Mystery location 😎 Class 40 40118 somewhere 'Up North' on 1Z37 - the 'Tyne Tees Explorer' railtour
<b>View from the train - mystery location :)</b>
Another mystery location! And at the moment a bit of a mystery railtour! Although I have all my Class 40 rail tours logged (see photo in Comments below) 

I can't work out which beast this is - the shortlist is:
40192 on the 'Cheshire Cheeser' 26Nov83
40024 or 40033 on the 'Dore Mat' 18Feb84
40082 or 40155 on the 'North West Rambler' 10Mar84

<b>40118 on the 'Tyne Tees Explorer' 17Mar84 THE WINNER :)
</b> Thanks to <a href="/photos/73789322@N04/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">On Tour With the Class 13 Army</a>

<b>Railtours of the 1980s - 1Z37 the 'Tyne Tees Explorer'</b> 
A great 'old school' railtour with SOLID English Electric traction throughout :)

<b>Locos Used: 40118</b>, 37059, 37095, 37180 &amp; 37266
<b>Locos &amp; Route</b>
37180+37266 04.30d <b>Early start!</b> Swansea - Cardiff - Bristol Temple Meads
37266+37180 Bristol Temple Meads - Bristol Parkway - Yate - Gloucester
37180+37266 Gloucester - Bromsgrove - Birmingham New Street - Burton-on-Trent - Trent East Jn - Toton Centre

<b>40118</b> Toton Centre [TOTON] - Clay Cross South Jn - Chesterfield - Tapton Jn [past BARROW HILL] - Beighton Jn - Woodhouse Jn - Attercliffe Jn - Shepcote Lane Jn {past TINSLEY] - Treeton North Jn - Rotherham - Aldwarke Jn - <b>Mexborough</b> - Connisborough - Doncaster - Temple Hirst Jn - Hambleton South Jn - York - Thirsk - Boroughbridge Road Jn - Northallerton East Jn - Yarm - Eaglescliffe

37095+37059 Eaglescliffe - Stockton - Norton West Jn - Ferryhill South Jn - Durham - (via 'rear' of Tyne Yard') - Low Fell Jn - King Edward Bridge South Jn - Greensfield Jn - Pelaw - Sunderland - Stockton - Thornaby - Middlesborough

40118 16.21d Middlesborough - Thornaby - Eaglescliffe - Yarm - Northallerton - York - Church Fenton - Knottingley - Askern - Doncaster - Mexborough - Rotherham - Sheffield

40118 Sheffield - Brightside Jn - Shepcote Lane East Jn - Tinsley Yard - Treeton West Jn - Treeton South Jn - Beighton Jn - Tapton Jn - Chesterfield - Clay Cross South Jn - Ambergate Jn - Derby

37180+37266 Derby - Birmingham New Street - Cheltenham Spa - Bristol Parkway - Newport - Cardiff - Port Talbot

More on the railtour here: <a href="https://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/80s/840317ss.htm" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/80s/840317ss.htm</a>

All feedback welcomed from bashers out there - and the big clue must be the Mark 1 Buffet Restaurant car as front coach - very unusual formation on a tour or a service train :) I can't find any shots on Flickr of this formation (update - see Comments section below :)
<b>An even bigger clue coming soon as I have another slide of the same tour with the same leading coach behind 2x37s :)</b>

<b>Location now confirmed as arriving at Mexborough from the Sheffield ex GCR line</b> - many thanks to <a href="/photos/johnmightycat/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">johnmightycat1</a> 

<b>Locomotive History</b>
<b>D318 / 40118</b> 

<b>Slides that were nearly lost to oblivion!</b>
The original slide / transparency was rescued from a box of 'dud' slides that I could never quite bring myself to throw away - now I am glad that I kept them ;)

Taken with a Soviet made Zenith TTL camera and standard lens.

You can see a random selection of my railway photos here on Flickriver: <a href="http://www.flickriver.com/photos/themightyhood/random/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.flickriver.com/photos/themightyhood/random/</a>


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