8th JUNE 2025: 3Z10 - TYSELEY STEAM TRUST to DERBY with 7029 CLUN CASTLE.

 We're in June and amazing as it sounds, today is my first steam loco of the year. This loco and its coaching stock has journeyed over from Tyseley to Derby, to collect a group of passegers and ferry them to Statford-upon-Avon.

7029 Clun Castle at P4 waiting for the green light.

I was undecided until the morning of the trip, as to what time train to catch from home to Derby. Fortunately, I plumpted for the early train that would give me 50 spare minutes in Derby to get a coffee, vape and abloutions! Yes it was the correct decision as 7029 came in 11 minutes early, which I missed due to getting a coffee! 

Closeup of 7029 Clun Castle Derby Rail Station.

7029 & 170104 at platform Derby Rail Station.

If  I got the later train, I would have only had 15 minutes to take my snaps and no coffee! To see the loco already standing at platform 4, steaming, was a pleasant sight and not many 'enthusiasts' in attendance to crowd the platforms.

Have to admit that this is the first time in all my rail excursions that I have taken a more detailed look at the coaching stock.

So I got my photos and then boarded my train home at the exact same moment that Clun Castle pulled out of Derby with the consist of 8 MK1 coaches and 37240, a Transrail loco,  providing the muscle at the rear.

37240 at the rear of 3Z10.

221240 pulls alongside P2.

A flying visit to Derby, my old stomping ground!

City of Derby Emblem Derby Rail Station.

Derby Rail Station.

Midland Road Derby.

RJC

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