The Shakespeare Express returns for the summer 2024 holiday season

Vintage Trains has put The Shakespeare Express back on, starting Sunday 21st July 2024, and for every Sunday to September 2024. Video of 5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe at Solihull Station and photos of it at Birmingham Moor Street Station.

 See my YouTube video clip of The Shakespeare Express - video link Shakespeare Express - 5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe flies through Solihull Station.

That was about 13:18 on Sunday 21st July 2024 at Solihull Station platform 2 (I checked Real Time Trains before I headed out).

A 15 minute wait for my train to Birmingham Moor Street (13:35). The Dorridge to Stourbridge Junction service. I got to Birmingham Moor Street and saw steam behind the West Midlands Railway 172004 I had just got off. 5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe was waiting at platform 1, as the WMR train to Stourbridge Junction had to go through the Snow Hill Tunnel first.

Once it had gone, was able to get a few photos of the steam locomotive at Birmingham Moor Street (I've previously photographed it at Birmingham Snow Hill and at the Tyseley Locomotive Works in the past).

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Link to previous Shakespeare Express post:

Shakespeare Express 2022 and 2023