A NEW offering from Pathfinder Tours recently announced is aimed at both track and locomotive ‘bashers’, as it features four different traction types and will run over a number of goods lines and loops, usually off limits to passenger workings.
Due to operate on February 19, the ‘Link N’ Chord’ starts at Didcot Parkway before heading across to the East Midlands ‘Shires’ to explore a number of loops and lines.
With a DRS Class 68 hauling the train from Didcot, the tour will call at Oxford, Banbury, Leamington Spa, Dorridge, Coleshill Parkway, Nuneaton and Leicester, in the process traversing the Up Washwood Heath Goods Loop, Nuneaton chord and Wigston North Chord. Heading east to a loco change at Peterborough, the requested route includes the up goods loops at Melton Mowbray and Oakham.
Route