75 mph	Tyseley LW	Overhaul recently completed.
L.94	-	GWR "5700 Pannier Tank" 0-6-0	LT Red	Tyseley Locomotive Works	98452	-	45 mph	Tyseley LW
7760	-	GWR "5700 Pannier Tank" 0-6-0	-	Tyseley Locomotive Works	98460	-	45 mph	Tyseley LW
9600	-	GWR "8750 Pannier Tank" 0-6-0	BR Black, Early Emblem	Tyseley Locomotive Works	98457	2018	45 mph	Tyseley LW
5593	Kolhapur	LMS "Jubilee" 4-6-0	LMS Crimson Lake	Tyseley Locomotive Works	98693	-	75 mph	Tyseley LW
45596	Bahamas	LMS "Jubilee" 4-6-0	BR Green, Late Crest	Bahamas Locomotive Society	98696	*2025	75 mph	Tyseley LW	Only surviving jubilee with double chimney.
71000	Duke of Gloucester	BR Standard Class 8 4-6-2	BR Green, Early Emblem (on completion)	Class 8 Steam Locomotive Trust	98802	-	75 mph	Tyseley LW	To be based at Tyseley following overhaul ^[2]

Diesel locomotives

Bold = Current number

Pre Tops Number	Tops Number	Class	Name	Livery	Owner	Status	Location	Photograph
D1755	47773	47	-	BR Two-Tone Green	Vintage Trains	Operational	Tyseley LW

Also in the past 6 years, Vintage Trains has operated charters using electric and diesel traction that hasn't already been mentioned above, including British Railway's Electric Class 86 86259 'Les Ross', British Railway's Class 47 Diesel 47580 'County of Essex' and British Railway's Class 50 Diesel 50049 'Defiance'. The company has also used various other diesels such as West Coast Railway Company's own Class 33 and Class 47 Diesels.

Vintage Trains CBS

Until late 2017, Vintage Trains operated its railtours with West Coast Railways providing the crews, WCRC being the only charter operator available who would operate vacuum braked trains as none of the engines based at Tyseley are fitted with air brakes. But from 2018, it was announced that due to a falling number of crews being available, West Coast Railways said they were unable to provide footplate crews to operate VT's trains and as a result of this, the early 2018 railtour programme which had been planned including the planned debut run of 7029 Clun Castle had to be cancelled.^[3]

Vintage Trains CBS was set up in late 2017 as a publicly owned company and in order to fund the company began recruiting members of the public to become shareholders in the company by purchasing shares (minimum available for purchase being £500 per share).^[4]

The share scheme to fund the company was launched in December 2017 and was planned to close in May 2018, at which point a minimum of £800,000 had to be reached. The minimum amount required was reached before the closing date and is now planned to be kept open until New Year's Eve 2018 (31 December 2018) or until the max amount is reached which is £3,000,000.^[5]

References

↑ http://www.vintagetrains.co.uk/defiant.aspx
↑ https://www.theduke.uk.com/2018/03/30/agreement-vintage-trains-br-class-8-steam-locomotive-trust/
↑ "Railtour Update from Vintage Trains". 9 January 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
↑ "Vintage Trains Share Offer". 8 January 2018. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
↑ http://www.vintagetrains.co.uk/csoffer9.aspx

External links

A picture of a Chiltern Turbo and a Vintage Trains steam train at Stratford Upon Avon station in the year 2004.

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[1] ttp://www.vintagetrains.co.uk/defiant.aspx

[2] ttps://www.theduke.uk.com/2018/03/30/agreement-vintage-trains-br-class-8-steam-locomotive-trust/

[3] "Railtour Update from Vintage Trains". 9 January 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2018.

[4] "Vintage Trains Share Offer". 8 January 2018. Retrieved 8 January 2018.

[5] ttp://www.vintagetrains.co.uk/csoffer9.aspx