Sunday 29th June 2025

Join us on what we hope will be one of the most rewarding track tours of 2025!

What’s more we will enjoy heritage traction and Mk1 rolling stock – with opening windows! Our tour takes us around some lesser used routes and curves around London but the true highlight will be an exploration of Alstom’s Wembley complex – taking in lines that most of us only view from a distance let alone have the chance to travel over.

Our day starts in Tonbridge where our train, formed of a GBRF class 73 locomotive, the LUL’s 4TC heritage set and 71A’s class 33 locomotive,  33012 will make its way to London Bridge where there will be a further opportunity to join the train.

Our first unusual destination – at least loco hauled – is platform 2 at Battersea Park. Once a through route into London Victoria,  today the Atlantic lines have been lifted beyond Battersea Park and act as a turn back for local services formed by multiple units.

On departure we head towards Tulse Hill and we navigate the Leigham Spurs to effectively turn the train towards Kensington Olympia and Wembley yard. Our route around the Wembley area will see us enter via Acton Lane Reception sidings as we head towards the Wembley Central Shunt neck. From there we reverse and negotiate a number of lines in the Alstom complex. The precise selection of lines is expected to include some choice sidings, some of which may never have seen a passenger train before today. Operational considerations and time will ultimately dictate the actual lines traversed on the day but, subject to final Network Rail timings we hope to spend over an hour on site.

Our departure from Wembley is booked to be via the Up Carriage Line to Harlesden Junction from where we head towards the East Coast Mainline (ECML) via Primrose Hill and Copenhagen Junction. We head north as far as the Hornsey Reversing sidings that allow us to pass over the Harringay flyover.

We leave the ECML at Finsbury Park where we head towards the Stratford area. We bypass Stratford via Temple Mills East as we take the deviation towards South Tottenham and reverse in the Upper Holloway up reception.  This enables us to regain the ECML via the Harringay Curve and once again we reverse at Hornsey.

We now head back towards the Wembley area for yet more rare track via Harlesden Junction, Up and Down High Level Goods, Railnet Reversible and Brent Reception & Departure lines.

Our route home is via Kensington Olympia, Clapham Junction (Set Down) and Tonbridge.

UK Railtours would like to thank Sam Lawrence, GBRf and Alstom Transport UK Limited for their assistance in planning this tour.

Please note all timings are provisional until otherwise stated.

Station	Depart	Arrive
Tonbridge	09.00	21.00
London Bridge	10.00	N/A
Clapham Junction	N/A	19.30

Please note that First Class accommodation is in compartments of six seats. There are no First Class Dining or Junior fares on this train. A buffet car serving hot and cold drinks and snacks will be available.

‘The Long Weekend Rover’ ticket permits the same passenger travel on each of our three tours over the weekend; Fri 27th June –  ‘Another Really Good Positioning Tour’; Sat 28th June – ‘The Baker’s Dozen – Rebaked’; Sun 29th June ‘The Curvy Weaver’ at a discounted rate and can only be obtained by calling the UKR office on 01438 715050. This offer cannot be used in combination with any other discount.

Class	Price	Availability
Standard Class	£159	Fully Booked
First Class Non Dining	£209	Fully Booked
The Long Weekend Rover - Standard Class	£375	Fully Booked
The Long Weekend Rover - First Class	£475	Fully Booked

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