Steam Trains at Speed Through Penrith

Footage of preserved steam-hauled trains at Penrith between 2008 and 2019. Locomotives featured include:

6233/46233 Duchess of Sutherland (LMS Stanier Princess Coronation class loco)
6201 Princess Elizabeth (LMS Stanier Princess Royal class loco)
46115 Scots Guardsman (LMS Fowler/Stanier Royal Scot class loco)
45699 Galatea (LMS Stanier Jubilee class loco)
45212 and 45407 The Lancashire Fusilier (LMS Stanier Black Fives)
60009 Union of South Africa (LNER Gresley A4)
60163 Tornado (LNER Peppercorn A1)

The loco's were working a variety of one-off and Cumbrian Mountain Express Tours.



Thanks to Peter Ainsworth (https://www.flickr.com/photos/peterai...) for the shots of 46233 crossing the M6, and the Black Fives returning from Fort William.


Penrith Railway Station (also known as Penrith North Lakes) is situation between Carlisle and Oxenholme on the West Coast Mainline. It was opened in 1846 as part of the Lancaster and Carlisle railway and is now part of the West Coast Mainline, this part of which was electrified in 1974. It is approximately 14 miles north of Shap Summit, and the buildings were listed in 1983. The modern footbridge was added in 2016.