Experience the Famous Shap Fells Incline and Settle & Carlisle line by Train!
We start the year and our celebrations of Railway 200 with a trip to Carlisle, a 2000 year old city with plenty of history to discover. While the city is famous for Hadrian’s Wall, there is much more besides including the Cathedral, Castle and several museums and galleries all for you to explore.
The journey will see the train make a thunderous ascent of Shap to Carlisle, Bahamas’ first run on this route in preservation, before returning via the stunning and world-famous Settle & Carlisle line. Both on the outward run via Shap and the return over the Settle & Carlisle, Bahamas will be unassisted by a diesel locomotive.
The Jubilees were strongly associated with the Settle & Carlisle route, hauling the Thames-Clyde Express, so what better way to kickstart our 2025 programme, and our trains celebrating Railway 200, than to have Bahamas retread one of her old stomping grounds in the Settle & Carlisle but also take on the challenging gradient of Shap Summit.
The train will be diesel hauled to Carnforth, where Bahamas will take over the train. On the return, the train will be diesel hauled from Hellifield back to Birmingham New Street. For enthusiasts we have introduced a new Tourist Class ticket, allowing you to sit in the first passenger carriage behind the locomotive in at least one direction.
Departing From Birmingham New Street, Wolverhampton, Stafford, Crewe, Warrington Bank Quay, Preston (pick-up only), Blackburn (set-down only)