A UNIQUE steam train will reroute its journey down the west coast following the train derailment in Carlisle.

The locomotive will make its appearance along the coast on Saturday October 29th, passing through Workington, Whitehaven, St Bees, Sellafield, Drigg and Millom.

The train, known as Tangmere, was built at the Southern Railway's Brighton Works in September 1947 and given the number 21C167. Following the nationalisation of Britain's railways in 1948, it was renumbered 34067, the number it wears today. It was designed to be of use on both passenger and freight traffic and has a basic weight of 86 tons.

Peter Grooke, at the West Cumberland Railway Museum, said: "It was designed by the Southern Railway's Chief Mechanical Engineer Oliver Bulleid and was a 4-6-2 Pacific (that's the wheel arrangement), one of 44 such locos named after people, places, aircraft and other entities linked to the Battle of Britain. Tangmere was the 19th in the sequence and named after RAF Tangmere near Chichester in Sussex, home of flying aces Douglas Bader and Johnnie Johnson in 1941.

"It covered over 0.5 million miles in service before being withdrawn and then moved to Woodham Brothers scrapyard at Barry in 1965. It was eventually rescued as a rusting hulk in 1980 and moved to the Mid-Hants Railway, but it was not until 1995 that work to restore it to working order began in earnest. After moving to bury in 1996, it returned to traffic on the East Lancashire Railway in 2003. Its current owner is West Coast Railways based at Carnforth and is still capable of running at 100 mph."

Peter said the loco is "not a regular visitor to Cumbria."

The timings for the trains apperance at each station are:

Workington: 14.22

Whitehaven: 14.43

St Bees:14.54

Sellafield: 15.09 to 15.25 (water stop)

Drigg: 15.30

Millom: 15.53

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