HST Midland Pullman - Eastleigh to Penzance through Dawlish

The Midland Pullman is owned and run by Locomotive Services Ltd. ( LSL) The tour was from Eastleigh to Penzance and was the first occasion that the train has been to Devon & Cornwall. The power cars were numbers 43055 and 43046 which is named Geoff Drury 1930-1999. He was honoured with a nameplate reading his name and “Steam Preservation and Track Recording Pioneer“ below. This train will make two more forays down to Kingswear on Aug 29th and Penzance on Sept 25th. June will see eight more special trains pass along the sea wall, the first of which will be powered by two diesel locomotives this coming Wednesday 2nd June. Of the remaining seven specials six are steam hauled and the other by two Class 50 diesels.