Beautifully shot, Sir/Madam! Mayflower is such a beast when it’s well-driven and -fired, as it is here, with twelve bogies on plus a Spoon! The green pair looked good when double-heading too.
I don’t quite know what happened, the name change has slipped under the radar. But I couldn’t call this tour the ‘Steam Dreams Excursion to Paignton and Dartmouth’, the Torbay Express is a much sweeter and shorter title.
The reason seems to be because of the old Torbay Express, the one Pathfinder ran from 2003 to 2018. LSL couldn't use the name because they started running their English Riviera Express (Which this isn't one of, but it's the same locos, stock and format) while the Pathfinder Torbay Express was still going. So the name can't be used for legal reasons. Plus Steam Dreams nowadays go with very unimaginative names to spell out where the tour's going for their target audience, which shall we say isn't quite the same as the old Torbay Express.
Super well done video, very nice spot at 4:04. Thumbs up :)
Thanks a lot!
Beautifully shot, Sir/Madam! Mayflower is such a beast when it’s well-driven and -fired, as it is here, with twelve bogies on plus a Spoon! The green pair looked good when double-heading too.
Thank you, and yes, its nice to see the diesel in period costume rather than a flat maroon red if it were a West Coast diesel.
The name 'Torbay' seems to have
fallen out of favour everywhere it seems
Yh the name change doesn’t make sense
I don’t quite know what happened, the name change has slipped under the radar. But I couldn’t call this tour the ‘Steam Dreams Excursion to Paignton and Dartmouth’, the Torbay Express is a much sweeter and shorter title.
The reason seems to be because of the old Torbay Express, the one Pathfinder ran from 2003 to 2018. LSL couldn't use the name because they started running their English Riviera Express (Which this isn't one of, but it's the same locos, stock and format) while the Pathfinder Torbay Express was still going. So the name can't be used for legal reasons. Plus Steam Dreams nowadays go with very unimaginative names to spell out where the tour's going for their target audience, which shall we say isn't quite the same as the old Torbay Express.
@@Matty_1843That explains a lot, thank you 👍