‘GREAT BRITAIN XI’ TRIUMPHS OVER ADVERSITY
Every year looks like being the last one but the following year it is advertised again by the Railway Touring Company and the 11th ‘Great Britain’ railtour duly appeared in the 2018 tour brochure and set off from King’s Cross on Thursday, April 19 in the capable hands of LNER A3 Pacific No. 60103 Flying Scotsman.
What has become predictable for the ‘GB’ series is that the train will not run with the originally advertised motive power. This tends to be for a variety of unforeseen reasons and not entirely as a result of locomotives being unavailable.
Even was advertised as provisional, as the National Railway Museum had not finalised a new operating agreement for the A3 at the time that ‘GBIX’ was originally advertised. However, once
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