Services
West Coast Railways operate three main services during the year; they are "The Cambrian", "The Scarborough Spa Express" and "The Jacobite".
The most famous of these trains is The Jacobite (named for the historic Jacobite political movement). It runs along the West Highland Line from Fort William to Mallaig, crossing Glenfinnan Viaduct. It runs Monday to Fridays from the middle of May until the end of October and also runs at weekends from the end of June until the end of August. For 2011 WCRC have added a second "Jacobite" service leaving Fort William in the afternoons from the start of June until the end of August running on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.
The Scarborough Spa Express operates from York to Scarborough from July until September on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Using a variety of motive power including Black 5's, Royal Scots and Britannia's.
In 2007 West Coast took over operations of the Cambrian Coast Express running over the Cambrian Coast Line from Machynlleth to Porthmadog and Pwllheli and renamed it "The Cambrian. The service runs from the last week of July until the end of August. Before the 2011 season West Coast issued a statement on their website, "Network Rail are carrying out modernisation and extensive EU compliance work on both the Cambrian line and our engines, it was anticipated that work would be complete in time for this years (2012) season. Unfortunately this will not be the case and our Cambrian route will not run this year. It is unknown if the cambrian will run again in 2013 or a few years later, we apologise for this inconvenience and disappointment but look forward to welcome all passengers back once the cambrian is running again".
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