When you are told that a pair of class 33's are scheduled to head a railtour to Inverness and back you would expect to be surprised. When you are then told that the date of the tour is April 1st then the reaction is "Pull the other one - it plays Jingle Bells". However that is exactly what happened on April 1st 1995, the locomotives are seen returning south through Stirling on the "Skirl o' the Bagpipes" railtour.

This is near Croy on the Edinburgh-Glasgow main line with 58011 on the 1Z40 'Worksop Wanderer' on 19th March 1994 with 47972 in tow.

SRPS Railtours are rarely allocated anything more exotic than a class 37.  This trip to the Keithley and Worth Valley Railway proved to be an exception, being allocated former Scotrail 47/7 No. 47714 "Haymarket"

Two views of D9019 Approaching Rutherglen Station, having travelled from the West Highland Line via Central Low Level.

60009 "Union of South Africa" At  Stirling

Video Grabs of 45157 at Ayr and Girvan