Onboard The Midland Pullman HST - The Royal Highland Pullman | DAY THREE: Inverness to London

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The 3rd and final day of the "Royal Highland Pullman" tour and the longest of all 3 days. Inverness back to London St Pancras, via Aberdeen crossing spectacular Tay & Forth Bridges. A total distance of 651 miles!
I arrived at the station with plenty of time as I was hoping to get a shot of the set arriving, however I was informed that we would late starting due to an issue with the fuelling. So instead of departing at 7:50, we actually left at 8:33. However this was just the beginning. Once on the line towards Aberdeen we were held awaiting clearance on the single track section which ended up in us waiting nearly 45 minutes. So we accumulated a lot more of a delay. As a charter train, you are lowest priority meaning all passenger trains get pathed before you, despite being an HST. Once clear of Aberdeen we follow the beautiful coastline down towards Dundee before crossing the Tay & Forth Bridges and passing Edinburgh airport. This was the week of the COP26 summit in Glasgow and we passed Edinburgh airport just after president Biden had landed in Air Force One! Look out for that standing tall amongst the many private jets on the tarmac. Into Edinburgh Waverley for a short stop before carrying on down the ECML and into the sunset. Our pathing being lost we ended up being stuck behind just about anything the signalman could find to put in front of us. So we only managed to just about hit 125mph once and for a very short time between Northallerton & York. After Doncaster, not much to see as we headed through the East Midlands and with the winter nights drawing in & the weather not playing ball I didn't film again until Bedford. We stopped to drop off at Loughborough, Melton Mowbray, Oakham, Corby, Kettering & Wellingborough and I filmed the departures from Bedford, Luton & St Albans before finally arriving at London St Pancras just over an hour later than scheduled at 22:30. 14 hours after departing Inverness.
Fantastic crew onboard, we were all well looked after with plenty of tea, coffee, snacks & a Pie! There are 2 Classes of seating onboard the Midland Pullman, First Class De Luxe which is where I was. This includes tea, coffee & snacks and other food available for purchase from the buffet. And then there is the Pullman Dining cars which offer a far more luxurious, 3 course dinner & beverage service. But I wasn't all that fussed for that. I was just wanting to ride on the classic HST with VP185 engines once again.

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
0:12 The Set arriving at Inverness
1:55 Boarding
2:17 Departure
3:08 Qatar Airways at Inverness Airport for COP26
3:34 Forres
3:45 Passing a 170 waiting our path
5:40 Elgin
6:00 Passing Aberdeen non-stop
8:25 Scottish coastline
11:05 Todays timing sheet & snackbox
12:00 Approaching Dundee
13:04 Dundee Station
14:30 Tay Bridge
14:54 Opening Titles Shot
18:17 Forth Bridge
20:36 Dalmeny Station
20:51 Air Force One at Edinburgh Airport
21:20 Murrayfield
22:11 Haymarket
22:36 Princes Street Gardens
23:39 Edinburgh Waverley Arrival
25:25 Departing Edinburgh
26:26 Berwick-Upon-Tweed
27:30 Beautiful Sunset on the ECML
29:09 Newcastle Arrival
29:48 Newcastle Departure
31:02 Over the Tyne
32:00 Passing York
33:20 Doncaster Departure
34:21 Bedford Departure
35:27 Luton Departure
36:19 St Albans Departure
37:16 Coaches walk through
38:20 Midland Pullman HST Departs St Pancras empty to Crewe

So good to be back onboard a classic HST! With slam door mk3 coaches & VP185 engines. A fantastic journey on a whole. Day 1 from London to Inverness via the Highland Mainline. Day 2 Inverness to Kyle of Lochalsh & back and this final day 3.

If you'd like to travel on the Pullman or see when it might be passing a station near you, check out their website for upcoming trips & timings: https://midlandpullman.com/

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